Vote for PSU

CNNSI.com is running a poll on who is the 3d best team in college football, while i refuse to accept the premise of the question that PSU is the 3d best team and not the best team you should still go vote for them!

Kind of a burn...

It is kind of a burn when the Vatican's astronomer calls Intelligent design:

"Intelligent design isn't science, even though it pretends to be," the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. "If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science."

When you are too crazy for the Roman Catholic Church something is very, very wrong.

Sweet block!!!

BIG TEN CHAMPS!

BIG TEN CHAMPS, BABY!!!!

on a side note, what the fuck is with the fact that osu gets to fucking share the title? i know we get the BCS berth because we own the tie breaker but shouldn't that tie breaker eliminate them from any claim of the title?
I love Penn State, if they play in the Orange bowl this guy is going!!!!!!!!!!

HUNGRY!

You don't think Penn State fans are hungry for a Big Ten Title? For a BCS bowl game? Don't think they'll travel well? 200 PSU fans showed up to wish the Lions well before they left for East Lansing!!!!!!

LETS GO STATE!

The Man, The Myth!

Joe Paterno is quite frankly the man. This is a great article about why! However, elsewhere on CNNSI they predict an upset calling for a 31-24 spartans win. This will simply not happen.
Everybody I talk to today mentions that msu is playing for a bowl berth, and it is completely true msu is playing for a bowl berth. HOWEVER, PSU is playing for the BIG TEN TITLE! The team has been focused all year and that focus will continue with lazer-like intensity on Saturday. I'm not saying the spartans are a bad team, in fact for 5-5 I think they are good but PSU has beaten better this year!
CNNSI does have a good article about the Joepa vs. Bowden battle for winningest coach. This is a great article and basically completely true.

The battle between Paterno and Bobby Bowden for the Division I wins lead doesn't get much attention because Penn State hasn't been very good lately. Paterno passed Bear Bryant in 2001. Bowden overtook Paterno during the 2003 season. Back then it seemed the two might be trading the title of "winningest coach in Division I history" several times a season. And it would have been a perfect back-and-forth because of the contrast between the two programs: Paterno's no-names-on-the-jerseys student-athletes versus Bowden's tomahawk-chopping, look-at-me pre-professionals. It's not really good versus evil, but it's close enough that if you wanted to pretend it was, you could just go ahead and enjoy yourself.

IT IS GOOD VS. EVIL! (just as it will be in a possible PSU vs. miami game!)

GO STATE!!!

Penn State vs. Michigan State Predictions....

I'm making my predictions this week a little early becuase of the trial (Sat.) which is hanging over my like a guillotine. I am, however, very much looking forward to PSU being in E. Lansing to play the spartans for the Big Ten Title. Everybody's said it: the spartans are up and down. will they be up, or will they be down? The oddsmakers have PSU as a 7.5 pt favorite. This is a pretty reasonable estimate, the spartans are at home and they have a good, albeit careless team. My predictions, however, are based on the fact that the spartans simply can't play defense. They give up an average of 28.5 pts/game and 391 yds/game. They can score pts however, averaging 35/game. This is the thing, PSU gives up les than 16pts per game and i see nothing more special about the spartans than osu, minn, or wisc. Based on all of this my predictions go as follows:
PSU: 41
msu: 13

bold, i know, especially since i'm going to a msu fan's house for the game.















GO STATE, Beat the spartans!!!

Gameday in E. Lansing!

Gameday is going to be up in Mich. for the PSU vs. MSU game! I'm thinking PSU is gonna bring home the Land Grant Trophy this year! Go State, beat the spartans!!!!!!!!!

Tamba!

A sweet promo film of Tamba and the Defense in general.

























GO STATE, Beat the spartans!

Vote for Joe!

Vote for JOE!!!!!

Scott Stapp....is a turd.

Poll: Is Scott Stap a man or a turd?




















My vote is turd!

He's a Maniac, MANIAC on the floor!

The Nittany lion also imitates Napoleon Dynamite, here and here!

Heisman baby!

PSU is actually promoting M-Rob for the Heisman....holy crap!

Pretty much why Lavar is still the man!

from the 50-Yard Lion Blog:

"Did you see that game? Oh my gosh. It was crazy," said Arrington, his eyes as wide as saucers. "I was so proud to be a Nittany Lion. That was unreal watching that on television. I felt like I was at the game. I'm sitting there running around my house. I'm pushing my brother out of the way and stuff like that, jumping up. I was calling out audibles and everything."

Then Arrington got to wondering: Why aren't NFL players able to retain the unbridled enthusiasm they felt as college players? That night, when the defense held a players-only meeting on the eve of the Redskins' game against Philadelphia, Arrington stood up and appealed for a school spirit revival.

Arrington even came up with a nickname for the defense, although it wasn't very original.

"We're 'The U.' The defensive unit, it's 'The U,'" he said. "It's kind of cool."

Kind of cool, but also already used by players from the University of Miami.

"Whatever," Arrington said. "Your U. Our U. 'The U.'"
But he will always be from Linebacker U.

Totally. Fuckin. Sweet!

ESPN are liars and jerks!

ESPN analyzes the upcoming weeks games here. In this section the blurb below is included for the ohio state vs. northwestern game:

If Ohio State can win its next two games, it'll earn a share of the Big Ten title. Northwestern upset the Buckeyes last year to end a 24-game losing skid in the series.

There wouldn't be so much wrong with that, if it had any bearing on reality. It only matters if osu wins out, the only way they will earn a share of the Big ten Title is if Penn State loses, which ain't gonna happen. So laugh it up ESPN, laugh it up osu, I'll laugh when your pitiful dreams are crushed under an avalanche of blue & white!
Oh yeah, for those of you who think PSU was whining about calls in the past here is a link to the PSU vs. osu game where the refs handed the game to the fuckeyes by calling this monstrosity a catch!

I Told You So!!!!

Holy crap! I have just see the I Told You So video which has been played before games at Penn State this year. It is insanely awesome! Really just as awesome as any other Penn State videos but still sweet to rub it in to everyone who has been kicking Penn State over the last few years! It is an extremely awesome two minutes and thirty five seconds! Check it out Here!

LETS GO STATE!

A little respect

PSU trounced the badgers this weekend. The badgers only managed 14 pts, all of which came in the 4th quarter. Calhoun managed only 38 yds rushing and only 48 yards receiving! Just as the lions completely dispatched of Lawrence Maroney they have done the same to Mr. Calhoun. The Penn State defense is where highly touted running backs go to die.
It was gratifying to hear Lee Corso say that Paul Posluszny is the best linebacker in the country, it should also be added that Tamba Hali is, at least, one of the best DEs in the country. He dominated Wisconsin's offensive line despite being double teamed for most of the game. The Penn State Defense played lights out football this weekend.
Because of the D I personally think that PSU can play with anyone in the country; including Texas and USC. Yes, I know they are both very good blah-blah blah. Penn State is very good also and I personally believe that we could take anybody in the country. After the bowl games it will be critical to try to get a +1 into the current bowl system, to get a settled champ.
After the win the rankings have come out and PSU has been propelled to #6 in the nation but as to what this means, nobody knows. Where PSU will play their bowl game and against whom will it be? Again, nobody knows.
The Lions get a week off and then PSU needs to seal the deal and beat MSU. The Spartans have been very two-faced this year and are certainly a team that PSU can beat. Penn State just needs to focus on the Spartans and take care of business. Lets Go State!

Dark House

The power at our house has been down for 9 days now and I don't foresee it being reinstalled in the immediate future. This, however, has gotten me to thinking that a reality series about Mere and I living in a house that had no power would be funny. It would be a lot like those "Tiny House" commercials for Geico. I would still say things like: "I just want to make an omelette!!!" or "This is kind of awesome." Of course it is just as equally un-awesome to live in a house that has no power as one that is built 1/3 too small.
There would still be difficulty sleeping, in our case because of the lack of AC as opposed to the bed being too small. Mere would constantly exclaim: "This is NOT awesome!!!!". Really this would be a fairly brilliant show. I would call it "Dark House".

The return of Paternoville!

According to the Collegian, Paternoville has sprung back up in anticipation of the big game this weekend. So awesome! Good work student section! Get nice and fired up for the game!
There is also this video of the Lion dancing to Thriller!

GO STATE, Beat the badgers!!!!!!!!!

Here comes Wisconsin...

The badgers are rolling into happy valley this weekend after dispatching the hapless Illini. Penn State is still flying high after a win at home against a purdue team which hasn't lived up to expectations. This game is fantastically important for both teams because the outcome will, probably, determine the Big Ten Champs. Wisconsin is a very good football team and always have solid front lines on both sides of the ball. Stocco is a solid QB but the real key to winning this game, like so many games, will be for PSU to shut down the running lanes and contain Calhoun. He has rushed for over 1,200 yds and has 19 rushing touchdowns this year! holding this guy under 100 yards has to be priority number one for the defense. It is critical to make Stocco shoulder the load and make him responsible for winning the game.
If the Penn State Defense can slow the wisconsin rushing attack, and the PSU offense can control the ball then Penn State should win. Lets also not forget the Best student section in the country making things rough on the badgers!

My predictions:
PSU: 31
Wisconsin: 17



Lets Go state!