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Memo to Widdle Danni Snyder:&#160 Games against us at home aren’t quite as easy when we actually give a shit about the outcome, are they?&#160

FW Arlington Heights 17, Arlington Seguin 23

UBuffalo 43, at Akron 40 (4OT)

Nebraska 56, at Kansas State 28

Dallas 14, at Warshington Foreskins 10

So help me Cthulu, it may be time to mothball the Arlington Heights football program.&#160 When you can’t even beat a team with a losing record, fer gawdsakes, do you even need to be playing the game?

From the writeup on DFW Varsity over at the Startlegram:

Arlington Seguin drove to a touchdown on its first drive of the second half, and it proved to be enough for a 23-17 victory against Fort Worth Arlington Heights in a 4A Division I bidistrict playoff game Thursday night at Brewer. Jevin Colbert’s 11-yard touchdown catch gave the Cougars a 23-14 lead with 5:51 left in the third quarter, and although Heights got a 35-yard field goal from Bailey Shelton on its next drive, neither team scored again. Heights had the ball two more times but punted from its 20 and was stopped on downs at the Seguin 24 with 3:27 left in the game.

Robert Owoyele rushed for 115 yards, and Earlon Neal returned an interception 25 yards for a touchdown for Seguin (5-6), which will meet the Denton Guyer/Saginaw Boswell winner in an area game next Friday night at Dragon Stadium in Southlake. Heights’ season ended at 7-4.

Despite the 7-4 record, there’s now a culture of losing in the big games over in west Fort Worth, and it needs to change in a hurry.&#160 Simply getting to the playoffs can no longer be enough for these guys.&#160 More must be required to maintain any pride in the program.

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Such is the program pride that Heights’ last great quarterback, Turner Gill, is building at UBuffalo.

Unable to stop the Zips from tying the game in the final minute, the Bulls could have just counted a moral road victory and folded.

But not these guys.&#160 A.J. Principe’s 40-yard field goal in the fourth overtime following an Akron fumble sealed the game for UBuff.

Starks had yet another big night getting 151 yards on 37 carries.&#160 Brandon Thermilus added 59 yards on the ground, and Drew Willy was 27-39-252.

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The pride is coming back at Nebraska.&#160 Bo Pelini’s squad followed the thrashing of Rock Chalk Jayhawk with a massive beatdown of K-State.&#160 Joey Ganz threw for 270 yards and two touchdowns on 16-25 and also ran for 95 yards and two more TDs.

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Last time Dallas played the Foreskins, they lost by playing “excuse-me” football.

This game was anything but “excuse-me”.

After Warshington shredded the ‘Boys on their opening drive, the Dallas defense decided that enough was enough, manned up and took the fight back to the Muscatel & Limburger.

On the last drive with six minutes left and the score 14-10, all 90,000 in the stadium knew what was coming:&#160 a steady dose of Marion Barber.&#160 And the ‘Skins still&#160 couldn’t stop it.&#160 Dallas drove 65 yards to put the game away, most of it Barber runs.&#160 The kind of “we’re-gonna-kick-your-ass” football this team hasn’t played the last six weeks.

The kind it needs to play for the next six.

Romo wasn’t great in his return, but he took enough pressure off the running game to where it could produce like it needed to (114 yards for Barber).&#160 And on the first touchdown drive, there were key passes to Witten and Owens that took Dallas downfield.&#160 A far cry from either Johnson or Bollinger and a welcome change.

This week:&#160 3-1.&#160 Overall:&#160 49-15.

The PFW returns Friday, when we bid farewell to the SpatulaLine&#153.

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3 responses to “PFW:&#160 Now that’s&#160 more like it!”

1. RobertHuntingdon says:

   November 17, 2008 at 7:50 pm

   Well my Bungles made an attempt to help your Cupcakes out a bit… at least on Defense. Unfortunately the offense only played about one-third of a game or so, and as a result they were only able to prevent the Iglets from winning. Still drops them into last place in the NFC-E, where I’d be happy indeed if they stayed, after they knocked my Aint’s out last year and cost them their best corner (possibly permanently now that he’s re-injured the same knee). I’d love it if they’d become last years Fins for the next decade straight. Only thing that could possibly make me happier would be for either the Punkthers or the Stoolers to do the same. Not, unfortunately, that that has any realistic chance of happening.

   At least my Aint’s won, staving out disaster for at least one more week. Drew is almost saving this team from itself very nearly single-handedly, but with about two or three games of BLATANT 11-on-17 already, I have no doubt he won’t be able to save them all the way. Especially if they get the same crap again every other week as they have the last month or so… one week they get decent calls, the next the opponents get to practically kill people on the field and don’t get called for anything whereas if an Aint just breathes on somebody they get called for penalties. Enough on that, I don’t need to jack my BP over this…

   But the one thing that pisses me off almost as much is the way so many calls are called differently one week to the next… for that matter, one HOUR to the next! Especially so with pass interference. In the Bungles game Henry — who for all his massive amounts of stupidity in the past sure seems to be making the most of his 80th chance — should have gotten the call against Samuel and given the Bungles a fresh set of downs. And that one was pretty obvious, the ball was in the air and Samuel was preventing him from going after the ball, not trying to actually intercept it himself. No call. And then in the Stoolers game or the Foreskins game (forget which) I saw some other plays where the guy could be argued as playing the ball get called for PI.

   The answer, of course, is to do the same thing they did with force-outs… set exact rules that even a third grader can figure out and eliminate absolutely every bit of room for “judgment calls” you possibly can. Of course, nothing can completely eliminate it, but you can get close. So lets say that if you touch him, fine, but if you push on him at all, restrict his path in any way, attempt to use leverage against him in any way to give yourself a better play on the ball, or anything similar before the ball gets there, flag on the play. And then, to make it less likely to make the refs not call it, make any variety a 10 yard auto-1st down penalty instead of a spot foul.

   Its an improvement at least.

   RH

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2. HDD says:

   November 18, 2008 at 5:10 pm

   It wasn’t quite to the level of The Miracle in the HumptyMetrodome, but, Bucky’s game against the Rusty Rodents of Minnesota was darn close.

   The Rodents fumbled on their first possession, leading to a Badger TD. Bucky then returned the favor and fumbled the ball back to the Rodents three times in the first half, all leading to Rodent points. Score at halftime: 24-7, Rodents.

   The Badgers came out for the second half just looking to stop screwing up. Which, it must be admitted, they accomplished. They chipped away at the Rodent lead, finally tying the game, 24 all. And then, the wheels fell off the Rodents wagon. The kickoff was fumbled by the Rodents, for a safety. Wisconsin squandered away the free kick opportunity, punting the ball away, three plays later. Rodents deep in their own territory. Three plays later, the Rodents QB is sacked in the end zone for ANOTHER safety. Wisconsin again squandered the opportunity with the free kick, punting away three plays later. Rodents deep in their own territory, again. Two plays later, fumble, recovered by Bucky, ball punched in for a TD three plays after that. Minnesota kept the score respectable with a TD of their own late in the 4th, but, it was scored so late that the Rodents would have needed their own version of “The Miracle in the Metrodome” in Camp Randall to win.

   It didn’t happen.

   I swear, right about now, I’m almost tempted to hope that the Badgers never actually get the ball in another Paul Bunyan’s Axe game. It seems that Minnesota does enough scoring for the Badgers while they have the ball.

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3. HDD says:

   November 18, 2008 at 5:13 pm

   Oh, I should also point out that beating the Foreskins 14-10 isn’t exactly a “We’re Back!” statement. It’s more of a “We’ll not suck!” statement. Your Cowgirls aren’t the worst team in the NFL, but, they’re far from the best, and they’re not even close to the best team in their own division. The Cowgirls will be watching most, if not all, of the playoffs from the same place I will: a living room.

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