It's tough having split loyalties like that. (Then again, my alma mater's team sucks, so this is no surprise that everyone beats them). I guess I better be careful what sweatshirt I wear outside on game days, though. 
Gokul43201 said:You dirty, rotten Nittany scum ! You just got lucky...all thanks to that lousy interception. Bah !
Gokul43201 said:You dirty, rotten Nittany scum ! You just got lucky...all thanks to that lousy interception. Bah !
Ummm...correct !SpaceTiger said:Yeah, the sack/fumble recovery, fourth-down conversion, and OSU's scoreless second half were pretty lucky too.
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Muck Fichigan. Go Buckeyes !hypatia said:
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I wonder how many times that's happened these last few years ?SpaceTiger said:
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Anyways it is good to have the same fire back in Nebraska after 3 years of it being gone.I missed that one, but the Michigan - Penn State game would've come a close second.loseyourname said:
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You're crazy for not watching the game (WVU vs Louisville) - it was fantastic. The game went into overtime, and a second, and a third - with TDs in all three OTs. In the third OT, UL couldn't complete the mandatory 2-pt conversion, which WVU did !Moonbear said:It was a madhouse here. It was the homecoming game, and I needed to get into the lab to work. Well, if you're not going to the game, you might as well work, because everything else in town was closed for the game! Darn small college towns. But the traffic was horrid...even worse was trying to get back off campus once I was on it...all the ways I know to go were barricaded off for game parking.
Bleh. I could do without the games. I wouldn't mind doing the tailgate parties, but people here seem to take the games too seriously and I'm just starting to get irritated that I can't just get into the lab and get my work done without having to navigate around all the football traffic (on the up-side, the parking lot I'm usually assigned to park in is used for football parking, so I get a special permit for game days to park right up next to the building I work in...the door closest to my lab evenGokul43201 said:You're crazy for not watching the game (WVU vs Louisville) - it was fantastic. The game went into overtime, and a second, and a third - with TDs in all three OTs. In the third OT, UL couldn't complete the mandatory 2-pt conversion, which WVU did !
Of course...I've been studying all day !
). It's the only day I don't have to hike up a mountain from the parking lot to my lab. but she found some MD in Syracuse this week...sorry Gokul, I tried. I thought you'd be her type, and Columbus is closer than Syracuse.)Moonbear said:Bleh. I could do without the games. I wouldn't mind doing the tailgate parties, but people here seem to take the games too seriously and I'm just starting to get irritated that I can't just get into the lab and get my work done without having to navigate around all the football traffic (on the up-side, the parking lot I'm usually assigned to park in is used for football parking, so I get a special permit for game days to park right up next to the building I work in...the door closest to my lab even
It was the only day that the equipment I needed to use wasn't booked solid (gee, I wonder whyloseyourname said:
). I'd have preferred taking the day off just to avoid the traffic, but the work needed to get done.Really? Is Syracuse that bad this year?
Maybe that's why I'm so unenthusiastic about college football. How could you get excited about it if your team lost every game you ever attended? WVU beat them last week, so I was a little happy to finally be on the winning side, though I had mixed feelings about who I wanted to win.They did have a great game last week, beating Michigan...finally !loseyourname said:
Into OT yet ? I'm rooting for WSU. And for Virginia against FSU.
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There, there ...SpaceTiger said:
No you can't do without the games! Yesterday's game was AWESOME! Everyone was leaving thinking the game was over when it was 7-24 and then when we had 8 mins left everyone was running back to see WVU's huge comeback. We had a min left when we got the score up to 24 to tie Louisville and then went in three OT's. No one believed what was going on and everyone was cheering like crazy. You've GOT to go to the next two games. BTW, www.wvugame.com to get tickets.Moonbear said:Bleh. I could do without the games. I wouldn't mind doing the tailgate parties, but people here seem to take the games too seriously and I'm just starting to get irritated that I can't just get into the lab and get my work done without having to navigate around all the football traffic (on the up-side, the parking lot I'm usually assigned to park in is used for football parking, so I get a special permit for game days to park right up next to the building I work in...the door closest to my lab even
I don't even know how to get tickets here yet (I didn't look into it because I thought it would be cold by now and I'm not into the sitting in bleachers freezing thing so only usually go to the first few games of the season if I go to any). I just got information on basketball tickets yesterday, so I probably started too late to get information on football tickets.
I visited a friend (post-doc in our lab) downtown after work (tried to suggest I should fix her up with you
Next two games? One is a Wednesday! I have experiments to do and can't just pick up and leave in the middle of them (Why oh why did they pick a weekday?! Geez, how are employees supposed to get work done?). The other one is Thanksgiving. Shouldn't people be home with their families, not hanging around for football? I never understood why there are games on a holiday that is supposed to be celebrated with family...the players should be allowed to go home and eat turkey like everyone else.Physics_wiz said:
Hello ? What'll the rest of us watch while we're eating turkey (with our families) ?Moonbear said:
We never turned on football on Thanksgiving in my family. It was considered rude to watch TV and ignore the guests (or to be a guest and help yourself to watching the host(ess)' TV).Gokul43201 said:
Poor guests ! Did they ever come back ?Moonbear said:
Yep, every year. It didn't matter, even if we went to one of the other relative's houses, it was the same. I only have one cousin who is really into football, but even he understands that family gatherings are for family, not watching TV. They should play the games the Friday after Thanksgiving when everyone is sitting around overstuffed on leftover turkey from the day before with nothing better to do (I might even watch football that day...it's better than the other national past-time of going to overcrowded malls on that day.Gokul43201 said:Poor guests ! Did they ever come back ?
)The real loss was Derrick Williams breaking his arm on the final Penn State series of the game. Out for the season.Gokul43201 said:
That's more reasonable. Let them go be with their families then come back on the weekend for a game.Gokul43201 said:
Shouldn't have to be college sports...let the kids go home for the holiday. They should leave that for the pro teams...for what they get paid, one should expect to have to work holidays.
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