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Denizens, as we enter into a substantially slimmed-down version of the Perfect Football Weekend, I’m going to show you guys something I found over at Ace’s.

The thing is, this is so odd, I think we can take this out of the category of “doesn’t know the snap-count” and safely put it in the category of “is suffering from delirium due to concussion or heat stroke.”

Here, watch for yourself:

Actually, it rather reminds me of former major-league pitcher Roger Moret and the infamous “catatonic trance” in which they found him in the clubhouse one day.

Pitcher Roger Moret didn’t accomplish much on the field; but he will forever be remembered for a pre-game scene in 1978 when teammates found Moret standing in a catatonic trance next to his locker, holding a shower shoe.

On to the PFW.&#160 This week’s candidate in our game of Kick Sulphur Springs’ Ass Outta The Playoffs&#153 is…Denison High (12-1)

As Her Doublewideness told me many times over the course of our marriage, there is no love lost between Sulphur Springs & Denison High, so I expect this one to be somewhat of a bloodbath.&#160 With Sulphur shedding more of the blood.

MERLIN:&#160 !!!!!

VENOMOUS:&#160 Figuratively speaking, Wizard.

MERLIN:&#160

Saturday, we have two games to cover.&#160 The first is that evening here a couple blocks down the road from me, as the Big Three & The Little Nine XII (sorry for the Bidenization, HDD) Championship Game will pit Bo Pelini’s Nebraska Cornhuskers against Texas’ Third Pro Team&#153, the TU Shortdicks Longhorns.

(And I will say again – You bring in Mackie Brown, who didn’t win shit&#160 at North Carolina, down to a TU program that was spinning its wheels under Fred Akers, and suddenly they’re world beaters?&#160 Something ain’t kosher in Austin.)

TU is favored by 14, but Nebraska’s defense is playing well, and the first time these two played in this game, TU stole one from upset a heavily-favored Nebraska unit.&#160 So, we’ll see.

And for this week (and possibly as an audition for 2010, depending on whether Turner Gill can put a defense on UBuffalo’s field next year or not), we elevate Bucky from “meanwhile” status to a featured team in the PFW.

They’re in Hawai’i this week to play the Rainbow Warriors, who are still shooting to host their former coach June Jones and SMUT in their backyard bowl game; a win over Bucky will seal it.

Bucky, however, isn’t planning on cooperating; Vegas has made them a 12-point road favorite.&#160 Put the over/under for trick plays by Hawai’i at three.

Sunday afternoon, the first of the NFC East return matches is set to go in Noo Joisey, where the Dallas C’girls square off against the New York Football Douchebags.&#160 Fortunes have reversed since the D-bags pulled out a last-second upset against Dallas in Week 1; they’ve lost five of their last six to fall two games behind in the division.&#160 Expect a close game; a field goal might win this one, as well.

We’re back Monday (hopefully) for the recap, by which time we’ll know where TCU will be playing its BCS bowl (and damn, but it still feels good to type that.&#160 &#160 )

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3 responses to “PFW:&#160 At least they couldn’t call him for a false start”

1. HDD says:

   December 4, 2009 at 10:27 pm

   Ah, yes, Bucky’s annual “Get away from Wisconsin winters” game in Hawaii. It’s a vacation game, no doubt about it, but, under Coach Alvarez, the Badgers still played well in the game, even after frolicking in Hawaii for a couple of days. But, this year, without June Jones and Colt Brennan on their side, the Warriors of Hawaii just aren’t as good as they used to be. But, then again, neither are the Badgers, with Coach Alvarez now Athletic Director, and his former over-rated defensive coordinator prowling the sidelines. With all of that in mind, I think a 12 point spread is a bit on the high side. Badgers win, Hawaii covers.

   If one actually does a little research on our immobile offensive lineman up there, you’ll actually find that he did (almost) exactly what he’s been trained to do by the Florida State staff. Florida State has been teaching their O-line to remain in their stances after the other team jumps off sides, to ‘sell’ the off-sides penalty. It is entirely possible (but, not likely) that he was actually the only player on the field who remembered what the snap count was *supposed* to be, and did what he was taught to do. It would be illuminating to find out what the coaching staff told him after the play was over, but, we’ll never actually get that tidbit of information. Too bad.

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2. HDD says:

   December 5, 2009 at 11:43 pm

   *ahem*

   You do know that you’re at risk of becoming a Rock-Chalk-Jayhawk fan next year, right?

   Turner Gill is interviewing at Kansas, to fill the spot ‘vacated’ by Mangino the Hutt.

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3. Darth Venomous says:

   December 5, 2009 at 11:47 pm

   No I didn’t, but it wouldn’t surprise me.&#160 Kansas, needing a defensive-minded coach… (sigh)

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