If you played high school football in the late 90's and early 2000's, Varsity Blues was probably a movie you watched a few times. Bleacher Report is taking another view of Texas Football with a series about a town that takes it really serious, Football, Texas.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Former aggie player is done bowing down to the Mullet Man
Former player has passion for his team. He thinks they should stop bowing to Gundy and let him go.
Saturday, November 25, 2017
2017 Western Virginia Football Belongs On This List
Watching the Oklahoma v Western Virginia Mountaineers, I started thinking about the worst sportsmanship examples I could think of and went back and watched some of them on the laptop. I've put together a list of a few here for you cringing enjoyment.
Steve Blake vs Teammate at Maryland at 0:52
LeGarrette Blount punches Blue Bronco
Ben Blood North Dakota Hockey Handshake Punch
Malice in the Palace
Tyson Bites Ear
War Eagle...
You have to admit, this is pretty cool.
A Spirit that is not afraid....lol Spirit landed right in front of me instead of midfield. Check out the video! @AuburnFootball @WBRCnews #IronBowl #Eagle #Fly pic.twitter.com/0AjLZXjBel
— ChristinaWBRC (@ChristinaWBRC) November 25, 2017
Friday, November 24, 2017
The dogs in Miami have a new chain
On the bottom of the Sooner Schooner it says, "MIAMI SUCKS."
After today, they will be wearing this chain on South Beach. The ACC better hope that Clemson doesn't flop today too.
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
My Top 10 Thanksgiving dishes
1. Green bean Casserole -Who doesn't love classic green bean casserole with its creamy veggies and crunchy onion topping!
2. Sweet Potatoes - This casserole, made with mashed sweet potatoes and a marshmallow topping, is a perfect combination of gooey and crunchy.
3. Deviled Eggs - Deviled eggs are the perfect finger food. If you make them to bring to a party that I'm going to be at, you better make A LOT. The car ride home may not be the best if we ride together.
4. Dressing - not stuffing - does it come out of a turkey? no? then you didn't stuff it anywhere but your belly.
5. Ham- I know it's more traditional for Easter, and probably out ranked in most people's minds by the bird.
6. Mac n Cheese - some are good and some aren't so good, but I'll take a scoop on my dinner plate of any of it. The best ones usually have some toasted bread crumbs topping them off.
7. Turkey - the dark meat - let the ladies have the white meat. give me the flavorful dark stuff.
8. Potato Salad - I'm a potato salad aficionado. Every season has
it's flavors of this great dish. I'll take any of them year around.
9. Pumpkin Pie - I've only recently started enjoying pie of the pumpkin variety. The last serving I had actually had more cool whip on it than pie.
10. Kings Hawaiian Rolls - You're mom probably makes great homemade rolls. But the Hawaiian gods use their godly powers to give us these mouthfuls of deliciousness
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| Green Bean Casserole |
2. Sweet Potatoes - This casserole, made with mashed sweet potatoes and a marshmallow topping, is a perfect combination of gooey and crunchy.
3. Deviled Eggs - Deviled eggs are the perfect finger food. If you make them to bring to a party that I'm going to be at, you better make A LOT. The car ride home may not be the best if we ride together.
4. Dressing - not stuffing - does it come out of a turkey? no? then you didn't stuff it anywhere but your belly.
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| Mac N Cheese |
6. Mac n Cheese - some are good and some aren't so good, but I'll take a scoop on my dinner plate of any of it. The best ones usually have some toasted bread crumbs topping them off.
7. Turkey - the dark meat - let the ladies have the white meat. give me the flavorful dark stuff.
8. Potato Salad - I'm a potato salad aficionado. Every season has
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| Potato Salad |
9. Pumpkin Pie - I've only recently started enjoying pie of the pumpkin variety. The last serving I had actually had more cool whip on it than pie.
10. Kings Hawaiian Rolls - You're mom probably makes great homemade rolls. But the Hawaiian gods use their godly powers to give us these mouthfuls of deliciousness
Let me list all the great things about Western Virginia I know of.
1. Nothing. There's nothing great about it. The closest thing to great is that Virginia is just to the east. Virginia is a nice place. But I could do without Western Virginia.
Purple > Orange; The story of BIG XII school colors
Everyone has hear the quote "orange makes me puke."
2. Kansas - Sky Blue and Maize were the orginal colors chosen for the school, but in 1890 when football arrived, the school decided to honor the donor that given money for the athletic field, a Harvard man, and Crimson was added. The blue got darker because of that decision. Faculty members with Yale lineage spoke up and Crimson and Blue were officially adopted.
3. TCU - Not a good story behind these colors. The purple represents royalty (you don't say), and the white stands for "a clean game." The lack of creative story should actually make this rank lower.
4. K-State - The Mildcats only have one official color and guess what it represents... both TCU and KSU rank high on this list because of one of my other favorite teams, the Vian Wolverines.
5. Texas Tech - Yosemite Sam picked red and black. Other than that, there's not any real background story.
9. Oklahoma State - Pokes often claim it's "America's brightest orange," but I see the same orange every week when I am driving through the many construction zones on Oklahoma highways. It's a very popular color. It's used on Halloween to scare little kids; used by hunters so they don't get shot walking through the deer woods; used by road cones to bottleneck traffic everywhere. I also see it worn by criminals as their official color. The truth behind the orange and black is that it was chosen to honor a popular faculty member whose father was a Princeton grad.
10. texas - THE WORST OF THE WORST. Burnt Orange? Who picks a color with the word "burnt" as a description? The colors were chosen because the school had no official colors when it traveled to Georgetown, texas, for a baseball game in 1885. Two students jumped off the train just before departure and ran to a general store and asked the shop keep for two spools of ribbon. The shop keeper returned with the color that he sold the very least, burnt orange. But that's not the end of it. They still had no official colors until 1893. At the first recorded UT football game (in which they got beat by a group of high school kids at the Bickler School) the school made it official.
Lots of colors rank higher as my favorites. Red and blue are usually the colors you'll catch me wearing thanks to the Sooner and the Thunder. Nowhere in my wardrobe will you find the color orange. "I will not wear that gaudy orange, I will not. It is not my color wheel and I'm not gonna wear it."
So lets rank the Big XII teams based on their colors just for fun.
1. Sooners
- Originally Crimson & Corn were selected by OU's first female factuly member, May Overstreet, but local merchants found it hard to match so they went with the next closest thing, Cream.
1. Sooners
2. Kansas - Sky Blue and Maize were the orginal colors chosen for the school, but in 1890 when football arrived, the school decided to honor the donor that given money for the athletic field, a Harvard man, and Crimson was added. The blue got darker because of that decision. Faculty members with Yale lineage spoke up and Crimson and Blue were officially adopted.
6. West Virginia - Don't call it "ol Blue & Gold" because those are Pitt's colors. The upper class men of 1890 we so original they picked the exact same colors as their rivals at Pitt. Most Mountaineers don't even know what is the capital of West Virginia. Simple people. I really like Blue & Gold sausage so I ranked them higher on the list.
7. Iowa State - They started out with Silver, Gold and Black. Silver for the mechanical department, Gold for the golden harvest, and Black for the vet department because they "kill but never cure." True story. They debated for 8 years about this and finally in 1899, they decided on Cardinal and Gold because it looked better on a sweater. Such fashionistas. But they still have a lot of black in their logos. Great Vet school.
8. Baylor - In 1897, officials asked a committee of students to choose their official colors, so while on a train ride to Bryan, texas, Sara Rose Kendall was taken by a field in fool bloom of dandelions and thought it made a lovely combination. No joke. DANDELIONS. They debuted their new colors at the Baylor Glee Club concert on March 25, 1987.
7. Iowa State - They started out with Silver, Gold and Black. Silver for the mechanical department, Gold for the golden harvest, and Black for the vet department because they "kill but never cure." True story. They debated for 8 years about this and finally in 1899, they decided on Cardinal and Gold because it looked better on a sweater. Such fashionistas. But they still have a lot of black in their logos. Great Vet school.
8. Baylor - In 1897, officials asked a committee of students to choose their official colors, so while on a train ride to Bryan, texas, Sara Rose Kendall was taken by a field in fool bloom of dandelions and thought it made a lovely combination. No joke. DANDELIONS. They debuted their new colors at the Baylor Glee Club concert on March 25, 1987.
9. Oklahoma State - Pokes often claim it's "America's brightest orange," but I see the same orange every week when I am driving through the many construction zones on Oklahoma highways. It's a very popular color. It's used on Halloween to scare little kids; used by hunters so they don't get shot walking through the deer woods; used by road cones to bottleneck traffic everywhere. I also see it worn by criminals as their official color. The truth behind the orange and black is that it was chosen to honor a popular faculty member whose father was a Princeton grad.
Coach Leach has perfect advice for soon to be groom.
A reporter that 9 days away from taking the leap, asked the coach for some marriage advice. Leach's answer is golden.
It’s rivalry week. #WSU is one win away from the @pac12 title game.
— Aaron Levine (@AaronQ13Fox) November 22, 2017
But a reporter getting married in 9 days asked @Coach_Leach for wedding advice tonight, and Leach’s answer was incredible. I’m dying. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/alhOiWd9Tv
Sunday, November 19, 2017
NotSportsCenter nails it
Everyone loves a good meme, and I probably geek out on the meme sites more than I should, but it's hard not to share the really good ones. After the spectacle that was made in Lawrence yesterday, I couldn't contain my giggles this morning when I saw this.
Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield ran into some Kansas Jayhawks after their game:
Posted by NOTSportsCenter on Saturday, November 18, 2017
A guy on the "Bedlam" Facebook group had "thoughts" on the CFP T10
A guy on the "Bedlam" Facebook group had "thoughts" on the CFP T10... so here's mine.
Note: In case you're wondering, the pic is UNT QB Mason Fine. I had to throw some love out to the boys from Oklahoma and the North Texas Mean Green.
1. Bama
At this point, why argue. They just seem to steamroll through the weak SEC regular season. Can LSU or A&M mount any kind of resistance? Ever? It's almost as if the only thing that isn't a cake walk from year to year is the Iron Bowl. Chaos could happen if War Eagle shows up.
2. OU
The Sooners will be there as long as they win out. Even with ESPN showing the most infamous crotch grab since the King of Pop, Baker Mayfield is still electrifying. He’s everything we want our sons to be when they take the field.
3. Honey Badger U
How can you deny an undefeated Big 10 champ? We will dive further into this if we find one.
4. The You
Custom chain? We want one. The turnover chain might be the best coaching decision in college football this year. If the Gainesville Gators and the Tallahassee No’s don’t get their acts together, The U could take over recruiting in the Sunshine State and be on top for a while.
5. not osu
If these three letters are in your college sweatshirt, you’re out. The Aggies will always let down their faithful and Yuckeyes are frauds in the Great Lakes Conference.
6. nope state
Year after year, the little brother shows why they are the little brother in the Sooner State. Coach Mullet Man will win one one day, he’s a good coach, but the deck is stacked against him.
7. an SEC team ahead of zero state
There’s always going to be a #metoo from the SEC lingering around. And with that, they will always be ranked higher than they should be. When Vandy makes this ranking, that’s how you know the SEC power brokers have some serious power.8. Baker's Crotch Grab
This team has some real momentum. They have come out of nowhere to capture the attention of the college football world. The only way this team doesn’t make the CFP is if... wait this isn’t a team? Could have fooled me. It’s dominating my news feed.
9. still not the aggies
This team will make a NY6 bowl. For the next tier teams, those fans should probably look on Trivago (sponsor product placement) for motel rooms in San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl.
10. K-State..
Can we give Bill Snyder a Natty for a lifetime achievement award? He’s got Copper Bowl jackets older than your oldest kid.
Saturday, November 18, 2017
You're embarrassed to be a Sooner? You're not a real Sooner then.
I can’t believe I’m seeing some people post that they are embarrassed to be a Sooner because of Baker Mayfield’s actions. We pack stadiums to watch 20 something-year-old kids throw themselves into each other as if they are gladiators in the Colosseum. It’s a macho sport with macho emotions. When a team starts out the contest with poor sportsmanship such as the Jayhawks showed at the coin toss prior to kick off today, the other team’s emotions are eventually going to show up. Snap after snap, and down after down, Kansas taunted, shoved and made the late hits. At some point, a human being reaches a breaking point and emotions overflow. If you want to be outraged at something, be outraged that ESPN showed it over and over and making it the entire commentary of the contest between two football teams.
Baker has apologized, and he will probably be punished with some form of suspension that will result in him not starting his final appearance at Owen field. But if you think there’s anything else that should be done about the situation you’re being blinded by your lack of understanding of commitment, and dedication to their teammates, their craft, and their performances. Those kids lay it all on the line for our pleasure and enjoyment. I am the perfect example of an over emotionally invested fan that takes great pride in success of my alma mater. But I’m not about to say I’m embarrassed because one of the kids that lays it on the line every snap, made a gesture in a moment of poor judgement, that was unsportsmanlike.
“Don’t do it again Baker,” is all that you should be posting or saying.
If you’re still embarrassed after reading this, I doubt you’re really sooner at all. Get off the bandwagon; the ponies can’t handle your dead weight. Go be a fan of another team and stop posing as a die hard Sooner.
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