Monday, January 05, 2009

Fiesta Bowl Open Thread

Ride 'em Buckeye... Ride 'em...
I feel a little dirty wanting to see an Ohio State win tonight in the Fiesta Bowl. I know it is only natural for most of you to root for Texas, but for me it is a little different -- I live in Austin and I have to put up with the Longhorn marketing machine all year long. I have tried to root for Ohio State before in the past and never made it past the 1st couple of plays before I started pulling for the other team. I am going to give it another shot tonight -- for the benefit of the Big Ten.

Go Bucks !!

49 comments:

TitleIX said...

Nice Andy. You have just doomed the Buckeyes to yet another public flogging simply by rooting for them.
Way to go bud! ;-)

HOOK 'EM!!!!
wv= lahing (that's what I'll be doing after Colt gets done with 'em)

srudoff said...

"You have just doomed the Buckeyes to yet another public flogging"

what is TOTALLY unfair is that you guys aren't on national TV much anymore so all of your embarassing defeats go unseen outside of the greater Detroit area.

i had to get directv, dish network and comcast to work together and make a special satellite dish/cable setup just to catch the Toledo game - and I'm in Chicago so it's not that far away.

you guys are so lucky and don't even know it

TitleIX said...

LOL sru
I love fencing with you! :-)

Tom C said...

Fencing with SRU? Why bother; you can get more out of thirty seconds of sex with Barkley. I say just hit im with a board and move on.
Hook em Horns.

Mikoyan said...

Chicago....Chicago...Hmmm....I've heard that somewhere....Oh yeah, was that the team that thought they could hang with the Wings? First they get shutout 4-0 in Detroit and then in a national game, the give up a 2 goal lead to lose 6-4....with goal number 4 coming in the meaningless part of the game. Interesting it would be in the stadium that has given a city more heartbreak than any. When was the last time that stadium has seen a World Series? World War II was it. And who did they lose to that time.......Oh I don't know.

whetstonebuck said...

Tom,

I cannot abide the mental image of T-9 granting Barkley 30, 15 or even 8 seconds. Be gone yon monstrous vision!

Tom C said...

Whets.... Sorry about that. Don't tear out your eyes. It isn't their fault.
wv = fackedna .......???????

Andy said...

Whet:

I have never threatened to ban someone here before.

Promise me you will never mention T9 and CB in the same sentance again, and you will be spared.

srudoff said...

not a chicago fan mikoyan - just moved here for work a long time ago - although I've adopted the cubbies as my second team behind everything cleveland (born and raised there)

cleveland hasn't won anything in forever and neither have the cubbies so it makes sense

Mikoyan said...

Wow, a Cleveland fan....that's even worse....

TitleIX said...

Buckeyes draw first blood.

Andy said...

6-3 at half.

Both teams are overmatched on offense. Bucks should have scored more with all the yards they are piling up. Beanie Wells is a stud.

1) Enough with the Boeckman trick play. It won't work
2) Colt McCoy's girlfriend is pretty hot (as you would expect)
3) What was with the buckeyes trying to carry a teammate with a neck injury to the sideline ?
4) I think FOX may have more time on the Texas band than they do on the game.
5) Show us some TEXAS CHEERLEADERS for gods sake

srudoff said...

mccoy throws 35 yards down field - announcers out of their chairs screaming the result of the play...

mccoy throws a late pick, announcer sounds dejected, crickets chirp, tim ryan states that Russell Anderson made the pick, much to the chagrin of Anderson Russell's family.

sick of seeing boeckman -yeah we get it, he's a nice guy blah blah blah - he has happy feet and no confidence - send HIM out wide

very nervous about the 2nd half

ohio_guy said...

in the Florida, LSU and USC games OSU had good or decent 1st quarters, but then always completely fell apart in the 2nd to dig a big halftime deficit.

this has been a nice change of pace so far. We need to stop settling for FGs though.

srudoff said...

from what i could see, nate williams barely played the entire first quarter. i was trying to look for him but didn't always remember

watching the game sick as a dog with 2 sons (5 & 9) jumping around the living room trying to tackle each other isn't the ideal viewing situation :)

Andy said...

Pryor really is not even an average passer.

Watching this game makes me realize that I am glad I don't watch the buckeyes very often.

Chesty McSweatervest makes Carr look flashy.

We still need more Texas Cheerladers.

Andy said...

The Texas Band is starting to make me want to pluck my eyeballs out and stuff them in my ears.

Andy said...

Nathan Williams sighting in the 3rd quarter. He caused a Colt McCoy intentional grounding -- and then makes a sack.

He is such a good kid. Taking the blame for his friends stealing shit and still making sacks.

Andy said...

Ohio State just got burned by the no-huddle high tempo offense.

Bad 3rd quarter just about to end.

Texas leads 17-6.

Ouch

TitleIX said...

will the real Slim Shady, er Sweatervest, please stand up
please stand up...

use a time out ya goof. the D is draggin'

Andy: agree regarding the band dorks. you made need to post some healing pics of those girls in chaps.

sru--you shouldn't have admitted that you have 2 young sons. your image is shattered! now it's all about the dad on the coach with two cute little boys in chicago and not at all about the blustery blowhard buckeye....
no more wind in the sails.
er, kinda like your team??? ;-)

Andy said...

3rd quarter is finally over. 17-6 Lonhorns.

Texas controlled the clock and dictated the pace. In the process they scored 2 TDs and made Ohio State look slow and gassed. Justin Boren would not like Mack Brown either -- because the Texas o-line is running to the line.

I should root for the bucks more often during the season.

Andy said...

Pryor with the TD catch ?

2Pt attempt... bounced pass.

15-17.

Andy said...

No Beanie.
No passing game.

Somehow they are still in this game. Just got into FG position with 3:19 left.

Impressive.

Geoff said...

Way to go Ohio State! Anyone see the Michigan fan in the crowd clapping on the Ohio State TD?

Andy said...

TD Bucks. 2:05 left. I have no idea why you would go for 2 here ?

They may have scored too quickly. I feel a Colt McCoy moment coming...

Andy said...

Way to go Ohio State! Anyone see the Michigan fan in the crowd clapping on the Ohio State TD?

My son pointed it out to me.

Andy said...

Fox announcer just stated Colt McCoy needs to get them into FG range...

Except they are down by 4.

Idiots

Andy said...

Bucks just got jobbed on a 4th down spot with 38 seconds to go.

Wow

Geoff said...

Regardless, I'd be doing the same. Our reputation as a big dog conference is torn up.

TitleIX said...

This FOX crew/coverage sucks.
No Matthew McConahey...(sp?)

Geoff said...

Don't tell me that just happened...

TitleIX said...

OHHHHHH that HURTS....

Andy said...

TD Texas.

16 seconds left.

Flags on the play...

Andy said...

unsportsmanship on Texas, after the TD.

Texas leads 24-21

Andy said...

I have a chapped Texas Pom Squad pic ready for the healing.

Geoff said...

I have a chapped Texas Pom Squad pic ready for the healing.

Sweet

Andy said...

Ohio State only needed to get about 25 yards to get a shot at a last second FG -- and Boeckman takes a sack.

Andy said...

Game over. 24-21 Texas. Our conference officially sucks now.

TitleIX said...

I almost feel badly for tUOS....

almost.
but not really.

sorry, I'm evil.

TitleIX said...

however, big props to Texas' #77 aka Billy Ray Cyrus
didja see that do??

ohio_guy said...

"I have no idea why you would go for 2 here?"

so that if they score a blocked/missed PAT could keep it tied


"They may have scored too quickly"

yep. I was hoping for the possibility of a FG with like :03 left, but he broke it to the end zone instead of just getting a first down. I don't blame hi one bit though.

Though, I'm still proud of this team. We were supposedly going to get blown out and we damn near won

Mikoyan said...

As much as I hate Texas.....I hate Ohio State more...

http://wentworth-ltd.org/buckeye2.jpg

http://wentworth-ltd.org/buckeye3.jpg

And the picture that says it all...
http://wentworth-ltd.org/buckeye1.jpg

Andy said...

Mack Brown is such a tool.

Bigasshammm said...

Thought of this as I was being harassed over the cell phone literally all night long....

What's better than not going to a bowl game? Not losing your 3rd BCS game in a row.

Seriously I have never seen a team shoot itself more in the foot then Texas did all night. They would be steamrolling down the field and then they would just randomly lose 25 yards on one play. Also the greatest thing to happen to O$U all night was Wells getting hurt. Had he stayed in they would have ran the same one dimensional offense and would have succeeded in getting blown out again.

Andy that spot on the 4th down play was perfect if just a little short of where it should have been. When he caught the ball you can see the ball was past the 40 but just and they marked it on the 40 a little to the shy side. Either way at that stage of the game there's no way they could have overturned that call.

Boeckman made an ass of himself on almost every play he was in. I think O$U wins this game handily had they played Pryor 100% of the plays. But alas I revel in the heartbreak. SIC I suggest you bar all doors and windows as I'm sure all hell is breaking loose in your neck of the woods.

TitleIX said...

Mikoyan! I saw that guy too!
NICE BUCKSTACHE.....

Bigasshammm said...

Also I forgot to mention or ask if anyone knew what the over/under was on the O$U band playing that F@$%ing song they pay compared to the number of times the Dodge Ram commercial came on. I had 38 and am waiting on the official decision to see if I won.

They seriously need to get some more sponsors. he first half I thought I was going to throw up from watching the new 370Z round corners again and again and again and again and again but then they throw rednecks and Dodge Rams at us in the second half. It's amazing a company that needed 15 billion dollars can afford to sponsor a BCS game. What gives?

Geoff said...

Andy or T9: Is there going to be an enlightening post and discussion, just like the 12th team for the Big Ten, about how the Big Ten can improve their conference in football?

srudoff said...

"sru--you shouldn't have admitted that you have 2 young sons. your image is shattered! now it's all about the dad on the coach with two cute little boys in chicago and not at all about the blustery blowhard buckeye...."

it's all about family values andy - if i didn't have them, i'd probably be a michigan fan :)

Bigasshammm said...

"it's all about family values andy - if i didn't have them, i'd probably be a michigan fan :)"


Wow. Bravo sir bravo.

wv = stabio... What Fabio did to the Buckeyes last night.