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Post by RDF on Sept 30, 2011 11:18:40 GMT -5
If it's not apparent, I think rivalry games and trophy games are part of what makes the sport of college football great. But this is changing. For as long as I can remember, the rivalry between Texas Christian and Southern Methodist has been referred to as either "TCU-SMU" or, less commonly, The Battle for the Iron Skillet. This weekend, the game will be called the "DFW Duel: The Battle for the Iron Skillet presented by State Farm." smumustangs.cstv.com/ot/smu-08-dfw-duel.htmlIn a related story, last week's game between Colorado and Colorado State in Denver was officially the "2011 Cinch Jeans Rocky Mountain Showdown." Corporations love to affix their logos to not-so-clever names for rivalry games, but they've also watered down some great unofficial names. Don't call it the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, please. Additionally, fake rivalry games like this weekend's "Southwest Classic" at JerryWorld between TAMU and Arkansas are being shoved down the public's collective throat. The Aggies and Razorbacks have played four times since 1989, Arkansas fans hate Texas way more than A&M, and the name "Southwest Classic" was cooked up in 2009 to "brand" the game, but oh no we promise you this is a very important game with deep meaning. The real rivalry games that you don't hear about are often much more important to individual fanbases than the fake rivalries pushed by the "family of networks." For example, does anyone know that just down the road from JerryWorld, the Cotton Bowl will host a traditional rivalry game this Saturday? www.fairpark.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=222TAMU vs. Arkansas airs on national television at 11:00 AM. If you would like to see the State Fair Classic, you'll need to buy a ticket. One of the greatest (and truest) rivalry names is the Holy War between BYU and Utah. Now they're calling it the Deseret Duel. Saw that game this year--it was a complete slaughter with Utah winning 54-10. Atmosphere makes the town in Footloose look like Hedinism.
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Post by kchoya on Oct 1, 2011 18:30:18 GMT -5
Horrible job of end-of-the-game management by the Ole Ball Coach. No surprise there.
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Post by kghoya on Oct 1, 2011 22:45:42 GMT -5
I'd like to personally thank Clemson for knocking VA Tech out tonight. Unless GA Tech is better than I think they are, that was likely the only chance for a Hokies regular season loss. And they delivered right on cue.
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Post by hoyarooter on Oct 2, 2011 1:00:07 GMT -5
Where's Tigerhoya? He should be really happy with the way things are going for his Tigers this season.
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Post by Elvado on Oct 2, 2011 6:04:38 GMT -5
Hey hifi, my cable went out after the Gators' opening score last night. Did they finiszh the job against the Tide?
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Oct 3, 2011 13:31:29 GMT -5
In no particular order ... Forgot to add that if TAMU loses at Arkansas this weekend, the Aggies will be back to .500 (21-21) under Mike Sherman. But I'm sure going the SEC will fix everything... Seeing as how my team is a member of the already brutal SEC, mark me down as one who isn't disappointed that the likes of Texas or Oklahoma haven't been added to our folds. That being said, A&M is a top ten school in the All-Sports rankings. And believe it or not, even though football is King and pays all the bills, the SEC really is focused on being an Allsport championship conference. First, your unnecessary and bizarre capitalization suggests the SEC is focused on being the United States' premier destination for carbonated sports drinks. Second, that's some really nice spin, but TAMU athletics has a recent history of financial problems. It's tough to fund all sports when your athletic department is in the red. www.theeagle.com/am/A-amp-amp-M-athletics-reworks-budget-to-pay-loanThe link also suggests that TAMU's athletic director is less than committed to funding/promoting women's athletics. Don't those count in an "all-sport" conference?
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Post by hoyarooter on Oct 3, 2011 19:56:33 GMT -5
In no particular order ... Forgot to add that if TAMU loses at Arkansas this weekend, the Aggies will be back to .500 (21-21) under Mike Sherman. But I'm sure going the SEC will fix everything... Seeing as how my team is a member of the already brutal SEC, mark me down as one who isn't disappointed that the likes of Texas or Oklahoma haven't been added to our folds. That being said, A&M is a top ten school in the All-Sports rankings. And believe it or not, even though football is King and pays all the bills, the SEC really is focused on being an Allsport championship conference. First, your unnecessary and bizarre capitalization suggests the SEC is focused on being the United States' premier destination for carbonated sports drinks. Second, that's some really nice spin, but TAMU athletics has a recent history of financial problems. It's tough to fund all sports when your athletic department is in the red. www.theeagle.com/am/A-amp-amp-M-athletics-reworks-budget-to-pay-loanThe link also suggests that TAMU's athletic director is less than committed to funding/promoting women's athletics. Don't those count in an "all-sport" conference? Wimmen don't count fer nothin in the SEC cept bein cheerleaders and hunnybunnies.
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Post by rosslynhoya on Oct 4, 2011 13:22:42 GMT -5
Wimmen don't count fer nothin in the SEC cept bein cheerleaders and hunnybunnies. Please, in the SEC, they're "hostesses" not hunnybunnies.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Oct 5, 2011 14:35:59 GMT -5
Week 6 Picks for Games That Matter: Oklahoma over Texas in the Red River Rivalry for the Golden Hat Clemson crushes BC for the O'Rourke-McFadden Trophy LSU over Florida Arkansas over Auburn in a shootout Nevada over UNLV in the Battle for Nevada for the Fremont Cannon _____________________________________________________ Also, it looks like I'm not the only one who has recently compared Mike Sherman's record at TAMU to Dennis Franchione's. shermtracker.com/
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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 9, 2011 8:06:45 GMT -5
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Post by hifigator on Oct 12, 2011 13:06:26 GMT -5
In no particular order:
Elvado wrote:
Hey hifi, my cable went out after the Gators' opening score last night. Did they finiszh the job against the Tide?
Strangely enough, that's when I stopped watching too. Seriously, the Gators almost certainly weren't going to win that game either way, but it would have been fun to see how it ended if Brantley hadn't gone down. We would have been passing all over them ... not that it likely would have changed the outcome, but it would have made the game much more entertaining.
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First, your unnecessary and bizarre capitalization suggests the SEC is focused on being the United States' premier destination for carbonated sports drinks.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. In that post, aside from the start of a sentence, I capitalized "Texas," "Oklahoma," "A&M," "SEC," "King" and "Allsport." Given your mention of "sports drinks," I'm guessing that was what you were talking about. I'm not sure I know the rule on this one, but as the "Allsport Trophy" and therefore the "Allsport" competition, I would think capitalizing would be appropriate. Either way, it isn't worth too much discussion.
Second, that's some really nice spin, but TAMU athletics has a recent history of financial problems. It's tough to fund all sports when your athletic department is in the red.
I will defer to your knowledge of the A&M program. I have never had a reason to pay much attention and admit to nothing other than cursory knowledge. But I did take notice of their standing in the Allsports Trophy competition. That was all I was saying.
rooter wrote:
Wimmen don't count fer nothin in the SEC cept bein cheerleaders and hunnybunnies.
Yeah, your little archaic picture of this entire part of the Country as nothing but a group of revisionists unwilling to acknowledge the outcome of the civil war is a bit outdated. But I don't think you care very much.
Hey, this just in: the SEC is a major, major leader in Women's sports and along with the Pac 10, totally dwarf what other conferences have done as a whole.
rosslyn wrote:
Please, in the SEC, they're "hostesses" not hunnybunnies.
Now please, that wasn't in the SEC, that was at Tennessee specifically. (But if truth be told, we know that the exact same thing goes on everywhere, not just at one school or in one conference.)
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Post by SFHoya99 on Oct 12, 2011 14:01:19 GMT -5
Let's be clear: every conference, when combined with the Pac-10, totally dwarfs what other conferences have done as a whole.
NCAA Title leaders: UCLA (106), Stanford (101), USC (93), ... Oklahoma State with only 50.
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Post by hoyarooter on Oct 12, 2011 17:32:28 GMT -5
rooter wrote:
Wimmen don't count fer nothin in the SEC cept bein cheerleaders and hunnybunnies.
Yeah, your little archaic picture of this entire part of the Country as nothing but a group of revisionists unwilling to acknowledge the outcome of the civil war is a bit outdated. But I don't think you care very much.
Lynyrd Skynyrd might disagree if they were still around, but even that is ancient history. In any event, methinks thou dost protest too much.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Oct 13, 2011 9:24:32 GMT -5
Week 7 Picks for Games That Matter: Toledo over Bowling Green in the Battle of I-75 for the Peace Pipe Michigan over Michigan State for the Paul Bunyan-Governor of Michigan Trophy Baylor over Texas A&M in the final Battle of the Brazos Cincinnati over Louisville for the Keg of Nails Iowa State over Mizzou for the Telephone Trophy Central Michigan over Eastern Michigan in a Michigan MAC Trophy game Illinois over Ohio State for the Illibuck Trophy (it's a wooden turtle) Texas upsets Oklahoma State Arizona State upsets Oregon in Eugene Memo to the Southeastern Conference: It's the Third Saturday in October, and once again Alabama and Tennessee are playing football against other schools. Fix this. Memo to hifi: The SEC All-Sports Trophy was originally awarded to the Southeastern Conference school with the best men's sports program. The competition now includes both men and women's sports programs. Congratulations. I'm sure the SEC's award for progress and egalitarianism is in the mail. Also, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Sport
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Oct 13, 2011 9:52:03 GMT -5
Lynyrd Skynyrd might disagree if they were still around, but even that is ancient history. In any event, methinks thou dost protest too much. Actually, Lynyrd Skynyrd would probably agree with hifi. For example, "Sweet Home Alabama" is a song about folks in North Alabama not being a bunch of backwards racists. It is now ironically blared by rednecks in order to show "Southern Pride." Those people unfortunately still exist in the former CSA states, just as they did when Lynyrd Skynyrd was touring (in Birmingham they loved the Governor), but fortunately they are becoming a smaller and smaller minority as folks move down from the northeast and midwest and the memory of Jim Crow fades into history.
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Post by hifigator on Oct 13, 2011 12:25:16 GMT -5
Yes, Skynyrd was not interested in being politically correct. But likening specific songs from them to the entirety of essentially a quadrant of this Country is absurd. But I'm sure Neil Young's Southern Man speaks for every person not in the southeast.
This Just In: It's not the sixties anymore.
Pretending that entire southeast is comprised solely of uneducated racists who live in trailers, chew Copenhagen, smoke Marlboro or Winsten, drink Busch and drive pickup trucks with the confederate flag in the back window is silly.
Although there is some truth to the belief that south (specifically southeast) Florida is full of obnoxious Jewish yankee lawyers who migrated from New York, Massachusettes or Jersey and insist on constantly telling the real natives how much better it is up north.
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Post by Boz on Oct 13, 2011 12:39:43 GMT -5
Before we go too crazy on the South, please call me when the meatheads in Clarendon and their ditzy bleached girlfriends stop going apoplectic and wet their pants when any DJ or cover band plays Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Ass clowns.
(that refers to the fans as well as the band, just FYI)
Also, this has nothing to do with football, so....
GO BLUE!!!
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 13, 2011 12:40:48 GMT -5
Before we go too crazy on the South, please call me when the meatheads in Clarendon and their ditzy bleached girlfriends stop going apoplectic and wet their pants when any DJ or cover band plays Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ass clowns. (that refers to the fans as well as the band, just FYI) Didn't you hear? Northern Virginia is the South!
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Post by Boz on Oct 13, 2011 12:41:30 GMT -5
Before we go too crazy on the South, please call me when the meatheads in Clarendon and their ditzy bleached girlfriends stop going apoplectic and wet their pants when any DJ or cover band plays Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ass clowns. (that refers to the fans as well as the band, just FYI) Didn't you hear? Northern Virginia is the South! Yeah. South Jersey.
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Post by hoyarooter on Oct 13, 2011 13:01:46 GMT -5
Yes, Skynyrd was not interested in being politically correct. But likening specific songs from them to the entirety of essentially a quadrant of this Country is absurd. But I'm sure Neil Young's Southern Man speaks for every person not in the southeast. This Just In: It's not the sixties anymore. Pretending that entire southeast is comprised solely of uneducated racists who live in trailers, chew Copenhagen, smoke Marlboro or Winsten, drink Busch and drive pickup trucks with the confederate flag in the back window is silly. Although there is some truth to the belief that south (specifically southeast) Florida is full of obnoxious Jewish yankee lawyers who migrated from New York, Massachusettes or Jersey and insist on constantly telling the real natives how much better it is up north. I think it's actually the 70's, but that's splitting hairs. My point about your protesting too much was that you should have been able to tell when you were being ragged, and just take it as a joke, which is how it was intended. I understand that these things don't always translate over the Internet, but how brain dead would I need to be to intend a comment like that to be taken seriously? FWIW, a former boss and good friend of mine is an Alabaman who was a member of the Harvard Law Review and clerked for Lewis Powell. So I am aware that stereotypes aren't appropriate. Next time, I'll just come up with a stereotype that applies only to you. ;D
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