THE CURIOUS INDEX, 3/4/2010
WE'RE ALL FOR JUSTICE. The abstract concept, or the French techno megaduo, though "Stress" might make a better theme for complete mass panic in a heated environment.
Dammit, he mixed crocodiles and alligators. We can't take credit for their accomplishments, numerous as they may be! Alligators have their own list of illustrious kills: slow herons, game fish stuck on the hooks of drunken Florida sportsmen, and fat Rottweilers who strayed too close to the water under the lackadaisical guidance of their 105 pound sorority girl owners around Lake Alice. Our longstanding bid for Florida's entry music remains "Killing In The Name Of," but WAAAHH SONG ABOUT POWER AND MURDER BLAH BLAH BLAH.
A change is clearly in order, as Florida's simmering cauldron of student violence needs more venting than it already gets.
3-D OMG I'LL WATCH THE WHOLE GAME WITH THESE GLASSES ON. It is a certainty that the technology is impressive, but mayun, this should send chills up the spine of everyone with a dollar invested in 3-D broadcasts.
Why is ESPN working so hard to develop 3-D broadcasts as soon as possible? Because the people have spoken. "After the USC-Ohio State game, the focus group was one of the best we've ever had," said Anthony Bailey, the vice president of emerging technology who first broached the idea of 3-D broadcasts four years ago.
Focus groups also hate it when you go negative in campaigns (which works,) love expensive shiny things (they don't have to pay for,) and as an aggregate group are as useful as mustard-squirting tits growing on the side of large Xerox copier. We say it fails like the cell-u-lar phone, and fails to succeed like our favorite toy, the Apple Newton, which just needs a few more years to really catch fire.
PIZZAZZ? SPELLED B-I-L-L S-T-E-W-A-R-T. Bill Stewart will no longer coach special teams for West Virginia, and will instead delegate the tasks to three different coaches and a pretty together black bear named Howard he met at the Strawberry Festival last week. ("Everyone needs their first chance.") Stewart also promises to put some more "spark" in the spring game for Mountaineers fans, which either means a spark in the form of his favorite artist Beyonce showing up, or the more appealing plan of installing eight huge randomly discharging Tesla coils around the stadium. (We vote for option two.)
BIG SHOES TO FILL IN ATHENS. WELL, ACTUALLY, PERFECTLY NORMAL SHOES SLATHERED IN OLD SUNSCREEN. The impossible is for breakfast for college football players, and is on the plate for the Georgia quarterbacks attempting to replace the Ginger Ninja under center in Athens. Mike Bobo actually drops the "we'd really like someone to jump up and take the job" quote, which is interesting since most coaches would prefer a shapeless muddle with no resolution stretching well into November before they figure out their quarterback situation. Wait: that actually is what Steve Spurrier prefers. Sarcasm, redacted.
GUY MORRISS, PR GENIUS. He hung up on an AP reporter who called him at home, which was probably the smart call given what he's already said in public about his players stealing the campus newspaper.
SHERLOCK HOLMESES IS WATCHING HIS EVERY MOVE. Indiana hires arch-villain Moriarity as their offensive line coach. Waterfall duel to death to ensue, and somehow Bill Lynch
MIND THE BRICK WALLS. [NAME REDACTED] will have Illinois players running into Wrigley's solid brick outfield walls to test their loyalty and mettle, and though the massive head trauma will have no effect on him in the demonstration, we urge Illini players to remember that the brick will still be there after you run into it, unlike your coach after this year. (His destiny, as we all know, is to join Indy's coaching staff, and thus bring together the Ron-A-Thon, the trio of mediocre college head coaches named "Ron" employed by Jim Caldwell.)
LOOK OVER HERE. THE DIAMONDS HAVE TURNED INTO JAKE PLUMMER'S PHONE NUMBER. A former Sun Devil is the Old Spice dream horse guy, and like all awesome things in this universe, he has a connection to Jake Plummer.
HE WILL BE REPLACED BY A TWO STAR LINEBACKER WHO WILL THEN BECOME AN ALL-ACC LINEBACKER. One in, one out. First, Nate Irving, NC State linebacker who laughs at your puny horrific car accidents, tags in. Second, Virginia Tech MLB Barquell Rivers, a 13 game starter from last year's squad,is out 3-4 months with a knee injury.
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Tesla Coils?
They better be at LEAST this awesome:
by The Commenter Formerly Known as Not You on Mar 4, 2010 9:54 AM EST reply actions
You can see actually see a little bit better in this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKkPqVtrrv4
by Synaesthesia on Mar 4, 2010 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
Important question not addressed by the Pitt Tribune, will Ovaltine still be served at special teams meetings?
Football is my anti-drug. CollegeGameBalls.com
by collegegameballs on Mar 4, 2010 9:57 AM EST reply actions
On that, you can rely.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Mar 4, 2010 11:50 AM EST up reply actions
Football in a baseball stadium!
It’s retro! It’s nostalgic! The focus groups love it!
NOTA BENE: Football fields are rectangular; baseball fields are sort of diamondy; these two shapes are not compatible and will result in wide receivers diving headfirst into dugouts. Also, Wrigley Field is a pisspot.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 4, 2010 10:05 AM EST reply actions
Yeah playing football and baseball in one arena would never work
Couldn’t resist ACS.
That being said it doesn’t make this idea any less stupid.
Its not quite as short bus-y as the “Yankees Stadium Bowl” but seriously folks no one watches Illinois play N’Western in Champagn or Evanston, why would they watch in Wrigley?
Oh yeah the same reason folks go to Cubs games. To drink copious amounts of booze and sit in the bleachers.
Go for it
Yeah BoYeeEEeeE
by InTheBleachers on Mar 4, 2010 10:20 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Point taken.
It’s just that the baseball/football value combo ends up being awkward for everybody, much like walking in on your co-worker giving the Xerox machine’s mustard-tits a honk.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 4, 2010 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
Wrigley Hosted the Bears
for many years, at least until the 1970’s. The field was laid out from the first base line to the left field bleachers ( end zone seats from which you could easily hit Mike Lucci with a beer during Lions goal line “stands”). The north or left field end zone was only 8 yards wide and ended abrubtly at the wall – like the old fashioned gyms with the “key hole” lane I used to play in in college in which the wall was out of bounds but you were given and extra point if you could bank one in off of the baseline wall. Temporary bleachers filled right and center fields where Cub fly balls usually got to die. Standing room was available in back of the third base/ left field grandstands. Betting and marijuana abounded. The good old days.
by DennisofFranklin on Mar 4, 2010 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
the converse...
Didn’t the Rose Bowl host a baseball game some years ago? I think with the Red Sox and some other team…. that looked pretty odd, too.
The 1959 World Series
was played in the Los Angeles Coliseum and drew over 90,000 fans for a game. The dimensions were somewhat lopsided and some nobody hit two banjo home runs to skunk the Sox.
by DennisofFranklin on Mar 4, 2010 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
Dear 3D Sports Television Producers,
Screw you.
Signed,
Guy with color vision issues that cause 3D movies to give him splitting headaches.
Agreed
was at a Dallas Cowboys game this fall when Jerry tried the 3D thing on the mega-jumbo tron for most of the third quarter – you could see the entire 90k+ adjusting their glasses or shedding the glasses and just shielding their eyes from the migraine inducing screen. The loudest cheer of the game came when the 3D experiment finally ended. Give me my HD and leave me be. If they want to try something new, replace Bob Davie
ESPN won't replace Bob Davie.
It’ll just upgrade him to Version 2.8.
I'm Irish. I'm going to have to deal with something being wrong the rest of my life.
by boddagettaflyer on Mar 4, 2010 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
Focus Groups
“are as useful as mustard-squirting tits growing on the side of large Xerox copier”
Not only did I spit coffee all over my monitor, I’m now very afraid to go around the corner to the copier room at work. solid.
I second that.
I also wonder if Orson got into some of his leftover meds from the swine flu treatment.
We are THE tigersthatsaywareagle
are as useful as mustard-squirting tits growing on the side of large Xerox copier
Hey, tits are tits…
and the mustard would certainly be more fresh
could’ve used some on my sausage biscuit this morning, unless we’re talking about some fancy liberal german mustard which I reserve for brats.
We are THE tigersthatsaywareagle
It depends
How big are these tits we’re talking about? They better be real, too; nothing is more of a turnoff than the stripper wrinkles you see around the visible outline of the mustard bag.
"Indiana hires arch-villain Moriarity as their offensive line coach. Waterfall duel to death to ensue..."
When Watson visits the waterfall to determine what happened to his friend Bill, all he will find is a piece of chewed gum stuck to the rock wall, high above the tumult of the water below.
by LoneStarHoosier on Mar 4, 2010 11:10 AM EST reply actions
Sparks and PIZZAZZ
Might just come from the season-ticket holders. A lot of out-of town alumni were miffed when WVU announced the spring game would be played on a Friday night instead of Saturday afternoon. Most would have to take part or all of the day off to drive up to Morgantown, and quite a few would be looking at a stay in a hotel after.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
From the opening line of the NW/ILL article...
“Don’t start calling Ron Zook “Mr. November” yet,"
not a problem
Public Menace
Nothing says public menace like a 35-year-old lab rat with one bad leg wielding a pipe and a kitchen knife. Once he starts blindly thrashing around in a taser-induced stupor, I think common sense would require all decent human beings to shoot him in the face. Remember, police are nothing if not coldly calculating, logical, and steady-handed arbiters of the law.












