TheTastyGreek

The resemblance is uncanny... Hey, look at me! I'm a Cardinal who's steroid abuse has left him with no natural testosterone levels! Now I have shriveled testicles, a paunchy gut, and big floppy man-boobs! Also, I'm a disgrace to one of America's favorite sports! And when I hold my arm up like that, I look all limp-wristed and effeminate! Meanwhile... Scrappy the War Eagle is off, somehow pitching a perfect game and executing an unassisted triple play... SIMULTANEOUSLY. His bird-nuts are robust, like feathered cantaloupes. And his muscular chest ripples like the U.S. flag that flies proudly over the Vietnam memorial. When it comes to mascots... Our cloaca is bigger than your cloaca, Ball State. Deal with it.

I put on my green feathered merkin... Who wants to get Scrappy??

"Charlie Cardinal": 1) Looks like he's got terrible breast implants and the bird equivalent of a FUPA. 2) The FUPA makes it look like he's rocking some high-waisted Mom jeans 3) Looks like a Crimson Wizard in the KKK 4) And if the pointy red head covering wasn't enough... His mouth makes him look like a horribly offensive blackface caricature. 5) Shares parts of his name with prominent child molesters in the Catholic church In short, your fried-egg rack, saggy pancake assed, child molesting, cross burning, racist caricature, sad excuse for a sissy little wimp bird is NO MATCH for Scrappy the War Eagle. You can mock our coach, you can denigrate our recent failures on the field, you can call my mother ugly. But don't you ever... EVER speak ill of Scrappy. If I ever see any of you people in person... I'll saw your testicles off with David Letterman's serrated teeth.

Wow, what an unexpected cheap shot! If you want play-by-play but your guy does an extended jail stint... I have an excellent lawyer. And Quoner has a lot of experience with working his way through poop tunnels in a prison setting (like Shawshank... sort of) so jail time won't be a problem.

Just put out. Don't overthink it. And if you start feeling cheap or regretful... Shove those feelings way down deep and ignore them.

Geography vs. "Christian" similarity... I thought it was a toss-up. Hell, why not send them both a letter? Just to cover all the bases.

You know the rules... Now you spend tomorrow in the barrel.

Released in 1998. Also, "Black on Both Sides" was better.

Dear UT Arlington-

If you took the great songs from both of those albums and distilled them into one, it definitely would have made my list. Same for Blackalicious. If I could take "Blazing Arrow" and "The Craft" and smash them into one album, it'd be top of the list. As it is, I almost put "The Craft" on my list on it's own merits.

"Another Wasted Night" was the background music on the official website for a movie called "Funny Ha-Ha", that's where I first heard them. Little brother bought the CD, but hasn't gotten it back for several years now. If you're a fan, check out another movie by the same guy (Andrew Bujalski) - "Mutual Appreciation". Justin Rice plays the main character. And "Funny Ha-Ha" has Christian Rudder as the lead male character, too.

10 albums released in the past 10 years that I absolutely played/still play the hell out of: Bishop Allen - "Charm School" Blur - "13" Cee-Lo - "Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine" The Detroit Cobras - "Baby" Jamie Lidell - "JIM" Handsome Boy Modeling School - "White People" Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "Take a Break" OK Go - "OK Go" Rhymefest - "Blue Collar" The Strokes - "Room on Fire"

Counterpoint: Will he have it together this year? I know he's the best man for the job... But that doesn't mean that the job is done. Even though the offense was a problem and likely will be a problem... It wasn't (with apologies to Adler) THE PROBLEM. DeLoach is the key to this season.

It's on the guide for AT&T in Dallas. You should just skip work and come watch with us.

Never thought of this, but now I'm furious it didn't happen. Never enough Howerton, in my opinion. I'll miss that guy.

I drink a lot of Diet Dr. Pepper. Cans or plastic bottles... I'm good with either.

Prove it. (Your racism) Or stop your ad homonomonmomoimonomonimem attacks.

What was the backing on the guarantee? Will he quit? Will he refund his salary? Unless the guarantee actually had some sort of backing, like the girl who promised to pay back her scholarship money in the Women's NCAA Tournament (can't remember who it was)... I'd have to say that June Jones' guarantee doesn't grade out very well.

How did we grade out on fall practice? Any platitudes about overcoming adversity or trying to avoid ill-timed mistakes?

Why is the Athletics Department always bringing this up? EVERYONE KNOWS! I think it's obvious that the Athletics Department is just trying to undermine the Athletics Department and make Todd Dodge look bad. There's no other explanation for contextual facts like this being included. I for one am going to contact the editors at the Athletics Department and demand that the members of the Athletics Department be fired from the Athletics Department for trying to sabotage and discredit the Athletics Department. North Texas is the only Athletics Department this Athletics Department covers... And if they can't be more supportive and positive, I think we should BOYCOTT. WHO'S WITH ME?1!?!?eleven?!?

Because he's had a redshirt year. He can't play in '09 due to transfer rules, and he can't redshirt again for any non-medical reason. This year counts as one of his remaining 3 years of eligibility; he doesn't get an optional redshirt year just because there was a medical reason for his previous redshirt. If any of our players who've had a medical redshirt decide to transfer to another 1-A school, they'd have to sit out a year and lose the year of eligibility, too. EDIT: Realized I may not have answered what you meant when you asked the question. He didn't transfer until now. Even though he's gone a year without playing due to the medical redshirt, he hasn't sat out due to the transfer. When he missed last year, he did it as an OSU student. If he'd decided to leave OSU last September, he'd be eligible now.

Thank you, sir, for your informative answer, and also for understanding the spirit in which the question was asked. You will be missed at 5 out of 6 games this year. Happy for you, of course... But I (and the aspiring Mrs., who was quite unhappy to hear you wouldn't be around this year) am sad you won't be around like you used to be.

Yeah, yeah, I suck and I'm a terrible fan. But I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering... So does anyone who knows more about Cole than I do have any insights?

I'll go ahead and ask, because I'm legitimately curious and I'd like to know sooner rather than later... Is he still capable and/or interested in playing Quarterback? If things go very badly this year (insert all the obligatory and honest "I hope we win them all" sentiments) and we end up with a new coach, it's distinctly possible we'll need a new QB, too. I know we're all loving Javia Hall, but a 3rd new QB in 4 years... It'd be nice to have someone a little more developed and with a year under his belt on our campus. Is he a WR only, or is this a potential QB should we need one?