CURIOUS INDEX, 10/20/08

Please note, tOSU is lurking at #9 and plays 3# Penn State at home Saturday. You cannot stop the Buckeye Night Train, America, so you might as well lay back and enjoy it.

I never thought I’d see a ref physically act on behalf of a team, but I guess SEC officials grew tired of affecting play merely through the use of yellow pieces of cloth. I get that. Sometimes you just want to get in there and get your hands dirty.

Not to nit-pick…well actually that’s exactly what I’m about to do, but I digress. Hawkin’s replacement was 7-14 for 71 yards a touchdown and an interception. 14 is also miles short of the scoring average by major conference opponents against Kansas State’s craptastic defense. I guess his running might have given them…something, but I doubt it inspired their defense to play one of its best games.

The ref in the LSU/USCe game had money on LSU and wanted to cover the spread. He had the ability to take matters into his own hands and did.

I am encouraged with tOSU finding out that it is OK to score after reaching the redzone. I hope they don’t forget how this week. I really miss Anthony Morelli.

In response to the open question on Athens cops above:
2:1. And no, you can’t. I once got a field sobriety test on the way from my living room to the bathroom.

They’d do the job for free if they got to keep the car and the gun.

Well, it is Athens, after all. What else is there to do but get smashed and try to make it over to your bud’s place over on Lumpkin.

Yeah, I think the ratio in Athens is 2:1ish, but they’ve applied for federal grant money in hopes of flipping that to a 1:2 student/cop number. Of course, if they keep booking students for driving with a suspended license, they may get there based solely on student attrition.

In other news, Matt Stafford was arrested for “sideburns, overly wooly” and reserve OL Chris Little got pinched for carrying a concealed cheesecake.

Somebody has been watching too many BW3 commercials. Shit doesn’t even look accidental.

I didn’t know that the stopwatches they use for the 40 went to 6 seconds. Then again, more proof is on the field saturday night in Columbus.

Same ref also set a pick for USCe earlier in the game that help that Saunders kid score. That ref is a gamer!

Clarification on the Vance charge…license was not suspended, it had expired. ONE WEEK EARLIER.

Way to keep those streets safe, Deputy Fife. Here’s hoping you don’t have to use your one bullet to take down a ruffian going the wrong way on his scooter today.

Problem is that Athens has City cops, state cops, and a huge collection of UGA cops to boot. There are so many that they don’t have anything to do but enforce minor traffic violations.

That ref hit is just appalling.

Jack Shaftoe does not approve.

As a Carolina fan, even I had no words in the stadium that night watching the ref hit Garcia. We scored a TD on the drive, which was nice, so that people don’t have too bitter a taste in their mouth about the play. Still, it’s some of the most stunned I’ve ever been in a football stadium (and I’ll remind you, a lot of that time has been spent watching the Gamecocks, which tend to stun you pretty frequently).

Also, to echo the above, anyone who has spent any time in Athens has been at least approach by the police, and if they’re like me, issued a citation for something (here, jaywalking and MIP).

Most of us “little brother” teams (USC, Ark, Miss, UK) in the SEC have always known SEC officials protect the big brothers (UGA, LSU, UT, Bama, UF) but that was just insane.

As for Athens, I had my car towed there once on gameday. I’m sure it was because I had SC plates.

I think you’re all missing the Live to Win splendor embodied by the referee from the South Carolina game. I was so inspired that I just chop blocked the client’s program manager. She never saw who it was, so as long as she doesn’t read this comment thread, I should be golden.

I have the USC-LSU game on the DVR. Anyone know what point of the game that happened at?

So that’s, like, real? That’s not some fake CGI a la those Burger King ads? I am speechless.

Ump got tired of being used as South Carolina’s tight end drag route road block. He didn’t want to wait for LSU to drill him in the twig-n-berries Longest-Yard style*

*Burt Reynolds awesome version, not Adam Sandler 10 tons of suck version.

If you think that was bad you must have missed the ending. As a result of a nasty three way collision, the referee and players from both sides were knocked “unconscious,” the Hat sneaked onto the field (threw a “foreign” substance into OBC’s eyes, temporarily blinding him) and carried the LSU player and the ball into the end zone. The ref “miraculously” awoke and upon seeing the LSU player asleep, on the ground, with the ball, in the end zone, naturally signaled touchdown. Game over, pandemonium rages.

skinnyphatman -

Been watching a little WWE lately?

The Imp is despair. The ump is Soren Kierkegaard. He knew it was sin to knock down Brah, but he didn’t have the faith to overcome it. This is known as “The Sickness Unto Death.”

By my understanding, SEC refs have to either (1) played sports in the SEC or be (2) a direct relative (son, grandson) of a former SEC ref or player.

Please correct me on this if wrong. If so, I’d like to know where that offishul played ball or whar his connection is.

Littering in Athens. I dropped a beer bottle and before I could pick it up to put in the trash I had a bicycle cop writing me a ticket.

What’s not on the tape: On SC’s previous posession, the SAME ref picked an LSU safety allowing a 40 yard pass that led to SC’s first TD. Methinks this was payback.

I think that ref was Lee Roy Jordans grandson…that to me looked like an instinctive reaction…..“There was no danger, the shot was there, and I took it” kinda thing….Its like trying to horse play with a former professional boxer, its all fun and games, but you are gonna get hit if he sees an opening……Its almost automatic….I can only imagine what was going thru that refs mind befire he laid the wood on Brahsome—-“I know he aint gonna try to run that weak shit up in here, I got this baby……”BAMF"—-Thats right, dis is MY HOUSE!!…Go cry to ya momma, she waitin on ya!!!

I didnt know LSU had a 12th Man program?
Here’s what went thru his mind:
“Dont try that weak shit up in here, this is MY HOUSE!”
(That hit was sponsored by Under Armor)

I will be actually pulling for the Buckeyes for my own selfish reasons….If both Penn State wins out and Bama wins out…Penn State goes to Miami based on the sympathy vote for Joe Pa…. Even if Bama doesnt win out, the SEC is shit outta luck since Florida will more than likely be the SEC Title winner, and Penn State vs Texas will be the battle of the undefeated…then Texas waxes Penn State…so to make it easy on the SEC….
GO BUCKEYES!!!

While being entertained in Athens by a coed-dawg in a parked car across the street from the Globe, my hostess had told the cop knocking on the window to go away because she was busy, so he put a ticket under the windshield wiper. I am not sure of the offense, because when she was through we left the car as it wasn’t ours. Never a dull moment n Athens…

Why is this thing double posting? Weird.

Is that a Neal Stephenson / Baroque Cycle reference? Good show sir.

Does that ref not know… HE WILL KEY YOUR CAR. While you watch. KEY YOUR CAR. And then laugh. LAUGH. And TFMM will be there, and say “Brah I warned you, Steven’s got to be Steven.”

Thank you for that video.

BS-BCS Dept:

The computers are screwing everything up….

The computers rank USC-w #10 and tOSU #5. Even though USC whacked theOSU by 33 points earlier in the season.

The computers hate the Gators too, ranking them 12th, even though they just had one loss by one point to a team from the holiest of holy SEC conference team (insert sarcasm here).

That ref needs to be fired. I’m surprised Spurrier didn’t ask for him to be taken out of the game.

according to wikipedia, Imp of the Perverse goes back to Poe (as in Edgar, not the teletubby).

IIRC, the same ref had just prevented an LSU defender from tackling one of our (South Carolina’s) guys earlier in the drive. So I’m not sure it was as malicious as it looked — he was either (a) trying to make it up; or, more likely (b) a doofus.

BOOM MOTHER FUCKER!!!

Man, the USC story is another repeat! Lose early to someone they shouldn’t have….creep back up to a contender spot…lose AGAIN to someone they shouldn’t….crush the Big Ten runner-up in the Rose Bowl and claim to be the best team in the country.

Ugh, I’ve seen it already…I don’t want to see it again.

Edsall @ 37: Last year’s loss to Oregon (with Dixon) was legit. The ducks were #2 at the time and I thought they were hands down the best team I saw all year last year, until they lost Dixon and it all came apart.

This year won’t be a rerun anyway. USC will run the table from here and the end of the season beatdown will be handed out in the title game instead of the Rose Bowl this time.

Can we all take a collection and get the Harris pollsters to drop Ohio State. If they manage to beat Penn St., they could very easily make the championship game (again). The worst part is that it could very easily be USC v. OSU. Rematches shopuld be forbidden in the National Championship game.

Good point about the cop ratio in Athens. My 4 years in Athens made me think that cops were just out to get people. After ungrad, I lived in places like Columbia, Tallahassee, Cincinnati, Belgium, and now Greenville, SC. In each of these places, the police have a much, much better attitude – simply looking to protect rather than being out to bust.

oc phil – my only concern is this: did you see the height of the running back from Arizona who went wild against Cal? 5’ 7" of DOOM for USC next week, is what he is.

Orson, please do your homework before reporting eroniously on a UGA player’s arrest. Vance DOES NOT have a suspended license. He was arrested (and this is not a joke, btw) because his license was expired. It expired seven days ago on his birthday (the 11th). What was Vince doing on the 11th you ask? Playing in the UT game and getting his acl ripped to shreds.

It was a bullshit arrest by an overzealous UGA rent-a-cop. But what else is new?

Anyways, please make the appropriate correction.

Dawgfan@42… I was unaware that in GA the only date you could renew your license was the actual day that it expired, most other states we get these reminders in the mail that we can take in any time after we get them. Some even use the interwebs.

Don’t worry DC. This week Pete is bringing in a busload of smurfs on speed for the defenders to crush in practice. They will be ready.

Seriously the thing I saw in the WSU game that made me happiest was a defensive play where one of the backup LB’s nearly got to the QB and then was instantly in pursuit of the screen pass. That kind of effort and intensity Im sure brought a smile to Nick Holt when he watched the film.

@40 GreenvilleDawg- Never been through Duncan/Lyman/Wellford, have you?

As for the ref’s hit on Garcia, I missed that from my spot in the stadium, but damn.