There is an old proverb about karma that states “before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.” I sure hope Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh bought two shovels for his Saturday night victory against USC. Harbaugh made the call to go for a two-point conversion when the Cardinal were up 48-21 with 6:47 left in the fourth quarter. That can’t be good karma, especially against a program like USC who is typically dominant over the Pac-10. I’m sure the Trojans will remember that moment when Stanford week rolls around in 2010.
Switching gears towards teams that have no conference to dominate or be dominated by: have we finally reached the end of the road for Charlie Weis at Notre Dame?! I think the Irish’s 27-22 loss at Pittsburg may have sealed the fate of Mr. Weis (or as my diehard ND fan friend Andrew calls him, “front-butt”). After continually recruiting the top talent in the nation and squandering countless opportunities for should-have wins, the Irish better come up with the cash to pay off Weis’ contract and move in a positive direction. I know Notre Dame has been bad under Chuck, but here is a crazy fact I just learned this week: under Weis, the Irish haven’t beaten a team that finished the season with less than four losses. In laments terms: they haven’t beat a team that anyone would consider “good.”
How awesome was the Florida/South Carolina game? Although it was an extremely cheesy way to do so, I thought it was cool that the Gamecocks wore uniforms to honor the troops. Instead of wearing their names on the back of their jerseys, the Cocks put inspirational words associated with the military on the back of their uniforms. For example, South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia’s jersey said “Service” instead of Garcia. It provided four hours worth of witty jokes about the words on the back of their uniforms, like this one before the opening kickoff:
My friend Tony (Gator fan): “I can’t wait until we see Courage run out of bounds to avoid a big hit.” He then made faked a Constanza-like exit for another laugh and then actually pulled a Costanza-like exit later on which really confused us.
I kept waiting for Garcia to throw a pick so I could yell “TREASON!”, but it never happened while we were watching. How many households were making the exact same jokes during those four hours? Has to be in the millions.
Only two weeks left of college football- it has gone by crazy fast this year. I hope you are ready for some rambling, un-objective opinions on random things like movie reviews and top 10 reasons why I hate the Beastie Boys. I’m going to try to start posting several times per week, so try to keep up. Be sure you didn’t miss my BCS hate piece below.
Off to the Hawks game (best record in the NBA- hell must be freezing tonight), and then watching the Ravens play the Brows on the lowest rated Monday Night Football game of the season. Holler back.
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