2011 Week 6
October 13, 2011
Now I usually get pretty fired up by now because I want to see all these bigtime conference battles. And we did have a few of them, LSU throttled Florida, R Kansas blew out defending BS champion Auburn, and, in Big East action, Air Force got bombarded by Notre Dame.
In the Big Ten Penn State put on an offensive show against Iowa, winning 13-3. You'll recall a few years ago when the Nittany Lions beat the Huckeyes 6-4 by scoring three safeties while holding Iowa to a field goal and an extra point. This time JoePa's boys managed a field goal and five safeties.
Out West one has to be impressed with Jack Harbaugh's Stanford team, as they clobbered Colorado. Stanford might well be the west coast's finest team, just ahead of the Song Girls.
I'd also like to mention the Nebraska Cornholio's first home game in the Big Ten. The guys from Lincoln mounted a great comeback and knocked off Ohio State 34-27. With an 0-2 start in the league the pressure must be mounting on Coach Tress.
We also saw some of these strange games against foreign schools. The Idaho Fighting Vendors, believe it or not, got pounded by the roughest toughest 180 pound linemen from Paris, La Tech. I for one think it's a disgrace to lose to a team from Europe. At least when Yukon beats somebody they're North American, and I saw that Western Virginia took it to them the other day.
Some of the times the foreign teams play each other, such as a couple weeks ago when two fine teams from our other nearest neighbor battled it out, when New Mexico State knocking off New Mexico. I told my good friend Herb Street that I look forward to battles "South of the Border" and he mumbled something about Erin Andrews and wax. I don't understand Herb at times.
Back when I was a kid you wouldn't see games against Canuckian and Mexican teams like Yukon and New Mexico. Coaches like Anus Alonzo Stagg would usually take their teams around the Midwest and occasionally out East.
One time Coach Stagg did take U-Chicago over to Europe to play some exhibition games and, as a young SID, I was fortunate enough to accompany the team. We were told that the European style of football involved a major focus on the trenches, but we were shocked at how violent the game was in the trenches.
We finally realized that it was time to high-tail it out of there as guns were going off all around us. I didn't think we'd have a chance to escape, but my escargot dinner didn't agree with me and I had some really bad bloating. I finally let loose, our pursuers fell over coughing, and we got away.
That's how mustard gas was invented. And now you know the rest of the story.