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NostraDONus: Big 10 landing a 12th will have domino effect in CFB
Call them the Big Tentative. This week the Big 10, which really includes 11 teams but had as few as nine member schools during World War II, announced its desire to find a 12th suitor over the next 18 months to round out the conference and create more problems for elementary math students and those hoping to gain entry to Ohio State University, where entrance exams for football players in the Woody Hayes era included the question “How many teams are in the Big 10?”
Uncork the whine, this year’s Siesta Bowl purposely set-up to be a ratings snoozer
TCU and Boise State are not the victims of some vast conspiracy against the non-BCS conferences. That would imply there is some level of secrecy to the whole charade and we know those are only used on the Clintons, Kennedy family members and Tiger Woods sext-message-o-the-week recipients. They are simply the victim of greed disguised as higher education, a model adopted and perfected by the Ivy League over the past 200 years and adapted for football by the six major conferences over the past 12 seasons. Let the whine and kickers flow.
Uga VII’s Heart Couldn’t Handle Georgia’s Mediocrity
Some SEC pundits are already speculating that Uga VII’s demise was partially due to Richt’s undying loyalty to coordinator Martinez, who is the proverbial fire hydrant for SEC offenses. Others are suggesting Uga VII was still reeling from UGA donning black helmets for the Florida game last month.
Advice for Falcons’ QB Matt Ryan: Seek Help Now!
The Atlanta Falcons have the most cursed history of QBs in the NFL. Steve Bartkowski was too good for his own team and the only bright spot for the lackluster franchises in the 1970s and 1980s. David Archer and Chris Miller were busts. And based on the performance of the two high profile quarterbacks drafted by the team in 1991 and 2001, I have some words of advice for second year phenom Matt Ryan: Seek psychiatric help. Now!
Thoughts on the Week that is…
The NFL blotter…Goodell flicks his Vick…And Lance proves himself as just another prick from Texas.
Saluting Futility at its Finest: Where the Lions Rank – and We Mean “Rank”
The Detroit Lions finished an unceremoniously ceremonious 0-and-16 during the 2008 NFL campaign. With that, we here at TeflonDonSport.com are proposing that each year the worst team in the NFL and College take the name Lions. For the NFL or college names would consists of, say, the Oakland Lions or the University of Idaho Lions or the University of Washington Lions or the Notre Dame Fighting Lions or the Prairie View A&M Lions. But whither the Cleveland Spiders and other fantastic futile follies?
DC Follies: The Future Prez on MNF
Chris “Ethel Merman” Berman is scheduled to interview presidential candidates Barack “Obladi” Obama and John “My cane, dammit, I need” McCain during halftime of Monday Night Football on the eve of the elecdtion. Zzzzzzz. Here are some questions I bet Mr. Berman won’t ask the candidates.
And I Thought Happiness was College GameDay in Lubbock, Texas
ESPN Confidential Memo to the GameDay crew: We regret to inform you that, despite the best efforts of Oklahoma State University, this Saturday’s match-up of undefeated Big 12 teams in Lubbock, Texas, has been selected as the location for this week’s edition of College GameDay. This will be the show’s, and probably your, first trip to Lubbock. We apologize for any inconvenience, but hope you enjoy the game between the University of Texas and Texas Tech University.
Dolfantasy Football, Drunkenness, and the State of Cubs Fans
Once I spent the entire content of the Fantasy Football Commissioner’s State-of-the-League address making fun of tha Don’s “Super-Duper Horses Ass Award” that I awarded him a few weeks ago. See, Tha Don was too engrossed in attending a Cubs’ game in Milwaukee that was moved from Houston due to Hurricane Ike. We all have read his wonderfully rich prose on that experience. But I called him one night, and maybe I should have reminded him that the hurricane might screw up some NFL scheduling, but tha Don was not able to update his roster that week and ended up losing …to a girl … by 2 points … as he started the Texans’ DeMeco Ryans, who was awarded a BYE after the Texans’ game was postponed due to the hurricane.
I’d Sooner be a Tiger than a Longhorn, Raider or Cowpoke
Normally by week seven of the college football season we’re getting pretty comfortable with the top teams in the nation, knowing that an upset can come at any time. However, the 12-game schedule has started to create some questionable rankings and scheduling practices that make it difficult to sort out a mess such as the […]
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