Friday Roundup: Twas the Night Before the Night Before the Night Before Christmas

Twas the Night Before the Night Before the Night Before Christmas when all thru the web...

Not much was happening.

But that's ok. We've scrounged up a light Amuse Bouche for you and yours before you call it a week and begin to gorge yourself on fruit cake, Christmas Roast Beast, sugar cookies, Reese's Peanut Butter Christmas Trees, hot buttered rum, egg nog, bon bons, antipasta, 7 fish, quiche, meat pie, pumpkin pie, grasshopper pie, mud pie, chicken pot pie, beer, wine, scotch, hot chocolate, hot chocolate with schnapps, ice cream, cream puffs, baklava, candy canes, meringues, doughnuts, yeast rolls, chocolate tortes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, roasted garlic, humus, crostinis, and venison.

The Roundup:

• BYU showed once again why I'm sorta glad we didn't run into them this season. Those boys can flat out play with the fury of men who are forced into a missionary position during their formative years and then come back to the football field looking to take it out on boys several years their junior. Oregon's players were whupped, their stupid freaking outfits were whupped (you can't call what they do a uniform. Anyone that obsessed with constantly changing "their look" is forced to call it an "outfit". Can you imagine how miserable that team's boyfriends must be?), and their coach was whupped. And then the Oregon players were thrown under the bus before they could get on the bus.
• If you've got kids or you're just a kid at heart (awwwww), then check out NORAD's site used to track Santa and his 8 9 tiny reindeer (we figure Claus has to use Rudy this year, at least over Denver). Why the heck does NORAD have better graphics than we do?
• BGS has a profile on LSU's Defensive Coordinator. Check it out to better understand why the Sugar Bowl is essentially a battle of Strength vs. Strength.
• IRT asks a question that every young D1 football recruit should ponder. When they're done with that, they should think about this: If you're presented with the chance for life-long hot spank or 4 years of hot-spank, followed by 2 years of mid-grade hot-spank, and then just reading about any spank during lunch breaks at the A&P, which should you choose, Martez [cough] Wilson [cough]?
• It's quiet around these parts of the internets, it being Christmas and all, so go check out our awesome collection of Christmas-themes ND pics. Maybe you can use one as a last minute gift to that person in your life that you love enough that you'll feel bad if you give them nothing, but must not love all that much if all you're gonna give them is a freaking picture off the internet. What, Kohl's wasn't open yesterday? Liar. Kohl's is always open.
• Finally, it's Christmas, and as Studio 60 reminded me last week, New Orleans still isn't fully recovered from Katrina, so if you've got it within yourself, do something to help out.  And then listen to New Orleans play.