Week 1 Lineups

Tick adds Sheridan Michigan QB, drops Justin Feagen

Remember the few scoring changes this year...TD passes 5 pts, interceptions by QB's only are -1 for the first 2 and then -2 for each one after

Predictions for 1 team to make, 1 to miss the playoffs. Lets make it 8 for 8.

To make is me. To miss is Joshua Mai.

Tick; tebow s.johnson best l.taylor hazelton blount....Mike; stafford murray d.washington c.scott mckinley 3 d.byrd

Craig; sanchez wells j.johnson royster briscoe d.thompson....Frederick; mcgee moreno tate hunter fields gresham

Bryan; reesing gable r.carter maclin norwood b.minor....Troy; z.robinson c.brown sharp iglesias r.smith king

Chris; daniel goodson rainey bell cosby swift.....Beringer; bradford spiller lester helu robiskie turner

Tyson; juice foster mcgee oboygana benn beckum.....Kobza; mccoy mcknight j.davis lafell j.williams massaquoi

Josh; harper murphy lucky g.jones d.bryant coffman.....Darrin; ganz p.hill k.lewis kelly d.williams ausberry

Justin Rabel at work

Afternoon Oatmeal

Palik residence, Josh Mai 1:06 a.m. CFB 1st day 08'

Thursday players: South Carolina/NC State

Mike vs. Tick....Mike has in Kenny McKinley

The day is here

Just one more day

One more day!!!




I shit you not...this picture was placed in L.A. newspapers by UCLA.

Softball guy

Picture taken at Mahoney fields tonight.

FYI....In this league here Frederick is EASILY the biggest "softball guy".

Wow

Just by seeing these pictures I'm gonna have to assume Julio Jones is going to be pretty damn good.

Afternoon Oatmeal

Only 48 hours and 10 minutes until college football officially starts. I also sent out the e-mail
with the schedule, if you did not get it let me know.

Until then these may help pass the minutes. Oh and check out the new youtube.

Best 8 dollars ever?

I think so. After seeing these stars I can now die.


Also I wanted to report that I saw a dude in a Alvin Mitchell Huskers basketball jersey. I shit you not. #11 and it had "Mitchell" on the back of it. It had to be a Alvin Mitchell jersey. Allow me to apologize now for not getting a picture of it.

Coach profile

Josh Mai asked me to put this profile up of him.

Along with this video he made for our viewing pleasure. Thanks Josh!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25czMM4ocu8 (Josh is on the left)

Coach profile

Bryan Hein is seen here in his bedroom getting some assistance on his week 1 lineup.

Frederick aka Wacky Stunt Guy...

has some competition

http://donchavez.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/19/hot-chick-mac-n-cheese-best-weekend-ever/


Message to Wisconsin folk, your friend Frederick is known to us as "will do crazy and stupid wacky stunts for attention" guy. Among other things. He once ate fire crackers for $20 freaking dollars. And they were light.



PS-New youtube for your ears

Another that "guy"

was spotted tonight at the Poison concert. One might simply call him a douche. We will call him "wears cutoff flanels with a bandana to concerts" guy. I figured it was a given a take a picture of him and post it up. As a matter of fact this may become a staple of the site. Anyways back to this guy below. I am guessing he had about 37 Old Milwaukee's Best cause this dude was out of control. Oh and on a side note Tick said there is a 90% chance he works at Kawasaki.

Ode to our Wisconsin visitors

Seems Mr. Frederick and the Wisconsin folk are getting a long quite nice. It is good to see some
visitors here though so I figured a post dedicated to them was fitting.

PS-Favre is a homo

Bet of the day

Mr. Betus.com was bent over the table this year. Now it is time to yry for next year. Apparently they did not see the addition of Mo Williams over in Ecuador and the odds are still the same at 18-1. Considering the Cavs took the defending champs to the wire with Lebron and 4 clowns I will take my chances after adding a legit #2 player.

Evening Oatmeal

10 more looooong days to go

Coach profile; Tick

Couple of the day; gay edition

(Darrin in red, Bryan in white)

*note: this is actually them

Coach update

Told you that you were going on here.

Ryan Beringer, August 16th, 2008 appx. 8:00 p.m.

Also being back in D.C. for the evening you knew me and Bryan would fire up some Tecmo.

Game 1: Bryan/49ers 28, Me/Oilers 17....Rice rubbed me, 2 crucial picks thrown by Moon

Game 2: Me/Raiders 17, Bryan/49ers 0....little to no offense in this game

Game 3: Me/Bears 21, Bryan/Broncos 0....Neal Anderson goes nuts with 201 total yards, Elway completes 16% of his passes and tosses 3 int's. Oh and the Broncos ran ONE offensive play in the first half

Game 4: Me/49ers 60, Bryan/Bears 0....not even sure what to say here

Required viewing

(Disclaimer: maybe I am just a complete douche bag but I got goose bumps on my arms wathcing these. *Note: I am not joking at all) (part II, I have often seen top 10 list with Wisconsin as the top party school and for must see venues for games and now I will never doubt said lists)

If these don't get you ready for CFB nothing will. Major props to the Wisconsin Badgers and their fans here. Jesus H. Christ this would be a good time! These are 5 more reasons (of about 15,107) of why college football blows the NFL away. NFL = nap time.

Note to Notre Dame, PLEASE schedule a home and home with the Badgers!

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"eat shit, fuck you": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEnq_5j_vNk&feature=related

Buttercup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mP6Y8kXp7I

"Lets get wasted": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISDZGwhnnAs&feature=related

Sweet Caroline: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZTAyFletr4&feature=related

Jump Around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgf7HKrdLL8&feature=related

After watching these Aaron Frederick is thinking "fuck I spend 5 grand a year on Husker season tickets to see lame boring games and these fuckers are having the times of their lives."

Preseason Poll

Troy Flanigan receives his preseason poll from his general manager

Tyson Warm was traveling when he got the first news of the preseason poll being released

Mike Bomar seen here eagerly checking out the preseason poll hot off the press

Simply take all your votes, add them up and divide by 11. First place votes are behind your name, after that is the number of last place votes you got if any.

1. Craig 2.0 (6,0)

2. Tick 2.27 (3,0)

3. Frederick 5.0 (1,0)

4. Bryan 5.72 (0,0)

5. Mike 5.81 (1,0)

6. Kobza 5.9 (0,0)

7. Darrin 6.09 (0,0)

8. Beringer 6.36 (1,0)

9. Josh 6.54 (0,0)

10. Chris 7.72 (0,1)

11. Tyson 9.27 (0,5)

12. Troy 10.18 (0,6)

3 more ballots/write ups

Bryan - 2 WRs with the first two picks. Wow, and well done. That is a position he won’t have to worry about and will score a lot of points from. However doing that made his RBs a bunch of long shots. There is a lot of potential there and I do like his sleepers at RB, especially Carter from UCLA. For as well as Reesing did last year, I was surprised he lasted until the end of the 5th round. I know Kansas is unlikely to repeat last year, but Bryan got a solid QB after four picks. If he found the sleepers at RB, then he’s got a playoff team.
Best pick: Todd Reesing QB, rd 5. Worst pick: Antoine Smith RB, rd 3.
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Darrin - His first two RBs weigh a combined 500lbs. Hill will lose some carries to backups and Lane won't be used as much in A&M's new offense. Kelly should be awesome, but Carr and D Williams will disapoint. Ganz won't have the gaudy numbers from last year, but his backup receivers could turn out well.
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Kobza - He was very smart with his RB picks and grabbed a very good QB in Colt McCoy. McCoy is somewhat under the radar because he makes up for average passing points with rushing yards and tds. With a good QB in Georgia, I really like his 10th round pick in Massaquo and the same in the next round with Tommy Sanders. This team is all around solid without any great strengths or glaring weaknesses.
Best pick: Mohamad Massaquo WR, rd 10. Worst pick: Glenn Coffee RB, rd 7

Update on Ticks softball escapades

Remember that post about Tick getting kicked off the softball team? Well the captain off the team kicked him off and then today sent him the following message on myspace.

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go ahead & get ur team, have fun...do ur thing. I don't hold anything against you, I just don't particularly care 4 u...nothing personal, we're just not the same type of ppl. And as far as being the worst player...I actually think ur whole new team will b able 2 take u 2 new lows. I'll repeat my earlier comment 2 u, I didn't make this decision myself. U can count the other 1/2 of the team 4 making that call. I had 4 ppl tell me they wouldn't play if we didn't have backup 4 u, again, the last player 2 pay. I actually battled w/ ppl 2 have u on the field tonight, not an easy decision. I wrote out the roster, but wasn't my sole decision. Hate me, I could care less, just realize that I wasn't the only 1 that didn't care 4 u on the team, I was delivering the collective message. I'll take full responsibility though, it's really kinda fun 2 hear the last 2 months worth of comments from everyone else replaying.Either way, I don't care what u do, who u tell, the shit u talk, u don't matter 2 me. What is truly the most fun is how u immediately ran 2 Mike 2 fight ur battles...funny even now. I guess those that play 2 win r those that I play with 3 other nights a week...oh & we took 1st place in r other 2 leagues...oh gosh, I 4got, I play 2nd on those teams 2...no problems there either & we have outfielders that can both field & hit...shocking 4 u I'm sure. Go on with whatever u do.

ps-we will STOMP your ass next year in the league you fucking asshole!

Prediction time

Notre Dame: my call 8-4

San Diego State....W
Michigan.......W, new offense for Rich Rod will struggle
at Michigan State.....L, tough call but I dont see it
Purdue.....W
Stanford.....W
at North Carolina.....L, Butch Davis is building a solid program over there
at Washington.....W, I can't imagine what the media would say if they lost this one
Pittsburgh.......W
at Boston College......L, road game and this game means everything to these fucks
at Navy.....W
Syracuse......W
at USC......L, could be another ugly one


Nebraska: my call 6-6

Western Michigan....W
San Jose State.....W
New Mexico State.....W
Virginia Tech.....L, first true test is a close loss
Missouri.....L, won't be close
at Texas Tech.....L, won't be close
at Iowa State.....W
Baylor.....W
at Oklahoma.....L, get real, blow out city
Kansas.....L
at Kansas State.....W
Colorado.....L, tough call, lean Buffs

Morning Oatmeal

Off work this morning for a couple hours while our slater gets fixed so I figured

you all could use a pick me up.

But first some required wathcing, upset with fumbling problems in practice the defense is now

encouraged to actively taunt a RB who fumbles. Read about this for a while and now there is

video, 2:10 mark you can see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0nIzSLRXAg

Also you guys can see Elkhorn native Trevor Robinson on this play, you might remember him.

random ballot I got, tons of people had break downs on ballots this year, love it!
10. Tyson - Arian Foster saves Tyson from having the last place team. Took Juice and McGee WAY too high, and Benn is a stud, but might struggle with inconsistent QB play. If you're going to pick a bunch of guys from one team, Illinois is not the answer. Desperately needs another receiver to step up with the loss of Ingram and his Texas RBs are going to split carries. Would be best served playing Crompton every week.

Nate Longshore could win the quarterback job over Kevin Riley.
There's still about a week to 10 days before a decision needs to be made as earnest preparations begin for the Aug. 30 opener against Michigan State.
But folks who've watched more than a handful of practices -- when pushed to make a call -- suspect it will be Longshore.


The Cornhuskers will be playing Florida Atlantic, Louisiana-Lafayette and Arkansas State next season, and Western Kentucky, Idaho and Football Championship Subdivision power South Dakota State in 2010.

Bye bye

Tick leaving Wednesday's softball game before the game even started.

BCS title....(and new youtube)

Most everyone has Georgia as there #1 this year. I do not see it at all. Wouldn't be surprised if they did not even win their own conference. I am going with OU and Ohio State.

Thoughts?

Batch of Baby Dolls II

Time to vote on pre-season poll

If you have not got me your ballot already please do so ASAP. Vote on the other 11 teams (exclude your own team) on how you rank them 1-11. When all the votes are in the AP Pre-season poll will be released here. Also if you want throw in who you think the worst 3 picks of the draft are. I will then use this information later.

Sweet TV schedule for all

http://www.lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm

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17 days...and a new youtube you will all love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDzl1dJthYo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4l0vMSrlc

1:49 mark "You don't come into the O.B."

3:06 "I say they meet outside the tunnel after the game."

Celebration

The Ryan Beringer household is seen here celebrating Ryan's 19th round pick of Husker TE Mike McNeil.

"You could fit a small puppy in there"

I think we all had a pull over Starter coat back in the day right? You know the ones with the huge front pocket. Please write in the comments what Starter coats you all had.

Also you can read me and Kobza's e-mail exchange below from this morning that cracked me up and that inspired this post. You will have to read the e-mail from the bottom up to follow along. And thank you Kobza for the funniest e-mail one liner ever.
FROM: Aaron Kobza{kobza11@yahoo.com}

WOW!!!!!!!!

You could fit a small puppy in there. I loved it!!

----- Original Message ----From: Craig Palik To: Aaron Kobza Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 10:15:53 AMSubject: RE:

they had that huge pocket in the front, I stored my underwear in that

From: Aaron Kobza [mailto:kobza11@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:11 AMTo: Craig PalikSubject: Re:

They need to bring those back!! I would by 25 of those if they came back!!

----- Original Message ----From: Craig Palik To: Aaron Kobza Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 10:10:15 AMSubject: RE:
starter jackets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh man those were the best. I loved my Bulls starter jacket.

From: Aaron Kobza [mailto:kobza11@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:10 AMTo: Craig PalikSubject: Re:
No fear shirt and wallets!!

Not as good as my Jaguars Starter Jacket

----- Original Message ----From: Craig Palik To: Aaron Kobza Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:51:22 AMSubject: RE:
never heard of him but he is yours.

I heard you wear No Fear shirts all the time.

From: Aaron Kobza [mailto:kobza11@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:51 AMTo: Craig PalikSubject: Re:

How about Kyle Hudson WR IL

----- Original Message ----From: Craig Palik To: kobza11@yahoo.comSent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:40:20 AMSubject:

Your pick

Update

If Jimmy gets suspended for these photos from this weekend the league is done.

Rd 18: starting with Bryan goind down......Steven Garcia, Christian Ponder, Niles Paul, Jeremy Broadway, Ed Dickson, Shane Vereen, James Swinton

***Josh on the clock***

Batch of Baby Dolls I

Position change...

Sorry Long but it looks like you just lost a RB and gained a WR. It is things like this we will just have to deal with as it goes. Harvin, Preston Parker, etc. may fall into this sometime. Who knows...

AUBURN — Last year, Mario Fannin's ripped and muscular physique made him stand out even among a stout group of running backs.
Now, when he stands next to his new teammates — lean and stringy outside receivers — he looks even more out of place. Factor in the shoulder pads that he's been wearing this weekend to protect his tender arm, and Fannin seems positively gargantuan as he runs sideline routes.
Even so, the first two days of Fannin's transition from running back to receiver have been promising.

Best beer ever

I wonder if Woody's Pub has it? If not would it not be funny if someone sent them letter bombs at random?

I imagine Frederick will not like this post cause his beer, Old Milwaukee's Best, did not make the cut.

Draft analysis; Cocaine edition

I was asked what I thought the worst picks of the draft are. So here goes the smoking crack while the pick was made list....

-Jake Sharp.....to early I think

-Juice Williams....may lose his job??

-Kahlil Bell....offense will be subpar

-Aundre Dean....see above; Bell

-Stephen McGee....see Juice Williams explanation

agree? disagree? Did I forgot anyone you think was a bad pick? Post away in the comments

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