The Extra Point

Do not throw petty blitzes at the Red Raiders

For they know how to beat the blitz: a well executed quick slant, a broken tackle, and then 6 points.  I would have loved to have seen this from the Irish on Saturday.  I would have also liked to see more than 3 points.  And some protection.  And a whole lot of other things, but hey, at least it's not as bad as Michigan.  The videos from OSU fans and PSU fans hear the Michigan loss.  The Big 10s best sour grapes.  More to come later, but until then, let me point to a very good post from the Ndnation boards. 

F' Da Eagles

NSFW, or for public broadcasting.

Why does FOX show so many crowd shots during a game? It's like their desperate to show us how the fans are feeling. Who cares? Sitting at home, I don't need to be reminded that the fans are having a great time. I want to know what's happening in the game. Give me some hard analysis, tell me why a play worked or didn't. Football is probably the most complicated sport out there, and as I used to show on my video breakdowns, there is a wealth of information to analyze on every play. 22 people performing highly skilled athletic tasks in a synchronous movemeant that requires exquisite timing, body control, mental acuity and strenght of will. I've heard that there's a chess match going on out there so many times, but I never see any of this strategy analyzed unless there is a touchdown scored. Give me analysis, don't give me shots of some drunken bozos in the stands, it just makes me envious that I'm not there being a drunken bozo myself. During one of the BCS games, Fox even cut out in the middle of a play to a crowd shot. Who cares? Give me some cheerleading shots coming out of commercial every once in a while, and I'll be happy. In fact, if you could give me a shot of a cheerleader breaking down the plays, you'd have gold on your hands. Hmmm....

And how the hell did the camerman or the director not see the writing on her shirt. Everything that's broadcasted goes by the eyes of multiple people. That shot lasts for a good 5 seconds, but I guess everyone was distracted. Ohhh! Pretty girl!

Not that I really care, I think there's too much censorship out there as it is, and I don't like the Eagles that much either.

It seems that Paris has switched allegiances

Notre Dame has gotten a lot sexier in the Charlie Weis era, and now we've got the arm candy to prove it. We encourage your comments.

Yeah! Woo Nostalgia!

A couple of weekends ago I went out to the ND-North Carolina game. I scraped together a little vignette of a Notre Dame football Saturday, yet another ND video that capitalizes on your feelings of wistful nostalgia and bittersweet longing for a time you can never go back to. Enjoy! Fear not, there's no parque dance floor, no poetry, and you won't see the worm, but there is an excessive amount of woo-hooing. I've slowed down since I was a student, my poetry slams aren't quite what they used to be. Hope you like it, and that I'm not too embarassed by this sometime down the road. Oh yeah, and the song is "stay where you are" by Ambulance ltd.

Fuck You, Rule 3-2-5-E

Take that, motherfuckers! Finally, we have a coach that will not take it anymore. Someday a real rain will come down and wash all the trash NCAA regulations off the streets.



It's a good thing they didn't include rule 325e on NCAA 2007, or you know that all you cheating bastards would be doing the exact same thing. It's like the opposite of that time you were down by 14 with 2 minutes left in the Championship game and played the "unlimited timeouts" penant and ended up winning the game. Except it's real.



To think that the rules committee was dumb enough to not forsee this happening furthur exposes their ineptitude. For a committee to purposefully take away a portion of the product that millions of people love, to make me watch more advertising and less football, that's just evil man, E-V-I-L! Which is why Bret Bielema should be considered a hero, a champion of all that is good and right in the world. And considering that College Football is a great American sport, we should consider Coach to be a Great American Hero as well. A peer to Thoreau.



I just love that McGuire is the first to figure out what's really going on. Sometimes the most abnoxious guy in the room really is the smartest. Wooo!

USC-Oregon State pt. 3--"The game is not over"

But it might as well be. The only thing left is the onside kick, and then lots of celebrating, burning some couches, and lots of drunk people having sex because some people they don't even know beat some other dudes they don't know if a football game. Man I tell you, if I could party anywhere in America tonight, I'd be partying in Corvallis. It's pretty funny to listen to the PA announcer pleading to the fans to stay off the field, I couldn't quite decipher what he said, sounds like the Charlie Brown teacher blaming the fans for some flags.

USC-Oregon State pt. 2

Well as I said earlier, this is the point where I was able to pick up the game again. Damn FSN. And it looks like another bad call by the Pac-10 refs, what a surprise. Must resist... but cannot... bad pun must be written... The Beavers bust the Trojans. Ah. Now that we got the one out of our system--It looks like Lewis, the DB for the Beavers, did something to a Trojan, because they are just picking on him, going to his side three times in a row. If Coye Francies, who's name looks like one big spelling mistake, doesn't get fooled on the play action on the 2nd down slant to Jarret, that's an easy sack, and I don't know if the Trojans have enough time to get another play off. And people think Notre Dame has a problem running the ball. 86 yards rushing for SC??? You have the ball inside the 3 yard line and 4 times in a row you throw the ball.

For the first time in years USC will not play a role in the National Championship picture, or the Heisman race. What a run they had. So what does this mean for Notre Dame? Well, what everyone dreaded has happened, USC has lost, so that diminishes Brady's Heisman hopes, and also any remote chance of a win over USC catapulting the Irish into the Championship game. The Beavers screw the Irish again. I was at the game the last time they did, and man was that a painful Fiesta Bowl. Also, USC might lose a couple more before the showdown against ND in the Coliseum. But the Irish's march back up the polls continues. And where do you rank USC, who's only good wins come against:

1. A 4-4 Washington team
2. What will be a sorry-ass Big 12 North Champion, Nebraska who is 6-3
3. Arkansas

With a loss to Oregon State (who's losses come at the hands of Cal, WSU, and Boise State), I think you have to rank USC below Notre Dame, but above Auburn, who lost to Arkansas. Does Notre Dame jump to the head of the One Loss teams? Ah, parity in CFB. Controversy, lots of arguing, and possibly BCS chaos. I wonder how many more bad joke lines will be born from this upset.

USC-Oregon State pt.1

Well, I know that a lot of people missed the biggest upset of the year, so here ya go. You can tell it's a big upset because of the quality of the announcing. They didn't even get the good crew to do the game. Unfortunately, I was watching the game on a Fox Sports affiliate, who decided to pre-empt the programming for some tailgate show about New England or something, and by the time I was able to figure out was going on and find the game a play or two had gone by. There must be 50 of those Fox Sports affiliates, and it looks like they spend 95% of their existances sucking. Except for right here dude, except for right here.

FLEEE!! Marshawn Lynch will run you over!!

ND-UCLA Pt. 1--The Beginning

This is about where I picked the game up. I did Zombiecon in Manhattan. Went out with a hundred people or two, and we put on zombie makeup and shambled around, got drunk and scared tourists and little children. My throat hurts from gravely moaning "BRRAAAIIINNNSSS!" too many times. It was basically an excuse to recycle last year's Halloween costume.

Ghostbuster.

The best and worst of Halloween costumes.

It's the best because:
1. Everyone recognizes and instantly loves you. Strangers shout "Ghostbusters" as you walk by them on the street. You enjoy minor fame.
2. If they play the Ghostbusters theme song at the party, you rule the dance floor for 4:03. Use that time wisely. Remember, girls like Venkman.
3. You make a "proton pack" from a bookbag and one of those pump spray pesticide holders. You fill the backpack with ice bought from a deli (while wearing zombie makeup, but no one says anything, cause this is New York City). You then pour in a bottle of vodka. Your call how big that bottle is. You throw six tall boys of Bud in there. Then you throw some lemonade mix on top for flavor. You get really drunk on your own cool-aid, and you can dispense drinks to friends and hot chicks and the bouncer is none the wiser. This also makes it the worst costume.

On your back you carry around a bomb. This bomb will eventually explode, causing you to fall down, embarass yourself, and possibly puke over the side of your bed. When you carry around the party's biggest mixed drink in your backpack, with the ability to drink it all night, you inevitably get way, way too drunk. It takes a great, great man to be able to pull off the Ghostbuster cotume.

So if someone comes up to you and says, hey, let's be Ghostbusters for Halloween. Don't do it.

Here's a pic of me, dressed as a Zombie Ghostbuster, riding a 6 passenger bike through times square.

It was a crazy day, and I missed most of the ND game, but hey, that's what tivos are for. And anything that gets me to take a photo like this next one, I'm in support of. The Ghostbuster costume was almost too much.

... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man.