Since I hold degrees from both schools

[Babs]

Are we talking about the bounce house?

the foam hat.

[falafel]

the foam hat.

of course.

[wuapinmon]

band. wagon.

I picked yall to win and I watched the game not knowing the outcome. I am not a bandwagon fan. I was planning on going to every game in 2002 until Crowton couldn't remember that my bro-in-law wasn't a freshman and he quit the team over the treatment he received. Cody was so <redacted> fast.

[Babs]

I picked yall to win and I watched the game not knowing the outcome. I am not a bandwagon fan.

just coincidental timing, is all.

[wuapinmon]

just coincidental timing, is all.

Goodnight.

[Babs]

Goodnight.

hiliarious. wuap, if you aren't the easiest troll on this board...

[cougjunkie]

I picked yall to win and I watched the game not knowing the outcome. I am not a bandwagon fan. I was planning on going to every game in 2002 until Crowton couldn't remember that my bro-in-law wasn't a freshman and he quit the team over the treatment he received. Cody was so <redacted> fast.

Cody Fonnesbeck?

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

2. When I lived in Provo, I had to work selling pizzas at Pizza Hut on Canyon Rd. every single home game, including that one vs Murray State. No one bought any pizzas that day; it was a disaster. I no longer have to sling pepperoni's to pay the bills. The only BYU games I ever went to were vs UNLV in Vegas because I could get off work.

Now I feel bad that we would always walk down to Pipeline (I think it was Pipeline, I haven't been to a home game in like 4 years), I probably walked right by you like a jerk.

[wuapinmon]

Dude, Pizza Pipeline's breadsticks and dessert sticks were out-of-this-world good. We would go down there and buy them ourselves, in uniform. I do not fault you.

[wuapinmon]

Cody Fonnesbeck?

Yes. I married his older sister.

[BoylenOver]

wuap, you can pull for whomever you choose in this game, and it won't matter much for the end result.

I'll say this for the board - I joined in March with no pretense that the majority of the posts would be sports-related. But once the CF season started, this has become a damn respectable sports board.

My apologies to the random thoughts thread.

I'm thankful for the uptick in sports posts. We have a lot of intelligent football fans, and it would be a damn shame to watch them waste away in the religion forum.

[Surfah]

4. I never went to a game during my 2 1/2 undergrad years at Georgia Tech because I was still miffed at football from my high school days. Offensive linemen get little respect, zero glory, and tons of hatred if they screw up. I have divots in my forearm muscles, to this day, from the knots I got playing line...even with pads. You can run your finger up my left forearm and it will stop in the hole. I was angry with football for a long time, even while I was still playing. I'm over that now.

As an OL myself I loved it. My junior year our starting 5 were all LDS. That was a great experience (Especially when explaining to the coach that we were going to miss practice to do baptisms for the dead). I have my war wounds as well. But I loved the camaraderie of being on that unit. There was nothing like high-lowing some shit talking d-lineman. There was nothing like pulling and being the lead block and blowing up a LB or even better a poor unfortunate DB. I loved that.

[wuapinmon]

As an OL myself I loved it. My junior year our starting 5 were all LDS. That was a great experience (Especially when explaining to the coach that we were going to miss practice to do baptisms for the dead). I have my war wounds as well. But I loved the camaraderie of being on that unit. There was nothing like high-lowing some shit talking d-lineman. There was nothing like pulling and being the lead block and blowing up a LB or even better a poor unfortunate DB. I loved that.

I agree that knocking someone on their <redacted> who's talking <redacted> is intensely satisfying, but my team was horrible, I didn't get my dad's talent, and we played a lot of really good schools, schools that mopped the floor with us. The Qb blames the line, we tell him, "<redacted> you, throw the damn ball inside of 8 seconds and you won't get sacked," and we have to run stadiums for each time he got sacked (he didn't have to for interceptions, incompletes, or fumbles though). I clipped someone on a TD run once and, by their reactions, you would've thought I killed everyone's mom.

Now, I don't care anymore and I'm ready to come back to football. It's been a long time.

[Surfah]

I agree that knocking someone on their <redacted> who's talking <redacted> is intensely satisfying, but my team was horrible, I didn't get my dad's talent, and we played a lot of really good schools, schools that mopped the floor with us. The Qb blames the line, we tell him, "<redacted> you, throw the damn ball inside of 8 seconds and you won't get sacked," and we have to run stadiums for each time he got sacked (he didn't have to for interceptions, incompletes, or fumbles though). I clipped someone on a TD run once and, by their reactions, you would've thought I killed everyone's mom.

Now, I don't care anymore and I'm ready to come back to football. It's been a long time.

That sucks. Sorry your experience was so bad. I know plenty of other guys that share your sentiment. At least it's better than being the Uncle Rico.

When I played our HS was brand new. To break us in our first year they had us play like CIF Div 11 or 12. Basically small schools (Paraclete which gave us Curtis Brown was in our league if IIRC). Then they threw us to the wolves the next year in a ultra competitive league. But we had a chip on our shoulders and wanted to prove we could hang. It also helped that we had some genuine talent that allowed us to be competitive.

But welcome back man. The Cougars need good fans.