THANKSGIVING PROGRAMMING NOTE: THANK YOU

I’m thankful that I was no where near a gun this past weekend.

Thank you, Les Miles.

Thanks for the funny and for occasionally remembering Jack Fleming.

Thank you Jarvis Moss.

This blog has jumped the shark. The Gators play Florida State in three days and it’s all smiles, gladhanding, and good cheer for the people of the world?

Fuck this.

Oh, and happy holidays!

Thank you, Mr. Hall, for the awesome site (but not for getting that sucktastic song stuck in my head with the tag)

Who knew there was worthwhile football played east of the Rockies?

Thank you, Kansas football.

I am thankful for the Saints for balancing out the bizarro world that is LSU football right now.

@Kevin@LSU

I’m thankful you weren’t near one either. Your priceless commenting and cajun information are unmatched.

I’m not thankful that you weren’t near Les to give him the Clausen treatment.

I’m also thankful for Mike Archer.

Slaughter NC State

So Riley is Reggie’s brother from another mother?

Also, thank you Quezzie and thank you Doug Johnson for attempting to do* what we’ve all wanted to do through the years…especially this week.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/138230752

• Please see #39 in the linked article.

Thankful that 6-5 is a down year. Thankful for sites like this that provide an escape from debate about alleged real issues.

Thank you Orson. You make work bearable.

Oh yeah, suck it seminoles. Go Gator!

Thanks to the men and women of the US Armed Forces for allowing us the freedom to come to a silly web site and make fun of each other on a near-daily basis.

Thanks to my wife for allowing me to drink heavily and swear in front of the kids on Saturdays while watching the Gamecocks and Irish implode on a regular basis.

Thank you O, Holly, and Doug for making our work days a little better. Thank you Charlie Weis for being such a huge chunky target. Thank you DickRod for going to Michigan and falling on your face. Thank you guy that punched Jimmy Clausen. It may not have seemed like much to you, but it meant the world to us.

@ #1 -

I was. And I’m thankful that my travelmates had enough sense to hide it from me after the game. I’m thankful that Les Miles got taken to task on his radio show and was forced to mea culpa over and over. I’m also glad that there’s another game left, because this season went by waaaay too fast. I’m thankful that I can go into Red Stick Saturday before sunrise, set up the tailgate, and spend a day tailgating the way Jebus intended…with open flames, beer consumed in the open without fear of harassment by the cops, and spread out instead of in a tent city that more closely resembles a Cambodian refugee camp. I’m thankful that no matter how much my coach bumblefucked his way through the last 2 seasons, we still have a great group of kids that are willing to give up ankles, knees, and collar bones for our enjoyment.

Many,many thanks for Paul Johnson. And thanks to Orson & the gang for the great work…

I’m thankful that I get to watch college football, and talk about it on places like this.

I’m thankful for the guys on the bottom of the depth chart who bust their butts for little to no glory.

I’m thankful for Brandon Graham.

I’m thankful I don’t live in Ohio.

And I’m thankful that Michigan’s season is over.

Live from I-85, thank you to all you mean motherfuckers who make this job ten times more hilarious than it has any right to be.
You are all angels, and most of you can spell pretty good.
And thank Football Jesus for fat guy touchdowns, and forgive me my phone keyboard typos, amen.

Thanks to all who make this the most enjoyable site on the interwebs.

Thank you Pat Dye, Bo Jackson, Lawyer Tillman, Reggie Slack (I could go on and on)

Hopefully, I will be thanking Chris Todd & Co for a miracle late Friday afternoon!

Thank you Danny Wuerffel, Lawrence Wright, Monty Grow, Steve Superior, and Emmitt Smiff.

I am thankful that Orson, and Holly, and Doug, and Freek all find the time to keep this entertaining college football site running at full tilt week after week (particularly in the ever-so-long off-season).

I am also thankful for my brothers and sisters in arms out on patrol in the desert, or on a mountain-top, or on (or under) the deep blue seas.

And to all the rest of you:
Happy Thanksgiving, motherfuckers!

@11 – I completely agree.. I’m thankful that for a couple months out of the year I can completely ignore all the real world bullshit and bickering that goes on in exchange for the wonderful fantasy land that is college football.

I’m also thankful for Noel Devine, and there being a glimmering chance of greatness from the WVU Basketball team to offset the trainwreck Bill Stewart has bestowed upon Mountaineer fans.

Thankful for: a job, scotch, my hot wife, 30 packs of Coors Light, 401K recovery, freedom, porn, Nick Saban, men and women of the US Armed Forces, peanut butter and chocolate, Waffle House, Lane Kiffin, pillows, 2010 elections, WiFi and The Allman Brothers.

Thankful for a website with the expression “click to embiggen”

Oh, and my health, my family and my job.

Thank you Lito.

Thank you Kearse.

Thank you Alternate Reality Anthone Lott (known in this strand of the multiverse as Joe Haden).

And Thank you Jeremy Foley.

Thankful for my family, my country and my opportunity to serve in uniform for as long as I did (22 years).

Thankful for having attended an SEC school and become a lifelong fan. Win or lose, few others are as passionate or as dedicated.

I’m thankful for the Iron Bowl – because for every excruciating loss to Bama there is a ‘Bo over the top’ , Punt Bama Punt or six year stretches that makes life euphoric year after year. I’d rather have a last second victory snatched from the crimson jaws of defeat than any other type of lop-sided ending to the game.

Here’s to another. Beat Bama! War Eagle!

Life is good.

Sullivan013

I am thankful that my four years of college were Mark Richt’s first four years at UGA… when we had much to be thankful for. I am thankful that Michael Adams has single handedly stopped alcoholic intake in Jacksonville because it’s not called the WLOCP any more. I am thankful that Notre Dame has never been relevant since I have been old enough to coherently follow college football.

Most importantly, I’m thankful for you, Orson. Your “OH MA GAH, ATHENZ IS GR8” pieces from the last few weeks really made me proud.

I am thankful that Mike Mohamed intercepted the pass that kept The Axe in Berkeley.
GO BEARS!
I am thankful for Coach Tedford for rescuing Cal from the evils of the previous coaching era.
GO BEARS!

I am grateful that I have friends whose trust I have earned and whom have earned my trust.

I am thankful that my parents did the best possible and that any success that I have is because of them having made even bigger sacrifices and endured things that I thankfully will never know.
Gracias viejos por venirse al El Norte.

Thanks be to Swindle for the John Xnydis reference
Thanks be to Tebow, Corch Meyer and Corch Spurrier
Thanks be to Corch Zook for sucking enough so that we have Corch Meyer
Thanks be to the Gator Basketball team beating FSU last night — any win over FSU is a good win
Thanks be to My Morning Jacket, The Band, The Allman Brothers, and “Thunderstruck”
Thanks be to eye gouges and linebackers who return INTs 41 yards for touchdowns
and Thanks be to ’Merica! for giving me college footbaw in the fall.

God Bless and GO GATORS

I am thankful for: (in order)
1. Football
2. Adderall
3. Tequilia
4. Two-ply toilet paper
5. Open-container laws
6. Nutella
7. Deferable student loans

(1) I am thankful for auburn. No, really I am. It would be darn near impossible to have the Alabama-auburn rivalry without auburn and life would not be nearly the same.

(2) I am thankful for Les Miles and fervently hope the good fans of LSU will be understanding and forgiving of his occasional questionable decision making. However, I am not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.

(3) I am thankful for a loving wife that will watch twelve hours of college football with me and then ask, “isn’t there a west coast game we can get?” (By the way, to my LSU friends, she would make a lot better game coach than the hat)

(4) I am thankful for two sons that didn’t want to go to school anywhere but Tuscaloosa. It would have been awkward for the checks to go to Tuscaloosa if they were in Gainesville (by way of example).

(5) I am thankful for two grandsons who correctly understand that while a dog might say “woof-woof” and a chicken might say “cluck-cluck,” an elephant says “ROLL TIDE!”

As a soon to be newly-minted grad student enrolling next fall, I’m grateful to Willie Martinez for deflating the value of student tickets for next fall. Thanks, Willie!

No love for the son of the preacher man? The man who taught us all about a little school named Emery & Henry? The man with the shiny slacks? The man who took “foot” out of "football’? The man who “hangs half a hundred” in Athens? The man who quit the best job in college football because his admin. didn’t back him in defending the safety of his tailback? The man who just punts on 3rd and impossibly long. The man who reconciled Floirda football’s segregationist past wiith its multi-cultural present. The greatest person ever born in Florida who came to prominence in Florida, and thus the greatest living Floridian, I’m thankful for the Old Ballcoach for all he did in Gainesville and Tampa (and for the easy win in November).

Thankful list……alright…

1. Unit Billing
2. My kids
3. Marital aids
4. Urban Meyer
5. Willie Martinez
6. Shower mirrors
7. Roy Kramer’s Genius
8. current hairless pubic area trend
9. the Versus channel
10. ……I only have 9….

Gonegator…..great tribute, but Spurrier was born in Tennessee….that has to be at least one strike…

Kerwin Bell shout out. Nice. Long live the ’stache.

I’m thankful that LSU beat Auburn again. Amidst anger and bitterness over the continued dismantling-by-incompetence that Les Miles is wreaking, at least we’ve accomplished one of my yearly goals, in order:

(1) SEC Championship
(2) Beat Auburn
(3) National Championship

Thanks also to commercials for the movie “The Blind Side,” for having a momentary glimpse of Tommy Tuberville, bringing the old hate boiling back up. It’s a good thing.

i’m thankful for dickrod and his continued ineptitude.

i’m thankful for our seniors never losing to that team up north.

i’m thankful that my quarterback has learned how to throw the ball away.

i’m thankful for roses.

go bucks!

Thanks for Steve Spurrier, except for the two trips to Knoxville in 90 and 92.

I am thankful that the most successful years in the history of Gator football have perfectly coincided with the rise and proliferation of sports blogging and MSM sports coverage, resulting in countless Cat. 5 billable hours spent wallowing in self-satisfied contentment.

Also thankful I discovered this blog in the spring of 2006, which has provided the majority of the laughs and entertainment of which I just referred. Thanks for all of your hard work, gang. Enjoy the break…

Oh yeah and since it’s hate week here’s a good FSU joke: How do you stop a Florida State fan from masturbating? Paint his “spear” orange and blue and he won’t beat it for going on 6 years. ka-splow!

Thankful for:

1) being employed full-time in a crap economy
2) my family members
3) Notre Dame schadenfreude
4) a Civil War with a Rose Bowl on the line (for professional reasons)
5) those who serve so my weak, lame self doesn’t have to
6) rock ’n roll
7) Costco selling 24-packs of top-notch beer
8) being fed well by said employer despite having to work Thanksgiving
9) the Pac-10 finally getting some of that SEC-batshit-crazy coach action going on
10) Pete Carroll hopefully beating that shitass Neuweasel one more time this weekend.

May you all get that itis tomorrow.

Thanks to you Orson, Holly, Doug, etc., and all of the kickass commenters.

I was caught off-guard by the Xynidis shout out, but it’s nice to see a hometown Gator get some love.

And OS, if you happen to be in Hogtown on Saturday I’ll gladly contribute a few cocktails to the 100 that you deserve to receive.

also, forgot —

11) this wonderful site.

Thank you for the work of this site that makes it easier to enjoy a rough season or seven at SU football.
Also, it is great to see SU beating Rutgers, even if it doesn’t fully take me back to the years that was a given.
Thank you for the fact that the people writing and reading this site would understand how spastically twitchy I got last Saturday. I was innocently drinking a beer in a bar, enjoying football on big screens, (other than standard couchpotato mode) and SAW GERG ON THE SCREEN and immediately started twitching and coughing and feeling rage. It ruined my Saturday college football viewing pleasure for at least five minutes and two or three swallows of Guinness. Will he never be sent to a floating iceberg off Alaska?
And seriously, thanks to all the men and women abroad not getting ready to eat Turkey at home because you are helping to keep the world safe for the rest of us.

I for one am extremely thankful that we are occasionally blessed with a beautiful woman coming to play in our blog-box

thanks Holly… you are the TNT m’aam

I’d like to thank whatever higher power has created a world, though not without its’ problems, that is filled with beautiful and amazing triumphs – college football being but one of them.
I’m also thankful that it is populated with creative and intelligent people, such as the propietors of this blog, who further my enjoyment of these triumphs.
Lastly, I am thankful that Joe Paterno saw it fit to allow this higher power to operate and create.

Thank you Paul Johnson

I am thankful for this site. Its given me laughter leavened with knowledge. You’ve made me become a better writer.
I am thankful for Tivo, so that now I can go to Burning Man without missing the first weekend’s games.
I am thankful for Hinton who knows more about cfb than seems possible.
I am thankful for glorious, glorious HD for its crystal clear picture which I promptly blur with a few bottles of Black Butte Porter.
I am thankful for breakfast with all of the West Coast Gator Clubs. (Sorry about smelling like I just got back from a gay house night)
I am thankful for Percy’s meep-meep, Tebow’s everything, Reggie Nelson’s manhood & Spurrier’s evil genius.
Blessings to you all.

Thank you Wazzu for being so shitty that Washington will be able to take out a season of frustration on you this Saturday.

Thank you for the end of the worst decade of Husky football ever, which actually started with a Rose Bowl.

Thank you for Steve Sarkisian, who might actually know what he is doing and will make the 2010’s much much better.

Thank you Al Golden.

Thank you Temple Football for one of the greatest turnarounds in college football history.

Go Owls!

Others have echoed some of my thankfulness, so I’ll say this one: Thank you, Chik-fil-a.

The Grocers Council of the State of Kansas is grateful Mangino is still the Jayhawks coach.

I am thankful for:
1. Football
2. North Avenue Trade School
3. John Heisman, Bobby Dodd and Paul Johnson
4. Clean Old Fashioned Hate that is not restricted to one day a year, but burns in my veins all 365
5. A great wife that loves all things college football and me to boot
6. Fall saturdays that make it ok for grown men to still act immature while drinking and swearing too much
7. Delicious nectar that comes in square bottles, has hints of oak and is mellowed with charcoal
8. Job
9. Fatford showing signs he might actually be capable of leading a team and throwing the ball to Calvin and not the other team
10. EDSBS, Stingtalk and even the pathetic excuses they call journalism at the ajc, espn and cnnsi that keep my workdays more entertaining

Many thanks to O and the gang for this site and what they do with it. Truly.
I thankful for my wife, kids, and the ability to love what I do for a living.
And I am thankful that Curley Hallman is no longer the coach at LSU. He’s not, right? Right?

Thank you Mark Mangino for making sure my trip to Kansas City will be a good one unlike last year.

And thank you EDSBS for continually sardonic support of my adopted love conference known as the SEC

1. My own hot wife.
2. My eldest daughter, almost 3, for whom the phrases “I wanna watch football” and "Daddy, play the Husker song are not uncommon.
3. My youngest daughter, 17 months, for looking so damned cute in a Nebraska jersey.
4. Ndamukong Suh (some friends read this blog and I’d be in DEEP SHIT if my wife heard he was anywhere above the fam.).
5. The OzFather, the fighting Pelinis and the continued rebuilding project in Lincoln.
6. Being in Tempe for 62-24.
7. Tyler Legate and all the walk-on, small town fullbacks and tight ends across the country breaking facemasks to spring the likes of Roy Helu.
8. The slow and painful death of the zone read option. Except at Oregon, because anyone who runs it that fast and that well deserves to keep it.
9. The DVR, which continues to ensure that I shall not miss a single snap of the game in progress to tuck my princesses into bed. Or get another beer.
10. Discovering a blog that knows what schadenfreude means, much less how to spell it.

Happy Thanksgiving – keep up the great work, folks. Go Big Red!

I am thankful for the large, rowdy, disfunctional, passionate, loyal, and funny as shit permanent tailgate that is the SEC football family.

Orson, Holly, Doug and Freek… thanks to you. Y’all done us proud.

I’m thankful for my daughter, my family and that Nick Motherfuckin’ Saban is the Head Coach at my Alma Mater and has used his superpowers to restore balance to the football universe.

That, and Suck a fat one, Aubs. We’re gonna kick your ass Friday.

Ah, the hate, it’s nice….

First of all, 10 shots of Uzo to you, sir, for mentioning the heat-seeking Greek, Jon Xynidis.

That said, thanks to the Music City Bowl, which may give us the Bowden vs. Spurrier matchup my bloodlust demands.

Thank you, Urban.

Thank you, Shelley [for wanting to bring your kids up in Gainesville and not South Bend].

Thank you, Jeremy Foley for being the smartest AD in the NCAA.

First, Nike for its simultaneous mockery of both real war and football tradition. No matter how much I screw up in life, I can always tell myself “At least you don’t work at Nike.”

Like Urban Meyer, I am thankful for the punks who won’t hire Charlie Strong as a head coach, for a Georgia happy to be a generous punching bag, and for the occasionally sympathetic SEC referee.

But, mostly, I am just thankful for Caleb Sturgis. He has replaced Percy, one of the most potent human weapons ever devised, without trouble or complaint. He is an inspiration for all short white men.

And, of course, Orson, Holly, Doug, and LSUfreek. Double points for Orson if he does, in fact, tour and take pictures of Mangino’s house when it is put on the market.

Thanks are due to:

• The San Francisco Vanderbilt Club, who don’t care about the nature of your degree or the circumstances of your departure, so long as you speak the language of black and gold.

• The Cal Marching Band, whose alumni are not skimpy with the mescal or the mole, and who have graciously taken in a lone wandering redneck for their own 21st century Doc Holliday. Oski, I’m yo’ huckleberry.

• My wife, who had the good taste to be tall, blonde, buxom, and have her own season tickets before I even appeared on the scene., and who does not shirk from driving my drunk ass home. Every. Single. Time.

• My Uncle Bill, who was a cook on a Navy vessel at Bikini Atoll in the late 40s, then worked three decades in the uranium-enrichment business, then died of cancer in his 80s, smoking 3 packs a day the whole way. For all those who keep the world safe for us to bitch at refs who should have seen that OF COURSE IT WAS OVER THE LINE YOU IDIOT – thank you all.

• The fine folks in Loretto, KY, who make the amber elixir that always makes it better.

• Bill Joy, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Jobs, Al Gore (why not), and all the others who made it possible not only for me to earn a living at this ridiculous stuff, but to subsequently F off all day on websites like this one.

• The Artist Occasionally Known As Orson Swindle, who has through no fault of his own built the single greatest specialty-interest site on the Internet of any kind.

• And last but not least, Toyota, for saving the environment while simultaneously providing the punchline to this year’s GREATEST FOOTBALL STORY EVER TOLD.

God bless us, every one.

I’m thankful for:

- My dear girlfriend, who is starting to make herself perfect marriage material by going from “I don’t like college football” to asking about coverage schemes during games in the span of 3 short months. swoon
- My family, especially my Pops who just recently received +1 KIDNEY OF CLEANSING.
- Jeff Tedford, for giving me football in my youth that even Old Blues had never seen. (And the software writers for Tedford-Bot 2.0, who now wins road games against ranked opponents.)
- Sandy Barbour, the Cal AD who has committed herself to making the top public university in the world as competitive in athletics as we are in academics.
- Ron Gould and his unending string of unstoppable running backs under Tedford: Joe Igber, Adimchinobe Echemandu, JJ Arrington, Marshawn BEAST MODE Lynch, Justin Forsett, Jahvid Best, and soon-to-be-big-time Shane Vereen.
- Aaron Rodgers — the only person who could get me to actively root for the Packers.
- The Borderline Psychotic Young Alums of Section QQ (you know who you are)
- Stanford Football in the 21st Century: the salve of Cal beating the hell out of a higher-ranked Stanford at home can soothe all the wounds of a season. We’ve got the axe again, be-e-etches!

and last, but by no means least…

- College Football itself: For its pageantry, history, rivalry, and community. Without it’s endearing qualities, Orson, HRA, “Dolla Bill” Doug, and Der Freek and their skills would have languished as relative unknowns.

I am thankful that I no longer tear myself asunder over our regular gonad-twisting losses. The last stage of dying is acceptance, right?

and thank you Lawrence Wright.

Thank you for, in no order of importance:

1. posts like #23 and 29
2. the fact that women such as Bamalegs (#30) wife exist and the hope I will find one.
3. still having a job dispite the existence of this blog and it’s influence on me.
4. the fact that Orson,Holly, Freak et al (including Stranko) have created a blog that gives insite into the crazy SEC while still being a home for all CFB fans. This truly is a significant achievment that positively effects fandome and CFB as a whole.
5. Mike Riley for turning a cow pasture into a respectable football program.
6. COTG for making this years Civil War game be nationally relevent for noth teams involved, for the first time in my life.

Thankful for EDSBS and fellow readers/comment makers for making me snort in my office every morning… Thankful for my family for allowing me to be born a clemson fan, go to Auburn and see a team go 13-0, and then allowing me to transfer to Sakerlina… Always makes holidays a wonderful and colorful time… By the way, have safe travels and a lovely holiday dinner to you and yours’, motherfuckers…

I’m thankful for my 3 kids, who know since birth that the last thing we do when getting tucked in for bed is the “We Are……Penn State!” chant, and for my wife, who, although she is a Buckeye, is teh hotness, and the best cook on the North American land mass. And also for ND, whose decade+ of suckitude has made life in northern Indiana more enjoyable for me.

Thanks to all who make this world a better, safer place for me- military men and women, ER doctors and nurses, teachers, et al. Thanks to those who contribute here, especially O/S, Holly, Doug, and the invaluable Chris Brown. Thanks to all my fellow readers and commenters, who most always have a more nuanced take and/or a better joke than I do. Thanks to Jim Tressel, for blandly dominating the Big Ten and helping to smooth away the scars of the Cooper regime that I grew up following. Thanks for the opportunity to make fun of Bobby Bowden in his last year, as a grad student here in Tally. Thanks for Krenzel and Jenkins and Hawk and Kudla and Kurt Coleman and Eddie George and Archie Griffin and so many more.

Happy Thanksgiving to all y’all…and thanks for letting this carpetbagger adopt so many delightful Southern traditions

1. Nick Saban
2. My dog

- My wife and daughter whom God sent to me as an undeserved blessing (and a reminder that there is only one thing more important than CFB). I met my wife in the grove but she now knows all the Tiger Stadium cheers and sticks airplane bottles in her bra so we can make it to the 4th quarter. I am not worthy.
- My family
- Night games
- The Pregame, Dandy Don, Jacob Hester, and Mike the Tiger (and on days like last Saturday, baseball season)
- 24 gallon jambalaya pots and 40psi burners. I feel like I’m at Cape Canaveral when I light it up.
- This big hot glorious mess of a country that we live in and all who defend it at home and abroad
- That we live in a world where EDSBS can exist and thrive. I cannot overstate how attached I am to this place and its denizens.
Best wishes to you’ns and your’ns.

Like Orson with hugging, I’m at a bit of a cultural disadvantage here for being thankful, but here goes:

1) My amazing daughters and She Who Must Be Obeyed
2) Living in the eastern timezone, which allows me to watch late Pac 10 games and Barcelona in the afternoon, and saves me having to explain why I don’t go to all the games
3) the Scottish national soccer team. When you follow a group of utter no-hopers like that, minor disappointments on the college football front are easy to take.
4) Following a team for whom the worst case in a bad season is a 7 – 6 finish including some minor bowl game.
5) Apple’s various consumer products
6) An online community of hilarious writers and like-minded lunatics on the subject of college football.
7) The utter luxury of angst, suburban ennui, and the price of a new car being my biggest problems.

I’m thankful for:

-Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate, sucker punch or no. Criminally misused, constantly underappreciated, and amazingly tough. We Irish fans will never really understand what we had until they’re gone.

-Having survived the Charlie Weis era mostly intact, despite getting hit by a car and obtaining a finance degree during it.

-The fine folks at EDSBS who make the mad world of overhyped recruits and overpaid coaches far funnier than it ever should be. That includes the lunatic asylum of commenters, of which I am proud to be a part. You all never disappoint.

You all have a happy Thanksgiving, and avoid O’Hare at all costs. After the fuzzy, loving, holiday-induced warmness is over, it’s back to grain alcohol-fueled lunatic ravings on Saturday. Unless you’re in my family, in which case that will be happening starting tonight.

Oh yeah, PS: DEAR MR JACK SWARBRICK I WOULD VERY VERY MUCH LIKE TO BE THANKFUL FOR BOB STOOPS OR URBAN MEYER THIS TIME NEXT WEEK IF YOU COULD PLEASE MAKE THAT HAPPEN THANK YOU SIR.

Thankful for:

1. Alka Seltzer
2. Bloody Marys
3. Larry Ochab
4. Aaron Murray
5. Next Season
6. My shrink
7. All of you degenerates
8. Unemployment benefits
9. 4 in a row over Auburn
10. Vandy’s return

Thanks go to GT Athletic director for hiring Paul Johnson, then to Paul Johnson, Southern hotties dressing up for blood-sport, alcoholic beverages of choice, sunshine and palm trees, and thai food.

Man, first of all I’m thankful for a readership who has collectively seen fit to drop my name into this thread as many times as they have, in spite of me being a manic-depressive Georgia homer, a godawful handicapper, and let’s not forget, a complete asshole.

But I, too, am thankful for Spencer and Holly for giving me a blessed and entertaining distraction from this steaming dump of a football season. I’m also thankful for the inexhaustible supply of eye candy in places like Athens and Tuscaloosa; parents who don’t mind one extra person and two extra dogs occupying their space; a benevolent God who surely would never allow Willie Martinez to be our defensive coordinator, or John Fabris our special-teams coach, for another year; for sweet, sweet booze; and for the promise of better days ahead.

Oh, and for Holly’s boobs, which I get to touch whenever I want, and are indeed everything y’all have dreamed they could be and then some.

Oh… Nat meaning this to be an afterthought, cause it should have been listed in my earlier comment… Fight hard fellas over seas, train hard boys about to be sent off, truly grateful and thankful for what you do, HOOAH MOTHERFUCKERS… And to the women in uniform: live it up, ladies, you’re queens for a year…

I’m thankful that LSU hired Gary Crowton away from Oregon, and that Cal thought Andy Ludwig was an unsung hero while with the Ducks.

Oh, and some of that mushy crap, too.

Thankful for an awesome family, good job with excellent employers and co-workers, and all of you who make this site worth reading everyday. May you all have a blessed and happy thanksgiving.

And on behalf of Bama as well as the Big Ten (especially Ohio State) I’m thankful that Rich Rodriguez decided to be the coach at Michigan. I’m sure Rich is thankful the season is over and class is nearly out so they can finally get some meaningful practice time in.

Thankful that I get to go to Yankee Stadium with my old man for ND/Army next year 64 years after he was there for ND/Army Game of the Century.

Thanks for EDSBS and LSU Freek

Thanks for Guiness, Miller Lite, Chili Cheese Fritos, black coffee

Thanks to Hayden Fry for his coaching tree – esp. if Bob Stoops goes to South Bend

Doug, there’s being grateful and then there’s showing off. Considering the subject, I’d have to say don’t go to your room, and don’t think about what you’ve done.

Thankful for this year of decidedly crappy football. It makes us realize and appreciate how absofuckinlutely awesome last season was.

That is all

drouge @ 82:

2008 was a good one, but by god, there will never be another like 2007. Even as a ND fan, that season was one of the most entertaining things I have ever seen.

We were due a clunker year

1. (BocaHuskyUWowl): Look on the bright side, at least you can check out your half-decent hoop team without changing schools. After football at Wazzu, everyone flocks to Gonzaga hoop . . . ZAGASM!

Almost forgot; thank you EDSBS, especially Holly!

@ 83

2007 was an awesome season. I believe it’s the season Les Miles sold his soul to the devil. ALL of his crazy plays worked.

Thankful for all that do for us overseas and here, so we can read this blog and be fans of college football in peace and without fear. I’m also thankful for my wife, who has endured more than any woman by being married to a Buckeye fan.

Thanks be to Jim Tressel for doing his part to right the wrongs of the Cooper years. In addition, there is not enough to be said for all that Orson, Holly, LSUfreek and even Doug bring to our enjoyment of the greatest blog covering the greatest sport. Also thankful for the trainwreck that is EDSBS Live and Peter Bean for entertaining us beyond all reason. And to all of the zany commentariat, who have proved that tOSU is NOT the craziest fanbase, but just one of the many. The fact that this blog appeals to fans of every persuasion is a testament to the writing skills and efforts of our host and his overly capable partners in crime.

Hopefully my Buckeyes will give me a Rose Bowl win to be thankful for next year.

I’m thankful for twitter.com/insidethebcs. He has kept me entertained during the last 2 slow days at work and will hopefully keep me entertained tomorrow during 2 pathetic NFL games.

This might take a while, as it’s my first Thanksgiving. Just in case it might be my last. Please bear with me.

1. Thank you, Sun (your gravity pulled in all the dust and gas and crap that rolled up into our favorite celestial beauteous ball of beeswax, beryllium and boron, amongst other things).

2. Thank you, evolution. (We started small, but I’m kinda happy with the whole post-unicell microstage with 2 legs, mobile thumb, and taste buds that allow me to appreciate the wonders that are fat, sugar, caffeine and chocolate. Could have done with some additional eyes in the back of our heads to detect the blind side rush, however. Maybe next time).

3. Thank you Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, RIchard Feynman, Linus Pauling, Paul Dirac, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Grace Hopper, Euclid, Ramanujan, Rachel Carson, Louis Pasteur, Galileo, Aryabhatta, Andrew Wiles, and the guys who came up with spam (the meat, not the mail).

4. I am thankful for cheese.

5. I am thankful I do not suffer from leprosy, cancer, diptheria, AIDS, blindness, deafness, paralysis, or any of the fancy things that keep happening to people on House.

6. I am thankful for the command line.

7. I am thankful for the flattening earth, international corporations, undersea cables, TCP/IP, DARPA, and RFC1122 compliant humans.

8. I am thankful for the Citizenship Services of the United States Federal Government.

9. I am thankful for every musician who has ever lived and who put a tune out there which has made a human heart go twang, even if it hasn’t been mine, but especially if it’s been mine. [Excluding people not named Willie Nelson who sing Always on my mind. I mean, really, stop that].

7. I am thankful for kids everywhere around the planet being exactly like kids elsewhere on the planet. No, we’re not there yet, and don’t make me come there. And for god’s sake, get your finger out of your sister’s nose. I mean NOW, YOUNG MAN.

8. I am thankful I am not one of those kids getting kidnapped, abused, sold in the sex trade, terrorized, deprived, beaten up, cold, hungry, alone, bullied, brutalized, blinded, in pain, sick, tortured, bombed, enslaved, suffocated, poisoned with drugs, exploited, nauseated from drinking sewage water, criticized till they are non-people, pressured to achieve, guilted into living other people’s lives, afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid, unsung, unloved and living lives unlived. All of which I’ve seen and never want to see again. Please make it stop.

9. I am grateful for every author who could write worth a damn. Who wrote like words mattered to them. Authors who cared about the shape of their sentences and the flow of their words and their rhythm and who understood that cadence is to die for.

10 I am grateful for my gender, my height, my ethnicity, my color, my history, my geography, my chemistry and my 20/20 vision. The hair, meh.

11 I am thankful that I have not been unloved in this life.

12 I am thankful for mints on pillows, sunscreen, elephants, butterflies and carbon dating.

13 I am grateful for the line drive to left field, the buzzer-beating-game winning-threepointer, the 2 minute drill, and the insanity that is Usain Bolt.

14 I am grateful that for most of the 2007 season, Dennis Dixon and the Oregon Ducks played the most beautiful football that has ever been played in the whole damn history of college football. I am thankful that I got to see magical, fun, beautiful football, football the way it should be played, in that wonderful, tragedy-shortened season (which should have won the Ducks the whole hog of shiny stuff, not that matters, because it was all so above the stupid rankings and BCS barfaroni).

15 I am thankful for the kindness of strangers.

16 I give thanks for the pleasure induced in my brain when I see anything designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. And to every other great architect out there, heralded and not, who design things well.

17 I give thanks for the 8-inch. (No, not that one. The reflecting meade one.).

18 I give thanks that I can keep count better than Les Miles.

19 I give thanks to electronic books, paper planes, satellite radio, digital SLRs, Hayao Miyazaki, parcel tracking.
       
20 I am thankful, thankful, thankful for last Saturday night and the thrillah in the desaht. 55-0 was the way I thought I wanted things to go, but it turns out, the college football gods knew better than me. What a night. What a game. There have been 113 Civil Wars played (since 1894, the seventh oldest cf rivalry game in the country, older than Michigan-Ohio State, for that matter, older than the WLOCP, so don’t talk to me about tradition and history of the East Coast, you young whippersnappers out there), but this one will be the biggest, baddest, bestest of them all, I hope.

21 And I’m grateful, more than I can say, for the sheer brilliance of Orson, the inspiring (to me) Holly and the EDSBS community – funny, one and all). This hamster appreciates you all more than you will ever know.

Thankful for many things:

1) this outstanding site and it’s contributors (that includes you, commenters) – funny, witty, creative and simply a goddamn pleasure to read.

2) the feeling of superiority I get when I get one of the obscure or arcane references thrown out by Orson et al (balanced out by the occaisional furrowed brow and confused grunts)

3) the delicious buffet of schadenfreude currently being served up by the seminoles in their Hindenberg of a season and the ensuing civil war over Bowden. It is so rich and savory that it’s added an inch to my waistline.

4) College Football Saturdays, friends, and beer

5) Suggestions on how to cope if the Gators meet my (out of my league) girlfriend’s Longhorns in Pasadena

6) the above girlfriend

7) bunch of other stuff that would bore you to tears

I am thankful for:

1. Jim Leavitt, his facial contortions, his torn-up voice, his helmet-headbutting scars, and his hilarious demands of unflinching loyalty from all his subordinates. That, and the fact that even though my alma mater’s football team didn’t even exist 15 years ago, I can sit here and tell you with a straight face that USF can beat Miami on Saturday, after billy-clubbing Florida State in their own stadium two months ago.

2. ESPN360, because fuck “mirror games” and mediocre Big 12 shit at 2:30 and 7:00 every goddamn Saturday. Like I want to watch a 750-pound man coach out the string against Missouri this weekend. Fuck a bunch of that.

3. That my wife (who does not have a school affiliation at this time) doesn’t drag me away from the action for silly things like buying towels or talking about feelings or whatever things complete suckers have to do on Saturday. Many people don’t realize they have this until they don’t have this. I am not one of those people.

4. That there are people out there who do not go into a complete screaming fit of rage demanding the entire coaching staff be fired after their team goes three-and-out.

5. Orson and his hilarious insight and quasi-gonzo journalism approach to college football, plus Holly, Freek, and all the other contributors. You may al be ESS EEE CEE people but at least you’re not dickheads about it.

6. Rich Brooks thinks getting all mushy on Thanksgiving is BULLSHIT, so I’ll stop there.

Yup, for everything all you other guys (and gals!) said. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Thankful for:

1. Family and Friends
2. Brave Americans overseas
3. Every Virginia Tech Hokie who decided that waiving a firearm in a McDonald’s parking lot was a bad idea.
4. EDSBS
5. @INSIDEtheBCS propaganda stream
6. Deep fried turkey

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Thank you mom (for everything, especially dinner tomorrow)

Thank you James (for everything, especially sex and football tolerance this weekend)

Thank you Hogs (for a winning season and a promising future)

Thank you EDSBS (for sheer fucking brilliance)

Thank you Les Miles (in advance of redonkulous, game-killing decision making)

Thank you Aalborg akvavit (for making me forget everything else)

I am thankful for:

EDSBS (I worship you Orson, Stranko and Holly!)

College football

The 2002 MNC

Our Rose Bowl coming up

Southern football’s crazy, zany, hyper biased society. GOD I wish I was there.

8-1 vs Michigan and while we’re on the subject, I’m REALLY thankful for Tate Forcier and
Rich Fraud

I am thankful for Bud Light and Hooligans, many great hours of watching college football were spent there

I am thankful for Idaho State soccer, God Bless them, our best team this year! We’ll win the
BigSky next year! (We shoulda won it this year in the championship match but the referee threw the game practically)

Jim Tressel, Woody Hayes and All Things Ohio State

I am thankful for Civilization 3, 1602 AD and the NCAA Football series for PS2, they have helped me through the long, depressing offseason

I am thankful for LSU Freek for the Freekery,and Ourhonordefend, rusty25um, and Wolverine Historian for posting billions of Buckeye, Hurricane and Wolverweasel videos to YouTube. It’s fun to watch those old bowl games from the 70’s to today, even if it is a team that sucks major Les Miles No-Spike Balls.

I am VERY thankful for bicycles, my only mode of transportation in Southeast Idaho (granted, it’s so easy to get around here cars are almost redundant for me)

I’m thankful for, of course, family and friends. I’m thankful Bill Callahan and Kevin Cosgrove no longer have employment in Lincoln, Nebraska, and I’m thankful Bo Pelini and the new staff can actually coach. I’m thankful the Blackshirts are back. I’m thankful Ndamukong Suh stayed for his senior year. I’m thankful I haven’t had a drink in almost 11 months. I’m thankful for this blog, because life is boring and every little bit of fun and humor I can take, I will.

i am thankful for laughs. laughs i get ALWAYS from edsbs writers and commenters. laughs i steal using hacked lines borrowed from said folks. ya’lls fine peoples.
merry turkey day, movie house.

First and foremost, I’m thankful for the family for having the patience and fortitude to raise me with only minimal violence. Secondly, I’m thankful for O/Holly/the well named Doug/Freek for providing the counter to the cockpunch that is MTWThF life. Thirdly, I am thankful for Randy Fucking Edsall and, though this is a football blog, Jim Calhoun, whose balls are so big he recruited Jeff Adrie just to carry ‘em. And lastly, I’m thankful for the fine men who distill Jameson Irish Whiskey.

Ladies and gents, may the whisky flow like water on this day.

Lawyas, grain alcohol and movies that don’t involve Vince Vaughn talking real fast and moving his hands around in a circle.

My wife (natch) and family and Xbox 360 for allowing me to commit murder over and over again in an act of venting rage (Call of Duty) without any legal repercussion.

I’m thankful for Orson’s visit to Columbus which produced the best post I’ve read in awhile that so accurately depicted Buckeye life tears of laughter rained upon my iPhone.

I’m thankful for all posts tagged with quotes from Raising Arizona.
Scientifically proven to be the greatest movie ever.

I am thankful for Nick Saban, Ingram, Julio,Mt.Cody,Rolando and Javier Arenas….if this year is gonna be special, it needs to be this year….I am thankful that Auburn is a little better so we can beat them at their house while they are supposed to be “good” instead of awful as they were last year. I am also thankful that Rich and Rita Rodriquez snubbed Alabama for Michigan….Praise Jesus…..Can you imagine Nick Saban at Michigan right now? And I am most thankful, especially for this year, that Mt Cody blocked to FG’s vs UT….and we seem to be getting a little better every week in difference areas as we go forward and I will be more thankful if we beat Florida….would like to beat Florida with an intact Tebow, but if cant make it the whole game, I will take the win…..
and I would like to thank Orson, Holly, LSUFreek and others, despite their SEC team handicap, are damn funny and make every day Christmas, Monday thru Fri, and validate the comedy that I see on and off the field….from clock mismanagement to pellet gun stick ups, this place makes it more entertaining, and it proves you cant make that shit up……ROLL TIDE!!!!

Thats TWO FGS DAMMITTTTTTTTT

nick saban could’ve blocked those FGs.
it’s funny, ‘cause he’s short.
/those kicks were loooooooowwwwww/

Thank you 31-4 humiliation of Fla.

Mack Brown is currently thankful that Texas A&M had no concept of time or game management in the 4th quarter

And Colt McCoy thanks all the Heisman voters for his easy Heisman Showcase Showdown of a game.

/Neither team played much defense
//Still like Colt McCoy
///But not as much as the Tebow Child
////FUCK F$U!!!!!!

You forgot Wilber Marshall. There will be hell to pay.