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Football Saturday is Here!!!

Bang the Drum!

And the Danny Hope era at Purdue starts 1-0 with a 52-31 win over Toledo! And Purdue got a 59 yard FG at the end of half, so I am VERY happy about that.

Next week Purdue is at Oregon so Pauline has a friend flying into Portland Thursday and Saturday the three of us will drive 2 hours south to Eugene for the game and we will also be doing a lot of site seeing until she leaves Monday so we will have a nice 5 day visit as well as a few days off of work for the both of us.

And we get to go to a Purdue football game so that is even better!

I do find it sad that in this age of technology that we cant get every game on PPV either on TV or at least, online. ESPN Gamecast is the best thing I have found for “live” updates but that is still pretty weak overall, its always 5-10 minutes behind.

Today we started off with a breakfast of steel cut oatmeal which was interesting and considering the cold rainy day we have was as perfect of a meal as we could have hoped for, and we sat in the office watching OSU/Navy and a few other games and just got too chilled so we started a fire and we both have or Macs downstairs in front of the first fire of the year and watching more football on the big screen in HD.

Right now the wonder twins are both curled up in front of the fire and I am starting to warm up.

I deem today a success…

Today in history… 1995

I miss #31

Indiana’s Reggie Miller scores eight points (two three-pointers, two game-winning free throws) over the final 16.4 seconds of the game to lead the Pacers to a shocking 107-105 come-from-behind win over host New York in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. The Pacers went on to win the series in seven games.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0905/this.day.sports.history.may7/content.4.html

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I still get goosebumps when I think of this game, MSG was rocking like mad since everyone thought the Knicks just won by 6… than boom… and boom… and boom…. dead silence… total shock…

Man that was insane!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0905/this.day.sports.history.may7/content.4.html

(This video doesn’t show him being fouled and sinking the two free throws to win the game)

Dammit MSU….

The Grand Canyon

What a terrible terrible game for the Spartans.

The Daily Show

The Grand Canyon

Jim Cramer will be on The Daily Show *TONIGHT*!!!!

I will give him credit, I didn’t think he had the balls.

NCAA hammers FSU…

The Grand Canyon

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3958292

“…Football coach Bobby Bowden would have entered the coming season with 382 career victories, trailing Penn State coach Joe Paterno by one win on the all-time list. The sanctions will force him to forfeit all wins during which ineligible students competed in 2006 and 2007.

It is not immediately clear how many wins Florida State will have to vacate…”

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Ouch…

I am not a FSU fan at all, and I have never been a Bobby Bowden fan, yes he can coach/recruit but his 381 wins need a * since he had to ask the NCAA to count his 31 wins at Howard/Samford since when he was there they was at a lower level of football and for some unknown reason, the NCAA granted that request which is how he caught up with Joe Paterno so fast in total wins.

But this is what I would call karma…

They won 7 games in 2006 and 8 games in 2007, even if 1 ineligible player played in 1 play it counts as a forfeit, so this could cost Bobby 15 wins which is 1/2 of what he asked for, so he didn’t lose as much as he should/could have.

As a school FSU got hammered hard.

I am happy JoePa will retire as the all time winnest coach since he earned it, but I find it sad that Bobby will be tarnished by stupidity and greed, but he knows the game and should have kept better control over his team, he has in the past turned a blind eye too many times, so this is for sure karma.

I bet this will be Bobby Bowdens final year at FSU… He has no chance of over taking Joe Paterno in wins now and FSU for sure won’t give him the time to do it since they just got spanked by the NCAA under his watch.