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It is a week old, but still pretty funny.
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As I mentioned earlier, Eric Cartman of South Park, Colo. introduced the offense and defense during the Colorado vs. Nebraska game a while back. I’m rerunning the defense introductions so that both will be in one place.
OffenseDefense
That’s a lot better than Regis Philbun, no?
H/T: AwfulAnnouncing
Eric Cartman, Colorado Buffaloes, ABC College Football, South Park
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H/T: Run Up the Score!
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The greatest referee call ever has been used again:
How long do you think that ref was waiting to use it? By the way that is probably the greatest Maryland football moment of my lifetime.
Here is the original, Ben Dreith (Wikipedia) “givin’ him the business” call:

Shamelessly lifted from Mr. Irrelevant.
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Football’s Oldest Stadiums: Witnesses to Game’s Evolution – ESPNWith The Game just days away, take a look at this ESPN article about the site of this year’s game, the Yale Bowl as well as two other ancient Ivy stadiums: Harvard Stadium and Franklin Field.
I’ve been to the Bowl several times, seen Franklin Field’s exterior in [...]

ANNAPOLIS, Md.– Prior to the Icers game against Navy, we stopped in downtown Annapolis for a quick bite to eat. An traffic jam on the Beltway limited the amount of time we could budget for dinner, so we stopped at Chick & Ruth’s Delly on Main Street. Our arrival coincided with the end of regulation [...]

Trinity (Texas) vs. Millsaps (Miss.)

Impressive, but is it better than Cal vs. Stanford?

Well, I have to put Saints vs. Jaguars up too, don’t I?

Trinity, Millsaps, football, laterals
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DAN DALY – Going sideways into history – The Wash. TimesA great article about the history of soccer style placekickers. It was fifty years ago Friday that Fred Bednarski of Texas became the first kicker to make a field goal soccer style in college football.
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Yesterday, in a post titled Grass = artificial grass , blogger dl004d made an obvsersation about the word usage of “turf” in The Post aritcle, For Schools, Artificial Turf Fields Grow in Popularity:
I know saying artificial turf is a mouthful, but shortening it to just turf conveys the opposite meaning.
Turf means grass. Unfortunately, it also [...]

H/T Sports Scope (USA Today)
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