January 02, 2006
So far, Stevie likey 2006
The quick and dirty sports roundup:
Skins into the playoffs---Kornheiser has the last word (and the word is B-A-N-D-W-A-G-O-N)
Apparently, it's not easy being Matt Leinart. Phew, because I was getting worried. Still, we've got a little side bet going here over the Rose Bowl (the loser is the one whose LLama winds up with all the weird crap happening to it during the holiday promotional pshops.)
No surprise here. But it would be funny to hear him in the promotional videos speaking about his formative time at "THEEEEEEE Ohio State Penitentiary." That said, I'm still going with the Buckeyes tonight against Notre Dame---I know, I know, that means I'm going to get harassing emails from the Colossus from now until the second coming, but hey, I've got to live my own life, you know? My problem with Notre Dame football stems back to the vile Lou Holtz, and is extremely ingrained. It also probably is because I'm an ingrate, and my dad is a golden dome fan, so insert your dimestore Freudian analysis here. This goes against my usual tendency to root for major college football teams via their political science departments: for example, I'll root for any team to beat Michigan State any day, as their political scientists are a bunch of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers, who train chimps to input data into regressions, and then loudly pound their hairy fists on the podium at conferences and, knitting their large, crow magnon brow into a nasty furrow, bellow "WE GOTTTUM DATA!" Which is the main reason why I'm going with USC in the Rose Bowl: not only do they have the same uniforms as they did when I was a kid, (and they would beat up on Notre Dame when I was a kid), how can you not love a political science department that could be the Andulsian dream home of hard core behavioralists living and working side by side with institutionalists? A department that could produce a Rusty Shackleford AND a Professor Chaos?
Plus, how can you like a team where Mr. Potato Head is the coach?
Is it me, or is it just uncanny?
Anyhoo, if you'd like to follow the virtual Tostitos Bowl, be my guest.
Nah, this is still the best summary of who Charlie looks like . . . not my post, mind you, but the picture I link to.
http://www.colossusblog.com/mt/archives/001008.html
And Lou Holtz? I loved the guy. I was at ND during the dreaded Gerry Faust era, and the way Lou Holtz turned that program around will always be a joy to me. What I loved about Holtz was his sheer nastiness -- he would be up on some hapless opponent 35-0 and still be screaming at people. A perfectionist. Which is exactly what a college football coach needs to be. After seeing the undisciplined mess that was the Faust era, Holtz was a refreshing change.
Charlie is the same way, but more quietly. He just shoots a player that look of contempt and disgust that he learned from Parcells. Just as effective.
Posted by: The Colossus at January 2, 2006 10:34 AMThe fiesta bowl was one of those games when I wish BOTH teams could lose. Glad to see Notre Dame recovering from the Davies days. Wish Willingham was still there.
My Huskers won what was possibly the worst officiated game ever. If I were Lloyd Carr, I'd be more than miffed. I'll take the win and walk away quiety.
Other than that, it's been a great bowl season.
I'm betting on USC, but hoping Texas finds more weapons than Young...more weapons than W found in Iraq, at least.
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