2006 September » Brats & Beer

September 17, 2006

I’ll come right out and admit it: I suck at predicting games, especially when it comes to teams I root for. Of course it would help if I rooted for teams like the Indianapolis Colts because then I could predict victory every week and be right most of the time, but then I’d be a […]

Why do my Cyclones do this to me? Either play to the end and win the game or just concede early so I can get on with other things. Iowa State played a brilliant first half yesterday to take a 14-3 lead over the Schmuckeyes but went stone cold in the second half and allowed […]

September 15, 2006

It’s time finally to stop all this grousing about last week’s shellacking at the hands of the Bears and look instead to the future, to getting this Packer train back on the tracks and rolling forward instead of backwards. Thank goodness (maybe) Green Bay has New Orleans coming to town this Sunday, which could be […]

Get ready Hawks fans, because the Cyclones are coming into your house tomorrow, drinking all of your beer, stealing your women, and generally kicking your ass up and down the football field. Yeah! Another chapter in the ISU – UI rivalry gets written this weekend and the Clones are looking to put the hammer down […]

The UW Badgers are 2-0 and looking to extend their winning streak this weekend against the San Diego State Aztecs. Last week Wisconsin played a pretty sloppy game again Western Illinois, struggling with turnovers and penalties in what should have been a total romp, so hopefully they can work out some of those issues tomorrow […]

September 13, 2006

Okay, maybe it’s too early for this sort of cynicism, we are only one game into the season after all, but isn’t Ted Thompson dancing around awfully fast for our amusement instead of trying to fix the leak in our little boat? One minute he’s signing Slushy McBoozer and the next he’s trading away our […]

September 12, 2006

Great galloping ghosts of Scooter McLean, what a demoralizing turn of events that was. Zero points? I was mentally prepared for a loss to the Bears, but not a shutout fer crying out loud. The Packers couldn’t sustain a drive deeper that the 35-yard line, and that ended in a missed field goal. They were […]

September 10, 2006

It was another solid win for UW football, now 2-0 in this young 2006 season. Despite some mistakes, the Badgers rolled to an easy 34-10 victory over the Western Illinois Leathernecks. John Stocco threw for 227 yards and one touchdown, while PJ Hill continued to power the running game with 101 yards and three scores […]

After winning their first game ever in overtime (triple OT no less), the ISU Cyclones didn’t make things any easier on themselves last night against UNLV, though they still managed to eek out a 16-10 victory. The game came right down to the final play after the Rebels drove all the way to the Iowa […]

September 9, 2006

Tomorrow marks the opening of another Packer season, and I’m feeling all the angst and trepidation of a little kid on Christmas Eve thinking back on all the bad things he’s done in the past year. Maybe Santa didn’t notice all those times I said H-E-double hockey sticks (Dad says it all the time, you […]