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Yes, Florida beat Oklahoma.&#160 Eighteen-on-eleven in what’s essentially your own backyard, and you’d fucking well better&#160 win.

#7 Texas Christian 17, #10 Boise State 16

UBuffalo 20, Connecticut 38

Nebraska 26, Clemson 21

#5 #1 Oklahoma 14, #1 #118 Flori-duh 10, Fucking Pansy-Assed Biased Excuses-For-Zebras 10(-7)

Dallas 6, at Phuckadelphia 44

UBuffalo ran into a team that was bigger and faster than they were, which is to be expected when the MAC tangles with the Big East.&#160 Drew Willy was 29-43, but for only 213 yards – and that was it for the Bull offense.&#160 Starks & Thermilus combined for 30 yards, which was 15 less than Huskies back Donald Brown had on one of his touchdown runs.

Still, it was a good year for Turner Gill and his boys.&#160 It’ll be a real surprise if UBuffalo is in the PFW next year, because I expect Turner to be elsewhere before too long.

Joey Ganz did his damndest to give the game to Clemson in the first half.

Cornhuskers fans might have wanted to run Ganz out of Jacksonville at halftime. The senior had a fumble late in the first half that was returned 28 yards for a touchdown and threw an interception in the final minute that was returned 63 yards and led to another score.

On top of everything else, he also suffered a slight concussion when he got blasted in the third quarter while dropping back to pass.&#160 He missed one play, then returned for the next series, finishing 19-36-236 and two touchdowns, one to Todd Peterson.&#160 Quentin Castille led the Husker ground game with 18 carries for 125 yards.

Prospects are good for Bo Pelini’s squad next year, having won six of their last seven this year to finish 9-4.

Prospects for TCU look good as well.&#160 There are only a few graduating seniors, and key pieces of each side of the ball figure to return.

As for the game, it didn’t start well for the Frogs.&#160 Boise State scored the first 10 points of the game, essentially shoving it down TCU’s throat.

TCU’s response for most of the first half was to shoot itself in the foot.&#160 It was eerily similar to the Cowboys’ first drive against the Steelers in Super Bowl XIII – they were doing just fine lining up and playing basic football, beating the Smurfs at the line of scrimmage more often than not.&#160 Then they would try what Rece Davis called “trickeration”.

(Memo to Rece Davis:&#160 Lose the term “trickeration”.)

Anyway, the gadgetry would inevitably backfire, and TCU would either be forced to punt or turn the ball over right then & there.&#160 Dalton threw one interception, in fact, that BState almost turned into a pick-six.&#160 At that point, the TCU defense decided that enough was enough and essentially shut the Broncos down the rest of the game.

The offense then started chipping away with the run, mixed in with the occasionally timely pass.&#160 Aaron Brown took one to the house from about 15 yards out in the second quarter, then Joseph Turner from five yards out in the fourth gave the Frogs just enough to spoil Smurf Turf State’s bid for a second perfect season in three years.

Dalton finished 22-35-197.&#160 Brown ended his Frog career by running for 102 yards.

This TCU class finishes with 41 wins, the most in school history for any one class, and also has now won four bowl games for the first time ever.&#160 Things stand to improve for this bunch, as Gary Patterson just signed a new contract, and offensive coordinator Mike Schultz has left to take an OC position somewhere else (presumably, both schools should benefit offensively from that move).

The bar is raised from here, however; as this Frog outfit finished ranked seventh, expectations for next year will be even higher.&#160 It’ll be interesting to see where TCU is to start the season in 2009.

Someone needs to bring the bar back down for the Dallas C’girlz.&#160 Say, about three inches off the ground.

Needing a win to get into the playoffs in order to even have a chance to fulfill preseason prognostications of getting to Tampa for the Super Bowl – and knowing&#160 they needed to win to get in – the Girlz laid a fucking egg.

Romo again&#160 didn’t take care of the effin’ ball, throwing an interception and losing a fumble that was returned for a touchdown.&#160 Marion Barber lost a fumble on the very next drive that resulted in another score.&#160 Even The World’s Best Ever Cornerback/Return Specialist Ever In The History Of Ever, Ever&#153, Pacman Jones, lost a fumble on a return near the end of the first half that cost Dallas a field goal.

Dallas watched all this happen with a befuddled look on their faces, collectively & otherwise.&#160 Sort of like the look Coach Cupcake had on him all damned game long.&#160 Not sure why he looked like that – I mean, it wasn’t the first time this year Wade Phillips watched his team mail it in on a game, which is why they had to win this game to get into the tournament in the first place.

Then again, Phillips has never won a playoff game, ever – and this, in every sense of the word, was&#160 a playoff game.&#160 Some things never change.

And things aren’t going to change next year – not for the Cowgirlz, anyway.&#160 Owner Jethro (hat tip:&#160 Gil LeBreton of the Fort Worth Startlegram) insists that Coach Cupcake is returning next year, so we can expect more of the same from this motley crew.

However, there will be changes as far as This Fine Blog&#153 is concerned.&#160 The PFW is leaning very&#160 heavily towards keeping the Cowgirlz out next year until & unless Jethro fires the fat ass.&#160 Granted, Bruce Read finally got his ass fired, but given the overall turd this team put in the NFL punch bowl, more is required before these losers are allowed back in.

Tune in come August to find out.

The Salamanders “score” their first “touchdown” as Louie Murphy fumbles the ball at the goal line – a fumble that OU recovered, by the way.&#160 Oh, never mind – it’s Florida.&#160 Touchdown.

Chris Brown scores from the four in the second quarter.&#160 Oh, wait – that’s Oklahoma, right?&#160 Spot him at the one.&#160 OU failed to score on downs.

OU holding “penalties” cost the Sooners during long drives, killing both of them.&#160 The Salamanders held all night and only got called once.&#160 A clear pass-interference penalty on Flori-duh that didn’t get called.

A Salamander “interception” led to their final touchdown.&#160 Replays showed the ball hitting the ground.

A minimum fourteen-point (and probably more) point swing.&#160 The final margin was 10.&#160 You do the math.

Once again, an east coast team was shown to be a little faster than OU.&#160 Unlike West Virginia last year, though, the Sooners did a better job of keeping up.&#160 The play calling was questionable – the Sooners kept trying to go outside on Flori-duh, instead of driving it straight up the gut where the Sals were vulnerable.

But where teams are pretty much evenly matched, as these two were, talent should be allowed to decide the game, instead of piss-poor officiating.&#160 And that’s what we got here – and it cost OU once again.

No matter.&#160 The Sooners will be back.&#160 And eventually, maybe we can get a championship game at Cowboys’ Stadium.&#160 Let some hapless SEC pud have to play in our&#160 backyard for once, where maybe we&#160 can get some calls.

This week:&#160 3-2.&#160 Final 2008 record:&#160 61-19.

The PFW will return in August, by which time a suitable replacement for the Cowgirlz should have been found.

We now return you to your regular schedule of leftard-bashing.


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