Yes its 2 years since I posted....

And the 2013 football season is dead as a doornail. Yep, three pastings in a row, the Cats are 4-3 with reduced (no?) hopes of making a bowl. See you in 2015 when I post again.

What we have to look forward to now

Wait'll next year!

SOS - Save Our Season

Dear God, Yaweh, Allah, or Agnostic Deity of Last Choice,

Please save our season. I promise I'll go to church. Synagog. Pray on the Mat. Pretend I don't care if you exist. Whatever!

Please make Joe Pa have an aneurysm in the first quarter. But then make him all better after we win, I am not mean-spirited that way.

Please make their goofy QB rotation scheme work in favor of our leaky secondary. Make Matt McGloin throw like Rex Grossman - right into the hands of the CBs.

Please make some doofus season ticket holders actually show up in their seats - in purple.

Please make Zach remember that passing out drunk on the CTA is not a recipe for a long safe life. And that if someone is knifing him, I'm not helping I'm moving to the next car like the sign says.

Thank you already for taking care of that little SOB Moye. We appreciate you taking out their only true receiving threat for us. Was that little gem left-over good will from when I last went to church 17 years ago?

Lastly, please shine those rays from the Ark of the Covenant onto Dan our QB. Give him the power to lead your armies to a crushing victory over the forces of darkness.

Oh, and that stupid f-cking Nittany lion thing. Everyone knows there are no lions in Pennsylvania, and there is no such place as Happy Valley. So if you could....say...tsunami all of that right out of existence, I'd much appreciate it. Nobody really needs Pennsylvania anyway.

224 days to season opener at BC

The Cats finished the season in disappointing fashion, with blowout losses to Illinois and Wiscy, and a close but especially disappointing bowl loss to Texas Tech.

All you can say is....224 days to the season opener and hopefully Persa comes back in good health. See you all in Boston!

Cats crush Redbirds

The Cats crushed the Illinoise State Redbirds 37-3, blitzing them with 30 points in the first half.

Dan Persa continued his super-efficient passing attack, completing another 85% or so of his pass attempts, including several TD throws. More amazingly, the run game peeked out of its hidey hole and amassed a few yards on the ground.

The weather did not cooperate and portions of the West Lot (including our parking spot) were deep underwater. Its not often you get to see your brother bailing water from a pot hole with a beer cup. Good times!

Next up for the Cats is Rice. Rice played Texas close in week 1, but could only manage to sneak by North Texas "Mean Green" 32-31 in week 2. Considering the Mean Green's ratty record (5 wins in the previous four years), this bodes well for the Cats in week 3.

Long time no post!

The Cats opened at Vanderbilt in Nashville, and the Fish Head and Let's Go Somewhere and Get F-cked Up drove down to cheer on the team.

The Cats escaped with a sloppy 23-21 win over the Commodores, and the refs escaped with only a moderate amount of rubbish thrown on them by the angry Vandy fans. And, LGSAGFU got more wasted on the absinthe than the Fish Head did; tailgating at Morton's is highly recommended (skip the weird bleu cheese fries).

Next up for the Cats is Illinois State, victors over Central Missouri State (who?) by 55-54. The Redbirds might be a tougher challenge for the Cats defense than the hapless Commodores.

Spring Scrimmage

April 24. 8 AM. West Lot. Be there. Nuff said!

Let's take a little drive

End of Days....

Must be upon us. Religious wackos look for signs like plagues, pestilence, floods, Satan, that sort of crap.

Me? I look for the more prosaic but definitely more important signs. And all signs point to the Big End.

First, the Wildcats lost to Syracuse. Syracuse? Otto the Orange? What the Hell?

Second, in this losing effort, Mike "Demon Spawn" Kafka set a school record for consecutive completions and threw for 390 yards. What the Hell?

Lastly, Pax Americana and the greatest empire since Byzantium has come to an end with the tire tiff. Yes, that tire tiff where the US has imposed import tariffs on automobile tires produced in China. Whereupon the Chinese threatened retaliatory tariffs on imports of American....chicken feet! Yes, Chicken Feet. You know, those things upon which chickens walk? Apparently this is the ONLY DAMN THING this country produces of value. Chicken Feet. What the Hell?

Death to Otto

<- If you see this guy....stomp his face!

A win is a win...

To quote noted football prognosticator Clay Nurse of the Fighting Illini, "A win is a win". Yes indeedy and the Cats advanced to 2-0 by sneaking by the Eagles of EMU 27-24. The day was saved by Stefan Demos who nailed a monster 49-yard FG as the clock wound down; this was only Demos third career field goal and a clutch effort.

Let's take a quick look at how things are stacking up for the Cats. Looking back, the Cats pummelled Towson in the season opener. But Towson improved in week #2, avoiding another loss by having a bye week. They will face Coastal Carolina next week, who trashed Monmouth this week. Learn anything from that? Yea, if you didn't already know it, Towson was a cupcake that plays other cupcakes and we learned nothing from the Towson game other than we can beat a cupcake.

Eastern Michigan is now 0-2. In their season opener, they were beaten by Army 27-14. And Army in week #2? Crushed by Duke. Deep analysis? EMU is as much of a cupcake as Towson, thus NU's a-win-is-a-win over EMU is not promising.

Next up for the Cats is Syracuse. In week #1, Syracuse almost took down the Golden Gophers, and in week #2, they looked pretty good considering they were totally over-matched by a loaded Penn State squad. If the Cats go to Syracuse and play flat, it will not be a good result.

First up for the Cats are the Towson Tigers of Towson University. Never heard of Towson? Me either. The university is located in Towson, a suburb of Baltimore, and was founded in 1866, and is "one of the best regional public universities" in the US. Surprisingly, Towson is the second largest university in Maryland, an amazing statistic for a school no-one ever heard of.

Other amazing facts about Towson:

• The most famous alumnus appears to be a lady named Jennifer Hurt. She appears to be the main reason anyone would attend Towson.
• The Tigers play in Johnny Unitas Stadium. Gotta respect that.
• The Tigers finished 3-9 in the Colonial in 2008. Can you spell defense? The Tigers could not.
• First year coach Rob Ambrose most recently coached at UConn and has a good track record.

And that is about all there is to say about Towson. Unlike some famous universities, it seems that the students at Towson do not burn cars, stab each other, or generally do anything Google-worthy.

Check

Season tickets. Check
Media guides. Check.
Parking pass. Check.
Browse HTP. Check.
Browse LTP. Check.
Make fun of first opponent. Hmmm....I'll take a crack at that later today :-)

Everyone needs to see this at least once in their life

"The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" is indeed an amazing spectacle. The Fish Head is unclear on the un-announced attendance, but chit-chat placed it at perhaps 350,000 fans - an amazing number of people at an event.

While car racing may be the worlds most boring sport, consisting of many boring laps of loud cars whizzing by, the pageantry (and the crashes) make it worthwhile.

Like flybys? This year had a pair of vintage B-25 bombers.

Like parades? The race has a victory lap and a fan appreciation lap. Like odd rituals of celebration? The winner drinks a bottle of milk.

Like hot chicks in bikini tops? Hell yea, this race has it all.

The Fish Head and his spawn brothers (and an ex-neighbor) went to Wrigleyville to see the Cubbies. Rainy weather not withstanding, we sat in the center field bleachers and had a great time, including watching Ryan Theriot wack a grand slam.

Post-game beers were quaffed at Murphy's Bleachers....followed by a tour of the none-too-impressive CTA and Metra to get home.

I ate what??

<- I ate one of these. It was disguised as sushi - oh yes, look at that beastie and you can guess at the epic cleverness of said disguise. Whatever you do, don't look at this picture....

Spring time in Chicago

Thank god the dreary winter is over, Spring is sprung and the weather is getting warmer.

The picture to the left was taken on March 29. As best I can tell, that ice shelf in Antartica which broke off has floated up the Chicago River and down the Des Plaines and stopped right outside my door.

March Madness...

is nothing more than a signal that the long darkness is ending and the football season is right around the corner. Northwestern's spring practice season ends April 25 with the traditional Spring Game at Noon. We'll be there in our finest purple tailgating in the West Lot.

Just in time for Easter, The Holy Trinity