Ed Dickson has been put on the Mackey Award watch list given to the nations top tight end. Also Rob Moseley caught up with o.c. Chip Kelly. And the scoreboard is almost complete and is starting to look really good.
Chip Kelly Interview:http://rgweb-c.registerguard.com/blogs/index.php/duckfb/comments/notes_from_chip_kelly/
Scoreboard:http://www.goducks.com//ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=1529609
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Reliving Last Season: Oregon Vs Houston
This game was not too anticipated except by duck fans. We finally got to see our new offense under newly hired Chip Kelly. Going into the game expectations were high, yet fans were still concerned with Dennis Dixon after his meltdown the previous season. Houston had a tailback in Aldridge who was shifty and could break one off at any given moment. I drove down that morning to take one of my best friends to his first duck game before the start of school. When we got to the game my friend who we have season tickets with gave us 2 seats to try out that he was given. Row 30, section 5. We were immediately even more excited as we were close to the action of the field. Then it happened, the cougar started egging on the duck. Finally, it happened. The duck started laying in quite the ass whooping into the cougar causing the duck nation to go wild. Everyone was on their feet and you could of swore that the ducks had just scored a touchdown. But soon after something happened that I looked at my friend and told him would change Dennis Dixon as a Quarterback. He broke an 83 yard touchdown run that I immediately understood to transform him from an average college quarterback to one that would strike fear in defense's as an elite qb. The run was almost magical. I recall him almost running one identical against ucla the year before, but was stopped after 30 yards, this one was different. His desire and speed kicked in when a safety with an angle had him and he turned on the afterburners. No one laid a finger on him. I was excited because I knew this season would be "a season of ducktales." This was our year. Michigan had just been upset and I knew we would be able to show the country, what this squad was made of. I can in all honesty say I knew Oregon would be good, and I can say even more proudly I knew Dixon was going to be the man last year. After the game my friend, my cousin, and another friend whom I grew up with went for some victory pizza at legendary peggasus. We later on basked in the night of smoking stogies recalling the victory we had. It was a great day to be a DUCK.
5 Rules Of College Football
This post is pretty lengthy but here are the 5 Commandments of college football. Read up, and understand your stuff.
Time for the new rules for college football fandom
Let's face it: Life requires rules. Precepts to live by, laws to abide by, dictums to follow, lest civilization devolve into a Hobbesian state of nature, "Lord of the Flies," with all of us grasping for the conch and no one agreeing if it takes one or both feet inbounds for a sideline catch to count.
College football fandom is no different.
AP Photo
If you win the whole damn thing you can pretty much do what you want. Well, almost anything.
Is it OK to root for two schools? Is it ever OK to root for a rival? As a fan, how many Freedom of Information Act requests can I file before it seems creepy? Such are the questions that try boosters' souls. But fear not: Page 2 is here to help.
After months of careful deliberation and a two-week retreat to the College Football Hall of Fame, Page 2 has compiled a list of 57 rules for college football fandom. Learn them. Love them. But we need 100 rules, so please use the conversation pages to help us fill out the list. We'll add the best of your suggestions to Page 2's official list. Step out of the confusing darkness, and into clarity's* sweet light…
* Note: Clarity does not apply to BCS debates
I. ALLEGIANCES, OR WHO YA GOT?
1. As a fan, you have to pick a school, one school, same as if you were filling out applications to, you know, go to school there. You may not be a fan of a conference, teams from a specific state, "West Coast football" or college football in general. Nobody is a fan of college football in general, not even Lee Corso. Nor may you root for Harvard and Yale, any more than you could matriculate at both places, unless you're really, really smart, in which case you're probably building prototype military surveillance nanobots in your MIT dorm room, and/or devising a computerized ranking system* to shame Jeff Sagarin.
* Note: In scenario No. 2, you are allowed to root for the spread. Just make sure Skynet never becomes self-aware
AP Photo
The trendy team? Only if you went there, or someone you married did.
1a. Under extenuating circumstances, however, you may have up to three Division I-A rooting allegiances, so long as the schools meet the following criteria:
(a) Your birthplace/family school – especially if an inheritance is at stake, or if a campus library bears your last name.(b) Al(most)ma mater – the school you transferred from.(c) The school that actually handed you a diploma. Or would have, if you hadn't finished three credits short.(d) Your spouse's school, especially if the program is vastly superior to your own, or your spouse cares waaaay more than you do, in which case: good call on getting married!(e) You're a bandwagon-jumping, low-self-esteem weenie and scurry from Notre Dame to Miami to Ohio State to USC to Boise State depending on the year, the polls and the amount of water flooding into the ship.
If you can't be true to a school, at least be true to your own weaselly nature.
2. Your schools of allegiance must be in different conferences. Unless the conference in question is the ACC, in which case you may root for Duke and anyone else, since the Blue Devils might as well play in another conference – like, say, the Patriot League.
3. If your schools of allegiance ever play each other, you must pick one to root for, before the game, and put your preference in writing, ALL CAPS, preferably in blood. No sitting on the fence, no qualified endorsements, no switching sides at halftime, and especially none of this:
4. If you attended a lower-division or NAIA school, you're allowed to pick a D-I school of your choice. But you must consistently root for that school year in and year out, and it's preferred that the school be geographically close to you.
4a. Or you can just root for Appalachian State every week.
4b. Notre Dame? How very original.
5. You may not bet against your favorite team unless you're: (a) trying to purge it of a rotten coach; (b) in Vegas and about to sell bodily fluids or organs to cover your previous losses (thanks, Michigan!); (c) looking at a huge spread and you think your team will win but not cover, probably 'cause its coached by Phil Fulmer.
6. You may use the Freedom of Information Act once per decade on your favorite team. This is America , after all.
7. Unlimited use of the Freedom of Information Act is permitted for your rival schools. America: [Expletive] Yeah!
8. If a team from your conference makes the BCS title game and is a sworn rival, you cannot root for that team. Not now. Not ever. Not even if under duress, gunpoint or waterboarding in an Eastern European black site CIA detention center.
AP Photo
Movie-based trash talk is always welcome.
8a. Michigan fans should not have been rooting for Ohio State in the national title game. That's just wrong. And, frankly, a little sick.
9. You are allowed to root freely against the following schools for no specific reasons: Notre Dame; Notre Dame in their puke-green jerseys; Notre Dame when playing on "Triumph of the Will"-shaming propaganda house organ NBC; USC; any school that plays its fight song approximately 4,387 times per game like USC; Michigan; Miami; Ohio State; any school like Ohio State with a pretentious "the" in front of its name, because otherwise how would we know which Ohio State university they were talking about?; any school coached by Steve Spurrier; any school coached by Nick Saban.
II. ATTIRE, OR WHAT TO WEAR
10. Please observe the following age limits on male attire:
WireImage.com
Kudos to these Longhorns fans: Shirtless but wearing body paint.
• 25-and-under: Team jersey or shirtless (body paint mandatory)• 26-35: T-shirt, jersey, shirtless if you work out at least three times per week and/or have a BMI reading of less than "morbidly obese"• 36-50: Polo shirt• 51-75: Sweater vest with polo shirt underneath; sweatshirt from bowl victory two decades ago• 75-over: Shirtless, alcoholic steam rising from graying chest hair
11. Please observe the following age limits on female attire: • 25-and-under: Baby-doll tank top, or sports bra if spelling out letter with body paint; cowboy hats; short shorts with team nickname on rear; nothing but a letter of intent and a smile (recruiting hostesses only)• 26-35: T-shirt, jersey or sweatshirt• 36-50: Any outfit accented by bead-heavy team necklace• 51-75: Any outfit accented by glittery hat or electric glasses• 75-over: Hair must be dyed school colors; polyester pants to match.
12. If your team changes its uniform, go ahead and buy the new jersey – as long as it's on your parents' credit card.
AP Photo
Politically correct? Come on! This is college football!
13. University of Oregon fans are exempt from all jersey-wearing rules.
13a. When using crayons, University of Oregon fans also are exempt from having to color within the lines.
13b. University of Oregon fans are permitted to put on a jersey, look in the mirror and proclaim: My god, it's full of stars.
13c. University of Oregon fans wearing jerseys may qualify for federal Superfund status. Contact the EPA.
14. Team hats should never contain more animal hair than the family pet.
14a. Unless you're a Tennessee fan.
15. If you weigh less than 150 pounds, you can spell out only the following letters when shirtless and wearing body paint: I, L, T.
15a. If you weigh more than 275 pounds, you can spell out only the following letters when shirtless and wearing body paint: O, W, M.
15b. If you're a hot coed, paint yourself with Chinese characters for all we care
16. Southern frat boys not wearing khakis and a tie to the game must forfeit one bourbon and Coke.
16a. Southern fans wearing team-colored seersucker suits with matching bow ties drink free for the season.
17. Midwestern adults not wearing jersey of favorite white player to the game are penalized one Old Style.
18. Los Angeles fans really ought to have a tan.
19. "COCKS" hats? Good one, brah!
20. "Property of School Athletic Department" sweatshirts are acceptable, but they work best as an ironic comment on the state of student-athletes.
III. LIFESTYLE, OR WHY DID I EVER THINK GRADUATION WAS A GOOD IDEA?
21. You must know the rules of beer pong. Even if you're "retired."
21a. Dude, no one ever retires from beer pong.
22. You must be willing and able to sing the school fight song at any moment, in any location,
under any circumstances.
22a. You must be able to remember the always-forgotten second/third verse of the school fight song, but only when utterly intoxicated.
23. You may have a school license plate if you are not an alum, but only if your car horn also plays the school fight song.
24. It is OK to deny the existence of your school's male cheerleaders.
24a. Even if they someday become president.
AP Photo
It is against any and all rules to dis the USC song girls.
25. It is never OK to deny the hotness of the USC song girls.
25a. Not even if you attend UCLA.
26. Please observe the following age guidelines on appropriate thoughts to have while ogling the USC song girls:
• 11-15: What is this strange tingling feeling?• 16-18: College is going to be awesome.• 18-24: Damn, I wish she'd wear that skirt to sociology class.• 25-35: College was awesome.• 36-50: Damn, I wish she'd wear a burka or something. That could be my baby daughter!• 51-75: Gee, what a lovely young lady. I hope she meets a nice boy.• 75-over: What is this strange tingling feeling? Do I have to go to the bathroom again?
27. You are allowed to start tailgating six hours before kickoff.
27a. If you want to remember the game, do not drink heavily during those six hours.
27b. Four hours of drinking is more reasonable.
28. Always yield to the rich alumni driving the decked-out Winnebagos.
28a. They mix the best drinks.
28b. And they might be hiring you in six months.
29. If you have a TV at your tailgate, you must expect and allow other fans to congregate around your area and sneak a peek. Share your bounty!
29a. Especially if Notre Dame is on and is getting its golden little teeth kicked in by Georgia Tech.
30. If tailgating at South Carolina and there are more than six people present, one must be wearing a real, stuffed gamecock on his/her head.
30a. Sorry, PETA.
AP Photo
If anyone has an extra jaguar, Southern is looking for a new one. (Sorry PETA.)
31. You must leave your tailgate at least 20 minutes before kickoff and be in your seat for the national anthem.
31a. Unless you're getting digits.
32. Never leave a game early, unless: (a) it's a blowout and there's a great game just starting on TV; (b) it's time to use those digits.
33. When arguing with fans from another conference, you are allowed to cite the accomplishments of rival schools within your conference.
33a. Grudgingly.
34. You must have at least two bobbleheads or stuffed animals on your office desk, or a combination of one bobblehead and one stuffed animal.
34a. No refrigerator schedule magnet? Then the terrorists have already won.
35. If your significant other went to a rival school, no sex on rivalry game day.
35a. If your significant other went to a rival school, all wagers should involve sex.
35b. If rule 35a is in effect, waive rule 35.
36. You must buy a letterman's jacket to display the letter you won in band.
36a. You must not write Page 2 to explain how band members are really athletes.
AP Photo
Friends don't let friends date body painters.
37. (For men): Never hit on a woman while wearing face paint.
37a. (For men): Always hit on a woman who is wearing face paint.
38. (For women): Never hit on a man spelling out the following letters in body paint: O, W, M.
39. Anyone who calls Division I-AA by the new name "Division I Football Championship Subdivision" must receive one punch directly to the throat.
39a. If you are giving the punch, remember: This hurts you more than it hurts them.
40. You must make at least one road trip while in college without tickets or a hotel room lined up ahead of time.
40a. Bonus points if you spend the night in a sorority house.
40b. Double bonus points if you spend the night in a sorority house wearing nothing but a stuffed gamecock on your head.
IV. GLOATING, OR WHY ANYONE BOTHERS TO BE A FAN IN THE FIRST PLACE
41. Observe the following statutes of limitations:
(a) Bragging about national title: 25 years(b) Bragging about a top-five finish: 15 years(c) Bragging about a top-five finish if you are Ohio State, USC, Florida , Miami, Tennessee, Michigan, Florida State, Texas, Oklahoma: 0 years(d) Bragging about a BCS bowl win: 10 years(e) Bragging about a blowout BCS bowl win over Notre Dame: one year, or until someone else joins the club(f) Bragging about Heisman winner: 10 years(g) Bragging about Heisman winners whose last names rhyme with "Baretta": six months(h) Bragging about Heisman winners named "O.J.": null(i) Bragging about a big upset of your rival: Five years on a daily basis, for eternity at least twice a year(j) Bragging about a victory, any victory: Two years*
* Note: Applies to Duke only
42. You must never be proud of your 6-5 bowl team.
42a. Unless, of course, it's Duke.
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Uh-oh, Notre Dame ... here comes Navy!
43. You must always overestimate the strength of your favorite team's conference.
43a. You must always overestimate the strength of those plucky service academies, if your favorite team is Notre Dame.
44. You must cheer at the stadium when the public-address announcer reveals that your rival school is losing.
44a. You must let out an "oooooooh" when the public address announcer alerts you to an upset in progress.
44b. You must let out an "ooooooh … ahhhhhhh!" when the public address announcer alerts you to an upset in progress involving your rival school.
45. If your team wins the national championship, you are allowed to spend $1,000 on commemorative items with absolutely no questions asked.
45a. No questions means no questions, not even about the leather hardbound Sports Illustrated just-add-water Chia book.
46. You must change the bumper stickers on your car every five years.
46a. Note: Please remove the "1985 Orange Bowl champs" sticker immediately.
V. TAUNTING, OR THE ONLY THING BETTER THAN GLOATING
47. Always assume that your league rivals are cheating. Always assume your school's great kids epitomize throwback student-athletes, with footballs under one arm and textbooks under the other.
47a. Pay no attention to the fact that said textbooks are for: (a) physical education; (b) sociology; (c) theory of football; (d) theory of ballroom dancing.
48. If you root for an SEC school, you are not allowed to act sanctimonious when a rival conference program is busted for academic fraud, dirty recruiting or any other NCAA rules violation. Instead, give thanks for your see-no-evil compliance department.
48a. You are, however, allowed to snicker.
48b. You may also file a FOIA request.
49. Feel free to spread a rumor that your rival's head coach is having an affair. You heard it from a very reliable source at a frat party.
50. You must always deny – with great conviction – that there are patsies on your favorite team's schedule when attacking the schedules of rivals. Youngstown State is a formidable opponent! And there are no American tanks at the Baghdad airport!
51. Never call to taunt a rival fan when the game is still in progress, unless your team holds a lead of 28 points or more in the second half.
51a. A snarky text message works fine.
52. Never answer the phone after your team loses a big game.
52a. Better still, unplug your phone.
52b. Even better still, throw your phone out the window. Then run it over.
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And always be willing to take your I-AA medicine.
53. Never skip work the following Monday after your team loses a big game. Take your medicine like a real fan.
54. If you get on the message boards and/or call talk radio demanding that the coach be fired after your team loses the opener, you must stick with it and continue to pay the domain registration fee for FireLloydCarr.com for the next five years.
54a. Even when they turn it around and go 11-1.
54b. Or when Carr is fired.
55. Statute of limitations on ripping Lee Corso for not putting on the headgear of your team, and then having the nerve to pick the other guys instead: one year.
56. You are allowed one e-mail per season to a media outlet – local or national – bitterly complaining about the lack of respect for your school and the obvious media bias against your conference.
56a. More than one such e-mail makes you a paranoid crybaby.
56b. If you're a Pac-10 fan, just shut up already.
57. Do not call the opposing punter a wuss from the safety of the stands. He's probably tougher than you are. And if he's from Northern Colorado, he might have to cut you.
57a. Besides, throwing a ziplock bag of urine works much better.
Time for the new rules for college football fandom
Let's face it: Life requires rules. Precepts to live by, laws to abide by, dictums to follow, lest civilization devolve into a Hobbesian state of nature, "Lord of the Flies," with all of us grasping for the conch and no one agreeing if it takes one or both feet inbounds for a sideline catch to count.
College football fandom is no different.
AP Photo
If you win the whole damn thing you can pretty much do what you want. Well, almost anything.
Is it OK to root for two schools? Is it ever OK to root for a rival? As a fan, how many Freedom of Information Act requests can I file before it seems creepy? Such are the questions that try boosters' souls. But fear not: Page 2 is here to help.
After months of careful deliberation and a two-week retreat to the College Football Hall of Fame, Page 2 has compiled a list of 57 rules for college football fandom. Learn them. Love them. But we need 100 rules, so please use the conversation pages to help us fill out the list. We'll add the best of your suggestions to Page 2's official list. Step out of the confusing darkness, and into clarity's* sweet light…
* Note: Clarity does not apply to BCS debates
I. ALLEGIANCES, OR WHO YA GOT?
1. As a fan, you have to pick a school, one school, same as if you were filling out applications to, you know, go to school there. You may not be a fan of a conference, teams from a specific state, "West Coast football" or college football in general. Nobody is a fan of college football in general, not even Lee Corso. Nor may you root for Harvard and Yale, any more than you could matriculate at both places, unless you're really, really smart, in which case you're probably building prototype military surveillance nanobots in your MIT dorm room, and/or devising a computerized ranking system* to shame Jeff Sagarin.
* Note: In scenario No. 2, you are allowed to root for the spread. Just make sure Skynet never becomes self-aware
AP Photo
The trendy team? Only if you went there, or someone you married did.
1a. Under extenuating circumstances, however, you may have up to three Division I-A rooting allegiances, so long as the schools meet the following criteria:
(a) Your birthplace/family school – especially if an inheritance is at stake, or if a campus library bears your last name.(b) Al(most)ma mater – the school you transferred from.(c) The school that actually handed you a diploma. Or would have, if you hadn't finished three credits short.(d) Your spouse's school, especially if the program is vastly superior to your own, or your spouse cares waaaay more than you do, in which case: good call on getting married!(e) You're a bandwagon-jumping, low-self-esteem weenie and scurry from Notre Dame to Miami to Ohio State to USC to Boise State depending on the year, the polls and the amount of water flooding into the ship.
If you can't be true to a school, at least be true to your own weaselly nature.
2. Your schools of allegiance must be in different conferences. Unless the conference in question is the ACC, in which case you may root for Duke and anyone else, since the Blue Devils might as well play in another conference – like, say, the Patriot League.
3. If your schools of allegiance ever play each other, you must pick one to root for, before the game, and put your preference in writing, ALL CAPS, preferably in blood. No sitting on the fence, no qualified endorsements, no switching sides at halftime, and especially none of this:
4. If you attended a lower-division or NAIA school, you're allowed to pick a D-I school of your choice. But you must consistently root for that school year in and year out, and it's preferred that the school be geographically close to you.
4a. Or you can just root for Appalachian State every week.
4b. Notre Dame? How very original.
5. You may not bet against your favorite team unless you're: (a) trying to purge it of a rotten coach; (b) in Vegas and about to sell bodily fluids or organs to cover your previous losses (thanks, Michigan!); (c) looking at a huge spread and you think your team will win but not cover, probably 'cause its coached by Phil Fulmer.
6. You may use the Freedom of Information Act once per decade on your favorite team. This is America , after all.
7. Unlimited use of the Freedom of Information Act is permitted for your rival schools. America: [Expletive] Yeah!
8. If a team from your conference makes the BCS title game and is a sworn rival, you cannot root for that team. Not now. Not ever. Not even if under duress, gunpoint or waterboarding in an Eastern European black site CIA detention center.
AP Photo
Movie-based trash talk is always welcome.
8a. Michigan fans should not have been rooting for Ohio State in the national title game. That's just wrong. And, frankly, a little sick.
9. You are allowed to root freely against the following schools for no specific reasons: Notre Dame; Notre Dame in their puke-green jerseys; Notre Dame when playing on "Triumph of the Will"-shaming propaganda house organ NBC; USC; any school that plays its fight song approximately 4,387 times per game like USC; Michigan; Miami; Ohio State; any school like Ohio State with a pretentious "the" in front of its name, because otherwise how would we know which Ohio State university they were talking about?; any school coached by Steve Spurrier; any school coached by Nick Saban.
II. ATTIRE, OR WHAT TO WEAR
10. Please observe the following age limits on male attire:
WireImage.com
Kudos to these Longhorns fans: Shirtless but wearing body paint.
• 25-and-under: Team jersey or shirtless (body paint mandatory)• 26-35: T-shirt, jersey, shirtless if you work out at least three times per week and/or have a BMI reading of less than "morbidly obese"• 36-50: Polo shirt• 51-75: Sweater vest with polo shirt underneath; sweatshirt from bowl victory two decades ago• 75-over: Shirtless, alcoholic steam rising from graying chest hair
11. Please observe the following age limits on female attire: • 25-and-under: Baby-doll tank top, or sports bra if spelling out letter with body paint; cowboy hats; short shorts with team nickname on rear; nothing but a letter of intent and a smile (recruiting hostesses only)• 26-35: T-shirt, jersey or sweatshirt• 36-50: Any outfit accented by bead-heavy team necklace• 51-75: Any outfit accented by glittery hat or electric glasses• 75-over: Hair must be dyed school colors; polyester pants to match.
12. If your team changes its uniform, go ahead and buy the new jersey – as long as it's on your parents' credit card.
AP Photo
Politically correct? Come on! This is college football!
13. University of Oregon fans are exempt from all jersey-wearing rules.
13a. When using crayons, University of Oregon fans also are exempt from having to color within the lines.
13b. University of Oregon fans are permitted to put on a jersey, look in the mirror and proclaim: My god, it's full of stars.
13c. University of Oregon fans wearing jerseys may qualify for federal Superfund status. Contact the EPA.
14. Team hats should never contain more animal hair than the family pet.
14a. Unless you're a Tennessee fan.
15. If you weigh less than 150 pounds, you can spell out only the following letters when shirtless and wearing body paint: I, L, T.
15a. If you weigh more than 275 pounds, you can spell out only the following letters when shirtless and wearing body paint: O, W, M.
15b. If you're a hot coed, paint yourself with Chinese characters for all we care
16. Southern frat boys not wearing khakis and a tie to the game must forfeit one bourbon and Coke.
16a. Southern fans wearing team-colored seersucker suits with matching bow ties drink free for the season.
17. Midwestern adults not wearing jersey of favorite white player to the game are penalized one Old Style.
18. Los Angeles fans really ought to have a tan.
19. "COCKS" hats? Good one, brah!
20. "Property of School Athletic Department" sweatshirts are acceptable, but they work best as an ironic comment on the state of student-athletes.
III. LIFESTYLE, OR WHY DID I EVER THINK GRADUATION WAS A GOOD IDEA?
21. You must know the rules of beer pong. Even if you're "retired."
21a. Dude, no one ever retires from beer pong.
22. You must be willing and able to sing the school fight song at any moment, in any location,
under any circumstances.
22a. You must be able to remember the always-forgotten second/third verse of the school fight song, but only when utterly intoxicated.
23. You may have a school license plate if you are not an alum, but only if your car horn also plays the school fight song.
24. It is OK to deny the existence of your school's male cheerleaders.
24a. Even if they someday become president.
AP Photo
It is against any and all rules to dis the USC song girls.
25. It is never OK to deny the hotness of the USC song girls.
25a. Not even if you attend UCLA.
26. Please observe the following age guidelines on appropriate thoughts to have while ogling the USC song girls:
• 11-15: What is this strange tingling feeling?• 16-18: College is going to be awesome.• 18-24: Damn, I wish she'd wear that skirt to sociology class.• 25-35: College was awesome.• 36-50: Damn, I wish she'd wear a burka or something. That could be my baby daughter!• 51-75: Gee, what a lovely young lady. I hope she meets a nice boy.• 75-over: What is this strange tingling feeling? Do I have to go to the bathroom again?
27. You are allowed to start tailgating six hours before kickoff.
27a. If you want to remember the game, do not drink heavily during those six hours.
27b. Four hours of drinking is more reasonable.
28. Always yield to the rich alumni driving the decked-out Winnebagos.
28a. They mix the best drinks.
28b. And they might be hiring you in six months.
29. If you have a TV at your tailgate, you must expect and allow other fans to congregate around your area and sneak a peek. Share your bounty!
29a. Especially if Notre Dame is on and is getting its golden little teeth kicked in by Georgia Tech.
30. If tailgating at South Carolina and there are more than six people present, one must be wearing a real, stuffed gamecock on his/her head.
30a. Sorry, PETA.
AP Photo
If anyone has an extra jaguar, Southern is looking for a new one. (Sorry PETA.)
31. You must leave your tailgate at least 20 minutes before kickoff and be in your seat for the national anthem.
31a. Unless you're getting digits.
32. Never leave a game early, unless: (a) it's a blowout and there's a great game just starting on TV; (b) it's time to use those digits.
33. When arguing with fans from another conference, you are allowed to cite the accomplishments of rival schools within your conference.
33a. Grudgingly.
34. You must have at least two bobbleheads or stuffed animals on your office desk, or a combination of one bobblehead and one stuffed animal.
34a. No refrigerator schedule magnet? Then the terrorists have already won.
35. If your significant other went to a rival school, no sex on rivalry game day.
35a. If your significant other went to a rival school, all wagers should involve sex.
35b. If rule 35a is in effect, waive rule 35.
36. You must buy a letterman's jacket to display the letter you won in band.
36a. You must not write Page 2 to explain how band members are really athletes.
AP Photo
Friends don't let friends date body painters.
37. (For men): Never hit on a woman while wearing face paint.
37a. (For men): Always hit on a woman who is wearing face paint.
38. (For women): Never hit on a man spelling out the following letters in body paint: O, W, M.
39. Anyone who calls Division I-AA by the new name "Division I Football Championship Subdivision" must receive one punch directly to the throat.
39a. If you are giving the punch, remember: This hurts you more than it hurts them.
40. You must make at least one road trip while in college without tickets or a hotel room lined up ahead of time.
40a. Bonus points if you spend the night in a sorority house.
40b. Double bonus points if you spend the night in a sorority house wearing nothing but a stuffed gamecock on your head.
IV. GLOATING, OR WHY ANYONE BOTHERS TO BE A FAN IN THE FIRST PLACE
41. Observe the following statutes of limitations:
(a) Bragging about national title: 25 years(b) Bragging about a top-five finish: 15 years(c) Bragging about a top-five finish if you are Ohio State, USC, Florida , Miami, Tennessee, Michigan, Florida State, Texas, Oklahoma: 0 years(d) Bragging about a BCS bowl win: 10 years(e) Bragging about a blowout BCS bowl win over Notre Dame: one year, or until someone else joins the club(f) Bragging about Heisman winner: 10 years(g) Bragging about Heisman winners whose last names rhyme with "Baretta": six months(h) Bragging about Heisman winners named "O.J.": null(i) Bragging about a big upset of your rival: Five years on a daily basis, for eternity at least twice a year(j) Bragging about a victory, any victory: Two years*
* Note: Applies to Duke only
42. You must never be proud of your 6-5 bowl team.
42a. Unless, of course, it's Duke.
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Uh-oh, Notre Dame ... here comes Navy!
43. You must always overestimate the strength of your favorite team's conference.
43a. You must always overestimate the strength of those plucky service academies, if your favorite team is Notre Dame.
44. You must cheer at the stadium when the public-address announcer reveals that your rival school is losing.
44a. You must let out an "oooooooh" when the public address announcer alerts you to an upset in progress.
44b. You must let out an "ooooooh … ahhhhhhh!" when the public address announcer alerts you to an upset in progress involving your rival school.
45. If your team wins the national championship, you are allowed to spend $1,000 on commemorative items with absolutely no questions asked.
45a. No questions means no questions, not even about the leather hardbound Sports Illustrated just-add-water Chia book.
46. You must change the bumper stickers on your car every five years.
46a. Note: Please remove the "1985 Orange Bowl champs" sticker immediately.
V. TAUNTING, OR THE ONLY THING BETTER THAN GLOATING
47. Always assume that your league rivals are cheating. Always assume your school's great kids epitomize throwback student-athletes, with footballs under one arm and textbooks under the other.
47a. Pay no attention to the fact that said textbooks are for: (a) physical education; (b) sociology; (c) theory of football; (d) theory of ballroom dancing.
48. If you root for an SEC school, you are not allowed to act sanctimonious when a rival conference program is busted for academic fraud, dirty recruiting or any other NCAA rules violation. Instead, give thanks for your see-no-evil compliance department.
48a. You are, however, allowed to snicker.
48b. You may also file a FOIA request.
49. Feel free to spread a rumor that your rival's head coach is having an affair. You heard it from a very reliable source at a frat party.
50. You must always deny – with great conviction – that there are patsies on your favorite team's schedule when attacking the schedules of rivals. Youngstown State is a formidable opponent! And there are no American tanks at the Baghdad airport!
51. Never call to taunt a rival fan when the game is still in progress, unless your team holds a lead of 28 points or more in the second half.
51a. A snarky text message works fine.
52. Never answer the phone after your team loses a big game.
52a. Better still, unplug your phone.
52b. Even better still, throw your phone out the window. Then run it over.
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And always be willing to take your I-AA medicine.
53. Never skip work the following Monday after your team loses a big game. Take your medicine like a real fan.
54. If you get on the message boards and/or call talk radio demanding that the coach be fired after your team loses the opener, you must stick with it and continue to pay the domain registration fee for FireLloydCarr.com for the next five years.
54a. Even when they turn it around and go 11-1.
54b. Or when Carr is fired.
55. Statute of limitations on ripping Lee Corso for not putting on the headgear of your team, and then having the nerve to pick the other guys instead: one year.
56. You are allowed one e-mail per season to a media outlet – local or national – bitterly complaining about the lack of respect for your school and the obvious media bias against your conference.
56a. More than one such e-mail makes you a paranoid crybaby.
56b. If you're a Pac-10 fan, just shut up already.
57. Do not call the opposing punter a wuss from the safety of the stands. He's probably tougher than you are. And if he's from Northern Colorado, he might have to cut you.
57a. Besides, throwing a ziplock bag of urine works much better.
video board
Well the video board is under half way done. Its looking like it is going to be one big monster. Also they are adding a sort of light bar on both sides of the endzones or sides that one reads go, the other ducks.
30 days
Sorry for ya'll that read this. I havent been on in about 5 days due to the fact of traveling and time. anyways for ya'll that dont know kevin garrett(a will linebacker) has been suspended due to untimely( and stupid) circumstances. Mike Bellotti has a 3 strikes your out rule. This is his second offense. He was pulled over for reckless driving, failure to stop, resisting arrest, and driving with suspended license and no insurance. He has pleaded not guilty.
In other news the beavers have decided to go from looking like girls( with their training bras) to going back to their "heritage"(okay people do the beavs really have any of that??). If you would like to look here they are: http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/07/29/sports/beaver_sports/top_story/6osu01_jerseys.txt
Also, Bryd was named the best cornerback in the pac-10. Im excited but hope he doesnt leave. Sorry for being "undedicated" lately. I have had alot on my plate but plan to step my game up. Signing off, Cole"White Jeezy" Bigby. GO DUCKS!!
In other news the beavers have decided to go from looking like girls( with their training bras) to going back to their "heritage"(okay people do the beavs really have any of that??). If you would like to look here they are: http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2008/07/29/sports/beaver_sports/top_story/6osu01_jerseys.txt
Also, Bryd was named the best cornerback in the pac-10. Im excited but hope he doesnt leave. Sorry for being "undedicated" lately. I have had alot on my plate but plan to step my game up. Signing off, Cole"White Jeezy" Bigby. GO DUCKS!!
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Running For Tate
Recruit Tate Forcier has narrowed his colleges from 30, to 6 according to scouts. Oregon was one of the schools included in short list. The list consists of Oregon, Penn State, Michigan, WSU, ASU, and Florida. Please, no more Qb's. We got Harper and Thomas who will be freshman. One of those guys will be a redshirt. Masoli in my opinion will transfer out next year. Harper and Thomas are the Qb's of the future. But the one I have my money on is...i have no freakin clue. I really like the way Harper runs, but his throwing motion is a little bit juice williams. Looks like he lofts it more than zips it in there. Thomas has the mold to be the next dennis dixon, but i think he can add some more muscle to him. If one of them pans out look for the other to move positions. Thomas would become a WR and Harper a RB.
Oregon's Media Day
Today was Pac-10 media day. Mike Bellotti opened up the day by saying: " Its exciting to be back for 2008 season, despite the fact we are mourning Todd Doxey." He also says that Jeremiah Johnson is back almost fully back to himself. Last week johnson ran a 4.4 40 which puts him way ahead of schedule. He says he sees Oregon using Johnson and Legarrete [Blount]as a 1-2 punch such as he did early with Stewart and Johnson. Bellotti commented by saying:" Legarrete is a north to south runner, while Jeremiah is a jitter bug.
As everyone knows oregon will have 4-5 Qb's competing for the starting job. But Costa is the man til someone beats him out. Jaison Williams(or as picky duck fans call him 50-50) is set to break the all time recieving record held by Samie Parker. Williams has potential to be a top 40 pick in this upcoming draft depending on his senior year. I see Williams being a huge threat and posting a 1200 yard season that we all know he is capable of. Oregon was picked to finish 3rd by the coaches behind USC and ASU.
On another note, practices will be starting soon and that means one thing people. Duck football is less than a month away from kick off.
Here is the site that broadcasts the media day. It should be archived fairly soon.
http://all-access.cstv.com/cstv/player/player.html?code=pac10&sport=m-footbl&category=Press%20Conference%20(MediaType)&media=70761
As everyone knows oregon will have 4-5 Qb's competing for the starting job. But Costa is the man til someone beats him out. Jaison Williams(or as picky duck fans call him 50-50) is set to break the all time recieving record held by Samie Parker. Williams has potential to be a top 40 pick in this upcoming draft depending on his senior year. I see Williams being a huge threat and posting a 1200 yard season that we all know he is capable of. Oregon was picked to finish 3rd by the coaches behind USC and ASU.
On another note, practices will be starting soon and that means one thing people. Duck football is less than a month away from kick off.
Here is the site that broadcasts the media day. It should be archived fairly soon.
http://all-access.cstv.com/cstv/player/player.html?code=pac10&sport=m-footbl&category=Press%20Conference%20(MediaType)&media=70761
Well Ya'll
i am about ready to wrap up my 1st day of blogs. I dont know if anyone has actually read this stuff, but if so i hope i have entertained you. As i was going to bed i was reading on pac-10 predictions. I was just thinking about where the ducks will finish. In all reality the ducks have a legit shot at being the #2 team in the pac. But they also could blow up and finish very mediocre. I believe they will be ready. I see this team going between 9-4 or 11-2. I think the key to a season is the first game against the arch rival huskies. The highly talented jake locker will be playing his first game in autzen. The ducks will be bringing the pressure. The question is can locker actually defeat the ducks? The other question is will the ducks defeat themselves? I think the way the ducks lose is B. Jake Locker is one player. Not even Heisman(by default thanks to a certain injury) Tim Tebow could beat teams by himself. Jake Locker is the poor mans version of tebow and i dont find it possible locker will pick the "best secondary" in the pac apart. I think this a no brainer and the ducks win 38-17. It will be Costa's first game as a starter and there will be some rust to shake off. In other news Padilla will not be transferring, and the p.a system will remain the same. And the writer i look up to(rob moseley) picked the ducks to finish 4th behind cal, asu and usc. At least he is not one of those kool aid writers who say: " my team can do no wrong." Any ways im out ya'll. Have a good night and Go Ducks!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
37 Days til Kickoff!
Well there is 37 days til kickoff...but not technically. Im one day off but i will begin the festivity of drinking beer and bbqin a day early. I am pumped. Each day i watch something ducks i get more estatic for the day. I always begin counting down at the 4th of July. It has been a tradition i started about 2 years ago. The gameday videos on youtube are what get me the most. Remembering going to the Cal gameday alone at 3 a.m.(thanks to a certain bail by my buddy) and memories of going to bed at midnight only to wake up 2 hrs later to go to the asu gameday. Then tailgating til kickoff with them after was a blast too. I remember going to a reunion up in portland right after the game and not falling asleep until 3 the next night. Yes as miserable and shitty i felt the following day, it was an amazing year. I remember listening to the stanford game and getting so pissed off i actually went to a bar to watch it with 500 other duck fans cause it was the only place that picked up the game. I couldnt stand listening to it on the radio because of the heart burn i was getting. And i'll never forget the fateful night in which beloved Dennis Dixon went down. Me and some roommates were sitting around eating burgers when i watched him get his knee owned. I texted my father and the text said: no heisman, no championship, no bcs. I knew what he meant to the team. The osu game was fun, but would have been better with a better outcome. I went with one of my best friends and had a blast. One of my favorite memories is during halftime im a little cold and one of the people who has season tickets hits me in my stomach. I look down and its a flask. He says: "son your lookin a little cold." With this said i am excited for what the future has in stored with memories and friends. I'll see you out there.
Undersized QB's
Well as everyone knows the QB of the ducks this year will most likely be nathan costa. He is a 6'1 220 lb QB who Chip Kelly says: " Pushed Dennis for playing time last year." Costa fits into the molds of the Chase Daniels, Todd Reesings, and Matt Frothe's of the College Football world. The new size of QB is opening doors for the "smaller" quarterbacks. I personally like a more athletic taller QB. Such as a 6'4 220 who can take off and run at any given moment. But QB's such as those are rare and are mostly recruited by the powerhouses. Oregon did make a run at Terrelle Pryor but we all knew he was going to choose either Ohio State or Michigan. Anyways this change of size in the QB has led to ask some questions. I wonder if these amazing undersized college quarterbacks are going to be able to play at the next level? Look at the size of the first 2 selected quarterbacks. Matt Ryan: 6'4 221 and Joe Flacco: 6'5 230. Prototypical nfl size. I believe that the Chase Daniels will not be as good at the next level. For the simple fact they are too small. Yes they can play in college football, but so did ron dayne. Just a little something to leave you thinking about. Here is the link for the sporting news article.
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=437110
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=437110
Welcome
So as anyone visiting here I am a duck. I was born a duck, raised a duck, and in a year will be officially a duck. I am a season ticket holder with tickets in the 80th row. Yes it is the nose bleed but i will not complain because i have seen amazing games there and enjoy the people around me. I am excited for the start of this blog and will try and keep everyone updated to the best of my ability. (I work a 9-5 monday thru saturday). So welcome everyone and let the talk begin
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