Posts tagged with 'college_football'

    • 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 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...

    • Hail to the Victors Valiant

      POSTED BY KENNETH ENGLAND, SEPTEMBER 02 2007 02:55 PM | PERMALINK

       

      What a Saturday of football we got this weekend, if you like the upsets. Well, not that Notre Dame getting smoked by Georgia Tech is an upset except in an historical sense, if that makes any sense. It probably doesn't. What makes even less sense is the Wolverines getting beaten by Appalachian State at the Big House. Ouch.

      I gotta admit I got a lot of joy out of that score. When I saw the ticker at halftime I couldn't believe my eyes, and I was thrilled with the prospect of Michigan getting beat at...