CURIOUS INDEX, 11/17/08
by Orson on Nov 17, 2008 9:30 AM EST
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Eric Crouch, You've Got The Right Stuff. We don't judge. Perhaps this is done as an act of extreme irony, an excuse we use for pretty much anything we've ever done. Perhaps he is a fan, and don't take that precious bit of joy away from anyone. Perhaps he is going with his wife/girlfriend, and therefore has sex or other relationship currency on the line. We will never know the real reason he went, but Step by Step, Eric Crouch got to a New Kids on the Block concert last week, and someone made a superb video of the event. It the best dancing we've seen out of him since 2001. The Alphabetical strikes long and deep. A slow week and it rolls out somewhere around 3000 words? Boyle's law strikes again. Au revoir, Gerg. Gerg Robinson finally gets fired with two games left in the football season, a moment that left TNIAAM semi-speechless and had otherwise sober journalists breaking out the deep and miserable words to sum it all up: Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse University head football coach Greg Robinson was fired on Sunday by director of athletics Daryl Gross, ending a turbulent era that began with great optimism only to deteriorate into misery, hopelessness and the worst four-year run in the program's 119 years of competition. Gerg Robinson: so bad he almost drove journalists forced at gunpoint to cover Syracuse football to place their heads in ovens. (At least fans could leave.) Syracuse will hire someone else, and that means they will improve. Short of hiring a capuchin monkey with a tiny bellboy's outfit and a pair of tin cymbals, anyone would be an improvement over Gerg, who didn't even set foot in Syracuse before he accepted the job, attempted to install the West Coast Offense with NFL castoff coaches, and whose recruiting classes were rated "feed-grade" throughout his tenure. Goodbye, and good luck. Ray Goff recommends purchasing fast-food franchises and banging hot ass until you feel better. They can't help it if they brought the portable planetarium with them. Stoners are resourceful. We knew one who rigged up his bong to an oxygen mask; another who sealed a camp tent up and used it as a huge, multiperson fogger; another prided himself on turning a bright orange traffic cone into a bong. Credit Colorado fans who turned that ingenuity into strategery Saturday night against Oklahoma State: Those wild and crazy Colorado fans always have something extra for opposing teams. But bringing a laser light to bother Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson might have been a new low. Video here. Look, if you shine it on his face the right way it's like you're LOCUTIS OF THE BORG!!! Before it slips into the memory hole: If they had not been attractive, it would have been far worse for these LSU ladies who disguised themselves as Alabama fans going into Tiger Stadium this past Saturday. |
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my computer now smells like corndogs, thanks Orson
by stinckypickle on Nov 17, 2008 9:38 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Orson:
Can you tell us what TSN redacted for you on the alphabetical under P?
by Sleestack90 on Nov 17, 2008 9:42 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I know, a bit early for a threadjack, but Ole Miss apparently doesn’t want high schools to use their mascot; you know, the one they quit using?:
http://www.thedmonline.com/cm/2.1585/2.1585/ala._high_school_infringes_rebels_registered_copyright
by the croominator on Nov 17, 2008 9:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
You can tell he’s Irish because he wearing green. The Irish wear no other color.
by PW on Nov 17, 2008 9:59 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Orson – how about giving us the exclusive on the missing “P” in your SN piece?
C’mon, we deserve something after this past weak week
by InsaneCoachPosse on Nov 17, 2008 10:13 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Seriously, Orson… the missing P… its killing me.
by CincySooner on Nov 17, 2008 10:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Cmon, we deserve something after this past weak week
You deserve nothing! But if something gets pulled, it stands to reason they didn’t like it and pulled it. We made fun of the ACC Championship game, they’re a sponsor, and voila! It’s gone. Their site, their prerogative.
by Orson Swindle on Nov 17, 2008 10:20 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Where were all those LSU fans during the 2nd half of this weeks game? Oh yeah – they left cuz their team was down by 4 touchdowns to Troy. Fair weathered…..
by Last Dragon on Nov 17, 2008 10:24 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Nick Saban, after viewing that video, confirms that he thinks all coon asses are a bunch of drunk ditch diggers, and that Jarrett Lee should be the starting QB for the next 4 yrs.
by Mr.Pelican Pants on Nov 17, 2008 10:24 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
You can tell hes Irish because he wearing green. The Irish wear no other color.
What about Black Irish? Can they wear black? Or is that the Goth Irish?
by AllWhoYonder on Nov 17, 2008 10:24 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Here’s what Col. Reb O’Getbent thinks of Ole’ Miss….
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn53/zrdan/Fuck_Ole_Miss.jpg
by Mich-Placed Gators on Nov 17, 2008 10:28 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I was at the Troy game and stayed the whole time. But the stands weren’t even full at the beginning of the game and it was fucking cold out. I don’t blame them at all for leaving. Had we been winning, it would have been the same result.
by Kevin@LSU on Nov 17, 2008 10:28 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
“Colonel Sanders is MY mascot!” At least that’s what the Ole Miss buttons SHOULD have said when we visited them in 2003.
by Raider Red on Nov 17, 2008 10:32 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Does anyone understand Swindle’s comments (over at The Alphabetical) about Brian Kelly, coach of the UC Bearcats?
Probably UC shouldn’t have prayed on the 50 yard line, but that kind of activity is more and more common these days at college football games (pre and post game and sometimes w/players from both teams).
But Kragthorpe was probably also trying to gin up some anger after it worked so well 2 years ago (not in MY HOUSE!).
So Kragthorpe won’t shake hands.
Seems like childish behavior all around.
I watched the game.
What am I missing?
by OhioDawg on Nov 17, 2008 10:34 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Obviously, Fred Smoot would have to have been the defensive back covering the Cooter to Cooter Connection.
by Ears Whitworth on Nov 17, 2008 10:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
No mention of Minnesota conceding safeties on consecutive drives Saturday, effectively costing them the game? Thank you, Orson.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Nov 17, 2008 10:38 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I will mention this tonight if there’s an EDSBS Live, but…
I almost never dream about sports, even though I think about them a lot during my waking hours. I certainly never dream about teams that I don’t care about.
However, last night I inexplicably dreamed that Steve Spurrier left SC to take the job at Tennessee. It was one of those dreams that was so real, it wasn’t until I checked ESPN.com this morning that I realized it was a dream at all.
I’m at a complete loss to explain why the hell I had this dream.
by PeteJayhawk on Nov 17, 2008 10:43 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Were R, S, and X also redacted, or is there some new alphabet at work here? Just curious… loved the rest of the Alphabetical, as always. Except for the giant FAMU snake head, that is, which keeps threatening to leap out of my computer and attack me…
by Ross on Nov 17, 2008 11:06 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Only a drunken ignorant bag of crap LSU fan could screw up the oldest Bama joke in the world.
It’s maggots not tick and it’s a dead bear not a bear.
Sheesh, no wonder LSU is a 3rd tier university.
by johnny douche on Nov 17, 2008 11:09 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
O,
If you get to coin the term “Quarkback,” I humbly suggest adding my friend’s idea to the vernacular.
Instead of a “Pick Six” or “Jarrett Lee Special” how about a “TAINT” (Touchdown After INT).
Can’t you just hear Mick Huber on Dec. 6th?
“…Wilson drops back to pass, throws to the flat, INTERCEPTED by Spikes!! He’s at the 30, the 20, the 10, Touchdown Florida, OOOOH MY!! Spikes has another TAINT, and what a beauty.”
by North 2 on Nov 17, 2008 11:16 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
North 2: That’s kind of brilliant.
by Orson Swindle on Nov 17, 2008 11:20 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
@ 23…
LMAO!! BRILLIANT!! Thanks for making my day, oh hell, week! I can’t wait to use that one….
by Mich-Placed Gator on Nov 17, 2008 11:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Orson, I’m posting this here since I refuse to register for an account with SN in order to comment on the Alphabetical: Regarding letter F – there are 3 reasons Chaz Weis “stubbornly” continued to run the ball against Navy.
1) His 2 top RBs were averaging 5 and 7.5 yards per carry.
2) His OL outweighed their Midshipmen DL/OLB opposition by an average of 40ish pounds.
3) Little Throw Peep.
by bj on Nov 17, 2008 12:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
‘P’ is indeed for Prerogative. So why not publish the ‘P’ entry here?
by Brian O'Blivion on Nov 17, 2008 12:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
It’s also kind of ripped off of Bill Simmons.
I still like “TAINT”, though.
by Raider Red on Nov 17, 2008 1:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
P stood for “pi” which is the average attendance during the first 3 years of the ACCCG’s existence.
by PW on Nov 17, 2008 2:46 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
@29
After scouring the interwebs, Simmons (or probably one of his readers) is most likely the first person to have thought of TAINT and put it out for public consumption.
However, my friend isn’t a big douche bag like Simmons, so as in the Newton/Leibniz debate over calculus, I choose my friend (Leibniz) as the originator.
by North 2 on Nov 17, 2008 2:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
If you’re talking about the ACC Championship Game, I think I’m safe in assuming that “P” was for “putrid.”
by SDSMP on Nov 17, 2008 2:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
@31
yes, but wouldn’t it have been more interesting to take “The Science of Fluxions 105” freshman year than “Calculus 105”?
Newton had a little more flair to his naming.
by AllWhoYonder on Nov 17, 2008 2:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
North 2, I was ready to eviscerate you (via harsh commentary, of course) when it appeared you were referring to Bill Simmons as a friend of yours, but then, in your very next comment you TOTALLY REDEEMED YOURSELF by implying that Sir Isaac Newton was a douchebag.
Bravo, sir.
by PW on Nov 17, 2008 3:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
That LSU video wasn’t that bad.
The written report was much worse.
I’m sure it would have been way worse after dark, after defeat.
by bama_buck on Nov 17, 2008 4:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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