If you know anything about anything then you know all about the Real Men of Genius. Let’s see, there’s Mr. Driving Range Ball Picker Upper, Mr. Pro Wrestling Wardrobe Designer, Mr. Outside the Stadium Peanut Seller, Mr. Hawaiian Shirt Pattern Designer and Mr. Really, Really Tight Jean Wearer. Then you’ve got Mr. Bathroom Stall Dirty Joke Writer, Mr. New Shoe Tissue Paper Stuffer, Mr. Basketball Court Sweat Wiper Upper, Mr. Way-Too-Proud-Of-Texas Guy and Mr. Professional Sports Leg Cramp Rubber Outer.
Well, right between Mr. Refuses To Turn On His Air Conditioning Guy and Mr. Rolling Cooler Cooler Roller sits the newest addition to the Real Men of Genius family: Mr. Delusional, Irrational, Hopelessly Pathetic Notre Dame Football Fan.
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[TrojanWire.com]: Today We Salute You, Mr. Delusional, Irrational, Notre Dame Football Fan
Sure, kickers get their moments in the sun, but at the end of the day they’re still kickers.
All right, so you what’s lame? Lame is jumping onto a bike that has no seat.
You know what’s lamer than lame? Eating a bowl of burnt Frosted Flakes and then having your little brother ask if anyone has seen his scab collection.
So, what would be even lamer than that? Well, how about booting a last-second, game-winning field goal against a conference foe and then going home to celebrate and finding your pad penetrated and violated? Just ask Georgia kicker Brandon Coutu what a kick to the groin spirit that can be because that’s exactly what happened to him on Saturday.
The Georgia kicker walked into his Athens home after kicking a game-winning field goal at Vanderbilt and found that burglars had ransacked the place and stolen almost everything of value and some of sentimental value, such as SEC championship and bowl gifts.
“They took a lot of stuff, a lot of things that were important to him,” said Ron Coutu, Brandon’s father. “They took a TV with an SEC logo on it, an Xbox, iPods, computer, a bunch of electronic-type stuff.”
Coutu learned of the break-in on his way back from the Vanderbilt game. A friend had gone to the house and was to meet Coutu there for a celebration. After finding the back door kicked in, he went in, discovered the burglary and called Coutu.
“It was not fun having to tell him,” Ron Coutu said. “Obviously it was a big night for him and he walked in there frustrated.
The good news is that former gridiron standout O.J. Simpson has already been cleared since there was no sports memorabilia stolen. However, authorities have their suspicions that current rookie/fantasy football stud Adrain Peterson could be involved after he was found guilty of stealing the remaining shreds of dignity from a collapsing Bears franchise.
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[AJC.com]: Burglars break into Coutu’s house over weekend
The College GameDay crew made their way to Norman on Saturday to take in the Oklahoma/Missouri game first hand. Needless to say, the signs were aplenty and not all of `em were all that nice.
Considering that GameDay comes to our living rooms live every Saturday morning, ESPN has to be careful to monitor the sea of poster board behind the set to make sure that nothing too wild goes beaming out to the throngs. Thanks to Blake Jackson of NewsOK.com, we now have a better idea of exactly what we can and can’t get away with.
Apparently, when you’re in Oklahoma, life-size cutout of Bob Stoops and Sherri Coale are cool. So are the multitudes of “We (heart) Herbie” signs. You know, the only member of ESPN your girlfriend can name besides Jesse Palmer.
But, then you’ve got the stuff that Jackson found behind the stage. These are the types of signs that ESPN hired guns plucked from the crowd, never to be seen on-air.
Chase Daniel eats boogers.”
“Missouri loves company.”
“Chase Daniel. Hungry? Why wait?”
Several signs parodied Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy’s recent tirade toward Oklahoman columnist Jenni Carlson:
One read, “Lee Corso is twice the man Mike Gundy is. He’s 80!” Another, “Curtis Lofton, he’s a man. He’s No. 40.
But our absolute unseen favorite has to be the one that had a giant picture of Lou Holtz with the phrase “Thoonerth” printed over his head. (Think about it for a second.)
Don’t fret though, we learned from Lou himself that even if the GameDay thugs rip that sign into a million little pieces, belief in ourselves can put it back together.
If you haven’t noticed, Boise State has played back-to-back games on Sunday. Despite the fact they could probably hang with the Miami Dolphins, the Broncos have not been promoted to the NFL. No, as usual, it’s ESPN who’s to blame for yesterday’s match-up between Boise State and Nevada.
While some people are complaining about the unusual scheduling, there is one person who seems to be hopping on the new Boise State football Sunday’s bandwagon: his name is Jesus.
We think that Jesus would be down there on the sidelines, excited about people being excited too,” David Price of Boise Church of Christ said.
The Boise Church of Christ says its motto is “Broncos for Jesus.”
They see a game day on Sunday as an opportunity to come together and celebrate two great things: religion and Bronco Football.
“The students sell parking places for this football game and the money that we raise in the selling of the spots is use by students for student activities,” John Moreland said.
Their worship center is located about a block away from Bronco Stadium.
Today they’re providing parking and refreshments to any fans that need a place to park or a bite to eat.
They call it a “tailgate for Jesus.” They’re also having activities after the game too a sort of holy after-party. They say this is a perfect opportunity to support the community and Boise State University.
“Broncos for Jesus is what we’re about – uphold his way and the Bronco way,” Moreland said.
Apparently, the blue field isn’t the only advantage the Broncos have when opponents come to town. Hey, it worked for the Spurs and who are we to say that the big guy isn’t college pigskin? But after the first batch of BCS rankings hit the web yesterday, we’re kinda thinking that South Florida might be getting a little divine intervention.
Tuesday was a big day for a Big 12 rivalry. Texas A&M hasn’t defeated Texas Tech in Lubbock since 1993, but that doesn’t mean squat to Aggies running back big, bad Jorvorskie Lane.
We’re going to win in 2007,” Lane said. “That’s a guarantee. I promise you.”
Asked what coach Dennis Franchione – who had already spoken at the weekly press conference – might think of such a bold prediction, Lane shrugged.
“I’m a man,” he said. ” I can say what I want to say.
Obviously somebody has been watching too many Mike Gundy replays, but he has good reason to be jacked up for this game. Not only is head coach Mike Leach wounded, but the guy is talking dual Heisman candidates on the week A&M makes the trip. Oh, yeah, and there are students selling T-shirts with pictures of Michael Vick hanging A&M’s mascot.
The red and black shirts, with text that says “VICK ‘EM” in an apparent reference to the Aggies slogan “Gig ’em,” was created by a Tech student.
Officials say the student was trying to sell them before Saturday’s game in Lubbock.
The back of the shirt shows a football player wearing the number seven Vick jersey holding a rope with an image of the mascot “Reveille” at the end of a noose.
Remember when Tim Tebow made that “I’ll call you” gesture after a touchdown during the first quarter of the Florida/LSU game on Saturday? Well, turns out he wasn’t trying to pick up a Louisianan cutie; he was actually trying to needle the Tiger fans who prank called him hundreds of times leading up to the game.
Tebow said many of the messages contained physical threats and most included foul language.
“I really don’t use that type of language too much, so I can’t tell you,” Tebow said, declining to reveal any of the messages. “Some people did take it way too far, farther than you should take it with sports. But I think for the most part people were just having fun. Unfortunately, there’s people like that everywhere.”
Tebow said the messages started coming early last week and increased in number as the game got closer. He eventually turned the phone off, but had to listen to each voice message and read each text message before deleting them.
But Tim got himself a new number and now Kentucky fans have almost two full weeks to go Colombo and decipher those digits. While we can see how a billion giggly phone pranks could become a slight nuisance, we gotta admit, there really is nothing better than a finely crafted prank call. Isn’t that right, Juice?
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[CBSSports.com]: Florida’s Tebow changes phone number after threatening calls
We always took Leach as a scooter guy for some reason.
Oddly enough our oddball injury of the day goes to one of college football’s biggest oddities, Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. We’d like to say that it involves a pirate ship, a parrot and a plank, but that would just be wishful thinking.
Leach said today (Monday) he broke a bone in his right arm. He hit the pavement after falling from his bicycle Friday.
Leach says he got a flat tire and tried to fill it with enough air to make it to his destination, but “it proceeded to run out of air. I took a routine turn, then went into a slide, so then it broke the arm.
While Leach takes the cake for stupidest boo-boo, Limas Sweed gets the nod for most demoralizing Big 12 injury.
Just days after losing to rival Oklahoma, the Longhorns wide receiver found out that his college career is over. Sweed needs surgery to repair ligament damage in his wrist stemming from a preseason incident.
I knew it was an injury I would be dealing with going into the season and I did everything I could to play through the pain and help the team,” Sweed said.
“I’ve aggravated it a couple of times and again last week and have probably been in more pain than I let anybody know,” he added.
If you thought Mack Brown was throwing a fit after Colt McCoy took a late hit in the game against Oklahoma, you know that the furniture is flying in his office today. After all, considering Texas’ running game is virtually nonexistent, without Sweed in the lineup, Brown chances of Leachin’ it up and getting 500+ yards per game through the air just lost all sorts of steam.
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[KCBD.com]: Texas Tech coach Leach breaks arm in bicycle crash
[SportingNews.com]: Horns lose Sweed to wrist injury
Unless you have an unhealthy obsession with your TV Guide, then you probably didn’t even know a channel named VS. existed. But it does and they hit the friggin’ jackpot by broadcasting the biggest upset of the year when Stanford knocked off USC late Saturday night. Considering they’re pretty new at this whole college football scene and it was a 40-point underdog scoring a last second touchdown on fourth down to win the game, we’re going to overlook the fact that the announcers totally botched the call.
Ron Thulin: “TOUCHDOWN USC!!!…Stanford, touchdown Stanford! My Goodness.”
Kelly Stouffer: “Jim Harbaugh, if you’re asking, is going to go for the tie right here, he’s holding up…Obviously, they are tied right now. He’s going to go for the extra point.”
Ron Thulin: “You got to.
Talk about a killer duo! One guy doesn’t know which team is which and the other guy doesn’t know what the score is. No offense, we know you both have decent resumes, but you fellas got a lot of work to do before you’ll be on the big boy channels.
For two months a year, Independence Brewing Co. in Austin churns out a different kind of beer. A burnt orange brewski, also know as “Oklahoma Sucks Beer.”
The idea for this beer came about last year, when the husband-and-wife owners of the brewery found out an Oklahoma brewer was making a Texas Sucks Beer.
They say it’s all in good fun, but it’s a good profit, too. This year they’ve sold five times the amount they did last year.
At Bubba’s Country Store in South Austin, manager Vic Patton has put out his second shipment in as many days.
“Oh, I give it about a half-hour, and it’ll be gone!” Patton said. “This is the beer they want to drink before the Texas-O.U. game, this kind of tops it off!
And just think, when you get so drunk that you pee your pants in the Cotton Bowl stands on Saturday afternoon, instead of just being considered a lightweight, you’re burnt orange urine will be the ultimate show of team spirit.
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[KXAN.com]: Longhorn Fans Brew Their Pride Into Burnt-Orange Beer
The Georgia kicker walked into his Athens home after kicking a game-winning field goal at Vanderbilt and found that burglars had ransacked the place and stolen almost everything of value and some of sentimental value, such as SEC championship and bowl gifts.
