Tailgate Grounded

After the marathon weekend in Norman, my handlers recommended I take this weekend off from road tripping. I acquiesced to those wishes and stayed in the 925. That doesn’t mean I did nothing. We did attend the Monte Vista high school game and tailgate Friday night as the Mustangs went 4-0 with another win over El Cerrito. The remainder of the weekend was spent working on my Burt Reynolds poses on the couch, with remote and libation in hand, watching some great CFB action.

Friday night lights, pre-gaming and Charlie Mac rockin the plum shirt.

Couch Potato Saturday

Around the Country - On Friday night, the nation saw what all the fuss was about in the Central Valley of Cali, as QB Jake Haener led Fresno State to another win. Fresno, perhaps suffering from a hangover from their big upset over UCLA the prior weekend, allowed a downtrodden UNLV to make a game out of it. Haener put the Bulldogs on his back and led them to victory by tossing for 378 yards and five TDs, four of which went to WR Jaeln Cropper. #Haener4Hesiman. Upset Saturday was in full effect yesterday: Minnesota, a 31-point-favorite over Bowling Green, lost by four at home. Let’s give Woo Pig Sooie some love as the Hogs upset the Aggies from Texas A&M at Jerry World. Down the road from Big D in Waco, the Yellow clad Baylor Bears took down the #14 Iowa State Cyclones. Don’t sleep on the Road Runners from UTSA as they knocked off Group of Five powerhouse Memphis. In Raleigh, NC, the students rushed the field as the Wolfpack pulled off the unthinkable by beating Clemson for the first time in over a decade. There were many near misses as well: Auburn escaped embarrassment by winning the last two minutes of the game against Atlanta City College (GA State). Wyoming almost coughed one up to lowly U’Cant, and the fighting Schianos from New Jersey State University (Rutgers) gave the blue & maize Harbaughs in Ann Arbor a scare. Congrats to coach Brian Kelly for passing Knute Rockne as Notre Dame’s all time winningest coach by leading the Irish to a victory over the Badgers in Soldier Field.

#3 visiting her bestie at TCU Tailgate

The Bostics being overserved at Penn State

The Duncan family at last week's Notre Dame game

Bieber -

During the first half of Ohio State’s blowout of the nation’s worst team, the Akron Zips, backup OSU linebacker K’Vaughan Pope got his feelings hurt. Pope was called off the field for another player by a coach. He proceeded to throw a temper tantrum where he threw his gloves into the stands and stormed off the field. If that isn’t entitlement at its best, it gets even better. He grabbed a phone and tweeted. In his tweet he instructed Ohio State on the art of self fornication. His other tweet read “good lucc to my teammates 100%.” I am going to take a wild guess here that Pope still has not passed English 101 and does not have much else beyond football. In that case, he does now have some Bieber hardware that he can hock at a local pawn shop in Columbus for some extra coin.

Ginger - Who doesn’t love that guy that buys a round of beer for the whole bar? I have one even better. Portland State head football coach Bruce Barnum promised to buy beer for every fan that came to their home opener against Western Oregon. Naturally, many thirsty fans posted up for the game. 2,064 thirsty fans in fact. This publicity stunt cost the coach over 14 large but the added attendance helped root his team to a narrow victory. Even the school brass applauded this gesture by the coach. So, Coach, you might be out 14 big ones but you now have a prestigious Ginger award to fall back on when times get tough.

Free grog fro all!

Next Up - The Tailgate takes its talents to the Little Apple of Manhattan, KS, for the Oklahoma vs. K State game. I will be babysat by my college buddy Jerry Buck Hampton who got his first hall pass in two years of marriage.

    

Happy Tailgating!