Chip and Sam (National Champ Game!)

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:22 am

WolverineSteve wrote:In other news, it looks like the pickem will come down to the tiebreaker.

Nope. If LSU wins, I tie laxplayer. If Bama wins, I win it all. Well...... kinda, as a non-qualifier.....

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:26 am

Carson wrote:I swear he said George Jefferson instead of Jordan.

I wouldn't doubt it.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:27 am

Hey Shrubb, haven't seen you on the board in eons. Hope all is well.

Jsc and Python, I will accept your written apologies after the game.

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:29 am

The guy at halftime misses four fg's an gets a free car...sounds like the SEC.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:31 am

Is it just me, or is the gloss, "Honey Badger", really kinda gay?

I wouldn't want to be known as "Honey"-anything.

Edit - AP, I am still vertical. Getting older as are we all. Hope you are doing well!

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:32 am

88 wrote:
WolverineSteve wrote:In other news, it looks like the pickem will come down to the tiebreaker.
Not if Bama holds on.

Doh!

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:34 am

Nice shovel pass!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:34 am

WolverineSteve wrote:The guy at halftime misses four fg's an gets a free car...sounds like the SEC.

Gary Pinkel is furiously trying to recruit that guy... he might need a ride home after his next DUI.

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:35 am

That dudes leg is destroyed!

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:36 am

WolverineSteve wrote:That dudes leg is destroyed!

Yeah, ACL is done. Hope the young man can recover.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:38 am

Roger_the_Shrubber wrote:Is it just me, or is the gloss, "Honey Badger", really kinda gay?

when I first saw it typed here, I thought they were talking about Goobs old lady.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:46 am

Another missed Bama FG keeps the door slightly ajar for LSU. Jefferson is going to have to take some shots downfield or this will never end.

Okay, I think that's it for him. Jarrett Lee will likely be in next series, which means Bama's defense will no longer have to worry about the option. Since LSU can't run the ball anyway, the rest of this game will feature LSU's passing game vs Bama's pass rush.

Pretty huge advantage: Bama.

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:47 am

Can a kicker miss two fg's and be the MVP?

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:51 am

It's like Bama is living on a steady diet of infield singles.

15-0.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:56 am

5-7 ain't bad.

Roll Tide.

At this point, I want to see LSU humiliated so the Chiefs don't draft another Tyson Jackson.

And I want to see that used car salesman/part time lawyer/punk of a coach try to justify his salary to Occupy Baton Rouge.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:57 am

Nick Saban's wet dream: Through three quarters Bama has zero penalties, zero turnovers, and other than for some dropped passes, missed throws and two missed FGs, they've made zero mistakes. They've done nothing to beat themselves, while holding a bumbling LSU to zero points, two first-downs, and 66 total yards.

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:00 am

Has the forward pass been introduced in Baton Rouge yet?

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:01 am

I'm watching intervention during the commercials. It makes me feel good, and the junkies have no trouble scoring.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:05 am

The worst thing about the big CFB games is Brent Musberger. He is a phony POS and he won't stop talking. He drowns out games and he flat out sucks.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:06 am

Brent Mucousburger blows!!!!!!!!!

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:07 am

I still want to know why a team that calls itself the Crimson Tide has an elephant as its mascot. Truth in advertizing would dictate that they have a guy run around the sidelines in a bloody tampon suit.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:10 am

"they've got a chance to get it past midfield on this punt, the honey badger fears no man".

Colbert and Stewart would run out of bad jokes to describe this game.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:10 am

Van -

The Elephant

There are two stories, perhaps both true, about how Alabama's football squad became associated with the elephant, both dating to the coaching tenure of Wallace Wade (1923–1930).

The earliest account attributes the Rosenberger's Birmingham Trunk Company for the elephant association. Owner J. D. Rosenberger, whose son was a student at the University, outfitted the undefeated 1926 team with "good luck" luggage tags for the trip to the 1927 Rose Bowl. The company's trademark, displayed on the tags, was a red elephant standing on a trunk. When the football team arrived in Pasadena, the reporters greeting them, including syndicated columnist Grantland Rice, associated their large size with the elephants on their luggage. [1] When the 1930 team returned to the Rose Bowl, the company furnished leather suitcases, paid for by the Alumni Association, to each team member.[2]

Another story dates to 1930. Following the October 4 game against Ole Miss, Atlanta Journal sports writer Everett Strupper wrote:

"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity. It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size."

Sports writers continued to refer to Alabama as the "Red Elephants" afterwards, referring to their crimson jerseys. The 1930 team shut out eight of ten opponents, allowing a total of only 13 points all season. The "Red Elephants" rolled up 217 points that season, including a 24-0 victory over Washington State in the Rose Bowl.

Despite these early associations of the elephant to the University of Alabama, the university did not officially accept the elephant as university mascot until 1979. [3]

Alabama's elephant mascot is known as "Big Al."

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:12 am

Let's see..........

Under 7 minutes left......can LSU score 3 times?

Ummm...........nope!

WolverineSteve · Post by **WolverineSteve** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:12 am

LSU keeps trying to run east and west. Don't they know they're going against an SEC defense?

Degenerate · Post by **Degenerate** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:14 am

Jefferson just side-armed a five-yard pass then missed a wide open receiver down the middle by 10 yards.

Ladies and gentlemen, your next NFL icon.

M Club · Post by **M Club** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:19 am

At least LSU gets to run around with an SEC banner at the end of the game.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:19 am

My winner speech in the pick Em:

I'd like to dedicate this win to my Dad. He always said pick the dogs in the bowls.....and he was about 75% correct.

Also, great thanks to 88 et al for keeping this alive for so long. And to those who have kept coming back.

WAR Old SCIII and RACK!!!! all the old school football forum guys!

Hope this never ends.

Scott aka Roger_the_Shrubber

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:21 am

about as dominate a defensive effort as I've ever seen

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:21 am

Dude, seriously, shut up already about the Pick 'Em contest. You have to qualify for the tournament to win the thing, and you didn't.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:27 am

Awww, and there's Bama first penalty of the night. Saban is pissed!

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:30 am

Van wrote:Awww, and there's Bama first penalty of the night. Saban is pissed!

He's got to have some reason to be pissy.....

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:30 am

No idea why Fresno State didn't hire their former OC Jim McElwain who is going to be the HC @ Colorado State.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:35 am

Van,

Congrats to BucMonkey for the 'real' win.

And to you for your 17 points. :P

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:36 am

Congrats, Sam. That was about as thorough an asskicking as you ever could have hoped for. It certainly removed all doubt.

Unfortunately, now they're sticking mics in the mugs of some of your mumble-mouthed ghetto thugs.

Not good.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:37 am

Shrubber, congrats on not even making the tournament, then sucking your own dick and begging for recognition like a little girl afterwards.

Please, tell us your heartwarming story about your dad again, and how he told you always to pick dogs in bowl games. Riveting shit...really. It gets better every time you tell it.

Wonder why he didn't instruct you on how to make picks all season long, and not just during a short tournament? You know...so you coulda made the very tournament about which you're now prancing around saying, "Look at meeee! Look at meeeee!"

socal · Post by **socal** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:38 am

Atomic Punk wrote:No idea why Fresno State didn't hire their former OC Jim McElwain who is going to be the HC @ Colorado State.

Fresno or Colorado? Tough one there.

I hope Tim Deruyter works out. Decent cat.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:41 am

Van!

You've never been a bitterman before!

Oh, wait...................

hehehehehe

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:42 am

Props to Alabama. The fifth field goal won me $200.

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:44 am

now it remains to be seen how many of those asshats that vowed to vote LSU #1 regardless of the outcome of the game will stick to their guns.....

seriously, anybody that votes for LSU should have their AP voting privileges revoked....