I really only started blogging to dispel the constant Demofascist naggery from my friend logic101, who considers me something of a baby boom'd luddite, still clinging to my stone-age MSMish ways like reading the newspaper. But now that I am making thousands of dollars every day from Adsense, I am all for it and I have seen the light, and now spend nearly every waking hour traversing the blogosphere.
Today's adventure was searching my host, blogger.com, to see what Iowa Hawkeye fans had to say about their recent beating at the hands of my fav, the Northwestern Wildcats. What did I discover?
The Gazette Online, an Iowa media outlet, trashed their home team in spectacular fashion. Referring to the partisan crowd at Kinnick Stadium, the Gazette wrote, "The 70,585 gritted their teeth for four quarters and then squeezed out a few boos as the Hawkeyes shunned their traditional "swarm" exit for a sprint to the locker room for delousing and counseling.". Delousing? Apparently the media in Iowa takes no prisoners. But wait. The Iowa coaching staff was even more brutal. What did head coach Kirk Ferentz have to say? "We played like fat cats," Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz said. "We looked like fat cats and they looked like a hungry team.". Now I am guessing that the average fat cat does not play good football. Didn't you coach these guys Kirk? Can you spell personal accountability? I won't pass on the cheap shots the Gazette took at the Cats, since they sound like sour grapes and I'm sure the editor just had a bad day.
TalkHawkeyes.com, a blog, whined and moaned about being crushed by the "team you should be able to beat". Hey buddy, maybe you forgot we beat you last year, too. So maybe....we think of the Hawkeyes as the "team you should be able to beat", and hey, guess what, we do! Every year! The author really cracks me up when he talks about the activities on the Iowa bench, when the long snapper tells some groupies to shut up, "We’re losing 14-0 to **** Northwestern"! Hey there's a way to win the game, wasting your time yelling at your corn-bloated sausage-eating groupies. Maybe next year your players can pay attention to the game - especially maybe you can tell your QB which color jerseys to throw the ball at.
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Congrats to Northwestern. They looked like a team that is really starting to find an identity with the new coach and recovering from the horrible loss of their coach over the summer.
But, since you decided that you were going to pick on me for whining and moaning, I might as well point out a few things.
I didn't forget Northwestern won last year. I mentioned it in the post you linked to. And, I was at that game last year as well as this year.
By the way, the Hawkeye football player was yelling at other Hawkeye football players, not groupies. Which I mentioned in that post.
And, the Iowa QB had a higher completion percentage and the same number of interceptions as the Northwestern QB. He wasn't the biggest problem. Iowa getting their butts kicked on both sides of the line was the problem.
The current series between the two teams is 45-20-3 with Iowa in the lead, so yeah, they feel like a team that Iowa should beat every year, because they normally have in my life time.
As for Ferentz, in the post game interview he said multiple times the he did not get the team ready to play yesterday. So, yes, he probably can spell personal accountability. All in all it sounds like he is taking responsiblity for Iowa not being ready to play and for them acting like a bunch of lazy "fat cats."
Good luck with OSU. Throw some chaos into that BCS system.
Hey Mike,
Thanks for visiting and sorry if I twisted your words...its called humor (or at least what passes for it here). Please have your Buckeye friends (if anyone has those) visit so they can be mad at me too!
I don't mind being made fun of...that's half the fun of following sports. Just thought I would clear up a few things that seemed twisted differently from what I said.
Besides, it won't be long before we are all making fun of Iowa for getting beaten by Northwestern in basketball again. Sigh.
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