BOWL PREVIEW PREVIEWS: THE LAS VEGAS BOWL
IN A WORLD where Mike Stoops is not good at football….
[Snow Patrol's "Open Your Eyes" swells in the background]
(….which, let’s face it, could be anywhere…)
One team returns for their first shot at glory in ten years…
and another is about to get the awakening of a lifetime.
“That tingling….it’s not just coming from the outside.”
Heads will roll. Pants will drop. Mike Stoops loses football games.
THE LAS VEGAS BOWL: Bend, don’t break.
The Las Vegas Bowl opens December 20th at 8:00 PM on ESPN. For a summary of the entire weekend, please see Messr. Swindle’s summary of the weekend over at The Sporting Blog.
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General Disarray says:
OMG, teh GAY!!!
December 19th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
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Mark D says:
@1 General Disarray :
You’re referring to Arizona’s red pants, right?
December 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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General Disarray says:
For starters…..
December 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
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Counter Trap says:
Where exactly are Fredo’s troops standing with their helmets held high? Does not appear to be a stadium, therefore I am troubled.
December 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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Geori says:
Can LSUFreek please put Bronco Mendenhall’s head on top of a scene from Orgazmo? And please use the uncomfortable face from the Vegas bowl photo-op.
LDS Baby LDS!
December 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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etsuVol says:
Yay, useless bowls! Tomorrow is the first bowl, and the BCS Championship isn’t until the second week of January…meanwhile 1-AA finishes tonight with their championship, before the first bowl is even played.
How does a playoff lengthen the season again?
December 19th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
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Gone Gator says:
What, no St. Petersburg Bowl preview? Jim Leavitt thinks that is absolute horse bleep. The Trop is the greatest stadium value in america — world series, NHL playoffs, Arena Bowl and now a high quality ESPN2 bowl game. All for $125M — tthat’s less than Mark Texiara’s next contract. Call it names (we’re looking at you Phil Esposito), but where else can USF signlet man be comfortable at this time of year?
December 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
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Techie says:
How did BYU win that MNC back in 1984, if their excellent seasons keep sending them to the frakking Vegas Bowl?
December 19th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
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BocaHuskyUWowl says:
I cannot in good conscience pick the team which only beat Washington by 1 point.
December 20th, 2008 at 10:36 am
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SC_Gator says:
It was the 80’s.
*shrug*
December 20th, 2008 at 10:38 am
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BocaHuskyUWowl says:
its Mount Union time!!
December 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am
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KYGator says:
Silly season has begun!
December 20th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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Herb says:
New Wire: Iowa State takes term “Coaching carousel” a little too literally, hires Auburn DC as HC.
December 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
From the “everything you see on the internet is true, especially if it’s on FaceBook” Dept:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/We-Hardly-Knew-Ye-Terrence-Cody-s-Facebook-says?urn=ncaaf,130196
December 20th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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KYGator says:
+100 to the first person to spot the Fearless Leader in his Miller High Life seats at the Trop.
December 20th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
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JD says:
*** NEWS FLASH ***
USF has gone to the white helmets for this game.
I’ll wait until your hearts stop pounding with excitement.
December 20th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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Mich-Placed Gator says:
WTF is up with that turf @ the Magic Jack Bowl?
I just turned it on, and it appears like it’s the Magic Jack-Off bowl and there’s jizz all over the field.
…that or 3/4 of the “blades” of grass are tinsel.
I don’t recall the turf looking like that during the baseball season.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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Flatlander says:
@17… was just wondering the same thing. It’s as if they brought in a rain-machine to make the weather look ‘more authentic’. Based on Swindle’s pictures, it might be the Death Star sized lights they’ve installed.
December 20th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
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Gen. Stoopnagle says:
For once in your life Mich-Placed, +5 cocktails.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
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AERose says:
I think if BYU loses this game there should be a “Bronco Mendehall loses football games” tag.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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John says:
Sorry PB, but this season Mike Stoops WINS football games.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:02 am
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JD says:
Well, the turf covering up the infield was definitely a different color than the rest of the field. And then they spray-painted the foul lines a third shade of green.
I think the jizz effect was a combination of weird camera angle + lighting designed for baseball.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:56 am