#HLSrecap Top 25: Stanford Game Recap

#HLSrecap Top 25, brought to you weekly during college football season.

Here are your @andrewwinn stats for this week’s #HLSrecap — 220+ tweets from 135 contributors, with 43 first-timers making the cut this week. We now have over 320 unique contributors to at least one #HLSrecap this year. As you know, each week we present the following highly-coveted (and yet totally arbitrary) accolades:

Brick Helmet Stickers
#HLSrecap Top 25
#HLSrecap MVP

Here now is our Athletic Director, @FakeSwarbrick, who is busy trimming his beard in case he gets on national TV again today.

Brick Helmet Stickers

#HLSrecap Helmet Stickers. Awarded weekly. Brought to you by @FakeSwarbrick.

In what had to be a relief for Irish fans everywhere who also have a social life, we were treated to an afternoon game. So how did everyone spend their free Saturday night? A nice dinner date out? Watching Alabama and Oklahoma fans pushing grocery carts around liquor stores in a futile attempt to “make the pain go away”? More college football? Having a second round of victory sex because there was actually time for a second round of victory sex?

These are the answers on a Family Feud board, “Things Irish Fans Did Saturday Night,” and I did all of them.

Anyway, that was a hell of a game if your power was out and didn’t come on until the fourth quarter. If you missed the first three quarters it can be summarized by crappy weather, blurry cameras, muffed holds, David Shaw being a whiny bitch, and all of you finding ways to be neurotic.

But as I said after the game, a sloppy win is still a win and you guys can make even a boring game seem like a nail biter. So here they are, the completely random weekly awarding of #BrickHelmetStickers.

@OptimisticDomer – this kid has gone from being my spirit animal to my biological son, and I want him the hell out of my basement.
@FatherSorin – whoever runs this account must have taken a break from his regular account to focus on this one, because the good father was en fuego.
@BridgetandBruce – her first sticker! Nicely done, Bridget. Let’s see some more of that.
@CBusIrish – and another rookie sticker recipient who has a killer profile photo. The Force is strong with this one.

#HLSrecap MVP

Indiana Whiskey, official #wHLSkey of #HLSrecap.

Now, onto the quantitative measures. This is just as it sounds — each week, whoever has the most number of tweets that make the final cut will be awarded the #HLSrecap MVP Award and the recipient of a jug and a couple drinking glasses from Indiana Whiskey.

Your MVP winner for the Stanford game: @FatherSorin with 10 tweets.

Past 2014 #HLSrecap MVPs

Syracuse: @IrishMoonJ and @HoosIrish (6)
Purdue: @PDXirish (13)
Michigan: @SupermanTDJesus (9)
Rice: @andrewwinn and @IrishMoonJ (5)

#wHLSkey Fine Print

You’re only eligible to win #wHLSkey once per season. If you’ve already won, this week’s most prolific #HLSrecap contributor who hasn’t won will receive the Indiana Whiskey swag. In case of a tie, it will go to the highest-ranked in the overall season rankings.

#HLSrecap Top 25

As a reminder, @andrewwinn awards one point for each tweet that makes it in; 1/2 point if someone else retweets/quotes/modifies your tweet and it’s included. The Twitter Ranking Of Leprechaun Legion (T.R.O.L.L.) Scale is awarded arbitrarily. Please welcome our newcomers to the Top 25: @bridgetandbruce, @theSubwayDomer, @Dixie_Domer, @lluckoftheirish.

2014 Cumulative Rankings

Rank	Name	Tweet Data	T.R.O.L.L. Data	Overall	Previous Rank
1	SupermanTDJesus	34		34	1
2	FatherSorin	25		25	5
3	IrishMoonJ	24		24	3
4	PDXIrish	22.5		22.5	2
5	andrewwinn	22	+1	23	4
6	OptimisticDomer	19		19	7
7	HoosIrish	18		18	6
8	HLS_NDTex	17		17	9
9	FakeSwarbrick	15.5		15.5	8
10	dapremonster	13		13	10
11	oaknd1	12		12	12
11	eTruth_Irish	12		12	10
13	IDtheMike	11		11	18
14	awilk	10		10	UR
14	ItsTripp	10		10	18
14	PaulRRigney	10		10	15
14	taxbastard	10		10	13
18	bridgetandbruce	9		9	UR
18	TheSubwayDomer	9		9	UR
18	Dixie_Domer	9		9	UR
18	1stDownMoses	9		9	18
18	taddmike	9		9	18
18	PootND	9		9	13
24	LluckoftheIrish	8.5		8.5	UR
25	JAK0107	8		8	18
25	jdford	8		8	18
25	tricerapops	8		8	18
25	D_Farmer	8		8	15
25	TomFornelli	8		8	15

Also receiving votes: @CbusIrish, @dcare24, @thereidy, @grantjess, @NDsidBertschy, @WatchND, @IrishTightness, @JohnGcomedy, @NDatRivals, @papaalphakilo.

Click here for the Complete Game-by-Game #HLSrecap Recap Appendix.