January 1, 2011 / by emptywheel

 

Trash Talk: Horny Roses Edition

It’s New Years, and given that there are no PAC-10 teams at the Rose Bowl this year, I’m gonna assume that bmaz is still asleep. So I better get a trash talk up for the college games today, at least, if only to keep scribe quiet.

Though I can’t really tell you what to look for today. I was just practicing the first bars of “On Wisconsin, On Wisconsin” when I realized someone let the Wolvereenies into a New Years Day game. In response to my tweet, “I’m so old I remember when you were expected to have a D to play in a bowl game,” DDay reminded me, “like the Michigan team, Tate Forcier couldn’t get a D either, so he’s ineligible today.” Go Blue!

In addition to the first bars of “On Wisconsin,” I’ve been working on some “Rah! Team! Fight!” for MSU, which faces the Crimson Tide in what actually looks like a real bowl game (I can say that, given that we’re assuming bmaz is not yet awake).

There are some other wacky games today … Northwestern?!?! UConn?!?!? (Speaking of which, congrats to Stanford for finally beating the lady Huskies in hoops.)

And then one more real-looking game: the maybe-finally-but-then-again-maybe-not-retiring JoePa versus the definitely retiring Urban Meyers.

May the Big 10.2 continue to outperform their normal Bowl performance…

Update: Swapped out the Rose Bowl for this YouTube, thanks to the newly liberated David Shuster.

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