ScottyBuff
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holding the Horned Frogs in check
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Bowl Selection thread
- Thread starter Jens1893
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holding the Horned Frogs in check
Unleash Hell
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such a joke. Once again, we wont know who the best team is
ScottyBuff
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CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
Lost any remaining respect I had for the BCS after this. Disgraceful Sugar Bowl
SteelCity Buff
Member
The story below is from the archives of Shaggybevo. I like to think Rusty took a pound of UTerus flesh before he...well...
Down memory lane...
I had my own horrible experience the last time the Buffs played down
in Austin back in '97. Me and the wife and my neighbor and his wife
are great long-time Buff fans and we decided to make the trip down to
Austin for the game.
We found Austin nice enough, and looked forward to a great day of
tailgating and Big 12 football. We parked the RV together with a few
other CU boosters who had driven down for the game, but mostly
surrounded by Horn fans. We got there around 9 a.m. and broke out the
beer and brats, and stoked up the barbecue. I'd brought my mutt Rusty,
he was a 9-year-old Golden Retriever, a bit gimpy from arthritis but
friendly as all heck whose favorite thing in the whole world was to go
to football tailgaters. I'd dragged that dog all over the country - to
Michigan and Nebraska in '94; to Wisconsin in '95 and never had any
bad experience with Rusty - he was the type of dog that would melt
even the hardest Husker, who'd he greet with his favorite whiff
frisbee in mouth.
Anyway, we were having a pretty good time at the tailgater, talking it
up with other Buff fans and even breaking out some cold and icy ones
for a few Horn fans who stopped by to chat and talk about the big game.
It was mostly friendly stuff, except for one group of Horn fans in an
old yellow school bus with back-to-back Longhorn and Confederate flags
who were directly to the right of my RV. From the time they got there,
I sensed there was trouble. There was six or seven of them, two of
them apparently female. They were pretty loud and obnoxious from the
beginning, blaring out what sounded like Lynard Skynard or worse. The
seemed to have showed up drunk, and were drinking hard liquor,
straight from the bottle. Soon after they got there, Rusty wandered on
over and the biggest and meanest looking of the bunch (who they called
Tiny), with a big Longhorn logo tatooed his forehead, starts chasing
him off yelling "GET ON OUT HERE YA Gawdang Buffalo DOG!!!! Except he
didn't say "dang". He apparently didn't like the fact that Rusty was
wearing his favorite Buffalo doggie sweater.
Anyways, I just gathered up Rusty and we stayed to ourselves with
other Buff fans trying to keep as far from trouble as we could. Pretty
soon it was time to go to the game, and I did what I always do with
Rusty, I tied his teather to the RV, leaving him a bowl of water and
some food. I've regretted that decision a thousand times since then,
even though at the time I'd thought nothing of it. The trouble makers
in the school bus by then were ignoring us, having been joined by
other friends, and obviously intoxicated in the extreme.
Of course we enjoyed the game, what with a Buff win and all, and found
DKR to be an impressive stadium, even though the Horn fans were as
placid as Buff fans usually are. As we walked from the stadium after
the game and approached the RV I could see right away that something
was wrong. The Buffalo awning attached to the RV and covering the
picnic table had been knocked over. I ran up to the RV calling Rusty’s
name and to my horror saw that Rusty wasn’t there. The only thing
there was his leash and empty collar.
I looked frantically around for old Rusty, calling his name and asking
anyone who would listen if they’d seen an old Golden Retriever with a
Buffalo sweater. No one had. I was nearly in tears when I heard
laughter and barking behind me. I turned around to again face the
Horns on the bus, who by then numbered 10-12 or so. They were
laughing, hollering and barking. I gathered my courage and approached
the group. Where’s my dog?? I demanded. All I got back was laughter
and barking, and the big ugly one just took a big bite out the huge
Turkey leg he had just grabbed off the barbeque, dripping sauce all
over his dirty Ricky Williams jersey. “We ain’t seen no damn dog,”
someone said, provoking more laughter and barking from the group. I
was angry as hell, looking at each of them eye to eye, trying to see
in their faces what they might have done with my Rusty.
“Hey mister,” one of them finally said, “you hungry?” “Want something
to eat?” I turned to look at the Hornfan minding the grill. “We were
doggone hungry, so we cooked something up!” The whole group burst into
howling laughter at that point, more than one spitting up food or
liquor, bowled over and slapping each other on their backs. It was
only then I realized where my Rusty had gone. That wasn’t no turkey
leg that Tiny was eating.
“You ate Rusty,” I said to the Horn fans.
Uttering that awful truth only sent the Horns into further laughter,
and I did the only thing I could do. I turned around and walked back
to the RV. I told the wife that Rusty was gone and there wasn’t no
point in looking for him. She could see I was upset and started to
protest but then looked in my eyes and saw that it was true and that
was that.
Ever since that trip to Austin, I havn’t much liked Horn fans. Each
Saturday when I hear the Football scores over at Folsom, or on the
radio, I take special pleasure when Texas is at the losing end. In
August, I finally got me a new dog, a retriever, just a pup, who we
named Rusty II. He’s a great dog and loves tailgating, though he can
never replace old Rusty.
This summer at the new Flatirons Mall, me and the wife ran into a
group of CU football players. Marcus was there, and I think that Joey
Johnson kid was too (he’s from Texas). I told them about Rusty and
they practically cried. Most of them had dogs as kids, and didn’t have
words bad enough for the kind of fans that would eat dog. I told them
that I had moved on, not one to hold grudges or to be hateful, even
for such an awful thing. But I did ask them one thing. When you go
into Austin this year, could you do old Rusty a favor? Beat those
Horns. Marcus told me, “we’ll win for Rusty.”
I hope they do too. Damn dog eaters.
ScottyBuff
Well-Known Member
This is one year where the bowl games aren't needed to tell us that. LSU was clearly the #1 team in the nation.
Bowl games are just "exhibition" games and this year is just that: icing on the cake. LSU already ate their cake.
UGA dropped from 14 to 16 in the BCS rankings. I don't where the idotic idea that they rose in the polls came from.
ESPN ran a successful ad campaign for whom they wanted in the title game. We will never know how much that influenced voters, but it must have had some effect. I really wish that media companies, that have so much to gain/loose depending on who plays, sit on the sideline when voting.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
No need to play another power conference opponent ever again OOC, VT has proven that. Just load up on FCS and Marshall's and your ticket is punched.
FWIW Herbstreit ripped the Sugar Bowl selection pretty good. But this is nothing new. The bowls, the major ones in particular, have always been about selecting the teams whose respective fanbases would travel the best instead of select the most deserving teams.
Here's how the BCS bowls should be selected: 1 vs. 2 in the NC game. The auto bids then get their BCS bids. The remaining BCS bids should go to the highest ranked teams left in the BCS standings, regardless of conference affiliation. If that means 3 teams from one conference get a BCS bid, then so be it.
CVilleBuff
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Cocks are going to slap the Huskers in the CapitalOne Bowl
I just realized, VT to the Sugar is an evil ESPN plot to prop up the Big 10 and Michigan. They know that Michigan probably isn't that good, but if they beat the **** out of a really ****** VT, it will make ESPN's second favorite conference look better.
Junction
Club Member
I knew you'd be upset Boise didn't make a BCS bowl. Under your system, Bammer Stanford, Arky and Boise would have gotten the at-large spots... :lol:
Junction
Club Member
I guess I'd have to put a special clause in there to keep Boise out of a BCS bowl. :devil2:
GoDADDY.COM
Site: Mobile, Ala.
Date: Jan. 8
Time/TV: 9 p.m./ESPN
Matchup: Northern Illinois (10-3) vs. Arkansas State (10-2)
How does this game get the jan 8th slot, the day before the MNC? This game should be played next weekend.
Junction
Club Member
Another pet peeve with the current bowl setup. The big bowl games (other than, maybe, the BCS Rematchionship game) should be on New Years Day. The lesser games should be before them. And any game that matches Northern Illinois and Arky State should cease to exist.
The BCS title went as expected, actually closer than I thought it would be. Cotton and Fiesta are good matchups. Umm that brings me to the Sugar Bowl. Jesus, I dont even know what to say. They should strip the Sugar Bowl's bcs bowl game status and give it to the Cotton. About as big of a joke as letting ND play in the Fiesta in 94-95. Inexcusable and a total ripoff.
Where is Boyzee going?
Junction
Club Member
Las Vegas to play ASsU....