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September 15, 2009

IT’S ONLY WAFER-THIN

26 Responses to “IT’S ONLY WAFER-THIN”

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oc phil says:

Lloyd in the background is my favorite touch in that one. Easy target but the usual Freak brilliance at work.

September 15th, 2009 at 10:32 am
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JDAU says:

there’s a fine line between horriffic and pure genious, Freek, and you’re walking it…

September 15th, 2009 at 10:45 am
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Kevin@LSU says:

I always laugh when someone misspells genius.

September 15th, 2009 at 10:47 am
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Erik says:

Damn, I thought “only three comments, surely I’ll be the first to make note of the fact that any Michigan freekery includes Lllllloyd poking around in the background”… sigh.

But yes, I love how he’s always back there somewhere.

September 15th, 2009 at 10:51 am
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Geaux Irish says:

(giggling like a school girl)

Nice work Freek. I’ll be interested to see what sort of flag-planting idea you can come up with if Michigan State wins (again) at ND this weekend.

September 15th, 2009 at 10:55 am
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Domer Guy says:

Okay, I made my first trip to the Big House for the game last weekend. Although I left thoroughly depressed, I had a great time. 99.9% of the Michigan fans were great, as was the tailgating atmosphere on the golf course before and after the game.

My one complaint? Not the refs, not Weis’ playcalling, not our failure to execute. It was the music played by Michigan when ND was on offense, AFTER the team had broken the huddle and DURING Clausen’s cadence. Honestly, I think this contributed more to the “noise” of Michigan Stadium more than the 107,000 or whatever in attendance.

NCAA Rule 9-2-1(b)(6) provides that persons subject to the rules, including bands, shall not create any noise that prohibits a team from hearing its signals. Rule 1-1-6 dictates that public-address announcers, audio and video system operators, and other persons affiliated with the teams or institutions are subject to the rules. During almost the entire second half there would routinely be (crappy) pump-up music played from the end of one play through the snap of the next.

Is my complaint nit-picky and the result of the taste of Michigan’s collective ass in my mouth? Youbetcha. However, if you were at the game you would know what I am talking about. Michigan has never had the reputation of being a loud stadium, and any claim to being so, in my estimation, is due to the noise being piped in and not the fans.

That being said, who the hell knows whether the music played any role in ND’s bed-shitting. My guess is no, but it still pissed me off. Good day.

September 15th, 2009 at 11:00 am
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Crabapple Buck says:

I had to read the comments before I realized this wasn’t real. I am still convinced this could actually happen to Mr. Decided Schematic Advantage. BTW, how is that working out?

September 15th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:

Piling On Dept:

That Freek bit is so funny, even Chazz Weis finds it funny.

I am glad that I am finally not hearing any blame put on Mr. Tyrone-Shoelaces-Whittingham for ND’s fiascos, which will continue to come as long as Chazz is in Charge.

(adding Ty W in golf attire next to LLoyd would have been a true bit of brilliance….
….ooops…who am I to put a mustache on someone else’s Mona Lisa…)

September 15th, 2009 at 11:39 am
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DCPowerGator says:

I need to know where to send LSUFreek the cleaning bill for my freshly soiled trousers and undergarments! And I don’t think my monitor is going to survive many more Coke spews. LSUFreek is a menace to society who needs to be stopped, er, I mean, encouraged!!!

September 15th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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Plumnor says:

@ 6 Nice work digging through the rule book. Unfortunately you’re conveniently overlooking the fact that
ND’s band played constantly while we were calling plays. Also, you may have noticed those enormous new
luxury boxes, which definitely had more to do with the volume than anything. I forgive you since this was your
first game, so you obviously didn’t know any better.

September 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
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tbone says:

#7

Mr Schematic Advantage is still trying to figure out how to have his highly recruited QB throw to the uncovered slot receiver.

Oh, wait….I think I have my dumbass coaches of bedshitting teams confused.

September 15th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
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sb says:

While I enjoy any nut-cutting that includes ND, and I have nothing but contempt for Charlie’s “decided schematic advantage”, I found the underlying video disgusting…not necessarily LSUfreek’s work…just the original, flying, partially digested goop being ejected hither and yon. I am one of those who at times can produce a projectile sympathetic barf at inopportune times, and this nearly did it for me…

September 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
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CockofAges says:

Kudos to Freek for noting the obvious, yet strangely ignored to date, similarity between CW and the bilious Mr. Creosote. CW, having already blown through his gastric bypass with a rapidly-burgeoning gunt, should watch and learn.

September 15th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
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The Guys Get Shirts! says:

Unfortunately you’re conveniently overlooking the fact that ND’s band played constantly while we were calling plays.

Orson, I had no idea Tate Forcier was reader/commenter. Nice game on Saturday, Tate.

September 15th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
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cantcatchuf says:

14 – Maybe you’re new to the entire “sports fan” thing, but the pronoun “we” is often used to refer to said fan’s team. It may not be grammatical, logical, or sensible, but this is SPORTS, man. Its college football, and if we like to think that we are at the line calling the plays ourselves, then by damn we will.

September 15th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
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oc phil says:

I can see giving Tressel crap, even though I think it gets overdone. But comparing him to Weiss is too much.

Weiss has never beaten a team that finished the year in the top 20. Not one. Tressel ended Miami’s reign and won the MNC. Tressel has actually earned his way into BCS games and won them. Weiss, not so much.

It will be interesting to see what happens when ND and tOSU switch opponents later in the season. I fully expect tOSU to beat Michigan again and for USC to administer the usual crushing beat down of Notre Dame.

September 15th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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HudiBlitz says:

@6 and @10 – Is Notre Dame Stadium the only major venue left in the country that doesn’t pipe in music? I’m disappointed to hear they do so at Michigan. Even Wrigley Field has been playing sh_tty music over the PA system for the better part of 20 years (less sh_tty music than at other ballparks, but sh_tty music nonetheless).

I don’t consider myself that old, but I’m old enough to remember when the only things you’d hear at a college basketball or football game were the band and the fans and the only things you’d hear at a baseball game were an organ and the fans. And I’m not saying I liked it quiet. Sporting events could get loud, but they got loud in an uncontrived fashion. I find the NBA-ization of America incredibly depressing. The sad thing is that people born after, say, 1982 don’t know any better because the sporting world has never treated them as anything other than imbeciles with ADHD.

September 15th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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terri says:

If it makes ya feel any better the television announcers said the noise level has never been that high and they attributed it to the new build on the stadium.

I love UofM, and am a huge ND fan, but lets get rid of CW he really has no professional accolades to speak of other than he has worked for the best in football.

Personally I think he sucks and does nothing for ND or the program

Hail to the Victors!

September 15th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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Rob says:

I love this, the Freek has certainly done it again.

That said, I’m a bit disappointed that this was the Freek for UM-ND. Am I the only one who saw the shot of Jimmah adjusting his package late in the game and immediately thought: “I can’t wait to see what Freek does with this?” I want a Jimmah-crotch-adjustment!

September 15th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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Domer Guy says:

Hudi @ 17 – ND Stadium is the only one that I have been to that refuses to play Jock Rock Volume 2 during games, but I can’t speak for anywhere else. Part of the reason I love the place.

September 15th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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Nate says:

Wait–you mean Charlie Weis is fat?!??!??!!!??!!!!

September 16th, 2009 at 6:54 am
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justthinking says:

Domer –

I’ve been attending games at the Big House since I was 12 back in the late 70’s. Saturday was my first game with the new Skyboxes reflecting the sound back into the stadium.

It was the loudest I had ever heard it in 30 years, and it was all crowd. There were a few times when the intro to Welcome to the Jungle got piped in, but not EVERY single down the Irish played – c’mon.

The Students started in when ND got in their huddles, the sound swept through the stadium and it just built upon itself – even the blue-hairs were standing up yelling. I have never been to a game when the crowd yelled for every play. It was freaking awesome.

Anybody that’s going to Penn State or Ohio State should consider some cheap earplugs, lest your ears start bleeding.

Man that was fun!

September 16th, 2009 at 9:33 am
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guy smiley says:

hahahahah another Charlie Weis is fat joke!!! Golly these are soo awesome.
Trend seems to be that the people that crack on others peoples weights are a) fat asses themselves. b) lonely c) balding d) in dire need of a significant other. Which one applies to you? Do you make fun of mentally retarded people to? Like laugh at them and stuff?
Take a look in the mirror freak..seriously..do it….sad huh? having trouble finding a partner for life, because you are a little “different”…it’s ok..so your ugly…so you’re balding…so you dont really have a good paying job and are just trying to get by..it ok..things will be o….k…..
Look at the finer things in life..such as you have a great talent for making fun of fat people….I mean really..who else can do that with such….uh …um…..well…..uh…nevermind, any person with low self esteem can probably do that.
Maybe stuff wont be ok after all….
stay the way you are and you’ll go far champ!
signed,
the beautiful one.

September 16th, 2009 at 10:55 am
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Domer Guy says:

@22 – Thanks for your comments, I’ll take your word on the noise now/before. FTR, I don’t think I ever said that the music was played every single down. Also, I would never classify “Welcome to the Jungle” as crappy music, but the stuff I was thinking of escapes me. Great game though.

September 16th, 2009 at 11:45 am
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ric burger says:

I am a big UM fan. (CSC’85) I have not really decided on the piped in music.
BUT i have to agree with the Domer on the music still playing when they break the huddle.
In my opinion, once the play clock starts, the music should stop. They stopped several times AFTER the line was getting set.

He also commented on UM fans being nice as well. I have been to several stadiums and
I would have to say the Domers are the nicest i have met by far. I have been there for a loss
and a win and all class. I think it is bred into them to say ‘Welcome to Notre Dame’.
(always exclude students!!!)

The worst…..and i am not being unfair…..Ohio st. I have been there twice and it can be intimidating but i digress….

September 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
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Domer says:

@justthinking

Awesome game on Saturday to be at. I’m a huge ND fan but any game that is decided in the final seconds is just exciting to be a part of. I am going to disagree with you a little on the crowd being that into it. Of course this is only the fourth time I have been there but it still never seemed loud to me until the final touchdown. The stadium is louder than it ever has been, but my friend who I was with(a Michigan alum) was disappointed at how quiet the crowd was when your team was on defense. Great game, just wanted to give you a different perspective on the crowd.

September 17th, 2009 at 2:45 pm