Hitler's take on Cowboys loss

Thought this was worthy of sharing.

Citadel Bulldogs release 2008 Football Schedule

The Citadel Athletic Dept released the upcoming 2008 Football schedule today. Among the highlights include games against Clemson, Florida and Princeton.

The Dawgs open the season at home against Webber International then travel to Clemson to take on the Tigers. Princeton comes to town the following weekend. Citadel will visit Florida in late Nov, a good time to face the SEC team as they will avoid the dreaded heat in the "Swamp" and maybe catch them resting some players in preperation for the SEC Championship game.

Other home games include Wester Carolina, Elon, Georgia Southern and Tenn Chattanooga (Homecoming).

This schedule is full of great games and road trips. I will no doubt be in attendance for the game of the "C" schools as Citadel visits Death Valley to battle Clemson. It'll be a tough game for me to root for, I can't win and can't lose. I don't want Clemson to get embarrased yet I don't want Citadel to get throttled. I'm hoping for a 35-17 type game.

The other game that I'm excited for is the trip to Gainsville in Nov. I missed out on the opportunity to witness this game in person when they last played in 1998. The Dawgs lost that game in somewhat respectable fashion 49-10.

I'm going on record to predict a 2008 record of 7-5.



Click here for the full 2008 Schedule.

Kansas Jayhawks top college in Football/Basketball

Scout.com just released their rankings for the top Colleges in Football and Basketball. The rankings were based on the combined records for both sports. And in an unusual ranking, Kansas sits at #1 with its basketball record of 20-0 and football record of 12-1. They are five games better than #2 Tennessee. Clemson is tied at with 5 other schools at #11 with a combined record of 24-8.

Here's at look at the current top 25:

1. Kansas (12-1, 20-0 = 32-1)
2. Tennessee (10-4, 17-2 = 27-6)
3. Memphis (7-6, 19-0 = 26-6)
3. Texas (10-3, 16-3 = 26-6)
5. BYU (11-2, 15-5 = 26-7)
5. Florida (9-4, 17-3 = 26-7)
5. West Virginia (11-2, 15-5 = 26-7)
8. Wisconsin (9-4, 16-3 = 25-7)
9. Ohio State (11-2, 14-6 = 25-8)
9. Oklahoma (11-3, 14-5 = 25-8)
11. Arizona State (10-3, 14-5 = 24-8)
11. Boise State (10-3, 14-5 = 24-8)
11. Clemson (9-4, 15-4 = 24-8)
11. Indiana (7-6, 17-2 = 24-8)
11. Michigan State (7-6, 17-2 = 24-8)
11. USC (11-2, 13-6 = 24-8)
17. Houston (8-5, 15-3 = 23-8)
18. New Mexico (9-4, 16-5 = 25-9)
19. Georgia (11-2, 11-6 = 22-8)
20. UCLA (6-7, 18-2 = 24-9)
21. Boston College (11-3, 12-6 = 23-9)
21. Connecticut (9-4, 14-5 = 23-9)
21. North Carolina (4-8, 19-1 = 23-9)
24. Vanderbilt (5-7, 17-2 = 22-9)
24. Washington State (5-7, 17-2 = 22-9)

Shred Rich Rodriguez Night

Saw this article on ESPN. Leave it to a Minor League hockey team to poke fun at former W. Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez.

Here's the article, C/P from the site:

Mountaineers fans get to rip and shred Rodriguez at ECHL game

The Wheeling Nailers, taking advantage of the rancor felt by the state's residents toward a certain former West Virginia football coach, is holding a "Shred Rich Rodriguez" night on Saturday.


The ECHL hockey team's promotion is playing off reports that Rodriguez was seen shredding team-related documents in his office about the same time he left the Mountaineers to take the Michigan coaching job in mid-December.


So on Saturday night, at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, the Nailers are playing host to the Charlotte Checkers, as well as an industrial-sized paper shredder. Fans who bring in a newspaper article or picture of the reviled coach to be shredded will receive a discount off tickets.

Any fan wearing WVU apparel at the game will get $2 lopped off the ticket price.

Ohio State fans, natural enemies of Michigan, get to share the love on this one -- anyone wearing Buckeyes paraphernalia also gets a discount on tickets.


"Everybody is so upset," Nailers co-president Rob Brooks said in Monday's edition of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register. "We wanted to let [fans] release some frustration."


In addition, any fan wearing University of Michigan apparel "will be charged double in order to help Rodriguez pay his $4 million buyout to WVU," according to the Nailers' news release announcing the promotion.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

NFL Owners Resend Oakland Raiders franchise

In stunning news today, 31 NFL Owners held an emergency meeting to discuss the current crisis that is the Oakland Raiders. In that meeting they held a silent vote to resend the franchise license in which a resounding statement was made as all 31 owners voted to rid the league of that mess of a franchise.

That of course didn't happen but my goodness someone needs to step in and relieve Al Davis of his ownership duties. Just days ago the media got word that Big Al wanted to remove first year Head Coach Lane Kiffin after he posted a 2 win improvement from the 2-14 record of 2006.

Al Davis at 79 is running this once proud franchise right into the ground. NFL analyst abound are quick to say that some coaches time has past them and that they no longer understand or can deal with the current players. I've never heard any analyst though say that an Owners time has passed them by. But that is the case with Al Davis. He doesn't seem to have a clue how to manage this club anymore. Since Jon Gruden left to take over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the Raiders have gone through4 Head Coaches. One of those was Art Shell who Al fired after the 1995 season in the same position. He was only given one year after Norv Turner compiled a 2 year record of 9-23. Al recently had a letter drafted for Kiffin to sign announcing his resignation. Davis wants Kiffin to resign to avoid having to buyout the current contract.

I compare the Raiders owner to the Yankees George Steinbrenner. The both had great success in their ownership years but both were quick to fire coaches for really no real reason. They only difference with them is that George finally realized that it was time for him to relinquish control. Raider faithful in the "Black hole" can only hope that Al finally comes to grip with reality that the game has passes him by. The Raiders have now replaced the NY Knicks as the worst sports franchise today, and only one person to blame.

If things keep going south, I wouldn't be surprised to actually hear that owners would vote to remove Al Davis from ownership duties.

Green Bay Bikini Girls

I've been meaning to get this posted but I couldn't get the picture downloaded from my phone till today. So this is about 2 weeks late now but still worth it.

If you didn't catch the Packers and Giants NFC Championship then you missed out on the best camera work ever in a freezing cold football game. Usually when you're watching a game that is 20 degrees or below, the camera man subjects you to the cruel image of some over-weight, beer bellied, hairy chested man wearing overalls. But not this time. The FOX camera man gave us the shot of the year as 3 very cute young ladies were dressed in jeans with only a bikini top in Packer yellow. They held up a sign that poked fun at Tony Romo that read "Favre, Thanks for not going to Mexico Love Bikini Girls".

Cheers to FOX producers for this shot.

Redskins = Sniksder

I'm taking great pleasure right now in the backwards world that Daniel Synder now operates.

I woke up today the crack of 4:30 pm and logged into ESPN.com only to see that Redskins owner, Daniel Snyder , fired coaching candidate Gregg Williams and Al Saunders. Gregg Williams was supposedly the leading candidate to replace HOF Joe Gibbs.

Now I know that my team's owner, Jerry Jones has his way of running a team but it seems the only direction Snyder is running his team is into the ground. The normal way of replacing a coaching staff is to start with the head coach and work down but not Snyder. He'd rather hire a Defensive and Offensive Coordinator and the other staff than hire the head coach first. Usually the hiring process starts w/the head coach, then the coordinators and then all assistants. But this isn't your fathers Redskins anymore, this is your Redskins.

Welcome to the world of baseballs equivalent to George Steinbrenner, over paying for players that are way past their prime. Snyder is now looking for his 6 coach since he became owner in 1997.

Who knows what coach he'll reach for this go round, he already looked to the past for an answer to the present.