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As we launch the first official week of the Perfect Football Weekend™, we find that things are running a little tensely in Huskerland.
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini acknowledges that he’s feeling some anxiety as the Cornhuskers’ opener against Western Michigan approaches.
Pelini said you don’t know what kind of team you have until you see it play against an opponent. He says he thinks he knows the character of his players, but he won’t know for sure until Saturday.
Pelini’s emotions spilled out Monday after the Huskers turned in a particularly dreadful practice performance. He snapped at reporters, tersely answering 15 questions in two minutes.
Patience, Coach.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither will your Cornhuskers be thus.
Let’s get to the PFW.  It’s Week Zero™ in Texas “hah skrewl” (a little Rush lingo, there) football, and that means my (Fort Worth) Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets will start this year pretty much the same way they started last year – by getting their asses handed to them by the Birdville Buffaloes.
I was wrong earlier about one thing – Duke Christian is no longer the Heights coach.  The new scapegoat head coach is a guy by the name of Steve Pate.  Have no idea how he’ll do.  Maybe I should make a perpetual points rule for Heights, such as I do for UBuffalo.
Speaking of which, their first game is tonight, as well, as the University of Texas-El Paso pays the Bulls a visit.  Turner Gill’s troops, surprisingly, are a 3-point favorite, so as long as they don’t lose by more than a touchdown, we’ll count it.
Saturday, the aforementioned Nebraska Cornhuskers, under the guidance of the aforementioned Bo Pelini, make their triumphant return to the PFW by hosting (and, presumably, decimating) Western Michigan.  They’d better  win – else, the faithful will be screaming for Bill Callahan.  Ew.
Also Saturday, Texas Christian University’s Horned Frogs, in the eighth year of Coach Gary Patterson’s reign, travel to Albuquerque to take on the New Mexico Lobos.  TCU’s won their last five season openers, as this blurb from the game guide tells us:
The Frogs have won their last five season openers. It’s the first time since 1970-74 that TCU has had a five-game winning streak in season debuts.
Yeah, well it helps when all your season openers are against the University of Texas-Arlington, which doesn’t even have  a football program anymore.
In pro action, tonight is the C’boys last preseason game, at home vs the Minne-haha ViQueens.  ViQueens head coach Brad Childress has already said his starters aren’t going to play at all, and we’re probably not going to see many of the Cowboys’ starters, either.
Gimme Dallas and 10.  
We’re back Sunday or Monday for the recap.  In the meantime, for your viewing pleasure, HDD will now extol the virtues of Bucky, now that the games count.
Won’t you, HDD?  
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Thank God, the games finally count! My ears and eyes have been bleeding from all the breath and ink wasted on analyzing meaningless football scrimmages! Now that the dog-and-pony show that is NFL
ExhibitionPre-Season is over, we can down to actually watching some football!For Bucky’s season opener, he gets to host the Zips of Akron. Now, at first blush, the only reason to attend this game is to watch the student section carry on like the party animals that they are. At first blush. When you actually look at the records and teams, this game frightens me. Frankly, the more I’ve been thinking about it, this whole season frightens me. When Barry Alvarez stepped down as coach (to become full-time Athletic Director…pretty much the ONLY reason Bo Pellini was even considered for the Children of the Corn job), his defensive coordinator, Bret Bielema took over. Now, Bret’s a former D-Coordinator, and Barry built the Badgers on stifling D and a punishing (!) ground game, so, one would assume that Bucky would just keep on keepin’ on, right? Wrong. In the past three seasons, with Bret as either D-Co, or Head Coach, the defense has gotten progressively worse! Akron is a team that plays big-name schools for the paycheck, so, when they do play the big-name schools, they have nothing to lose. So, they throw the ball all over the field, get their defense off the field as quickly as possible, and try to throw the ball all over the field again. That sort of team matched up against a suspect big-name school defense can spell “UPSET”. I’m scared of this game. Wisconsin is a 27 point favorite. Bucky wins, but, Akron covers.
(chuckle)
Man, any time you wanna write about football here, you’re more than welcome.  I know you haven’t updated Neurons  in a while, but sometimes I think that your bits about Bucky & GB are the only things that keep me writing PFWs.
If I’m the only reason you’re still doing it, hang it up, dude. I’m only typing to entertain myself. Half of what I type is made up, and the other half is fiction.
(You can say “thank you” to Barry Alvarez for not wanting the Nebraska job anytime you want, now. The Children of the Corn are one of the two teams that Barry is allowed to break his UW contract for. Nebraska sent out eensy-weensy little feelers Barry’s way, and got a “Bugger off! I’m an Athletic Director now!” Hard for the Nebraska “The ‘N’ stands for ‘Knowledge!” Cornhuskers to compete with that.)
Still a little grouchy, I see. (grin)
Don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but some of the stuff on This Fine Blog™ wouldn’t exactly  make the NY Slimes’  non-fiction list.  (Unless you really think I have a Klingon-Vulcan mixed breed serving as my XO and I dredged up a Camelotian magician to serve as my chief engineer. 
  )
Besides, whether we admit it or not, that’s why we bloggers do what we do – to entertain ourselves.  Only if we’re sufficiently fortunate do we end up entertaining anyone else.  (You can’t possibly imagine that I’m doing this for the money, can you?)
So yeah – I’d love to have you on staff, even if you write about nothing but Bucky.  Besides, it’d be a great in-your-face to certain Rotties who don’t think much of either of us.
Well for my contribution, I’m just going to laugh behind his back at my brother-in-law… last week we had our fantasy draft and I told him picking Rudi was a bad idea, that Chris Perry was the starter and Rudi was going to get cut. Well I called it right! 🙂
Hmm maybe that’s what we need around here to help bring back “the six or seven who still read [this blog]”… a fantasy football league… do we have enough folks interested??
RH
Probably a little late to get one started, but it’s a good idea for next year.  Unless they’ll let you start one four days before the first game…?
*If* my vote counted (and I’m quite used to in not counting, so, no worries there), I’d prefer a face-to-face, auction keeper league.
And, yeah, you can start leagues four days before the season. You can start leagues with two weeks to go, if you’re so inclined. There isn’t some all-powerful Fantasy Football Police out there, just waiting the punish those FF scofflaws who flout the mighty Fantasy Football Gods.
Although, it would be kind of cool if there were…
It wouldn’t be impossible to do an auction keeper league (or whatever else fancy stuff you want to try) with an online chat room… not as easy, perhaps, but doable…
We’d just have to all agree on a chat protocol. I use Pidgin so I have support for very nearly every major protocol under the sun, I just need to know which one you guys prefer…
RH