Carol will you be my football Grandma?

Not even a broken hip could keep septuagenarian Carol Walden from her Hawkeyes.

“Better call the doctor, and so I did and she said ‘you better go to the hospital’ and I said ‘OK,’” said Walden. But Walden didn’t go right away.
When asked if she was ready to go she said no, “I have to see the Hawkeyes win.”

The raspy lows of Eddie Podolak’s voice must’ve knocked her right out of her rocker. Kidding aside, Carol you dedication and conviction are admirable.

This is the latest example of an elderly college football fan besting the fandom of any member of  the Internet generation. Two Thursdays ago lifelong Husker Rex Plock was in medically induced coma for six days, but briefly woke up to watch Big Red beat Mizzou.

According to his other daughter, Deb Kapperman, a nurse in Lincoln: “He said if I don’t get to see that Nebraska football game, I am going to be really mad.”
By late Wednesday, he had weakened, but by Thursday morning, Plock was chipper, bugging his family about when the football game was going to start.
“It was amazing,” said Kathy Cane [Plock's eldest daughter].

The bar has been set high you Twittering beer bongers.

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Cincinnati 30 @ South Florida 21 – I’m taking Cinci because of Tony Pike, Tony Pike and Tony Pike. He’s been a machine and the Bearcats have won on the road in a tougher venue (Corvallis, Oregon [St]). I’ll be focused on the play of B.J. Daniels and how he responds playing in his first major home game. The boys in green over at Sparty like Cinci too.

Oklahoma 38 versus Texas 31 – I haven’t been impressed with Texas lallygagging against Wyoming, Texas Tech and Colorado. I have a man-crush on Sam Bradford; respect the golf skills. On the outside (and I stress outside) chance VT runs the table we’ll need helping getting to the MNC and a Sooner win would be just that. So my pick is based 25% with my head and 100%heart, because I’M ALL HEART BABY. And for shits and grins: know your rivalry.

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My thoughts on Saturday that you will probably disagree with.

Nighttime in Death Valley was a letdown. Tebow, for the most part, was kept out of the shit and did just enough. LSU’s offense was lousy and because of that the Tigers were never a threat to win the game.

Blackout Fail. Doak was a sea of Garnet and Gold and three coeds fought a movement backed by thousands of no-show forum warriors.

The commissioner’s office has notified Vanderbilt that Commodores’ fans have lost the right to chant, “ESS EEE CEE (repeat ad nauseam)” after their 13-16 loss to Army.

Hokies, we can have offense too? Who the hell is Jim Drunkenmiller anyways?

So far, Texas has been sleepwalking through their schedule. The alarm goes off for Oklahoma this week.

Rich Rod was looking Einsteinian after he pulled Forcier in the fourth quarter and replaced him with Denard Robinson. He promptly lead Michigan to score. Then on Michigan’s final possession Robinson sealed Iowa’s win after he was picked.

I’m convinced I could lead Texas Tech on a scoring drive. Red Raiders’ backup QB Steven Sheffield threw for 7 TDs.

Alabama is the most complete team. Ole Miss is the most disappointing team.

Houston is 3-0 (Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Mississippi State) against the BCS and 0-1 against Conference USA.

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Jesus in the house. What? What?

Nebraska 23 at Mizzou 21 – Let’s get frisky! Corn Nation and Rock M Nation are betting taglines on the outcome. Orson has this bitch factored and it’s not not looking good for the Huskers or, well, maybe it is… I like Nebraska because I saw man-child Roy Helu Jr. conquer the souls of eleven Virginia Tech defenders almost three weeks ago.

Auburn 38 at Arkansas 31 – It’s goin’ be a shootout in Fayetteville. I give the edge to Auburn because they can put up points, and they’ll play better defense.

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These are, hands down, the best signs from right outside Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley.

Stanzi rocks out with his cock out.

Who doesn’t love fish sticks? Oh… wait a minute…

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Mopeds are like fat chicks, they’re fun until your friends find out. What’s worse is Kyle Calloway was driving his intoxicated.

While driving his moped, Calloway was stopped at a previous accident scene near the intersection of Morman Trek and Benton. The scene was cordoned off by traffic cones and unmarked police cars. According to the police report, Calloway, a 6-foot-7, 320-pound senior, drove between the cones and tried to drive through the accident scene. He was given a breathalyzer, which showed a .106 blood-alcohol level, and a field sobriety test. The legal limit is .08. Calloway admitted to drinking seven or eight beers.

First we imagine that 320 pounds of bruising lineman on a dainty moped just screams oxymoron. Second we get the mental image of one of those fat old ladies driving a motorized grocery scooter through broken spaghetti sauce and just not giving a fuck.

You, hopefully, read our musing / first experience of the NCAA 10 demo on Friday. Here’s Orson’s assessment and Winfield’s review.

Fun with Baseball Card Generator. We found this toy from our friend NunesMagician who made much more hilarious cards. Hopefully Ju-Ju won’t see the field in 2009, but we’ll all be pulling for him to become one of the 64 in the 2010 NOTY tournament.

SEC Football: Ten Questions for 2009. The ACC & SEC Blog came up with their ten questions for the ever so close, but so far away 2009 season. “Is Ole Miss for real or will Nutt crack under the expectations?” Any time you can incorporate Nutts and cracking in the same serious sentence you’re doing something right.

These Puppies are Straight Gangsta

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… USC, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Alabama aren’t among them. Rivals’ Olin Buchanan uses five common denominators of the past 11 BCS National Champions to predict who has the best shot to win it all in 2009.  They are:

1. Be a “Big Six” conference member or Notre Dame

2. Post at least eight victories the previous season

3. Posted a winning record in post-October regular-season games

4. Return a junior or senior quarterback with starting experience

5. Return at least six starters from a defense that ranked in the top 20 in scoring defense the previous season

There are six teams that meet all five criteria: Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, Texas, West Virginia and Virginia Tech. With Tim Tebow and the entire starting defense (and their backups) returning in 2009 Florida is the oh-so-obvious choice regardless of the selection process. Without Shonn Greene Iowa won’t even contend for a Big Ten Championship.  Jevan Sneed and Ole Miss will be formidable in 2009, but they won’t be able to creep up on the SEC like they did in 2008.  Out of the six teams Texas’ schedule is the most manageable to go undefeated and play for a National Championship. Jarrett Brown is 2-0 (correct me if I’m wrong) as the starter for WVU, but can any Mountaineer actually say he’s going to fill Pat White’s shoes in 2009. Virginia Tech has been good enough to dominate the ACC, but in order to play for the National Championship they will probably need to be 4-0 against Nebraska, Alabama, ECU and Marshall which is going to be extremely tough.