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November 19, 2008

kicken it up to 88


Heading up to State...chalk this one up as a phoned in post

I'm going to go ahead and call it now, Paterno will be back for his 46th year as head coach unless he's forced out by that joke who has an office in Old Main.

I would also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that I'm still running my one man campaign to have the Land Grant Trophy (awarded to the winner of the annual PSU-MSU Game) renamed "The Ugliest Trophy in Sports"




Admit it people calling it "The Game for the Ugliest Trophy in Sports" is the only way this is ever going to turn into a legit rivalry game












interesting facts.....
145 years ago today Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address
43 years ago today Pop Tarts were invented
25 years ago today Penn State played Pitt
25 years ago today my parents had to push their wedding back by a few minutes so half their guests could listen to the end of PSU-Pitt game in the back of the Church.

That's all I got

I told you I was phoning this one in

Peace Out Yo and Lets Go State

November 09, 2008

Joe's is Proof


There is a God

Stick with me here, I've got proof.

The Penn State game comes to an end.
The phone at Nittanyproudfoot Headquarters is ringing off the hook as countless Nittany Loins need to be talked off ledges up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
Yours truly stumbles blearily into the bed room, turns off the lights, and sits quietly in the dark contemplating if it is possible for any of us to exist in a world were Penn State is 9-1..
An hour elapses.
The Nittanyproudfoot rallies, emerges from the darkened room, eats some cheez-its.
Thoughts of watching the Penguins game are quickly pushed aside when the prospect of seeing another sporting loss is considered.
It's time for a movie.
Ghostbusters? ........Nope
Rockey IV?.........Saw it yesterday
Joe's Apartment? .........Yes! Perfect!
Movie starts.....singing cockroaches......morale rising.
Jerry O'Connell steps off a bus.....apparently he is the aforementioned Joe.
Joe steps off the bus......and he's wearing an Iowa Hawkeye's t-shirt.

This is the sound of the Nittanyproudfoot's crushed spirit being ground into a fine powder.

There is a God and he is one twisted Mo-Fo.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to convert to Buddhism

We still Are.....Penn State

November 05, 2008

A Battle of Titans


Now that the annoying election is out of the way it's time to get back to what really matters. A topic that is so important that it has it's own Trivia Night Theme Song that goes a little something like this....
(set to the tune of that organ thingy they do at baseball games)

Sports Sports Sports Sports
Sports Sports Sports Sports

So what if it's not much of a theme song. This isn't much of a website. Hey people you get what you pay for and last I checked all I ever got from this site was loss of respect amongst people that read it and a box of triscuits (we'll go ahead and call that one a draw)

Anyway lets talk a little football both real and fantasy.

For as much as I'm looking forward to seeing Penn State back in action this week after the bye I think I'm even more pumped to see how badly Iowa is going to screw up the-whatever-color-out
they think is going to single handedly beat us this weekend. From what I understand it was green, then maybe black, and who knows they may throw some brown in there to form a nice color scheme that dosen't look completely unlike fecal matter. It's a very fitting color interpretation for the state of their football program.

But now we get to the real news of the weekend a battle for the ages pitting yours truly against that plaid hat wearing deviant from The 134 Lounge. A no-holds-barred fight to the finish (that's a good place to end) in both Fantasy Football and College Football Upset Prognostication. In commemoration of this titanic struggle I've had the boys down at The Nittanyproudfoot Art Division/Janitorial Service draw up a quick artist rendering of what this duel may look like.



Not Bad Guys; but I think Brian has a little more
hair on his back.








So the battle lines are drawn. In the 134 Fantasy Football League the pride of The Nittanyproudfoot, the undefeated Jack Ham Sammitch takes on the Lounger's very own Snakes on a Football in a high scoring debacle that will make a
Big Twelve match up look like....well Pitt playing themselves.

As for the realm of
Prognostication; I'll leave explaining that to the incapable hands of the 134 Lounge...

We are back in week 11 with our three biggest upsets to look for this weekend. Pat and Zack have both tried their hands at calling the shots, with Zack failing miserably and Pat getting all of his correct (I'm certain the NCAA will retroactively change the results of those games to their correct outcome once they realize their mistake). So now I've gone blogger again and recruited Matt from The Nittanyproudfoot to give his best random guesses as to who may or may not pull the heralded upset.

Now this week I'm going to pull a little trickeration and give him the double reverse end-around (Boy does that sound dirty. Mostly because it is.) and throw in my picks along with his to see who is the better guesser...er, prognosticator. So here we go.

1. (15) LSU (6-2) vs (1) Alabama (9-0)
Alert Status: Dangerous like Charlie Weis's cholesterol level

So Matt thinks this is the week for Bama to fall. I don't see it as I think LSU is the one of the most overrated teams in the top 15. Their D isn't near what it was last year and their offense is struggling. I will give them one thing though. They are playing in Death Valley. That place is probably as close to Beaver Stadium in terms of intensity and atmosphere and add in the fact that everyone in Louisiana hates that douchebag Nick Saban, and you have one hell of a hostile environment. Plus Les Miles is a crazy bastard who seems to always do something no one expects in big games to pull out the win. Ok, so I guess that's two things.

My Pick: (8) Oklahoma State over (2) Texas Tech

2. (22) Georgia Tech (7-2) at (19) North Carolina (6-2)
Alert Status: Palatial like Dave Wannestade's moustache

If there is one thing that I know about Matt is that he loves the flexbone offense. I 'm not even joking, he fucking loves the flexbone. You would honestly think he was a college coach from the 40's. So it's no surprise to me that he picked GT to take out the basketball-school-turned-basketball-school-who-attention-to-football-during-the-off season school North Carolina. Probably the only two teams I like in the ACC, which says a lot because I find ACC games to be almost completely unbearable to watch.

My Pick: (11) TCU over (10) Utah

3. (21) Cal (6-2) at (7) USC (7-1)
Alert Status: Fuckin crazy like Lee Corso


Why would you give that man a gun?

So I saw this one and I thought to myself, "Hey Brian. This one has potential.". Then I saw that they were playing it in the Colosseum where USC almost never loses. I'll give him credit, as he's got the brass balls to go out on a limb and pick it, but I'm not seeing it here. USC has the innate ability to lose games they never should, but unfortunately so does Cal, and the Pac-10 is pretty crappy outside of USC. And of course, Oregon State. In fact, if OSU wins out, they go to the Rose Bowl instead of USC. How sweet would that be? GO BEAVS!

My Pick: Actually looking again, I'm going to pick this one too. WTF, right?


Well Folks there you have it. A battle for the ages. Brother against douchebag.
Have a great weekend. Enjoy the sports, enjoy the sun, and if your feeling generous pick up a box of triscuits and ship it over to Nittanyproudfoot LLC World Headquarters in beautiful TubeCity Pa.

Peace Out Yo

November 04, 2008

Don't Want to Say I Told You So.......But......

So someone brought up the fact that I wrote this a year and a half ago. I figure what the hell; I love a good excuse to re-post something rather than putting the work into writing into something new.

So without further adieu I give you a post first seen on The Nittanyproudfoot on February 12, 2007.


Turning and Turning The Widening Gyre?

Usually when it comes to politics I tend to err on the side of cynicism but for some reason I really want this to be true. For a very long time my favorite historical figure has been Robert Kennedy. There was so much promise in the 1968 Presidential Campaign and the tragedy that befell him leaves me with lingering thoughts of what could have been. I've always thought of the year 1968 as a promise that the world sorely needed to be fulfilled but was for the most part was buried with its leaders, King in April and RFK only two months later. True the causes they stood for did not disappear after the summer of '68 but no one can deny that the movements took a staggering blow with their deaths one which I feel they have still not fully recovered from even forty years later. Four decades is a long time and a lot changes after that long. You'd be hard pressed to find a connection between The Lawrence Welk Show and anything on the television today (if you don't know what that is go ask someone over 35) But still I can't help but be struck by the similarities of those times and our own.

Now before I go any further I have to make something very clear. I never have been and I never will be a proponent of the statement "we should learn from the past because the past repeats it's self" That's a ridiculous oversimplification that a very poor history teacher feeds to a classroom full of surly tenth graders as an excuse for why they should care about William of Orange and The Glorious Revolution. No, history dose not travel on a circular path and once we experience a moment there is no returning to it. Maybe Yeats got it right, (in his own sort of apocalyptic-crazy-guy-with-an "the end is near sign"-kind -of-way) when he described history as a spiral, growing outward occasionally passing by and sharing similarities with previous points on the spiral. Then again maybe there is no organization to history, after all Yeats claimed that a ghost had given him this theory and that the world would end in 1921.

With that said I was struck a few days ago when I listened to the audio(click here) of Barack Obama's Presidential Announcement. I could not believe how much it sounded like the speeches given by Bobby Kennedy in the spring of 1968. Now it's not fair to either one of them to compare them too closely but as someone who has spent a lot of the last year studying 20th century American history I can't help but marvel how the "spiral" has found it's way back to these circumstances forty years later. Or maybe this is just wishful thinking, a member of Generation Y in search of his own "rendezvous with destiny". Whatever the case may be I feel the need to believe in this. I really truly want this to be my '68, lord knows we could use one.

peace out yo

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.


Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I can't even begin to put into words just how important today is to the future of our country. I wish you all the best of luck in making your decision.

If you have any questions, need a ride to your polling place, or if you just want to talk some politics you know who to call.
nittanyproudfoot@yahoo.com

p.s
Obama is in favor of a NCAA Football Playoff System, John McCain wants to give the National Championship to the Arizona Cardinals

p.p.s
The Nittanyproudfoot has just received a letter from factcheck.org telling us we're full of crap.

p.p.p.s
In response to factcheck.org's allegations of falsifying information we here at the Nittanyproudfoot have concocted a completely untrue story connecting factcheck.com to John Wilkes-Booth, Iatola Khomeini, Eric Lindros, and that guy that was on the news that one time that killed all those puppies after tieng that helpless girl to the train tracks while twirling his mustache. That'll show'em

now lets go change the world




November 03, 2008

200th Post Extravaganza! (aka. hastily written pre-election post)

This is interesting. The 200th post in the history of the Nittanyproudfoot falls on the the four year anniversary of our first post back on November 3, 2004. Wait.....what's that you say? It's really not that interesting? You want to see some funny funny pictures? Well we aims to please.










But seriously folks tomorrow's a huge day. Do yourself a favor and be part of it. If you need to know the location of your polling place click HERE

peace out yo

November 02, 2008

Vote Crabtree-Harrell? Go Thrid Party: Maybin-Bowman 08 The Change We Need the Sacks We Love

We all knew this was going to happen. If you went to bed last night thinking that Penn State would be number 2 in the rankings you're out of your flippen mind. I said it before and I'll say it again, the BCS lost all credibility the day they invited Pitt to the Fiesta Bowl.


Hang tough kiddies, a big part of being Penn State is being Undefeated, Unnoticed, and Underestimated. But how about we concentrate on winning-out before we complain about the retarded system that lets undefeated teams be be jumped in the rankings? Lets take care of our business and let the chip fall where they may. I'll take this Penn State squad over any other team in the Nation and I'd love to see the Red Raiders try to put up 39 points on Tom Bradley's Defense .

You can keep the polls. If you need us we'll be on the field getting Jopa his 384th career win and 6th Undefeated Season.

Fight on State