CURIOUS INDEX, 11/17/09

by Orson on Nov 17, 2009 9:39 AM EST

Please, no one got shot in the leg. It is Ohio State/Michigan week, the second most intense rivalry on the boards this week in the college football slate. The first is Florida/Florida International. (Those uppity internacionalistas!) On Our Honor Defend is locked and loaded despite the game involving a.) a surging Ohio State team, and b.) a Michigan team with one leg, five teeth, and a a rusty derringer with one dodgy bullet in it.

Nevertheless, let the fires of hate be stoked OH NO YOU DI-UHNT RIP OUR BANNER.

That is from the 1973 game, a 10-10 tie (BOO) whose on-field hung jury spilled over off the field into the Big Ten voting for the conference representative to the Rose Bowl. Thanks to a series of rule changes and the even records, the decision on who to send to the Rose Bowl came down to a telephone vote of Big Ten athletic directors. They elected to send Ohio State, Michigan fans were outraged, and you are now officially reminded that as loopy as conference tie-ins and the BCS make the current game, it used to be much, much worse.

(Also, we would like to note that if a banner were ripped like that in the Florida/Florida State game, someone's getting shot in the ass, or at the very least the leg to avoid attempted murder charges.)

"I'd rather see a deer get killed than us." Roll Bama Roll's "It's Meltdown Time" features Auburn this week and a sterling collection of fearful invective leading up to the Iron Bowl in two weeks. There is quality angst all around, but this is the pick of the litter:

Get ready for another Daniel Moore masterpiece

Can it really be a Bama moment if it's Chris Todd doing the honors? The title "The Giveaway TD" or "The Wide Open Interception" or even "The Ineligible Lineman Screen" have all of the accumulated football glamour of a particularly nasty toenail fungus.

We're wired differently, we suppose. Study reveals that scientists do not understand the wiring of Florida fans at all, since a 63-0 pasting of an opponent is truly the most savory of all god's creations, and no amount of data can tell us we're wrong in assuming this.

Alligator armed GET IT Do not speak ill of Riley Cooper to Tim Tebow, because he says he underthrew what appeared to be two perfectly catchable TD passes against South Carolina to his roommate, and that you won't like him when he's angry. It's not the dropped balls by Cooper that irk; it's the pity passes to Brandon James, who has one hand made of normal flesh, one of stone, and 50/50 chance at catching anything thrown to him.

Paperwork sucks for everyone. It's not the offense, a piddling one...it's the timing. The only upside is that if you wondered where Georgia Tech's old compliance staff landed after their firings, well, now you know: they're in Ann Arbor, evidently.

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Which South Carolina game did I enjoy more: this year’s escape on a happenstance interception or last year’s Armageddon of points and pain?

Psychologists. Bunch of quacks.

by cantcatchuf on Nov 17, 2009 9:50 AM EST reply actions

The boards after a loss are always entertaining. This was my favorite from UT:

That was a real McClusterfuck today

by The Snake Will Drive Again on Nov 17, 2009 10:01 AM EST reply actions

I remember that 1973 game like it was yesterday. We got the nod when the MSU AD voted for us over UM.

Many articles are being written about the rivalry diminishing because of UM’s suckitude. I believe the embarrassment of losing to them is keeping the flame bright. Rivalry domination doesn’t diminish it unless it turns into LSU-Tulane. UF-Georgia is still strong and over the last 20 years it has been as one sided as any. I hope we win forever, but when we do lose to those pig fuckers, it will hurt worse than being shot in the ass or leg.

by Crabapple Buck on Nov 17, 2009 10:02 AM EST reply actions

Everything about that “study” screams midwest/Big Ten football.

by zzgator on Nov 17, 2009 10:12 AM EST reply actions

My favorite play in Auburn history: the Lee Ziemba screen, aka the Spanish Inquisition. NOBODY expects the Lee Ziemba screen!!!!

by Mr Dizzle on Nov 17, 2009 10:22 AM EST reply actions

I love the Meltdown, I read it religiously. As a Heel the Randy Shannon bit was particularly tasty. Apparently Miami’s fans are ready to fire the guy after beating 3 ranked teams in 4 games.

All I’m sayin is those Gators better bring their glocks to the game because FIU don’t play. They plays fo keeps.

by InTheBleachers on Nov 17, 2009 10:35 AM EST reply actions

my favorite, re: Nick Saban
“And all the while their devil coach stands on the sidelines and grins like a possum”

And UT:
“it’s kind of embarrassing to lose to ONE person on offense”

by Kecalf Bailey on Nov 17, 2009 10:42 AM EST reply actions

My favorite from the meltdown…from a USCw fan…

“The decline is now in full Florida State/Miami mode.”

by zzgator on Nov 17, 2009 10:58 AM EST reply actions

- “those pig fuckers”

Irony, thy name is Ohio.

by Vince Clortho on Nov 17, 2009 11:20 AM EST reply actions

@ crabapple buck

The LSU-Tulane rivalry started to die when Tulane left the SEC. It officially died when they closed historic Tulane Stadium.

by Kevin@LSU on Nov 17, 2009 11:33 AM EST reply actions

Were there ANY black players in the Big 10 in 1972?

by Awesome Bill from... damn doesn't rhyme... on Nov 17, 2009 11:35 AM EST reply actions

Things happen fast in the age of the interwebs. Now, in the space of just a single season, you can see a fan base go through all the stages of coacholatry, from OUR COACH RULEZ THE PROGRAM IS ROLLIN’ BABY!!! to OMFG THIS GUY IS A BUM WE’LL NEVER WIN WITH HIM FIRE HIM NOW!!!
and all the stages in between.

If the most excitable and least reflective college football fans were put in charge of politics, we’d never see a year go by without at least one Presidential impeachment and five executions of coordinators—oops, I mean Senators—for high treason.

by Blog Goliard on Nov 17, 2009 11:38 AM EST reply actions

Awesome – tOSU had Archie Griffin, QB Corny Greene, OL John Hicks, and many more, those are just the All Americans. You may be familiar with Jack Tatum 1968-1970. We also had HOF member Bill Willis 1942-44, the first black AA. tOSU has a rich history of great black players.

Unlike the SEC, who didn’t discover black players until after 1963. Thanks for asking!

by Crabapple Buck on Nov 17, 2009 11:45 AM EST reply actions