Standings after week 1:
Week 2 Line-up:
A ton of “the shot” YouTube vids floating around but this has to be one of the best ones I’ve come across as it is a compilation of fan reactions from the Fieldhouse, San Antonio, and various bars across the country.
Ah, the salad days. The peak of one’s life. When you can eat with your hands, smear blueberry pancakes on your face, and command the undying adoration of your fellow diners for both. Not to mention the small fan club of animals that have gathered at your feet in the event you decide they are worthy to share your bounty.
But these aren’t your salad days, little man. In fact, if it not for the embarrassing volume of photographic evidence to document this era, you may not remember them at all. But I can tell you, my darling Jude, they are ours. Your father and I watch in awe as you grow by leaps and bounds every day. We exchange smiling glances as you run chattering through house. And I am practically reduced to tears when you wrap your arms around a towering Atticus and say simply “hi”. You have softened me, little man. Who am I kidding? You have completely flattened me. With your smirk, your wrinkled nose, your unrestrained laughter, the way you say “rabbit”, and the feel of your sweet warm arms gripping tightly around my neck. You are my present day nostalgia, a little slice of salad. Every day.
Damn this is good stuff….
I am posting on behalf of the commish this week who is busy saving lives (I mean, shipping books).
Rutgers (+2.5) at Louisville (this is a Thursday game)
OU (-3) at mizzou
V Tech (-4) at BC
Tennessee (+7.5) at LSU
Washington (+14) at Hawaii (the only undefeated team left)
Jude takes a break from cooking the Thanksgiving feast and hits the field in his apron for kicking practice!
Dad and Uncle Blaine work on Jude’s hand-eye coordination. Prep for hitting the field later!
A primer for everyone interested in the big game Satuday…
Here is an exerpt from another CNNSI piece:
But honestly, I think the bile runs deeper beneath the Kansas-Mizzou set-to, a rivalry with roots reaching back to an actual guerrilla war. This week, Mizzou students have been sporting T-shirts depicting the depredations of William Quantrill, who once led a band of pro-slavery irregulars on a raid of Lawrence, killing an estimated 150 citizens. The shirt, which I haven’t seen, is said to depict that murderous raid, along with the word, “Scoreboard.”
Wow. Kind of makes that old Jayhawk staple, “Muck Fizzou,” seem tasteful by comparison.
A few years ago, officials at both Kansas and Mizzou decided to rename the rivalry known for decades as The Border War. “Showdown my ass,” growls ex-Jayhawks football coach Don Fambrough, still vigorous and profane at 85. Coach Fam speaks for many Kansas fans when he continues, “It’s a goddam war. And they started it!”
And here is a classic Fam speech he gave a few years ago
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