Posts tagged with 'Loser_of_the_week'

    • Loser of the Week (Week 11)

      POSTED BY ROBERT REID, NOVEMBER 13 2007 10:04 AM | PERMALINK

      IT'S NOT COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S TEAMS, OR PLAYERS, OR COACHES, OR UNVERSITIES THAT LOSE — IT'S US, THE BIG, DUMB, STUPID FANS

      As the topsy-turvy 2007 college football season starts to wind down, brace yourself for the annual explosion of angst, bitchiness, negativity and outright ill will. It’s all because college football is the most irrational sports system in the world.

      Oh, I love the game. But no other league has as many teams playing as few games, with no playoffs to determine a champion. Any...

    • Loser of the Week (Week 9)

      POSTED BY ROBERT REID, OCTOBER 29 2007 12:07 PM | PERMALINK

      6 + 1 = 7, 6 + 2 = 6; LOSER OF THE WEEK's REVISED/IMPROVED LAMINATE-ABLE 'TWO POINT CONVERSION GUIDEBOOK'

       

      Most coaches keep a cheat-sheet card around to tell them yay/nay on when to go for two. It needs updating. During the 2000 NFL season, Phil Simms, after Bill Parcells blew a two-point conversion call in a Jets vs Patriots game that cost the Jets a playoff slot, said, “Take the card and blow it up. Too often teams use it too quickly and it ends up costing them.” I agree. This is something...

    • Loser of the Week (Week 8)

      POSTED BY ROBERT REID, OCTOBER 23 2007 12:40 AM | PERMALINK

      WHY WE ALL MUST LOVE IOWA STATE & McDONALD'S UNIFORMS... AND WHY WE MUST NEVER, EVER, RISK BEATING A COLLEGE FOOTBALL 'LOSER OF THE WEEK'

      * W I S D O M * O F * T H E * W E E K*

      “When you don’t win, you won’t win."
      -- Iowa State coach Gene Chizik

      If statistics, science and star-alignments are to be trusted, the one thing you don't want to do in this wacky year of college football is BEAT the Loser of the Week (LoW). Here in the LoW offices we've uncovered a trend, perhaps a curse. As our 'Loser...

    • Loser of the Week - Week 7

      POSTED BY ROBERT REID, OCTOBER 15 2007 12:09 PM | PERMALINK

      College Football's Losers Bless Us... Baby Blue... Chuck Dickens... Everyone!

      ‘The game was a kind of tale of two cities’
      -- Loser of the Week coach, North Carolina’s Butch Davis

      The Loser of the Week (LoW) offices are overflowing with faxed messages of dissent. ‘Losing is for losers — stick with LSU’ reads a (now dated) note featuring a photocopied print of a fist less one single middle finger raised upward. But LoW HQ makes no apologies. Losing well is always more heroic and memorable.

      Don’t...