CURIOUS INDEX, 11/2/09

I wish Brandon Spikes was available to gouge my eyes everytime CBS had a close up of Ninja Cox’s face.

oh come on. i know you are florida fans and all, but did you actually just defend the eye gouge? deadspin jumped the shark last month…you guys are getting dangerously close

Check your reading comprehension. It’s a terrible thing, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. That still makes it a terrible thing, and he should be suspended, but it wasn’t like Spikes just decided it would be a good idea out of the blue.

I personally think it was an excellent idea.

Captain Insano shows no mercy!

No doubt UF won’t discipline their All American LB for intentionally trying to injure somebody, but would the SEC even dare to utter a discouraging word to the Corch? I mean, there’s no excuse, but here’s an excuse…

Who knows what the SEC’s going to do. Our money’s on Lane Kiffin somehow getting a suspension for this from the SEC. How is not important; just know that they’ll find a way.

If Urban only has a “very serious conversation” with Spikes, meaning he’s going to talk about how to choose an agent and investment advisor, then Urban has no right to ever complain when NOT IF someone, somewhere from Georgia does something to one of his players. If I were Urban, I strip Spikes of his captain status and sit his ass the next game (yes I know its just Vandy).

The only thing disappointing about the eye gouge is that the actual ball was not removed with a sharp fingernail.

Fuck all this Spikes eye gouging shit..Is Ealey hurt because of this? Is he somehow not able to play the game of football because someone tried to poke him in the eye? NO.

It happens every fucking game.. this ain’t soccer folks, although some of you on here seem to want it to be like that. Goddamn, I hate soccer.

P.S. – LSUFreek: Brandon Spikes, the Three Stooges. Discuss.

Why the outrage over an eye gouging that never happened? Or, did I miss Ealey complaining to the refs, rubbing his eyes/face, missing any game action, mentioning it in his post-game interview with the Savannah paper.

Much ado about nothing. Now back to your regularly scheduled virtual lynchin’.

personally I think Urb just needs to counsel Spikes about how to hide his hand better…. lots of ways to get away with nastiness like this without the world seeing

nasty pokes, pinches, twists, kicks, jabs, stabs, bites and sundry contusions have been a part of on-field antics at least since my granddad’s day… why do we seem so surprised at his enthusiasm for violence? Or do any of you not believe Tebow gets the low down treatment when he is on the bottom?

I agree with some of the Gator fans. What’s the big deal?

That’s how we do.

Ted Valentine, might that GA action be an eye gouge? Because if so, Spikes has already received it, and he finds your eye gouge wanting.

The Uga moralizing would be easier to stomach if it were also focused on their own players’ punkish behavior. Seeing as it isn’t, I’ll just accept this Spikes stuff for what it is – UGa fans being sore losers. Again. See y’all next year!

@ 8

Yo!, No so fast my friend. The University of Florida Gators….following a win over Georgia have gone on to beat Vandy by and average of 12.6 points and that inflated by a 28 blow out last year. With out that blowout, the margin is just below 9 pts, which is Jim Tressel type numbers. Following a loss from UGA, that average jumps to 21.3 points.

 /Holds pencil up in a vertical position

I’m still a little pissed at Spikes risking a penalty there, but it’s pretty annoying when people pretend that these things don’t happen all the time. They shouldn’t, and they’re dick moves each time, but it’s not new. Urban should sit him for a half, that should be enough for the NCAA, and we can all move on.

I know crap like that happens in the bottom of piles, but Spikes ought to be punished for being so blatant about it. Sit him for a game. An a little extracurricular bunch to the gut is NOT the same as an eye gouge. If he’s successful with it, he could blind somebody.

“Now back to your regularly scheduled virtual lynchin’.”

awesome DHC, awesome.

Winners Win, Whiners Whine

17 = well said.

Just because it happens doesn’t mean it wasn’t very stupid (for many reasons).Sit him for a half or a game to drive home the point and then be done with it.

@ 20

Yes, they sure do. See 2007. It was incessant.

#12…..You read my mind. This happens all the time and even as a UGA fan I’m not enraged by it. But as a seasoned veteran——Spikes should have the street smarts to be more discreet when he dry-gulches somebody. I’m sure that Meyer will issue the appropriate “guidance”.

I am OUTRAGED at this blog defending Brandon Spikes. I hope Urban Meyer has a serious talk with you, Orson.

Hopefully it will be about the benefits of combining fresh squeezed orange juice with Red Baron pizza.

Lacrosse players: setting a douche standard since their ancestors killed a bunch of people and stole their game.

I always thought the plastic shield on a RB’s facemask was stupid. I mean you basically have to have a dude on the sideline with Windex at the ready due to smearing; what if it fogs up? And the tinted one’s, how do they see at night?

After Spikes’ douche move I now understand. I guarantee Ealy will have one of those shields on his facemask from now on. I certainly would.

@26: They aren’t allowed to wear tinted ones. It’s makes it too hard for the trainers to see the eyes of players if they can’t remove the helmet.

Rob Reynolds’ is not impressed with Brandon Spikes’ turn as an amateur opthamologist. Lethal force, gents. That’s what Reynolds endorses. And you should too.

The game was very chippy and both teams were pretty damn dirty. That being said, those that get caught get punished… or in some cases they don’t, depends on how “Harsh” you consider punishment. Might want to check with all the lawyers on here, but pretty sure that he beat my friend earlier so I went and found him and then beat him isn’t the best legal defense. Self defense doesn’t fit his youtube performance.

“Craig James does have a point, though, when he says Texas is a more complete team. You should write down the date today, because Craig James had a point.”

He also has a son playing in the Big 12 (Texas Tech) and is probably just blowing kisses up their skirt.

All depends on which Colt McCoy shows up.

Bo to Suh: You were the only one tackling, but now you go and get out-tackled by a woman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6pmYfNco0

So, let’s play this out to it’s logical conclusion…. Had Spikes been successful in detaching Ealey’s retina, scratching his cornea or actually plucking out his eye, would this just be dismissed as an over reaction by Spikes to the earlier “chippy” play? Seriously people, pull your collective heads out and at least attempt to act like you have good sense and put aside your childish rationalizations.

Barry from Eastenders also gets the Redbird Reading Group Award for reading comprehension. The offramp to Offendedtown is over there, sir.

Is being a more complete team really the criterion we should be focusing on in determining who is the prettiest girl that gets her dance card punched by the winner of the SECCG for the last dance? To me, Oregon’s disemboweling of USC is exponentially more impressive than anything UT has done to date. I mean, for goodness sakes, Pete FROWNED! Of course, such a suggestion puts the “one big ass win” criterion ahead of the body of work criterion (which I would argue is at least equal even with one loss for the Ducks) and solves nothing. I’m not trying to make the case for the Ducks (maybe I am), but I really need some objectivity right now.

PS. I just found out I scored MNF tickets so I’m headed to NOLA. Who Dat! Have A Great Day.

Yep, you are correct Orson, I am clearly unable to comprehend the remarks of ALGator, GatorTrey and Kevin@LSU. Obviously, they are just misunderstood by this simple-minded observer. Thanks for the clarification.

I don’t see what the big deal is. Yeah I tried to jam my fingers into his eye sockets, but those Georgia players were saying mean things and hitting people. Plus I didn’t successfully pull an eyeball out! No harm done, right?

1. - Are you really making excuses to justify that? Is that what you’re going with, along with the blogmaster?

“They did it too” sounds like second grade level thinking. I give you credit, that is (just barely) above the Georgia players’ mindset of “intimidation” by obvious personal foul.

Urban Meyer should be coaching at Notre Dame where the players are into book learning and stuff
Not into criminalities like they are in Florida and Miami and Florida State

I decided just to shut up after such a beatdown, but two comments: 1) no harm no foul, it looked pretty nasty all around…only they scored a lot more points than us; and 2) you’ve got to love a site where the moderator/host is pretty much invisible until he puts the hammer down.

On the rare occasion that something truly bad actually happens OS is one of the very few people to give it a serious moment. If Spikes had hurt/blinded Ealey, I don’t doubt for a minute that OS would not have had fun with it. Lighten up or get lost…it’s only going to get worse for you around these parts.

My comment had more sarcasm dripping off of it than Brandon Spikes had optic nerve juice dripping off his dirt encrusted fingernail.

…after watching the several youtube videos over and over, WITHOUT my orange and blue colored glasses, it’s clear that Brandon was doing nothing more than assisting Ealey by removing some sweat off his brow, and removing a few blades of grass that could have very easily gotten into Washaun’s eye.

Helping brutha’s out….that’s the Brandon way.

summing up:

florida fan sez: just some good natured tit-for-tat by one of our fine student athletes. besides, tebow loves jesus, so that offsets the fact that brandon spikes is satan’s spawn.

georgia fan sez: omg! something, something… jorts! something something…herschel! something, something…fire martinez!

other school’s fan sez: i’m impressed at the number of people expecting brandon spikes to have any sort of restraint; just be happy that he has a constructive outlet for his all-consuming rage. no chance that he isn’t 6-months out of the nfl before he gets all stabby at kroger when someone in front of him tries to slip 11 items through the express lane.

This just in:

Craig James has corrected his statement that Texas is a more complete football team. What he meant to say was that Texas was “a more complete breakfast”.

World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, now with 10% less eyeball juices. Brandon Spikes is doing a community service people, he is collecting excess eye juices for those that are without, like blind people, SEC refs.

Albert Haynesworth thinks Spikes can do better.

@34

And FSU’s curb-stomping of BYU is probably more impressive than any of Texas’s wins. That doesn’t mean you can ignore their losses.

estuVol @46

But Marcus Vick is still impressed.

What you dont see is that Brandon Spikes was simply removing that Dawgs guy-liner. Eye black goes UNDER the eyes, not on the eyelids, people!
MAN’S-GAME!

Suh was actually trying to run that animal down…..FOR DINNER!!!/ducks, runs out side door….

Texas is the most complete team……Alabama is just pulling a “hustle”…trying to sucker everyone into a false sense of security…then “BAM”!!! INSTANT OREGON OFFENSE!!!!
Actually, Bama’s redzone offense is so frustrating, I’d rather watch my 80yr old grandfather fiddle with a GPS….Old people and technology——thats really frustrating…..try it…and try not to pull your hair out…..“no ,grandpa, you cant target your neighbors house and have someone dive bomb it…..”