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Denizens, we launch into this week’s edition of the Perfect Football Weekend&#153 with yet another blurb from the Penn State debacle – this time with the No Cojones At All&#153 administration coming >< this close to stepping into a pile of shit up to its collective head. To wit: --- "A newly disclosed email from the NCAA's top lawyer documents just how close Penn State came to having its football program shut down due to the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal. It says the school's "cooperation and transparency" saved the program." --- (Sorry for the formatting - looks like WordPress is vomiting up a lot of my coding tonight.) That would be the "cooperation and transparency" into which it was browbeaten & cowed, if you'll recall. --- "The email from lawyer Donald Remy to a school attorney was attached to a court filing Thursday, as the NCAA battles with two Pennsylvania officials over penalties that were imposed on Penn State. The email establishes that on July 17, 2012, six days before the Penn State sanctions were announced, a majority on the NCAA executive committee favored the "death penalty," shutting down the football program." --- And again, this is the NCAA threatening to shut down the football program for the actions of people who weren't even employed there, simply because they had certain access to certain buildings, where they performed activities that were not even sanctioned by the university, that were eventually dealt with by school personnel in accordance with Pennsylvania law. This would be akin to Arlington Heights losing its football program for me entering the school building and performing some illegality, any illegality, that was arbitrarily & capriciously deemed to be _¡qué horrible!_ Damn good thing I'm not the PSU chancellor.&#160 My lawsuit against the NCAA would have started at ten (10) digits, and gone from there.&#160 (For the pussies in the Church of the SubTarded, that's one-extra-extra-extra-extra large, or one billion.) Once again...fuck you, NCAA. Very quickly now, on with the football.&#160 As I write this, my Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets, fresh off a perfect season, are in the bi-district playoffs against Burleson Centennial HS down south of Realm&#153 HQ, in Mansfield.&#160 As of this writing, Heights is up 7-0, so we'll keep an eye on that. Tomorrow, Gary Patterson takes his fourth-ranked TCU Horned Frogs - yes, that's right; if the season ended today, the Frogs would be in the playoffs - up to Lawrence to play Rock Chalk.&#160 The Tadpoles are a solid 28-point favorite here, so unless they lay a complete egg, I don't see them breaking _that_ much of a sweat. Sunday, Andy Dalton's Cincinnati Kittycats - fresh off that humiliation at the hands of Cleveland (Cleveland?), try to snap out of it vs. the Saints at the Superdome in N'awlins.&#160 This isn't the best place to try to snap out of a funk, but N'awlins isn't playing all that well

, either (they’re one game under .500), so even though they’re a 7-point favorite at home, Cincy’s got a shot here.

Wild card games are as follows: *Oklahoma* traveling to Lubbock & taking out their Baylor frustrations on TTech (sorry

, Generalette), #16 Nebraska going up to Madison to get pounded on by #20 *Wisconsin* (Joel Stave’s not quite as crappy a quarterback as Tommy Armstrong), and top-ranked Mississippi State running into fifth-ranked *Alabama’s* buzzsaw (sorry, Vicar).

We’re back next week with the recap.&#160 Maybe it’ll be Monday – who knows?