The College Football thread

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Y'all check my link above!
You'll laugh!
You'll cry!
You'll heave!
All at Alabama's expense!
LOL”

“I've already emailed it out to a bunch of folks. Very funny.”

“The cowardly Bubba Bear has started posting on the Fuego threads again.
First time I've noticed him since the National Champs were decided. LOL”

“SS - I sent him the same photo I sent you. He thought there were only 1 pair of lips and 5 a-holes.”

“Figures.”

“That explains his breath and the location of his brain.”

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The rebutal:

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“A guy from Alabama has a place in Townsend near me. We were talking over the weekend and he was pumped about their football prospects. Looks like the excitement is there in any case.”

“I just think folks are going to be unreasonable this year. I think we're an 8 win team. These players are still learning that they have to go to class and that jumping offsides is a bad thing. Our talent is getting better but they need to learn how to be a team.”

“Congratulations Bama!! You are #1.

http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10255471”

“The dude fails to mention that our 2 probations both happened since about 94, none before. OU is at 5 or 6 if memory serves”

“Hey, at least you are number one at something.”

“Auburn's philosphy - if you can't be good, be good at it.”

“Wow they play in a castle?”

“thats nice!”

“VOls Cheeleaders

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“Thats the one we recruited from Florida, she was out in the sun tooooooo long.”

“GO HOKIES! BEAT VIRGINIA!

UVA was very nice to VT after the shootings. They provided the candle lanterns for the huge outdoor gatherinG out on the drill field. You may have seen the images in the news. UVA also sent numerous messages of support. The one I remember the most was a really cool sketch of a UVA Cavalier hugging a tearful Va Tech Hokie bird. The sketch now hangs in the student center. UVA's support after the shootings was greatly appreciated by their Hokie cousins.

BUT I STILL HOPE WE BEAT THEIR PANTS OFF!”

““Wow they play in a castle?”
Nigal
11:50:45 AM
7/31/07

Not a castle. Those are guard towers to watch over the inmates.”

“LOL...years ago the department I was on had different color jumpsuits for the rescue crews ...mine was ORANGE...I gave it to a friend who is a die hard UT fan.

he loves it”

“Leave it to ol’ chili to resurrect this thread.


Let’s all wish Buddha a speedy recovery from his total lack of class last year. Forget about the brains; that's a moot point....

...if he only had a heart...doot-dee-dooodle-ee-doot-dee-doo.


The early bird gets the worm. That’s my motto.




50 REASONS WHY COLLEGE FOOTBALL RULES

By PAT DOOLEY
Sun sports writer


You scan the wires.

Dog fighting in Virginia. Doping at the Tour de France. Steroid allegations in baseball. An NBA official being investigated for being on the take.

You scan the calendar.

It's August.

Hooray.

We are finally in a month that will include some college football.

Six games, including LSU at Mississippi State on Aug. 30. Be there. Aloha.

I'm certainly not implying that the sport is without flaws, but it's coming just in time to help us cleanse our sports palates.

That's how I'll know when I'm done - when August doesn't fire me up anymore.

August is great because it drips with anticipation and optimism. August is where dreams hatch. August is the last time you are allowed to live in the past.

August is when you call up the early TV schedules and start planning out your Saturdays and then you notice a little drool on the corner of your mouth.

August is when you can officially start working on your tailgate menu.

August is the start of NFL camps, which is all well and good, but for those of us who look at the college game as Nirvana, pro football is the Foo Fighters. The NFL may be the king in the big markets, but there are at least 50 reasons why college football is better. (I know this is hardly an original column idea but I'm really fired up about this college football season so give me a break).

1. Bands.

2. Fight songs.

3. Beautiful and historic campuses on a fall afternoon.

4. Overtime from the 25, both teams get the ball.

5. Friday games.

6. Noon games.

7. Even better, 10 p.m. games.

8. Pep rallies, especially if Gator Growl becomes relevant again.

9. College players have to worry about exams; pro players have to worry about which car to drive to the strip club.

10. Rivalries that split families and end friendships.

11. Bowl season.

12. Mascots that don't act like they are playing in the game.

13. Live mascots like Ralphie and Uga.

14. Stadiums that feel like stadiums instead of dance clubs.

15. Stadiums that aren't named after corporations.

16. Kissing your date after scores in College Station, Texas.

17. Watching the eagle swoop down to the field in Auburn, Ala.

18. Mr. Two Bits.

19. Signing day.

20. You can go unbeaten.

21. Student sections.

22. Trick plays that not only work but are brought out more than once a decade.

23. Ron Franklin, my favorite play-by-play guy not named Larry Munson.

24. No Michael Irvin.

25. No Michael Vick, although we might be able to say that about the NFL soon.

26. No Dan Dierdorf.

27. College GameDay, still the best thing on a network that is overhyping itself daily.

28. The signs behind the GameDay crew.

29. Running onto the field with genuine excitement instead of looking like you're auditioning for "So You Think You Can Dance?"

30. Tailgates. It's not even close and college tailgates last a lot longer.

31. Upsets. No matter what the spread is, it's rare to see an NFL result where your mouth drops open. It happens in college every Saturday.

32. The Heisman Trophy stays with you the rest of your life.

33. The passion. Go to a big college game on a Saturday and then an NFL game on a Sunday. I've done it many times. The difference in the "give-a-darn" is measured in light years.

34. Saturday mornings, waking up knowing there is a big game later in the day and feeling your stomach start to churn like a blender.

35. Sunday mornings, after a big win on Saturday when you have this glow about you and this feeling in your stomach because the night before you overdid it with your blender.

36. The SEC, where everything matters.

37. College towns.

38. Southern Cal's sweater-clad yell girls. You don't have to be falling out of your top to be sexy.

39. Traditions like the Tiger Walk, the Vol Navy, dotting the I in Columbus and touching Frank's Rock in Clemson.

40. Making fun of the way Beano Cook talks.

41. No wild card.

42. Sunday after your team wins a big game and the polls come out.

43. Games that seem so big you don't know if you can breathe.

44. Breathers.

45. Innovative offenses and formations.

46. No preseason games.

47. No trades, free agents, salary cap, mini-camps or physically unable to perform lists.

48. The possibility of a Florida-Illinois or Oklahoma-South Carolina bowl game.

49. Great team nicknames like the Hilltoppers, Golden Gophers, Tar Heels and Cornhuskers.

50. Tears. Nobody cries in the NFL because the games don't mean that much.


http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708020322&source=email
last edited: 8/03/07 3:42:32 AM”

“great list!

GO VOLS!!!
last edited: 8/03/07 7:28:13 AM”

“Gotta agree....LOL...I love SEC football, sorry but it IS the best in the land.

Even I had to pull for Tenn and Florida last year in the championships....”

“Preseason picks for worse team in the SEC West is Ole Miss. Yeaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
MSU is not the worse!

We'll take what we can get.”

“What's the difference between God and Steve Spurrier






























God does not think he is Steve Spurrier.”

“Not a castle. Those are guard towers to watch over the inmates.”
hyway
1:08:18 PM
7/31/07

Don't you mean to watch over the players?”

“Can't you smell dayhiker drag that red herring in an effort to distract attention from that pompous, overbearing, arrogant, butt-wipe he calls his coach. The only place big enough to fit Saban's ego is in an Alabama fan's evil black heart.

After the last sanctions, the whole country knows that Bama only cares about winning. The media already hates Bama's overpaid coach. It'll be fun to watch Bama fans reap what they hath sown.”

“You know, until this post, I didn't realize how soon arclite would wind up banned under the new regime.”

“The eternal optimist aren't you, sonny Jim?”

“Be careful slowpoke, or I will report you to the new sheriff on this board.”

“I've been out of touch. Who is the "new sheriff on this board?” I, too, would like to report before the "new math" conclusions start to appear.

LOL.”

“Nick Saban is the new sheriff.”

“Thanks, dayhiker.”

“Saban is like the force, he flows everywhere, even this board.”

“Pretty much like diarrhea.”

“No, your analogy applies more to Spurrier.”

“Perhaps, but it sure works for this board:)”

“there isn't much difference in Saban and Spurrier really is there?”

“They both own Fulmer?”

“Saban and Satan and Spurrier”

“My Auburn friends like to point out that it hasn't rained in Alabama since Coach Satan arrived.

I will say that I've heard him speak 2x so far. The first was with about 1000 boosters and the 2nd maybe 150. He is dang impressive in person and even more so when working the room. With only 10-15 around it was amazing how candid and personable he was.”

“Of course he's candid and personable - or at least seems to be - he's a salesman.

But really, I like the guy - i liked him at LSU and I'd bet he'll have success at Bama. Just hopefully not on the third Saturday in October.
last edited: 8/08/07 3:48:13 PM”

““there isn't much difference in Saban and Spurrier really is there?”
Roam Around
12:50:32 PM
8/08/07
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“They both own Fulmer?”
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12:56:00 PM
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ouch dude! that hurt!”

“Ahm in tha dahk heah!

That's what I get for not riding herd on you guys. I’m outta the loop.

Sheriff? We doan need no steenkeen badches!




Bwaaaaahahahahaha! Listen to the rationalizations from dayhiker. Saban's an arrogant jerk. Just ask his staff at MSU who refused to move to LSU with him. Just ask the secretaries in Miami.

Saban is toxic. He's an egotistical, arrogant, jerk. That's why he fits in so well at Bama.




I wonder if I can convince dayhiker to do the structural design for my house now? Somebody else will have to sue him when it collapses and I die.

But at least I won't have to listen to his apologetic rationalizations about what a swell guy Saban is.

What's the difference between Saban and Spurrier? Spurrier played for a great college institution and he's smarter, much smarter. Bama fans can't tell the difference.... DOH! Run Forest, run!




Can the SEC get any harder?


Urban Meyer – Florida coach – National Championship.

Phil Fulmer – Tennessee coach – National Championship.

Steve Spurrier – South Carolina coach - National Championship (at Florida)

Mark Richt – Georgia coach - National Championship (at FSU)


And that’s just the eastern division.


Tommy Tuberville – Auburn coach – 13-0 and jobbed out of a chance to play for the NC

Ol’ Nick (ol’ scratch if you prefer) Saban - a never again to be duplicated National Championship (at LSU).





Yeah but the big ten’s got Buddha Bear. NUFF SAID!
last edited: 8/08/07 4:28:46 PM”

“you passed the nuff said mark years ago”

“Pucker up sweetie. Without me, you'd be the insane example.”

“wow - when you lay it out like that the SEC looks pretty good - and those NC's don't reach all that far back into history to find them all either.”

“GO CLEMSON!”

“PRESEASON WARMUPS:

A gem from the UF student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator:

…"We beat them in football and basketball and they brought their girlfriends and wives and we'll probably take them too," said Jim Rozier, who attended Gators football games as a child in the '60s. "Florida should annex Ohio because we own them." …

http://www.alligator.org/pt2/070403atmosphere.php”