CI? At 4:30 am? Thank you, Mr. Swindle- this will pull me through a miserable, rain-y, Al Groh-y, Connecticut morning.

Schnelly smokes astro turf outta that pipe, I hear.

Actually, the mountain they’ve used is the Matterhorn, in the Alps, not Everest.

Yes, I’m that sad.

Excellent point about Ari Fleischer. The shamelessness detector would explode in his presence.

This just in: Oregon to dress like clowns in the upcoming game.

The NEW COWBOY IS HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbA3ZTotbVM&feature=email

Please get him on EDSBS Live one of these days, Orson.

Bryan Curtis and Ari Fleischer can go skipping in the park with their Ken dolls in hand – Fuck the bowl system, gimme playoffs (and yes, the idea of playoff creep is true and makes me quiver with anticipation)

Ari Fleischer set on fire? Now, that’s a show I’d pay money to see. And I ain’t talking the chump change you can shake out of a couch after a frat party. I’m talking multiple large.

Everest? No, that’s the Materhorn. You know, the mountain made famous by a group of people who barely acknowledge the rest of us, collect huge sums of dubiously sourced cash, splash crimson and white flags over everything, and claim a ferocity stemming from prowess in the distant past.

Somehow, the picture fits.

Go Gatuh. Buck Fama. War Eagle.

Sullivan013

I guess I’d rather have a “stand up guy” like Jerrod Johnson banging my daughter than the other options.
Chris Rainey, I’m looking at you.

My Bobby’s aged while Schnelly looks as dapper as the first day he stepped on the sidelines of the OB

I had a daughter, Ari Fleischer is the type of guy I would want her to bring home — bound and gagged in the trunk of her car.

I swear I thought that was Mark Twain for a few seconds

Yeah it’s totally gross when ADs fawn over players.

http://www.timteblog.com/2009/08/tebow-quote-of-morning-jeremy-foley.html

Holy shit this was up early.

Dammit Dolla Bill! Stick to jokes about insects and bats and talking down to the people that pay your salary via inflated ticket prices!

Wow. That picture DID blow my ass out of my ass. And does THAT ever hurt! But I’ll go home and have the Frau apply some Turfman’s Lower Gastro-Intestinal Tract Salve/Mustache Wax, and by tomorrow morning I should be good to go.

Not to sound too pedantic, but that is the Matterhorn, not Everest.

I don’t know of any songs about Everest, but there is one about the Matterhorn. The chorus is

“Men have tried, and men have died,
“To climb that Matterhorn … that mighty Matterhorn”

Law-ZEE!! Orson… 4:30am? Are you losing sleep over the SECCG or something?

Hey Orson, Don’t know if you got the memo but I think that picture with Cody is the Matterhorn not Everest. On a slightly related note, I have eight bosses. Eight! So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That’s my only real motivation is not to be hassled… But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

I thought that Fleischer did at least a half-decent job of making his case there. “Playoff creep” is the biggest thing that would stand in the way of me supporting a four-team playoff, which otherwise might look mighty attractive in a year like this one.

Let the playoff expand to anything beyond four games, and all of a sudden nothing that happened last weekend would have mattered. If Auburn had kept it going for more than a quarter and upset Alabama? If A&M had succeeded in toppling Texas? If a meteor had fallen on the Florida sideline giving the ’Noles a chance to win? None of it would have meant a damn thing.

And hey…as the writer pointed out, college football transcends politics. Also, in case you haven’t heard, George W. Bush is no longer President — suppose y’all could give the Two Minutes Hates a rest now? This com-box contest to see who can wish the most horrible violent disasters upon Ari Fleischer is just tacky and stupid.

We had to babysit some cassoulet late into the wee hours. We BLEED for our provincial french dishes.

Er…make that “four teams” above, not “four games”…though I suppose that could work too, if the first one was a play-in game for teams from non-BCS conferences…

Some GA edited the next line out of Byrnes’ essay: Fortunately, I don’t have a daughter and Texas’ strict anti-miscegenation laws would keep her from bringing that tarbaby home in the first place. But, as far as nigras go, he’s first-rate.

Blog— Our dislike of the man is not political. It’s a matter of taste. Tony Snow was velvety smooth, and we liked him greatly. Fleischer makes a terrible and easily dismantled case for a playoff, as well. He’s stealing money, but as long as he’s stealing money from the right people we don’t care.

I would give anything to see the Taiwan News computer generated reenactments of the pistol whipping spree or Jimmy Clausen getting falconed.

Orson — I can live with that. Though I was so horrified by Scott McClellan’s subsequent performance that I started thinking of Fleischer with some misty nostalgia myself.

This picture saddens me because it reminds me that we have been wandering about for weeks without a Schnelly top 25 post.

Namaste, Orson-ji. Ke chha?

I don’t have the patience to prepare a good duck cassoulet but, I’m sure it’s pretty damn good. Duck and pork go well together. The next time you cook up some duck, try some bacon wrapped duck breast.

Just take some duck breast and soak them in water to get all the blood out. and then cut the breast into nuggets. wrap some bacon around the cubes and for a good addition, put some slice banana peppers on each cube. use a toothpick to hold it all together. then grill the breast on a medium heat and baste the nuggets with some Italian dressing, homemade or store bought and cook until the bacon is done. for a stronger Italian flavor, marinate the duck breast for a while in the dressing before hand. it’s an excellent finger food and it’s fucking awesome.

Kevin found a recipe for cooked beaver the other night on EDSBS Live, so trusting his cooking advice is a given.<——TOTALLY SERIOUS.

As a general rule, cooking advice from anyone who recommends wrapping duck in bacon is automatically to be taken seriously.

Damn the cardiologists, full speed ahead!

@Blog Goliard : I suppose by that logic no one had any reason to get excited about the Patriots versus the Saints the other night, right? I mean, both are going to win their divisions and end up in the playoffs anyway.

There are many ways to cook a tasty duck. The Beavers will show us another one tonight (yuck yuck/slaps knee).

You know Duck fans are nervous since they have not been talking about " I smell roses" or any other shit for most of this week. Except for Duck Voodoo Duck nation has been pretty silent on this block in the week leading up to tonight’s Civil War.

Duck fans- you are going to have to speak up from that whimper I hear coming from behind the curtains. I just can’t hear you.

Go Beavs!!!

Man, it’s a couple hours to lunch but the thought of bacon wraped duck will not leave my thoughts.

It will almost taste as good as the disapointment Duck fans will be baisted with tonight and marinated with for the rest of the year. It will be a rude suprise for them to find out Phil Knight actually can not buy them a Rose Bowl.

Fun fact about beaver meat (not the one you go hunting for in the bars):

Being Catholic, I go through Lent without eating meat on Friday. However, believe it or not, you are allowed by the church to eat beaver because it’s considered a fish because in the curch, habits are just as important as anatomy in considering an animal’s classification.

And no, I will not be taking the Notre Dame job.

Phocion — No, there wasn’t much reason to get excited. Except that the WWL is so deeply and passionately invested in both the Patriots and Monday Night Football. By this time next month, few people will care who won that game.

At least it wasn’t the very last week of the regular season in the NFL. If it had been, people would have been arguing over whether it would be worth it for either team to go all-out for the win, especially in light of what happened when the Pats went undefeated before. The smart money would have been on resting and protecting starters for the playoffs.

The #1 reason I am against a playoff system is that I never, ever want to see people arguing over whether going undefeated in college football is worth it.

(The #2 reason is that I am part of a minority in American that does not see the validity of a knock-out post-season tournament as self-evident. You will never persuade me that any BCS champion was more arbitrarily determined than, say, the NCAA basketball champion in 1985. As great an upset story as that was, we all know who the best team was that year and who had the record to prove it…and it wasn’t the one that lost 10 games—twice to Georgetown—and finished no better than third in its conference either in the regular season or in the conference tournament.)

The best part about the EDSBS Lives I have heard have been the call-ins. I’m pretty sure the beaver meat recipe proves this point. Have more call-ins!

If the Ducks don’t wind up in Pasadena (please, Beavs, let’s not have a disaster like last year), the Chick-fil-A bowl really ought to find a way to bring them to town.

I imagine there’d be a pretty good trade in “Eat Mor Beavr” t-shirts.

Orson, are you playoff agnostic only when you aren’t?

It is a common misperception that prostitution is legal in Nevada. It is not legal everywhere in the state. Most notably prostitution is NOT legal in Clark County, where Las Vegas is. You have to go to Pahrump if you want to be on the good side of the law when you become the millionth customer served.

Most notably prostitution is NOT legal in Clark County, where Las Vegas is.

Wink, wink, nudge nudge.

Not legal, frowned upon, whatever.

I always liked that fact that Scott McClellan looked like Andy Kaufman.

Phocion,

If the Pats and Saints drew THAT much interest, it would be on ABC and NOT Dancing with the Stars.

Don’t get me wrong, if college football had at the end of the season a 16 death march battle royal, I am glued to the TV. But at the same time, I am also not going 80 mph in a school district cutting off a bus full of kids to catch the start of the LSU vs. Florida in October.

Damn right Duck fans are being quiet.

We actually respect Oregon State’s team, and there’s a chance they pull the upset. Also, we’re not going to be idiots like so many Beavis fans and talk all kinds of Rose Bowl smack pre-game and then look foolish like the Beavises did last year.

Or, for that matter, like Mildcats fans did when going to rush the field while the outcome of the game in Tucson was still in doubt.

Dammit!

Why are we Oregonians so reasonable (when not joining communes-of course)?

Sigh

Will we never have a hate filled email flinged at the opposing fan base ending with “your dog is still dead”?

Lets face it, were f—kn amateurs. This is why the Civil War is getting only passing coverage on the day the game.

This duck fan is spending one of the most important sporting moment (well, college football related)
in donkey’s years in a freaking plane, which I’m about to board, and will be over Iceland at kickoff time.

Yay, travel. (Read: F*&^K! F%#&@K!). THE DVR HAD BETTER DAMN WORK.

I will be online from Asia well after the game, and will cross my fingers and hope for the best, and try
to remember to breathe.

The white pants have me very nervous. I know they’re retro, but we’ve lost all games (2) when wearing white.
This DOES NOT BODE WELL.

Go DUCKS!!!!! And please, gravity, keep the frigging plane up when it’s supposed to.

Go DUCKS!!!!!!

Please note Schnelly (and any gentlemen) uses the underhanded lead in his stance ala John L. Sullivan.

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The John L. Sullivan stance, of course, is far more effective against one’s opponent than the John L. Smith:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MUKLoQlQ-0

I didn’t know LSUfreek was moonlighting for the spirit airlines marketing department.