Boise St. vs. Oregon

Since the college football season started yesterday, you will find many of my posts inspired by the games I watch. Why? Because I am obsessed with the BCS, that's why. Most you will find this blog to be a blatant ripoff of Bill Simmons' The Sports Guy and to a lesser extent Stewart Mandel's College Football Mailbag. To those of you I say, "you are correct" (also apologies to nymag.com which I also like to rip-off, so watch out for some Mad Men references in future posts!).

First up - Oregon vs. Boise State For those of you who don't know, Boise State is not actually a state. Perhaps they were reluctant to name the university "Idaho State" given one could mis-hear it as "I da ho state". Of course, everyone knows that Oklahoma is the "ho" state with Idaho actually being a distant second.

Moving along... Boise State plays on an artificial turf that is blue and nicknamed "smurf turf". Boise's uniforms are also blue so they kind of blend into the field when they play.

I bet this causes much confusion and could really give some of the struggling teams out there an advantage. Army has gone 3-9 the last 3 seasons (remarkably consistent). What better team to use camouflage than the Army?

Just imagine a field made entirely of this...

+ uniforms like this...

= Here we come Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl!

Or perhaps the Chick-fil-A Bowl? Chick-fil-A kept running ads for their labor day promotion (get a free Chick-fil-A sandwich if you wear a shirt with your favorite team logo on labor day). I believe the only Chick-fil-A in NYC is in the NYU food court. You think NYU would count as your favorite team? (http://chick-fil-a.com/CFA_LaborDay_WebVersion.html)

I guess I don't even own any NYU shirts to test the hypothesis out. I do own some UT (Texas, not Tennessee) shirts, and I am very much looking forward to this season (mainly just beating OU again).

One thing I realized during the Oregon game, was how great the UT hand sign is. I know other schools like to mock it by doing the upside down horns, but they are probably just jealous they don't have a good sign

The "president" of Iran might hate the Jews, but he loves those Longhorns!

Oregon is a classic example of a hand signal that shouldn't exist (see the guy on the left who can't even make a proper "O")

Check out the mascot, too.

Why is it dressed like a Japanese School girl? Scandalous!

At least, The University of Oregon refers to itself (correctly) as UO. The University of Oklahoma still can't figure that one out... Do you like how you've been reading this whole time, and I still haven't even talked about the actual game? (yet I've already made 2 derogatory statements about Oklahoma)

Well, Oregon basically got stomped on in the first half (even though the score didn't reflect it). The Oregon offense couldn't even get a first down. Looks like the taser formation isn't all that cracked up to be... it's too bad, cause just think of all the opportunities to yell "don't tase me bro!" when the Oregon offense comes on the field!

That song is the jam. I hope UT comes up with a $5 footlong formation

So Oregon ultimately lost 19-8 and one of the Oregon players punched one of the Boise St. players after the game; then tried to attack some fans in the stands. THE END!