Welcome back my fellow college football fans and fanatics!
We are less than two weeks away from the first FCS game on the “Red Inferno” of
Eastern Washington, fifteen days away from the first FBS game between Georgia
Southern and Abilene Christian in the Georgia Dome, and a mere sixteen days
until I attend my first Gate n Game of the season at South Carolina. The
Tailgate has put together another aggressive plan for the season with a mix of
new and repeat venues with family, friends and fellow obsessive compulsive CFB groupies
(OCDers). This is going to be an exciting year as we will see the first D1A
college football playoff ever. There will be four teams to start but we hope to
see more in the future. I would ultimately like to see a sixteen team format. There was more conference realignment and too
many coaching changes to name that materialized since the end of last season so
I won’t focus on that.
I am dedicating this season to a dear friend of the Tailgate,
Fritz Scharff. Fritz lost his courageous battle to cancer in the off season. He
attended all of the ND/Stanford games with me through the years along with ND
at USC, NW @ Cal and all of my game day backyard bashes. I know in your heaven
Fritz there will be a Notre Dame game on TV and a cold one in your hand each
and every day.
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| Dan, Fritz and Italian/Irish Mike Iorio at USC game in 2012 |
I will ask as always for you the loyal DFT followers to make
comments in the comment section at the end of each weekly write up. I get a lot of great e–mails from many of you
each week but would like to see more banter on the site. Text me your game day
and tailgate pictures and stories and I will post them if I feel like it. Moreover,
please share this site with fellow college football fans. Let me know if you
will be at any of the games I am attending and I will let you buy me a beer and
sign some autographs, shake hands and kiss babies. Send T Shirts of your alma matter or favorite team and
I will wear it to support that team unless it is USC or Florida. I am also
begging for you to buy your junk on amazon.com by clicking on the amazon link on my site
first. Moreover, click on those rotating google ads every time you are on the site. You
see I get rich this way. Last season I
made $20 doing this. That will be enough to buy my brother Brian his annual
nose bleed seat at the Army Navy game while I bask in the comfort of a warm
luxury suite. I have even activated a beggars button with PayPal at the top. Also, I have activated a Twitter account. I have no clue how to use it and will
probably incriminate myself repeatedly throughout the season by saying things
that Mrs. Tailgate does not condone. So if you’re a twit, here is my handle:
@dantailgater. #Hash-tag that folks! (that symbol is still the pound sign in my
book)
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| DFT goes the way of unsocial media |
The following is the DFT lineup to start the season. As in
all previous years, there will be amendments to this as the season progresses:
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Home Team
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8/28
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8/30
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9/6
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9/13
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9/20
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Backyard Party
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9/27
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10/4
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10/11
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10/18
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10/25
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11/1
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11/8
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11/15
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11/22
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11/29
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Marriage Counseling
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Detox
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12/6
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PAC 12 Championship
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12/13
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12/27
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San Francisco Bowl
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Levis Stadium
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1/1/15
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Rose Bowl
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Pasadena
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| Hiz Beebness in da pokey! |
The Bieber Award is back. I searched for another celebrity stain (“Stainlebrity”) to replace the Beebs but his stainage has grown even wider since last off season. Just ask Leonardo DiCaprio and Orlando Bloom about that. Moving right along, there were many well qualified candidates to take the off season Beebs award within CFB. With the 476 arrests, 238 dismissals, 191 flunk outs, the attempt to unionize CFB, and a host of other incidents worthy of Biebhood. The decision was tough, but one Stain Beeb stands out the most and that is none other than the much heralded five star Oklahoma Freshman Joe Mixon. This one is tough as my # 2 is now a freshman in Sooner land and Mr. Mixon is a local Bay Area legend. Sooner Nation and the Tailgate were really looking forward to his arrival on the plains of Oklahoma and watching him tear it up on the gridiron. It was possible that the Tailgate would have even considered young Joe as Son in Law material. Nonetheless what he did pretty much trumps all other Bieber offenses, he punched a girl in the face and broke it in 4 places. Who does that? I have seen this specimen in person and he is a beast. Perhaps a bit too much roid rage. No pun intended but this hits close to home with my daughter being in the same freshman class as this dude. As of the time of this writing, Mixon has been suspended while the investigation is underway. Say it ain’t so Joe!
Miscellaneous
Please be sure to check out the Movie When the Game
Stands Tall coming to theaters this month. It is the Screen adaptation of
the book that was published in 2003 chronicling the amazing De La Salle High
School football streak of 152 straight wins. De La Salle is the local Catholic
Boys School out here in the East Bay that has one of the most impressive sports
programs at any level.
Here is a little Kenny Chesney video to get you thinking
bout them Boys of Fall:
Happy Tailgating!
