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It’s times like these when it’s damned good to be wrong.

Arlington Heights 37, North Side 0

TCU 27, San Diego State 14

Oklahoma 55, Texas U 17 (at Dallas)

at #14 Nebraska 34, Ohio State 27

Just slightly disappointed in Ged Kates & my Yellow Jackets.&#160 I expected a little more than for them to sleepwalk through this.

Quick-strike Arlington Heights scored on its first two possessions to build a 13-0 lead midway through the opening period. A defensive score made it 20-0 before the first quarter was done.

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When your defense outscores the other team’s offense, that’s a good thing.

When it outscores the other team…heh, heh, heh.

Garrett Gilbert’s departure from the TU program left the Shortdicks with a gaping experience hole at the most critical position – and it showed.

Demontre Hurst had a pick-six.&#160 David King sacked TU QB David Ash for a 19-yard score (off the ensuing fumble), and Jamell Fleming ripped the ball out of a TU receiver’s hands and returned it 56 yards for another score.

Add in three Landry Jones TD passes (two to Kenny Stills, one to Ryan Broyles) and a 64-yard TD scamper by Dominique Whaley, and it made for a very&#160 satisfying victory.

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With the score 27-6, I went and turned the TV to Frog-Aztec, and began this part of the rant:

It’s starting to look more & more that Nebraska made a huge mistake in joining the Big Ten.

Ohio State tossed the Huskers around like a Division II rag doll.&#160 The Buckeyes ran around, over and through the Blackshirt defense, and kicked the collective ass of the Husker offense.

Now, “Heidi” this wasn’t.&#160 But I have to admit that I missed the greatest comeback in Cornhusker history.

Of course, it didn’t really help things any that Buckeye starting quarterback Braxton Miller sprained his ankle.

Ohio State (3-3, 0-2 Big Ten) built a 27-6 lead behind freshman quarterback Braxton Miller, who sprained his right ankle in the third quarter and did not return. The Buckeyes’ offense went dormant with backup Joe Bauserman.

Miller ran for 91 yards and went 5 of 8 passing for 95 yards before he got hurt. Bauserman completed only one of his 10 passes the rest of the way.

Just the opening Nebraska needed.

Then Martinez took over. He ran 18 yards for a touchdown, threw a 36-yard TD pass to Quincy Enunwa and tied it with a 30-yard catch-and-run to Burkhead after Stanley Jean-Baptiste intercepted Bauserman in his first game at cornerback after moving from receiver.

Ball game.&#160 Not the way I’d’ve scripted it, but a nice first Big Ten win for Bo.

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In like fashion, I’d predicted a San Diego State victory.&#160 And I was wrong again.

All year long, it’s been slow starts, fast finishes for the Horned Frogs.&#160 And they’ve been working on changing that, or so says Patterson.

Well, they did.

A fast start was followed by the offense grinding to a halt over the next two-and-a-half quarters.&#160 Only a grind-it-out touchdown drive late saved the Frogs from the possibility of its first two-game losing streak in about four years.

TCU’s defense limited Ronnie Hillman to 55 yards on 20 carries, and even though Ryan Lindley threw for 201 yards on 15 completions, it took him 41 tosses to get those 15.&#160 And he threw three interceptions besides.

Pleases me when I’m proven wrong like that.

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Speaking of TCU, we have a bonus PFW game featuring a former TCU player (something I’d promised I’d do during the Overview&#153):

Cincinnati 30, at Jacksonville 20

TCU’s Andy Dalton outdueled Mizzou’s Blaine Gabbert in a battle of rookie quarterbacks, throwing two touchdowns as Jack Del Rio’s coaching seat got just a little bit hotter with his teams seventh loss in its last eight games.

And yes – it counts.

This week:&#160 5-0.&#160 Perfect Football Weekend achieved (3).&#160 Overall:&#160 24-5.&#160 (Although I have to admit, I’d’ve probably made an Executive Decision&#153 and declared one anyway, just for OU kicking the shit outta TU.)

The PFW will return Friday, when we’ll ponder the concept of the in-your-face touchdown celebration.

As you’ve probably heard by now, pro football lost probably its most colorful character over the decades this weekend.&#160 Al Davis, former Oakland Raider head coach who became the franchise’s owner/managing general partner, is dead at the age of 82.

Davis was charming, cantankerous and compassionate. But he was best known as a rebel, a man who established a team whose silver-and-black colors and pirate logo symbolized his attitude toward authority, both on the field and off.

Until the recent decline of the Raiders, he was a winner, the man who as a coach, then owner-general manager-de facto coach, established what he called “the team of the decades” based on another slogan: “Commitment to excellence.”

Under Al Davis, who joined the franchise in 1963 as GM/coach and later became its owner, the Raiders also won three Super Bowls.

And the Raiders were excellent, winning three Super Bowls during the 1970s and 1980s and contending almost every other season — an organization filled with castoffs and troublemakers who turned into trouble for opponents.

“Al was a football man — his entire life revolved around the game he loved,” said Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, an original AFL owner of the Houston Oilers. “He worked his way up through the ranks and had a knowledge of all phases of the game. That experience aided him as an owner.

The Realm&#153 sends its condolences to the Davis family.

Der Sarahcuda has made her decision.

Wasilla, Alaska

After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

No surprise, really.&#160 Except, perhaps, to her supporters.

Peter Singleton moved to Iowa almost a year ago to campaign for Palin, setting up a chapter of Organize4Palin in the first caucus state. He told ABCNews.com that he “expected her to run.”

“I’m disappointed, but disappointed for the country because he was the best choice for president at this time,” Singleton said. “I believed she would run, but I understood there was a chance that she didn’t. It was always her choice. And I have enormous respect for Gov. Palin as a leader and I respect her decision.”

And then, there are these…

But don’t you understand … this “announcement” is just a diversionary tactic, after Milt and Rick tear each other apart she’s going to jump back in!

Gesh, any fool can see that, why can’t you?

I’ve lost all interest in the election at this point….very sad. MItt will win and it will be the same crap all over again.

The “I’m doing it for my family” crap is what they all say. The fact that she strung us along for these past several months is outrageous. Hell yes – I’m embarrassed! I’ve been defending her for over a year now.

She’s useless now. What a fool I’ve been. What fools you all have been.

You get the idea.

And then there’s this from Malicious Malkin’s resident cunt-licking sycophant, Pasa-weenie Phylicia:

She pretty much told us she wasn’t running last week saying that it would be too “shackley” when she needs to be free to be a maverick.

This confirms my opinion of her of it being mostly about the money for her. There was no way she could reconcile her conservative claims to being so close to Juan McCain to the point of endorsing him and the various RINOs he endorsed over their Tea Party rivals.

I’m just glad it’s finally over. I really don’t care what she thinks anymore.

That’s appropriate, Phylicia, you bloviating buttwipe – because no one&#160 gives a shit what you&#160 think.

(Come to think of it, ol Malicious herself didn’t have a whole lot to say about it her own sexist self.&#160 Given that her other&#160 hand-picked candiodate, Michele Bachmann, is circling the drain, our little Filipina skank is probably pretty heartbroken by now.

Which is always a good thing.)

Me?&#160 I, personally, don’t give a shit.&#160 Once she decided that pot was okay, that did it for me.&#160 She’s nice to look at, but that’s about it.

S’long, Sarah.&#160 Thanks for playing.

Or not.

Denizens, this week’s episode of the Perfect Football Weekend&#153 opens with that Mickey Mouse network, ESPN (and I mean that literally; they’re owned by Disney), infringing upon the free-speech rights of one Hank Williams, Jr.

BOSTON (Reuters) – ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.’s theme song from its “Monday Night Football” broadcast in a rebuke to the country music star for comments earlier in the day comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

Williams, a Republican, had appeared on a Fox News’ morning television show “FOX and Friends” on Monday, and was asked which of his party’s presidential candidates he liked.

Obama and Boehner played side by side that day against Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich at the height of the congressional budget debate.

Asked what he did not like about the friendly bipartisan golf match, Williams replied, “Come on! It’d be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.”

For Hank’s part, he wound up apologizing for the comparison – which, if you ask me, he absolutely should not have done – and the four-lettered bastards wound up making the removal permanent.

Now, I seem to remember a helluva lotta libtards comparing Bambi’s predecessor to this Hitler character beginning sometime around November 2000.&#160 And it continues to this very day.&#160 But you don’t hear any angst – mock or otherwise – over that, now do you?

(crickets)

Nah, didn’t think so.

Memo to the four-lettered:&#160 I don’t have to watch your network.&#160 I don’t have to do business with your sponsors.&#160 And I don’t have to apologize for happening to agree with Hank Williams, Jr’s first impression on the matter.

For the record, yeah – I think Bambi is&#160 another Hitler.&#160 Come do something about it ESPN, you chickenshits.

Awright, on to the football.&#160 It’s Yet Another Thursday Game&#153 for Ged Kates and my Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets, and it’s a Guaranteed Win Night&#153 as well, for they are playing the North Side Steers.&#160 North Side generally wins one game a year.

Against Carter-Riverside.

Heights in a major squash.

Saturday, Gary Patterson’s unranked&#160 Texas Christian Horned Frogs – yes, I meant to point that out, why do you ask? – travel to Mrs. Venomous’ hometown of San Diego to take on the Aztecs of SD State.

Coach Brady Hoke is no longer there, having migrated to Michigan, and he’s been replaced by former New Mexico coach Rocky Long.&#160 But they still have a helluva quarterback (Ryan Lindley) and a helluva running back (Ronnie Hillman), and they damned near beat the Frogs at Amon Carter last year.&#160 However, Vegas has the Frogs as a four-point favorite.

I think that’s bogus.&#160 I think TCU loses this game, and it won’t be that close.&#160 You think SMUT bombed ’em out of the stadium? SD’s offense is better.

Also Saturday, it’s the annual…ahem…

VENOMOUS:&#160 RED RIVER SHOOTOUT, YOU PC PANSY-ASSED DOUCHEBAGS!!!1!!ONE!1!!ELEVENMILLIONTY!!1!

KORRIOTH:&#160 Feel better now, m’liege?

VENOMOUS:&#160 Why…yes.&#160 Yes, I do.&#160

…in which Bob Stoops’ 3rd-ranked Oklahoma Sooners (Great Honkin’ Cthulu&#153, how bad do you gotta beat someone to keep a ranking around here?) take on Widdle Mackie Brown’s (hack, spit) 11th-ranked TU Shortdicks Longhorns Shortdicks.&#160 The major news this week for whom, was the announcement of the departure of one Garrett Gilbert.

Imagine.&#160 From playing in the BCS National Championship Game two years ago, to being ejected out the third-string chute last week.&#160 How the mighty have fallen.&#160

Early reports have Gilbert possibly headed to…SMUT.&#160 (Please, Lord, please&#160 make that happen.&#160 Little Junie Jones’d start him over Padron, and we’d kill ‘im…(cackle))

Things don’t get much easier for Bo Pelini’s 14th-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers, as The&#160 Ohio State University comes a-callin’ up in Lincoln.

Believe it or not, Vegas is actually making the Huskers an 11&#189-point favorite in this game.&#160 But NU doesn’t have a secondary either, so don’t exactly etch that in stone, if you know what I mean.

And this week, Tony “El Choko” Romo is guaranteed not to lose the game for his team.

OZY McCOOL:&#160 The usual reason, m’lord?

VENOMOUS:&#160 The usual reason, Ozy.&#160 Cowgirlz don’t play this week.

MERLIN:&#160 Plug Kansas back in for a game, sir?

VENOMOUS:&#160 Kansas is a 31&#189-point road dog at Oklahoma State, Wizard.&#160 Whaddya you&#160 t’ink?

MERLIN:&#160 Shutting up now, m’liege…

VENOMOUS:&#160 Thank you.

We’re back Monday or so with the recap.&#160 In the meantime, Bucky’s reward for destroying Nebraska is an off week, so my question for HDD is…dude, you ever gonna get a day off again?

Drudge has reported (and Fox News has confirmed) that Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple Computer, Inc, is dead of an unspecified cause at the age of 56.

His family, in a statement released by Apple, said Mr. Jobs “died peacefully today surrounded by his family…We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.”

The company didn’t specify the cause of his death. Mr. Jobs had battled pancreatic cancer and several years ago received a liver transplant. In August, Mr. Jobs stepped down as CEO, handing the reins to Tim Cook.

“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being,” Mr. Cook said in a letter to employees. “We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.”

My first ever computer was an Apple IIc.&#160 Had a lot of fun on that thing – there was a football game on it that I loved.&#160 Aggravated me no end when Jobs ditched the II series for what was then something called the Lisa&#153 – later to become the Macintosh.&#160 Then the iMac, then the iPod, iTunes, then the iPad, and all the innovations that arose therefrom.

Yeah, he probably was right about leaving me high & dry on that. (rueful grin)&#160 PC-dom would not be where it is now without Steve Jobs.

The Realm&#153 mourns Steve’s death, and sends its sincerest condolences & well wishes to his family.&#160 We are very, very&#160 sorry he’s gone, and will remember him most fondly.

He’s forced an Executive Decision&#153 on me.

Arlington Heights 34, Eastern Hills 7

at #20 TCU 33, SMUT Shitland Ponies 23, SMUT‘s Hand-Picked Pussy Zebras 17 (OT)

at #2 Oklahoma 62, Ball State 6

#8 Nebraska 17, at #7 Wisconsin 48

at Dallas 30, Detroit Lions Pussies 34

About the only notable thing about Jackets-Highlanders was the storm that forced a postponement of the game at halftime.&#160 Heights was up 20-7 at the time, and scored two more touchdowns Saturday night, when the game resumed.

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The four-lettered has a graphic in their recaps that goes like “The game was over when…”

In this case, the game was over when Ball State’s bus pulled into the stadium parking lot.

Landry Jones went 23-33-425 and five – yeah, five – touchdowns.&#160 Broyles caught four balls for 109 yards and two TDs, and Jaz Reynolds caught five for 141 yards and a score.&#160 The defense even got in the act, too, stripping Cardinal QB Keith Wenning in the third quarter and running it back 22 yards for a score, and also picking him off three times.

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Welcome to the Big Ten, Bo Pelini.

Russell Wilson gave Nebraska a harsh welcome to the Big Ten, throwing for two touchdowns and running for another in No. 7 Wisconsin’s 48-17 rout of the eighth-ranked Cornhuskers on Saturday night.

Montee Ball ran for 151 yards and four touchdowns for the Badgers (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten). But Wilson was the main attraction for a primetime television audience as Wisconsin overcame a slow start to solidify its status as the class of the conference.

[…]

It was another big step for Wilson, the former North Carolina State quarterback who gave up minor league baseball to return to college football and play for a Badgers team that seemed to have all the pieces of a BCS bowl contender but needed a quarterback.

Five games into the season, there’s no reason to think otherwise.

Wilson had played well in his first four games for the Badgers after joining them over the summer, but hadn’t yet been tested by a top-level opponent since his days with the Wolfpack.

And he still hasn’t.&#160 Nebraska simply isn’t ready for prime time.&#160 They’ve got a long, long way to go before they can be considered good enough for the Big Ten.&#160 Taylor Martinez, especially, played like the sophomore he is. throwing three interceptions.

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Guess I should look on the bright side:&#160 At least Ross Evans didn’t cost TCU this one.

Yes, it’d be easy to blame senior quarterback cornerback Greg McCoy.&#160 He was Quincy “Toast” Butler-like all day long, and his brain-fart fumble to start the second half was scooped up for a Shitland Pony score.&#160 And Patterson went for two after a score and failed, when a PAT would’ve won us the game.&#160 (Not that Evans is automatic or anything.)

But the simple fact of the matter is that Peruna’s Pissweasels&#153 brought their own, hand-picked Conference USA officiating crew with them.

You do the math.

A phantom pass-interference penalty took away a Frog interception.&#160 The Shitland Ponies scored two plays later.&#160 Another phantom pass-interference penalty led to a field goal.&#160 And a bogus roughing-the-passer penalty led to another Horse’s Ass touchdown.

There’s a reason TCU got out of Conference USA a long time ago, and we saw it Saturday.&#160 The fact is that SMUT couldn’t have won Saturday without help – which has pretty much been the story ever since they came back from the Death Penalty&#153.

So the moral of the story is clear:&#160 When playing the Shitlands…bring your own zebras.

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Never had the Cowgirlz lost when leading at any time during the game by 24.

Until Sunday.

Up 27-3 in the third, Tony “El Choko” Romo personelly let the Pussies back in the game, throwing consecutive pick-sixes to bring the score to 27-17.&#160 Smelling blood in the water, Detroit attacked while Dallas collapsed.

A third interception, thrown off El Choko’s back foot, led to the winning touchdown for the Pussies, thus completing the collapse.

This is what a once-proud franchise has been reduced to.&#160 One playoff win in 16 years, and not headed back to the playoffs anytime soon, if – as Owner Jethro insists – they’re going to live & die with El Choko.

“As Tony goes, we’ll go,” said Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Says it all, right there.&#160 Condemned to losing football for the foreseeable future.

This week:&#160 2-3.&#160 Overall:&#160 19-5.

The PFW will return Thursday…again (sigh)…when we’ll kick ESPN’s skanky ass, and declare a Guaranteed Win Night&#153.

MERLIN:&#160 Ahem.

MERLIN:&#160 Yes, Wizard?

MERLIN:&#160 You mentioned an Executive Decision&#153.

VENOMOUS:&#160 Ah yes – I did.

From this point forward, for every game El Choko starts, the Perfect Football Weekend&#153 will not include the Cowgirlz, but whomever they’re playing.&#160 Tune in 10 days from now to see whom that will be.

(Or check the schedule yourself – I don’t care.)

Geez, win one&#160 half-assed, doesn’t-count-towards-friggin’-squat&#160 straw poll, and suddenly Bozo the Pizza Clown thinks he’s a fucking kingmaker.

Herman Cain would not support Rick Perry’s candidacy should Perry become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2012, Cain told CNN on Wednesday.

Cain, a Georgia businessman who won the Florida Republican straw poll this past weekend, cited Perry’s support, as Texas governor, for giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants as the primary reason he would withhold his endorsement.

“Today I could not support Rick Perry for a host of reasons. Him being soft on securing the border is one of the reasons. I feel very strongly about the need to secure the border for real, the need to enforce the laws that are already there, the need to promote the path to citizenship that’s already there,” Cain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “But more importantly empower the states to enforce the national/federal immigration laws because the federal government didn’t do it, can’t do it, they never will do it. So that’s where I think he and I have a basic fundamental difference of opinion.”

While I positively abhor Big Dickhead Perry’s approach towards illegals, I’m also absolutely convinced that he’s the only one with the stones to take on B. HUSSEIN!!!&#160 Obambi.&#160 Besides, he’s demonstrated in the past that he’s not married to his political positions when sufficient opposition exists – witness the Gardasil flap and the Trans-Texas Corridor fiasco.&#160 Each time, he stood up for his position, only to relent when sufficient opposition to his idea manifested itself.&#160 He will&#160 listen to his constituentcy, which is more than any of can say for a lot of our politicians.

But if you wanna go down that road, Hermie, then two can play that game.

I say now, and for the record, that I endorse Rick Perry for President of the United States.&#160 And I will not vote for any other GOP nominee in the general election.

That means, Hermie, that should you&#160 somehow luck into the nomination, you can go try to win the White House without my vote.&#160 I won’t vote for you, for Michele “Duh, when did Elvis die again?” Bachmann, for Jon-boy Huntsman, for Chris Christie – and I sure as Hell&#160 won’t vote for Gingrinch, or Mittens, and especially not for your&#160 ugly ass.

(Oh, did I mention I won’t vote for you, Cain?)

Let’s see how you&#160 like it when the people play your sorry-assed game better than you can.