Friday Roundup: The “Tailgating Season Starts Tomorrow” Edition
Well, DomerMQ is on vacation AGAIN, so I guess the Friday Roundup falls on me, which is slightly better than having Coach Weis’ D.U.F.F. here fall on me.
The Roundup:
- The gentlemen at BGS break down tomorrow’s Irish-Yellow Jacket matchup, complete with starting QB theme songs, invented words like “Wheelerific” and “cheapshottery,” a partially mummified Jerry Jones, and the delightful Elizabeth Banks. They also talk about football.
- Demetrius Jones’ high school coach, Lexie Spurlock, steps away from the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise to inform the media that he’s pretty sure Demetrius is starting tomorrow.
- Like a child tugging on the legs of those sticky octopus things you used to get from McDonald’s, and you’d throw them on the window, and they’d slowly work their way down, Jason Kelly stretches an analogy about as far as an analogy can possibly be stretched.
- No matter what the Observer says, I’m setting the over/under on Corwin Brown screaming at someone tomorrow at 5 minutes into the second quarter. And I’m taking the under.
- In case you didn’t get a chance to watch football last night, you missed some real nail-biters. Yawn.
- Remember, if anything about the game pisses you off tomorrow, you can always blame Robot Charlie. Everyone else is.
Enjoy the game tomorrow. Go Irish!
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