Winning Cures All

Perhaps they should increase their budget for the recruiting film?

A video of static images is always interesting.

Personally, I’m old school (I’m so old school I still spell school like school and not skool), so I like Penn State and Alabama.

What kind of Colorado football blogger would I be if I didn’t somewhere have this on the site? A terrible one.

Anyone know anything about this? I see the CU logo in the background and the Qwest logo so I know it was the Rocky Mountain Showdown, but, I don’t remember this?

It is unnatural to wear that much Crimson.

There’s nothing more fitting for a team than a mascot. It symbolizes the heart of the team. A central focal point for the team, school, fans, alumni to revolve around. And if you just happen to have the best, kick-ass (literally) mascot in the nation, then all the better. I don’t just say that because I wrote the Ralphie article at Wikipedia either.

Ralphie IV retired after last season after 7 years of service. She (Yah, Ralphie is a girl. She could mop your male mascot with the floor though without even breaking stride.) lives the glory retired life of a buffalo (not being your dinner for starters) performing crowd pleasing “fun” jobs and appearances. Ralphie V came out great for her first run (Yes, Ralphie V is also a girl. Your mascot is jealous). Her second run at “half-time” of the 2008 spring game is the stuff legends are made of: She nearly broke free of all her handlers and even trampled one (he’s okay). She made it clear:

Enough of this holding back. Let’s roll.

If there was ever a more pertinent statement for the state of Colorado football, it must have been before Byron White brought football on the map. We’re no longer satisfied with being a top-25 winning team, we’re going to be big time. We’re going for the National Championship. Every year. But we’re still Colorado: We won’t allow ourselves the Anything-but-a-NC-is-a-horrible-season attitude. We’ll still recognize that being the Big 12 North champs is really good. Anything more is a bonus. Much like the saying, “Shoot for the stars. If you fall short, you’ll likely find yourself further and better than if you hadn’t aimed so high.”

See the Ralphie V videos:
First Run

Ralphie runs free:

Another angle:

Great read by at CBS Sportsline called Three D.C. Stooges miss mark on BCS pie-slinging. If you haven’t heard, three congressmen wants to look into the BCS for anti-trust violations. I guess Iraq has ended and gas is $1.00/gallon again?

This ain’t gonna make a playoffs. If you want playoffs in football, go to the NFL. Who says playoffs are the best way to determine a champion? Quit whining. The BCS is the best thing to happen to the national championship, so far. The bowl dilution is a small problem. 35 bowl games for 119 (soon 120) teams? that’s some really poor records getting bowl games, where being in a bowl game used to mean something, now it’s like the rest of society:

You showed up! Congratulations! Here’s your prize!!

I like college football as it is: Every game in the regular season matters. It matters so much that you watch Hawaii vs. Washington even though you’ve never been West of the Mississippi River.

Hi. We play football here in Colorado. Maybe you’ve heard of the Denver Broncos? Well, we also have some college teams, 3 Division I-A (aka FBS) teams: Air Force, Colorado and Colorado State. We are in the non-existant timezone called “Mountain Time Zone”, for which TV seems to think we don’t need to know what times our TV shoes are on (”Watch CSI at 10, 9 Central, 10 Pacific”). Oh, right, the Patriot Act made it so there are only 3 time zones in the USA.

Still here? Yah, we have some good football players that come through here as well. Maybe you’ve heard of the John Elway? But even at the college level, we’ve had Rashaan Salaam who won a little award called the Heisman? Not to mention that 1990 National Championship. Right. Fifth Down. Yah. But the AP still voted us #1 at the end of the season. True, the UPI didn’t, but the AP did, yes?

I find it amazing to then read comments like this where they then act like we don’t play in the Big 12. And the highlight video doesn’t show him getting 3 INTs in one game. And play the toughest schedule year-in-and-year out. I guess that’s why he’s a blogger and not an NFL coach/scout/player/owner/team member/intern/janitor/towel guy.

2nd round pick. Rock on Wheatley. Make us proud. Perhaps you should do some educational work. “Hi, I’m Terrence Wheatley of the Dallas Cowboys. I played football at the University of Colorado. <pause> No, serious, Colorado has football, and damn good football too. Check it out sometime. The more you know.”

From Car Talk, MIT is sending out letters to invite students to apply. The student’s reply letter is very humorous, and I hope he gets in based solely on that, but what really caught my attention is MIT’s claim: “MIT has more varsity teams - 39 - than almost any other university, …” While “almost any other” seems like a weak cop-out to me, I was surprised MIT has so many varsity sports. A look at the MIT sports website, and they do have football (and also a Pistol team, huh?, which is separate from the Rifle team?). Wikipedia says they have 41 varsity team, the most in the nation. It’s sourced twice to MIT websites. So which is it MIT? 39 or 41? Seems like engineers would be able to tell the difference. I guess if matters if you combine the Rifle and Pistol team or count the separate.

Go Engineers! Yes, their nickname is the Engineers. The mascot is a beaver. Makes sense.

But back to football. They are a division 3 team and play in the New England Football Conference in the Boyd Division (I bet you thought it was the Bogan Division). Their “team-run” varf website never got updated at the end of the 2006 season. Football began in 1988 at MIT and they have had one head coach leading them to a 61-111-1 (damn ties) record (.355) though 2007.

One of my daily reads is Sports Fountainhead where I saw this entry and this post today.

He retired, right? I guess not if he’s still on the cover. Is it in the game? Can I expect to play Farve on Green Bay? Not that like Madden or NFL or anything anyways. But I agree. Isn’t there another active player that is more worthy? Is this the “Year of Farve”?

Favre: I think when training camp gets close, something’s bound to happen.
Letterman: What does that mean?
Favre: I don’t know. Did I just say that?

Like, OMG! Like, totally I just did not say that because that means something. Something is going to happen tomorrow too. And everyday. Like, totally.