Everyday Should Be Saturday

October 14, 2008

SLOW NEWS DAY: TAKE THIS TIME TO PURGE.

In lieu of refunding everyone’s daily subscription fees for what’s turning out to be the first letdown day following the OMG GREATEST FOOBAW WEEKEND EVAR 2K8, we’re taking a step back.  There’s absolutely nothing interesting happening today, so we’re focusing inward and using this time to improve ourselves as fans by confessing our greatest cardinal football sins.  We surveyed ourselves, fellow bloggers just as strapped for content as we are this afternoon, and a few intrepid commenters.  The following is our preliminary list of trespasses against our fellow man, our school loyalty, and in several cases against humanity itself.

Forgive me father, for I enjoy the sounds of “Rocky Top”.

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“WE CALL HIM KOOL-AID.”

If you’re looking for an offensive line to adopt as your official favorite crew of lovable, boulder-squatting goons for the year, look no further than Texas Tech, who has linemen nicknamed “Kool-Aid,” “The Burrito Tower,” and “The Terrorist.”

Most of these names, btw, come via extremely quotable center Stephen Hamby. Hamby had this to say about the numerous arcane traditions of the Texas Aggie fanbase:

. “I don’t have anything to say about the Corp. My brother-n-law was in it I think, and needless to say he wore a kilt to my sister’s wedding.

Oh, those guys. If you’d only tried to explain it like that before, we could have saved ourselves all some serious confusion. They’re the guys who, unbidden and uninvited, wear kilts to weddings and own eight copies of Braveheart on DVD just in case you lose one of them. Or seven.

BLOGPOLL BALLOT: WOOOOOOO LATE EDITION

The blogpoll ballot for the week follows, and boy oh boy is it loaded with eight different conflicting flavors of logic. Think of it as the mutant child of polling fusion cuisine, a fish taco batterfried whole, drizzled in spicy Malay barbecue sauce, and then cut into medallions and served with injera and stewed fruit. That was supposed to be ridiculous-sounding, but being this hungry will make anything sound good.

Notes, clarifications, and invitations to “fuck off because what DO you do with teams from the state of UTAH?” follow.

Rank Team Delta
1 Texas 4
2 Alabama
3 Penn State
4 Florida 9
5 Oklahoma State 9
6 Oklahoma 5
7 Texas Tech 1
8 Georgia 4
9 Southern Cal 1
10 Missouri 6
11 Ohio State 4
12 LSU 6
13 Utah 4
14 Michigan State 6
15 Brigham Young 8
16 Kansas 1
17 South Florida 2
18 Boise State
19 Wake Forest 7
20 Vanderbilt 9
21 Virginia Tech 1
22 North Carolina 4
23 Northwestern 7
24 Ball State 1
25 Minnesota 1

Dropped Out: Wisconsin (#21), Tulsa (#24), Connecticut (#25).

Creeping SEC anti-homerism. Penn State might really, really, really be good; it goes against every fiber of our being to say this after a team that owns them from tits to toes has gone belly-up on the national stage three games in a row and running, but Ohio State has the status in the Big Ten of being the world’s biggest fifth grader, the one who whips ass in bushels until he gets to junior high, gets pummeled by even larger bullies, and then reinvents himself as sad tubby goth for the remainder of their adolescence.

Currently overranked: Oklahoma State, most likely, along with Texas Tech; the Big 12 schedule will shake them out soon enough, but for the moment we’re left with tons of Big 12 in the top ten until they settle out…a process that began in earnest with the defeat of Missouri.

Utah, as a state you can kiss our ass. Asses. Whatever. We’re slowly buying into Hinton’s skepticism re: BYU, though this weekend’s game against TCU is a nice mettle check. Utah, as well, though to a lesser extent, because they wear red, and that’s an aggressive color there, and, um, that should count for something.

The rest: the usual disaster. Anyone know what to do with ACC teams? Any of them? South Florida? Minnesota in the tribute spot?

HERE’S THE DEAL, SIR.

Redshirt junior punter Zoltan Mesko said Rodriguez made a comparison that put the Wolverines� struggles in perspective.

�It�s not life or death,� Mesko said. �It�s not like you have a kid that�s terminally ill. I�d rather to have this than be 6-0 and have the kid that�s terminally ill. That�s got to be a tough situation, but you�ve got to look at it. It could be worse.�

GOD: COACH RICH RODRIGUEZ. HEAR MY VOICE AND TREMBLE.

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CURIOUS INDEX, 10/14/08

It’s getting dusty in here. Listen to a Clemson fan completely lose their shit at the 1:00 mark. It’s not the Gundy-fun way, either, but that awful thing people do when their eyes begin to spout water, their breathing gets labored, and everyone in the room just wants to pull a ninja smoke bomb out and disappear. That thing called…what is it…yes, crying like a scalded infant.

Internet law, repeated: If it’s in Wikipedia, it must be true, especially if it’s about a storied football program and their coach after a loss to Toledo.

Toledo players, btw, honored the achievement of being the first MAC team to beat Michigan ever by getting arrested in a fight involving “about forty people.” In case you’re wondering at what point a “brawl” crosses over into being a “riot,” we’ll just establish a little rule right now: it’s at approximately forty people.

He took a knee for a 67 yard TD. Sometimes another team is so inept you can’t help but score, as was the case when Naples High beat pitiable Estero High 91-0 this past weekend. Do not blame Naples: Estero doesn’t, as Naples only ran 31 plays the entire night and had backbenchers in for the second half.

“Hey,” offered Estero defensive line coach Pat Hayes after the one-sided affair, “I didn’t even know 91 was a multiple of seven.”

Let’s hope he doesn’t teach math, and instead has the customary “History/Civics/sleeping with senior student” slot reserved for coaches at most high schools.

FIU: Un-awful! Bruce Feldman has an informative list of spectacular turnarounds and includes the unlikely but accurate pick of FIU, the consensus Donkey Prize winner for Worst Team in D-1, who currently has a three-game win streak going. All credit to Ned for showing the way to Badass Lane for the Panthers.

Brandon Tate, out. The Tarheels’ explosive returner and wideout is gone for the season.

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