I Think Less of People That Don't Know Ogie Oglethorpe

Hey gang we've got some extenuating circumstances this week so you're going to have to bare with us. Nittanyproudfoot Multimedia is moving to the Metro-DC area for the rest of the week to deal with some unfortunate family business. So we're faced with a choice between some really high quality writing that should have been completed this week and doing laundry before leaving the state ( damn my weakness for clean socks)

So hang on kiddies for an extremely unsatisfying post.

• Hockey season starts this week. And needless to say we're all super pumped for it. There's only one tiny problem, the folks at the Nittanyproudfoot Sports Department waited till the last minute to start work on their season preview so lets just say they can turn their report in next week but only for half credit. Our Winter Sports Corespondent Sanka Coffie did send along some notes to give us a little taste heading into what should be a very exciting weekend for the sport.
  

- Look for another big year from the Pens, that doesn't necessarily mean another 2nd place finish in the east. But it's certainly not out of the question to think that we'll still be talking about the "next game" heading into the first week of June

- The Whitney and Gonchar injuries are a pretty big blow but don't sleep on the Pens Defense, there's some serious talent on the blue line. Expect a big year out of Letang and a huge year for the Pens if Goligoski is producing.

- A handful of teams including the Pens are playing in Europe this week. In addition to playing each other the NHL teams are also playing exhibitions against teams from the better leagues of Europe. Now I know a lot of hockey fans are in favor of doing away with the preseason to cut down on injuries. And I know playing a European team could end up like Apollo Creed fighting Ivan Drago but as of right now I am in favor of anything that leads to more exposure for the League. Now ask me the same question next week after Crosby has an encounter with some goon trying to make a name for himself and I may change my mind.

-Finally the Chicago Blackhawks have been elected The Nittanyproudfoot Western Conference Team of the Year (tm). We're not expecting the Hawks to blow the Red Wings out of the water this year but they're looking like a playoff contender this season. Also we're going to go ahead and predict the Hawks will beat the Wings in the second installment of the NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field New Years Day

• Father Dego Flat our Resident Spiritual Adviser is also taking it easy this week. The Padre has been holding his vacation time over our heads ever since he did that restaurant review a few weeks back. Last we heard he was on his way to Oakland to preform an exorcism at the Colosseum. We didn't have the heart to tell him that Al Davis is just an old psycho and not possessed

• So Paul Newman passed away this week. Not only did he make some pretty awesome salad dressing but he also stared in one of the greatest sports movies ever, Slapshot. I've said it before and I'll say it again . If you haven't seen Slapshot I truly do think less of you as a person.

• Big Penn State trip last weekend and it really deserves a quality post. Not going to happen. Here's the Cliff Notes. Happy Vally = Amazing must go back and stay forever. Saw Darrell Clark at Perkins. Can-Jam best game ever. Other schools should stop doing Color-Outs. Chicks dig Pirate Songs (more on that at The 1-3-4 Lounge)

Alright gang that's it. I'm out for the week.

Let Go State, Lets Go Pens, and Let Go Drinking When I Get Home Saturday


Peace Out Yo

The Padre's Take

Before the start of the football weekend we turn our Pass Rushing Pontiff Father Dego Flat to answer all of our Sporting Questions.

Dear Padre,

My football team is bad. Really bad. Like, loose of Notre Dame bad. I've only been on the job for three games and I've already managed to loose any credibility I had from coaching at my former University. At this point I only have one chance to save face. I need to beat Ohio State next month. The Buckeye's haven't looked so hot this year. How good do you think the Bucks are? Do I have a shot this year?




Hey Father,

Boy am I having a tough week. My dog ran away, I accidentally drank the sour milk in the fridge, my team lost to the 49ers, I find out that Scrubs is canceled, and now I'm looking for a new job after my boss canned me Tuesday night. Anyway Father I guess my question is. Do you know anyone that's hiring?

Matt M
Detroit Michigan


Thanks Father, Hey I got a little favor to ask before we let you go. Do you think you could throw a little blessing out towards the Happy Valley in preparation for the weekend?


You the Man Padre
Alright we are on a 7 day break. The Nittanyproudfoot will be back next week. And guess what kids ? It's almost hockey season!

Right Happy Valley here I come.

Peace Out Yo

Lets Go State!

In a Hole in the Ground There Lived......

Forgot to post this the other day.

I started reading the Lord of the Rings books again yesterday. And I submit the following fact for your consideration and possible nomination as the single most dorky thing you know about me award.

Every year for the last 11 years I have read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books starting on September 22. Why September 22? Well that's the really dorky part. September 22 is one of the most important dates in the Tolkien's works.

Events of September 22.

• 1290 Birth of Bilbo in the Shire
  
• 1341 Bilbo and the barrels reach Lake-town
  
• 1368 Birth of Frodo in the Shire
  
• 1401 The long expected party
• 1418 Frodo leaves the Shire
  
• 1419 Saruman comes to the Shire
  
• 1421 Last Ride of the Keepers of the Rings in Woody End
  
• 1482 Sam leaves Bag End for the East

Hey don't judge me, I never put on a cape and I've defiantly never owned a pair of elf ears. I just consider it to be an unbelievably well written set of books. Anyway I thought about reading a chapter a week then posting about it. But lets face it nobody reads....ever. Book club is the worst idea ever. So we'll just stick to sports music and the other witty banter you've come to expect (but never seem to find) at The Nittanyproudfoot.

Word on the street is that they are making the Hobbit into two movies directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Peter Jackson. Jackson and his team are writing it now. The films will be shot in New Zealand in the Spring of 2010 with release dates in December of 2011 and 2012. Nice I love midnight-dork-movie-openings!

P.S.
Heading to PSU this weekend for the big WhiteOut game against Illinois. So the Padre will answer our sporting questions a little early then The Nittanyproudfoot is going on a week long hiatus.

Peace Out Yo and Lets Go State

The Great Turkey LiveBlog

Somebody bought a Turkey and guess who has to cook it. That's right this guy.

And although I consider myself to be a cook of the highest order I have never done a turkey so I figured this could be an awesome chance to do a little live turkey-bloging. The bolggng's live hopefully the turkey's not.

10 Am The Hunt for Giblets

Ok honestly is it really necessary to leave a bag of guts inside a bird? I really don't need a bag of guts. As a matter of fact I'd drop an extra dollar or two to have a turkey sans-guts.

10:30 Am Progress Stopped Cold
Ok who's the jerk that didn't defrost the bird all the way? This is going to be one uber-long day.
Turkey plays hot tub in the sink I kill time watching an old western.

11:00Am All Greased Up and Ready for the Show
Bird out of the bath. De-Gutted and Sans-Neck all fired up and ready to go.
Grease that mother down and chuck it in the over. If my calculations are correct dinner will be ready sometime on Wednesday.

11:30 Am Dinner with a Happy Ending
Checking the internet for a good rub, I mean spices to put on the bird, get your mind out of the gutter.

11:45 Am More Than Meets the Eye
This website says you should name the turkey. So I hereby dub thee Optimums Prime.
12:00 PM Jimmy Stewart Real Action Hero
Watching this western when all of a sudden Jimmy Stewart, Its a Wonderful Life Jimmy Stewart, just stabbed a man in the head, apparently that's how the west was won

12:15 PM Got a Cup of All-Spark I can Borrow?
Check in on Optimums Prime, he hasn't transformed into dinner yet. Get your ass in gear Go-Bot.

12:30 Pm Gold in Them Thar Hills
Whoo! Grizzled old Miner is in this movie. When I turn 80 I'm going to start talking like that all the time dag-nab-it!

12:55 Funny Funny Jokes
What does a turkey eat on thanksgiving?
Nothing they're already Stuffed hahahahahahaha! Whoooooo!


1:15 PM You Blame Me and I Blame The Decepticons
Optimums Prime gets basted. I burn my arm on the door and immediately curse Megatron.

1:45 PM
Baste Optimums. Pop a couple aspirin, I think I pulled a muscle doing Zombie Nation on Saturday.

3:00 PM
Handful of basting breaks later Big O-Prime is still doing his thing in the oven.. Now I know why there's football on Thanksgiving, this is some long ass boring stuff. Started watching 25th Hour with Edward Norton and Rosiro Dawson, pretty good flick.

4:00 PM
The damn thermometer button thingy won't pop. From now on the thermometer button thingy will be known as the "F U I don't care if you're hungry, you can't eat yet Button"

4:20 PM
Ahhhhhhhhh! For the love of god "F U I don't care if you're hungry, you can't eat yet Button" Why don't you pop! I'm waisting away.

4:55PM
Optimus Prime is ready. Lets roll Autobots!

Next time I'm just ordering Chinese

Peace Out Yo

Theres One Thing That You Gotta Understand

Yep the time is ripe for a music post.

Let me rephrase that.
The time is ripe for a music post with lots of bullet points because I don't feel like fashioning my thoughts in to logical coherent paragraphs that come together to prove an over all thesis. Also I'm going to add a bunch of unnecessary videos because it's my blog and I can do whatever the hell I want.

• Little Man Tate released a new CD called Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy. It's worth a listen if you're in the mood for new music
  

• I took a trip to the Johnstown Folk Music Festival a few weeks ago. Always a good time. I actually got to meet and hang out with one of my favorite bands Seven Nations a few years ago. Anyway they didn't have a celtic Rock band in the line up this year but all and all I was pleasantly surprised by their musical spread. Two Groups really stood out.

Big Sam's Funky Nation -
A group mixing Funk with the sounds of a New Orleans Brass Band. The lead singer Big Sam spends half of the show belting out ridiculously cool tunes on his trombone while doing creole street dances around the stage. When I showed up halfway through their set they had an audience of a few hundred people that didn't look anything like Funk aficionados jumping around going crazy. These guys are entertainers pure and simple and I'd love to see them again if I get the chance


Jason Ricci & New Blood
Jason Ricci is the best harmonica player you will ever hear, I guarantee it. The music has a lot of jazz, funk, and blues influences along with a healthy hard rock crunch. I loved their vocals especially the girl that did lead vocals on a couple of the blues riffs, she was lights out. I went home after the show and downloaded two of their CDs, they were so good that I'll probably buy them from the website when I stop spending all my internet related time worrying about my fantasy football team.

• Right-o if you consider that the Good I guess this is the Bad.
  

I got a call a few weeks ago from some friends. They had an extra ticket to a show and asked me to go along. We'll I've never been one to turn down live music no mater how good or bad (after all I lived with the travesty that was Those Handsome Devils for an entire year) Anywhoo the show turned out to be made up heavy metal bands, not exactly my cup of tea. If you want to to get the image of me at a heavy metal show just imagine me at Players then add some really weird piercings and lots of black cloths. All and all awkward. Don't get me wrong live music is always cool, and if I was on a metal kick I'm sure I would have loved it but I've never been a fan of the angry mosh pit. I just don't want to get punched in the back of the head while I listen to music.

Speaking of metal apparently Metallica has a new CD. I did go through a Metallica stage in Ninth grade and I still maintain that S & M was one of the best concert CDs ever released but St Anger was the worst album I ever bought and I refuse to listen to one single song until the band personally apologizes and gives me my money back. Even then it probably not find it's way into the ipod. I mean how pissed would the 14-year-old wanna-be-metal- head-Nittanyproudfoot be if he found out most of my music collection was made up of Ska and Brit-Rock?

• The Good (check), The Bad( Yep that too), The........Geekcore?
  

Right so I go to that metal show and all the bands are loud and angry and screaming into the microphone about how girls don't like them and how they want to punch a baby. Then all of a sudden this little white guy walks up on stage, plugs in his laptop and starts rapping. I'm not sure who was more shocked me or the crowed of metal head. So the guys name is MC Chris apparently he is a Geekcore rapper (think hip hop Weezer) and in my book he puts on one hell of a show. He was definitely was worth the trip to the South Side and the ridiculous parking debacle that went along with it. The really cool thing is all of his music mixes rap with geek culture which is great because I love rap but I've spent much more of my life watching cartoons than I have shooting people over turf wars and crack deals. His music is hilarious and it's definitely a nice change of pace from musicians with more serious messages.




The Guy also provides some serious major league witty banter between songs here's him talking about The Goonies


That is some funny funny stuff.

Somewhere in an alternate dimension Heavy Metal Nittanyproudfoot Grinds His teeth
Hahahaha wait till he hears my collection of Big Band Revival!

peace out yo

The Padre's Take

Before the start of the football weekend we turn our Pass Rushing Pontiff Father Dego Flat to answer all of our Sporting Questions.

Dear Padre,

I'm an older gentlemen that has been working at the same profession for a number of years and I have accumulated a very prestigious record. There is another gentlemen also of an advanced age that has accumulated a nearly identical record except for a few key points. First the gentlemen has attend and won more bowl games, second this individual has recruited players of higher moral quality, and third a large portion of my wins came while competing in a lower level of our profession. Padre should I continue to compete against this distinguished adversary or graciously admit defeat to the man and his superior record?

Robert B.
Tallahassee , Florida

Dear Padre,

Did you see my USC Trojans beat the heck out of the Buckeyes last week? Man I don't think there is anyone in the country that can stop that team, they're unbeatable! Padre, do you think this USC team could be the best college football team ever? I personally feel it will be years before there is a National Championship Game without this team involved. We're witnessing the greatest dynasty in the history of collegiate athletics.

C Palmer
Ohio


Thanks Father Dego, and keep those questions coming folks.
Enjoy the football and Lets Go State

peace out yo

Concerning Fish Soup and Fly Routes

File this under......hmmmm? Really? What the hell?


Somehow, don't ask me how, I stumbled across the website for Amos Zereoue's New York Bistro.

Let's go ahead and let that one sink in for a minute.
Is their any useless piece of knowledge that the information superhighway can't provide us with?

Apparently after becoming the only player in the last 10 years to join the Patriots and not get a Super Bowl ring in 2005 Amos retired from football and did the next logical thing. He opened a small chic bistro in Manhattan specializing in French/ African cuisine especially recipes originating from the Ivory Coast.

And somewhere out there in Retired Athlete World Verron Haynes and Richard Huntley yell " shit why didn't we think of that?!"

So with the discovery of this groundbreaking piece of culinary news we here at The Nittanyproudfoot were going to scramble our resident International Food Critic to New York when we realized we don't have a resident International Food Critic. So we turned to our Winter Sports Corespondent Sanka Coffie but he is in the middle of an intense training regime for the Fall Pushcart Championships of Jamaica. We found ourselves with one hell of a story and no one to cover it. There was only one answer......Go to Church.

That's right our very own Nittanyproudfoot Spiritual Adviser, Father Dego Flat of St Beryl of Krakow, is pulling double duty this week.

Hey Father How are things at St Beryl's

Oh man that's rough but at least it's not as bad as the time PacMan Jones crushed all of the Sacramental Wine.

Father Dego, What did you think of Famous Amos' place in the NYC?

There you have it. Amos makes a tasty fish soup but you're probably going to have to opt for a frozen pizza unless you've got a place on Central Park West.

Thanks Padre We'll talk to you on Friday

peace out yo

Holy Cow! Look What I Found

So I was cleaning out the Archives in preparation for the Nittanyproudfoots upcoming 200th post extravaganza when I found this. It's a post I forgot to publish in September of 2005.
Ahhh Fall 2005 those were truly the best of times. M-Rob was the Quaterback, Velevetta played the Crowbar on Thursdays, and there was always a case of Lionshead and a Bell's Pizza waiting at the 1-3-4


Neighbors: They Live Right Next Door (and that's a little scary)
Here's a little question for you. Do you think it would be considered an illegal sub-let to allow someone to live in a tent under your deck? Because that's definitely what my neighbors are doing. Every day when I leave for school I see some guy stumble out of the tent and walk in the back door of the house. I hope they're at least giving the poor guy a break on rent since he doesn't have internet access (or a bathroom for that matter).

Oh by the way, if anyone's interested, I'm now accepting applications from parties interested in renting the rustic living quarters beneath my back patio.

Tent not included.

peace out yo

The Padre's Take

Hey Kiddies the week is over and as a reward for managing to go 7 days without being mauled by an escaped circus lion or run over by a bus we have a brand spanking new weekly feature for your enjoyment!

The Nittanyproudfoot's website chaplain Father Dego Flat of St Byrle of Krakow Catholic Church has agreed to join the Nittanyproudfoot writing staff on a weekly basis to answer all your sports related questions as long as you, and I quote " save all the God stuff of Sunday morning". So feel free to write in with all your sporting questions because the answer lies within the Church basement were Father Dego has turned the Bingo Hall into one kick-ass sports bar!

The Padre's Take
Before the start of the football weekend we turn our Pass Rushing Pontiff to answer all of our Sporting Questions.

Dear Padre,
I'm a huge Buckeye's fan who has fallen on tough times. Last weeks game was rather depressing. Not only did OSU look horrible against Ohio U of the MAC but I was nearly shanked by the Vick brothers in the Mess Hall. Do my Buckeyes have any hope of beating USC? I could really use some good news after my last probation hearing.
M Clarett
San Quentin Prison



Dear Padre,
What's you take on the injury of the New England Patriots star Quarterback Tom Brady? Has he dammed his team to a season at the bottom of the AFC standings?
B Morris
A Crackhouse in Wikensburg


Thanks Father Dego!

Enjoy the Football Everybody.
Lets Go State

Peace Out Yo

I Heard He's Changing His Last Name to Dix-Sept

I love sports nicknames

Mean Joe
The Great Bambino
The Little Ball of Hate
Big Papi
Mr. Hockey
Fast Willie
The Iron Horse
Refrigerator
The Round Mound of Rebound
Pops
The Sauerkraut Kid
The Galloping Ghost
The Splendid Splinter
Sweetness
The Admiral
Iron Mike
Le Magnifique
You know that an athlete has arrived when he is given a truly first rate nickname

The General rule for nicknames at Penn State was to follow one of three formulas

1 Players Initials
- Larry Johnson becomes "LJ"
- Alan Zemitis becomes "AZ"
- And of course Darryl Clark Becomes "DC"

2 The Paterno Method - Half of the first name half the last
- Joe Paterno becomes "Jopa"
- Derrek Williams becomes "D-Will"
- Michael Robinson becomes the Legend that is "M-Rob"

3 The Swatkatz Maneuver - Repeat part of the players name twice
- Maurice Evans becomes "Mo-Mo"
-Evan Royster becomes "Roy-Roy"

Along with a personal nickname. Occasionally a player reaches a level of greatness that merrits their own cheering section within the stadiun. Or in the case of Joe Paterno his own Shanty-Town.
-Paternoville
-Poz's Posse
-Deion's Buttlers
God I love those! Unfortunately the 1-3-4 Crew spent so much time drinking most weekends that getting a sign into the front row wasn't going to happen. Hell I would have been surprised if we stayed sober long enough to write legibly on the bed sheet to even take to the game.

Alas I was never in a witty cheering section but hey a guy can still dream. So in commemoration of Darryl Clark winning the illustrious John Speedy Work Doer of the Week Award we here at The Nittanyproudfoot have begun an exhaustive search to find the perfect nickname for a DC cheering section. And as JoPa as our witness we will not go to a single Pirate Game until this task is completed at a level befitting DC's high level of play.

Update: 5 Hours and Two Monday Night Football Games later

So far the results have run the gamut from "I guess that's almost clever" to "What you just said, might have been The stupidest answer ever given in the history of mankind. Everyone here is now dumber for have listened to it. You are awarded no points And may god have mercy on your soul."

Just bare with us this is a work in progress

OK DC wears 17

• The number of syllables in a haiku (5+7+5)
  

Not creative enough to do anything with that

• Section 17 - Saw a CIA movie with that in it once. Ok get this, everyone wears white suits, sun glasses, and ear pieces like secret agents.
  

Not Bad

• DC's Capital Critters - What am I the only one that remembers that cartoon?
  

Fine but you miss the opportunity to have cartoon mice and bugs on your sign.

• 17's Flying Fortress - DC #17 + B-17 Flying Fortress. Could all wear scarfs and an old timey flying goggles

Needs work but has potential.

• DC's other Brothers Darryl - What no Bob Newheart fans? You remember guys "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl."
  

Shit I suck at this

• DC's Senators - Say that's kinda catchy. And hey you get to wear a toga !

Right that's all I have. Your mission if you chose to accept is to rescue the honor of Penn State fans everywhere by thinking of something better.

And now for your viewing pleasure Capital Critters









What still no love for the Critters? Well screw you all.

My favorite is the cat that looks like Dan Quayle

Peace Out Yo

Enough Already!

Alright before we begin you can file this away as the hearsay and the conspiracy theories of a Joe Paterno loyalist if you so choose. And it is very likely that this post will be proved entirely false within a matter of hours if it hasn't been already. But all and all this is something that needs to be said for no other reason than to give a counter point to belief that the Penn State Football Program is out of control.

Ok here's the current situation as I understand it. (Thursday September 6th 1pm )

Police were called to Nittany Apartments around 8 pm on Tuesday for a noise complaint.
The residents of the apartment were AJ Wallace, Andrew Quarless, Maurice Evans and Abe Koroma.
When police arrived, they noticed the smell of pot smoke, and asked to enter the apartment.
The residents declined, police called in and received a warrant.
Upon searching the residence police found a "small amount of pot" (no word on the exact amount)

That's about all I know without venturing into the bottomless pit that is sports message boards

So here are my thoughts on this:

• Seriously Quarless? If you weren't such a screw-up you would be the #1 tight end in the Big 10 by now (or at least on the depth chart) Lots of players have made stupid mistakes but after getting in trouble they got their shit together. Heck Connor and A.Q. Shipley shot arrows through the wall of their dorm. It seems like this kid just doesn't get it, maybe it's time he transfers out of the Happy Valley.
  

• 8 pm Noise Complaint? It's a college campus not a retirement community.

• College kids smoke pot, it happens. I mean chances are a bunch of you smoked pot in college. It's illegal but then again so is u-torrent and I didn't hear any complaints when you were all watching The Dark Knight at 3 am after a long night at the bar.

• Kids play music loudly and occasionally do really stupid things like smoking pot at an on-campus apartment. Its unfortunate, but to an extent it can be excused as the stupidity of youth. What cannot be excused is the refusal to cooperate with the authorities. Making them get a warrant? Are you serious? These aren't shady evil crooked cops they're good people doing their job. These kids obviously did something wrong and that can be forgiven. Their actions afterward were inexcusable and I support whatever the punishment is appropriate for this.

• When I was in school one of my rules was never party with the football team. There were a couple reasons for this.

1. Because the football team never wanted to party with me
2. Because I had no chance of getting the girl when she had to choose between me and a linebacker.
3. Because they're big, scary, and drunk.
   
4. Most importantly. Where ever the Football Team was the police were near by. I will be the first to admit (and I think my friends would agree) that if the cops had followed our group closely throughout our stint in the Happy Valley there is at least an outside chance that one of us would have had a run in with the law.But if you are on the football team you know the cops are watching, maybe it would be a good idea to keep illegal activities to a minimum or at least be a little sneaker.
   

• To the jerk sitting in his dorm room that says the players get away with this when he would get kicked out of school. Shut up, no you wouldn't. You would get a slap on the wrist and would have to go to drug classes on Sunday mornings, if you were caught at all. Chances are no one would even notice that you were toking up while watching Sponge Bob in you pathetic little dorm room.

• This sounds like a conspiracy theory and I'm not sure I believe it but could their possibly be some pressure by the higher-ups in the University to discredit Paterno by finding these types of behaviors in his Football Program? Not to condone the actions of the players but it seems like there is witch hunt going on. Who called out the dogs? Spanier? The Athletic Department? Powerful Alumni? Local Politicians?
  

• People will undoubtedly use this incident to bolster their case against Coach Paterno. They will claim that he is out of touch with his players. And although I think this is unlikely I will not completely dismiss the possibility. But I would like to point out that the same people making these allegations are the ones that said the game had left the program behind. These people demanded PSU start recruiting faster more talented players with more questionable records, that they accept more junior college transfers, and they let true freshman start. Paterno to one extent or another was opposed to these things but has allowed them to occur more often in recent years. It's not a coincidence that the last 6 years has seen an resurgence of the football program and an increase in off-field incidents.
  

I could probably say at least a half dozen more things about this incident but I'm sure there's someone else out there that's said everyone of them already. So there's one final thing that needs said before putting this topic to bed.

To all Penn State Players, Coaches, Alumni, and Fans,

Our University has a saying that sets us apart from other programs.

Success with Honor

It means that we strive to be the best but we are not willing to compromise ourselves to do so.
It means that at Penn State we do it the right way
It means that when we say "May no act of mine bring shame to one heart that loves thy name" they are not just hollow words memorized at freshman orientation.

Every Saturday 110,000 people say We Are Penn State in unison. They don't do it because Arrington jumped over the line, or because LJ lit up the Nabraska defense one cold night, or even because Paterno has won more bowl games than most coaches will ever see. No we say We Are Penn State because we saw Pozlezney studying in the Hub every Tuesday, because Hali sat in the same row as us the day we graduated, because on our campus the football stadium is named after a Governor and the Library is named after a Football Coach.

We are Penn State. We don't just win. We win the right way


Maybe we have been a little to caught up on the Success side of that in recent years.
Here's a question for you, think about it and answer honestly.
Would you give up a National Championship Season to have a program that lives up to those ideals? That's what I thought.


Peace Out Yo

We Are...

It's Science!

When you were kid and your parents made you watch educational programming on TV did you ever imagine that there was a post-apocalyptic world along the lines of The Postman or Mad Max where warring factions led by Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beakman from Beakman's World would duke it out to determine who would lead the remnants of the human race forward into a new age of science and innovation?

Yeah me neither.


Just one more reason why I should buy a digital camcorder; peace out yo