So remember how I said that the Titans defense this year should be dominating? I didn't expect Cortland Finnegan to be killing like this. The Titans/Oilers franchise is 4-0 for the first time EVER. They look to be the best team in the AFC right now, but so far in this season that's like being first in the Special Olympics. Anyway, it'd be really freaking awesome if the Titans won the AFC South after dealing with these damn Colts bandwagoners for the last three years.
Looking to be a pretty good year on my football squads so far this season.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Vince Young Has My Support
Heh, bullshit post to get my count up.
But yeah, get better VY... Hope to see you back to 2006 form again.
But yeah, get better VY... Hope to see you back to 2006 form again.
Ugh, Sarah Palin...
Look, I don't really want to get too much into the bullshit story that is Sarah Palin. I think it's funny how she could be getting such a free pass on certain things because no one wants to be called sexist. It's BS, she lied in her first speech as the VP nominee, and not a single media source called her on it. Hell, she says the same damn thing in every interview or speech? And why? Because no one has the balls to go at her on it. That's not the only thing that bothers me either.
SHE DID SUPPORT THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE. It's on tape. Hell, it's in print. And it wasn't even like it was a long time ago. When she says she sold the plane on eBay, she didn't. She sold the plane, but it was at a loss. She took per diem pay when she stayed at her own home. Not exactly fiscally conservative, is it? Hell, when she was mayor of Wasilla, AK... she left the city 20 million dollars in debt. Let me say that shit again, she is a so-called fiscal conservative who left a town of less than 10,000 in a state with a population less than that of Charlotte, NC TWENTY million dollars in debt. And we expect her to help get rid of a trillion dollar plus debt at a national level?
That doesn't even mention the fact that she's not even that familiar with her job. Just a couple months ago, someone asked her if she would accept the VP spot. Her answer? She said she wasn't even sure what a VP does. Hell, Charlie Rose asked her about the Bush Doctrine, and she didn't even know what that meant. The issues in the U.S. prior to this recession revolved around foreign policy. John McCain couldn't tell you that Czechoslovakia wasn't a country. Sarah Palin probably couldn't spell it.
The experience issue is BS too. The conservative keep going on and on about her so-called executive experience. If executive experience mattered that much, why didn't they elect Rudy Giuliani? Hell, Giuliani was mayor of city that's got a LOT more people than the state of Alaska. Besides, just because someone can be manager of Wal-Mart doesn't mean that same someone can be the CEO of Wal-Mart.
The sexism claims from the right baffle me too. Shoot, the most sexist action by anyone in this election season has been from John McCain. McCain chose Palin because he thought that the Hillary voters would swing to him regardless of the fact that Palin is polar opposite of Palin on almost every issue. I'd like to think women aren't that dumb. I can't see a woman making an informed decision to vote for a woman that she disagreed with on every issue just because the candidate is a woman.
But I digress...
SHE DID SUPPORT THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE. It's on tape. Hell, it's in print. And it wasn't even like it was a long time ago. When she says she sold the plane on eBay, she didn't. She sold the plane, but it was at a loss. She took per diem pay when she stayed at her own home. Not exactly fiscally conservative, is it? Hell, when she was mayor of Wasilla, AK... she left the city 20 million dollars in debt. Let me say that shit again, she is a so-called fiscal conservative who left a town of less than 10,000 in a state with a population less than that of Charlotte, NC TWENTY million dollars in debt. And we expect her to help get rid of a trillion dollar plus debt at a national level?
That doesn't even mention the fact that she's not even that familiar with her job. Just a couple months ago, someone asked her if she would accept the VP spot. Her answer? She said she wasn't even sure what a VP does. Hell, Charlie Rose asked her about the Bush Doctrine, and she didn't even know what that meant. The issues in the U.S. prior to this recession revolved around foreign policy. John McCain couldn't tell you that Czechoslovakia wasn't a country. Sarah Palin probably couldn't spell it.
The experience issue is BS too. The conservative keep going on and on about her so-called executive experience. If executive experience mattered that much, why didn't they elect Rudy Giuliani? Hell, Giuliani was mayor of city that's got a LOT more people than the state of Alaska. Besides, just because someone can be manager of Wal-Mart doesn't mean that same someone can be the CEO of Wal-Mart.
The sexism claims from the right baffle me too. Shoot, the most sexist action by anyone in this election season has been from John McCain. McCain chose Palin because he thought that the Hillary voters would swing to him regardless of the fact that Palin is polar opposite of Palin on almost every issue. I'd like to think women aren't that dumb. I can't see a woman making an informed decision to vote for a woman that she disagreed with on every issue just because the candidate is a woman.
But I digress...
Uh-oh, Ball State Is Beastin'
Just four short years ago, I remember taking a trip to the beautiful city of Kalamazoo in Michigan to see the mighty Cardinals of Ball State take on the Broncos of Western Michigan. Why is this significant? Ball State entered that game winless, and were ranked as the worst division 1A football team in the country by ESPN. We had losses like 56-0 at Iowa (42-0 at the half), 38-0 at Boston College, and the colossal 63-3 loss at Auburn. I mean, we were awful.
So why was that trip important? I still haven't answered your question, I know. Anyway, Ball State, the WORST team in the country, took a relatively decent Western team to five overtimes and won 60-57. Ball State would wrap up their season at 4-7 after losing in OT to Central Michigan on the last game of the season. The Cards won three of their last four games.
Over the following offseason, BSU picked up a major commitment from a QB in Ohio by the name of Nate Davis. Davis had offers from a bunch of MAC schools, but chose BSU as his final destination. The hype around him was pretty big by Ball State standards. He lived up to it on the first game of the season, where he tossed three TD passes. That's not to say there weren't bumps along the road, while splitting time with veteran Joey Lynch BSU blew a 23-7 halftime lead over IU to lose 24-23. However, at the game, there were an astounding number of student fans and a stadium record 23,000+ person crowd. Ball State finished 5-7 (puntuated by a near defeat of #2 Michigan at the Big House), but everyone in the MAC knew something was brewing.
So cut to last season, Ball State's offense hit the big stage. We were expected to win all season, and even though some may have been a little underwhelmed from a few games (we lost to Miami of Ohio 14-13 in the home opener), Ball State was for real. The biggest thrill came on a trip to Nebraska, where Dante Love was one dropped passd from etching the biggest victory in school history. The aforementioned Davis introduced himself to the natonal stage by posting 422 yards on the once-vaunted Nebraska defense. However, in that game we lost our only real rushing threat in MiQuale Lewis. BSU became relatively one dimensional and finished the season 7-6 after a loss to Ray Rice and Rutgers in the International Bowl, the first BSU bowl game since 1996.
So now, Ball State is 5-0 this season, the first time in 20 years, and just outside of the Top 25 rankings. We're regularly posting 40+ points on every team. Two weeks ago, BSU went down to IU and posted their first-ever win over a BCS conference opponent (0-43, prior to that game). And by win, I mean slaughter. We went into Memorial Stadium and won 42-20. The win was bittersweet in that BSU lost someone who's been as important to this run as anyone, senior receiver/kick returner/occasional running back Dante Love, whose football career appears to have ended just short of the NFL.
My point is, this could possibly be the biggest highlight of my sports fan career. I remember just a couple years ago when the BSU student section (all 18 of us) would walk up and down the field with the team because we could. I remember the biggest cheers coming for the punter, who was usually the best player on the team. Now? Well, now we gotta show up to games an hour and a half early just to get a good seat in the section. We had 10,000 plus students in the section for the Navy game... Ball State has an enrollment around 18,000. People leave tailgating lots for games. Hell, I even see a lot of people traveling to road games to watch the team now. It's insane really.
BUT, we'll see what happens before I get too excited...
Go Cards.
So why was that trip important? I still haven't answered your question, I know. Anyway, Ball State, the WORST team in the country, took a relatively decent Western team to five overtimes and won 60-57. Ball State would wrap up their season at 4-7 after losing in OT to Central Michigan on the last game of the season. The Cards won three of their last four games.
Over the following offseason, BSU picked up a major commitment from a QB in Ohio by the name of Nate Davis. Davis had offers from a bunch of MAC schools, but chose BSU as his final destination. The hype around him was pretty big by Ball State standards. He lived up to it on the first game of the season, where he tossed three TD passes. That's not to say there weren't bumps along the road, while splitting time with veteran Joey Lynch BSU blew a 23-7 halftime lead over IU to lose 24-23. However, at the game, there were an astounding number of student fans and a stadium record 23,000+ person crowd. Ball State finished 5-7 (puntuated by a near defeat of #2 Michigan at the Big House), but everyone in the MAC knew something was brewing.
So cut to last season, Ball State's offense hit the big stage. We were expected to win all season, and even though some may have been a little underwhelmed from a few games (we lost to Miami of Ohio 14-13 in the home opener), Ball State was for real. The biggest thrill came on a trip to Nebraska, where Dante Love was one dropped passd from etching the biggest victory in school history. The aforementioned Davis introduced himself to the natonal stage by posting 422 yards on the once-vaunted Nebraska defense. However, in that game we lost our only real rushing threat in MiQuale Lewis. BSU became relatively one dimensional and finished the season 7-6 after a loss to Ray Rice and Rutgers in the International Bowl, the first BSU bowl game since 1996.
So now, Ball State is 5-0 this season, the first time in 20 years, and just outside of the Top 25 rankings. We're regularly posting 40+ points on every team. Two weeks ago, BSU went down to IU and posted their first-ever win over a BCS conference opponent (0-43, prior to that game). And by win, I mean slaughter. We went into Memorial Stadium and won 42-20. The win was bittersweet in that BSU lost someone who's been as important to this run as anyone, senior receiver/kick returner/occasional running back Dante Love, whose football career appears to have ended just short of the NFL.
My point is, this could possibly be the biggest highlight of my sports fan career. I remember just a couple years ago when the BSU student section (all 18 of us) would walk up and down the field with the team because we could. I remember the biggest cheers coming for the punter, who was usually the best player on the team. Now? Well, now we gotta show up to games an hour and a half early just to get a good seat in the section. We had 10,000 plus students in the section for the Navy game... Ball State has an enrollment around 18,000. People leave tailgating lots for games. Hell, I even see a lot of people traveling to road games to watch the team now. It's insane really.
BUT, we'll see what happens before I get too excited...
Go Cards.
Mega Update Day!
I'd like to welcome you to the first (of probably many, if I take any more breaks) mega update day brought to you by sheer boredom and the good folks of Bracken Library. Keep an eye out, I'll probably be posting a lot today...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Yeah, so about that...
Oops... this is what happens when you take a week off... It lasts like 2 months... Anyway... I'll get back to the regular updates hopefully by next week... I got some things to say too from BSU football to Sarah Palin...
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