At the Samford game, where all the girls say “Warrrr Eagle!”
Or is that a yawn? Hard to tell.
As to this guy, I have no idea. That’s not true. I have some idea. I think he’s from the 1970s and has a time machine.
This guy got into the game early, and stayed with it the entire afternoon:
Tiger claw. Looks a bit purplish, though:
I’m not sure if she and her sister watched any of the game, but both of their parents spent the entire four quarters with binoculars to their eyes:
Future’s so bright …
It was actually a bit warm when the sun came out from behind the clouds to check on the game. When the sun was off working elsewhere, however, and the wind was blowing in from the north, there was a bit of a chill. Altogether a lovely day to spend outside with friends.
The multiple tiger stripe patterns confuse other animals in the wild:
Mr. Penny does push ups for the team, and he’s a fixture on the wall in the north end zone. Great guy. He works in the local school system, is one of those people who you never see without a smile on his face and loves the kids he works with.
This last year the community raised money (some $9,000 that turned into tickets for the Pennys, new luggage and season tickets this year, and then they had to ask people to stop donating) to send him to the national championship game in Arizona. Wonderful story, which you can hear him talk about here.
“Mr. Penny said that.”
This little guy was not happy the early goings on of the game:
Everything all worked out in the end:
Meanwhile, at the movies, we watched that wretched film last week with a flat Edward and a homecoming queen:
That’s via The Daily State. (Update: That site later noted the most prominent sponsor of that bill has lost his job as head of the senate rules committee. Sen. Scott Beason has been … less well-measured than the governor.)
It has been one of Newsweek’s signature ventures and a staple of American political journalism since 1984.
Every presidential election season, the magazine detached a small group of reporters from their daily jobs for a year to travel with the presidential candidates and document their every internal triumph and despair — all under the condition that none of it was to be printed until after the election.
Then two days after Election Day, the sum of their reporters’ work would appear in the magazine. But the ambitious undertaking, known inside the magazine simply as “the project,” is no more. Newsweek, bleeding red ink and searching for a fresh identity under new ownership, has decided the project would not go forward this election season.
They’re blaming the faster news cycle, because rich, in-depth coverage gets trumped in 140 character increments. But not always.
As indulgent journalism goes, this was good stuff, but the bigger problem for the series is money. Following the campaigns at length is an expensive proposition. Shame, too. I stopped reading Newsweek years ago, but always picked up this election edition, but it will be no more.
There is an alternative.
Politico and Random House have teamed up to produce serialized campaign e-books that will be released in four installments as the presidential race unfolds. The first is due out Nov. 30 and already has a title: “Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back.”
Might be worth checking out.
Speaking of e-books, the Los Angeles Times is publishing their first one, an expanded version of a two-part series, one of their most popular stories of the year. They’ve got several more in the pipeline, which seems a good idea. That might be a nice piece of supplemental content in the near term.
Otherwise your typical Monday, preparing for classes and things. Wrote a current events quiz I decided not to give. Did some more reading. Watched Pirate Radio, marveled at the music and the musical anachronisms. The movie was set in 1966, but a lot of the songs were newer than that. And there was a great Seekers line, but they were never played, as far as I noticed. This wouldn’t fit into the feeling of the film:
The writing was rather witty, the title of this post comes from late in the action, though not much that took place was unexpected. Still, a fine thing to listen to in the background. This was in the movie, but it is from 1968:
Same deal here, two years too young, but a fantastic song:
Cutting edge Australian rock from 1966:
And I could have put Dusty Springfield here, or the Isley Brothers. But a 1962 Otis Redding track is in the movie, and so it really isn’t a consideration:
Wondered where the day went, even as it was full of little things here and there that filled up the afternoon. Today having already slipped into some realm of memory, and tomorrow remaining out there on a horizon of possibility, maybe it is more important to know where tomorrow is going.
CBS fills their studio time discussing Penn State. They wrap it up with
Aaron Taylor — of Notre Dame and the Packers and Chargers — compares Joe Paterno’s legacy to a goal line fumble. It was a properly tortured analogy concluded with a somber note by his studio colleague Adam Zucker, “And he’d never fumbled before.”
Except the LAST TWO DECADES.
So there was the Georgia game. And that was bad. Just in case no one paid attention to that game, which started with a bad call and was punctuated throughout with poor play with only one exception. Selected tweets, from a :
That first down was brought to you by Georgia math.
Hey a legitimate UGa first down. Congratulations to the referee who did not have to compromise his ethics or vision plan to make it happen.
Referees 7, UGa 0, Auburn, 0. Thanks for that first down spot, fellas.
TOUCHDOWN AUBURN! C.J. Uzomah to @LUTZenkirchen! 7-7, still in the first.
Bulldog to helmet. I suspect whining to begin any moment now.
I’d like to point out we have an All-American caliber running back on the roster … and he has one total yard thus far.
Pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass. Third and long? Let’s run a draw!
So about that bye week …
Remember when Malzahn described the offense as a play action down field rushing attack? Good times.
Alright, the first time they ran the backdoor pass it was nice. That’s just … not good.
This game is where even the generally fair-minded are questioning Ted Roof. There’s enough of that for most everyone just now.
So let’s see: Youth, Murray, play calling, defensive schemes … anybody else want to contribute?
Was that four go routes and O-Mac underneath? Is that as good as it gets now?
Defensively that’s an unforced fumble, a punt and a drive stopped by a clock. (Let’s not acknowledge the five TDs.) War Adjustments.
89 net yards for AU in the first half. Four yds for Dyer. 10:53 TOP. 2/7 on third down conversions. UGA? 318 yards, 7/8 3rd downs.
Not interested in demanding firings, but 89 yards against the SEC’s #4 defense should earn a partial $1.3 million refund.
Between @WBE_Jerry, 14-year vet @HABOTN and the boards, everyone has decided that was the worst half of Auburn football maybe ever.
Of course that’s a modern conceit. Some folks do recall the Barfield years. But most recent comparisons are … comparable.
I would say the 2008 and 2001 Iron Bowls are as close a 21st century similarity as you could get people to consider.
Mark Richt, most impressed by a spear. Yeah, that’s about right.
Auburn has played five top-15 teams on the road this year. That never ceases to impress.
What in this game has impressed upon the coaching staff that the screen pass is there? What?
Tough setback for T’Sharvan Bell. Depth in the secondary now beyond being an issue.
On air with @IngramSmith, and considering the enigma that is/was UGa, I thought it would be a close game, pending ball bounces. Oops.
Youth was on display, and that was one part of why this game was so bad. They’ll get better in due time, but the Tigers will get even younger with T’Sharvan Bell’s knee injury. It didn’t look like the news was good on the sideline, and so the shaky secondary becomes a bit less stable. Two games to go, homecoming next weekend against Samford and then Alabama brings the nation’s best defense into Jordan-Hare to finish the season. No biggie.
Now comes the time of year when stories must be submitted for contests and other notable honors. This is a multiple-day process that will stretch into next week, includes solving Byzantine riddles and parsing out the meaning of a rough online translation of a fortune cookie’s first draft.
There are very precise rules for news contests. It requires a great deal of precise effort, because imprecision means disqualification. It is a mess, really. But then you think of the person who must deal with the many submissions.
He is a kind man, and he welcomes dealing with these submissions and finding judges and sending out the clips and getting them returned and sorting out winners and he does it in a contest that can have about 30 categories for dozens of schools. He’s also a patient, hardworking man. And he needs these rules in place, just to make sense of it all.
So you can’t complain, really. Almost every one of the rules makes sense when you see it from his point of view. And if you heard the reasoning behind the other two or three rules you’d probably think, “Yeah, well, that figures too.”
Which doesn’t exactly make the entire process fun, but it is an important one. And, as I said, will stretch into next week.
Busy day otherwise. Jefferson County voted to file for bankruptcy, the largest municipal failure in the history of the United States. Here’s a fine timeline on the issue from August. It saddens me to read that. This story has been going on my entire adult life.
Indeed, it was one of the first stories I ever reported on the radio. And even back then it seemed like this would go on forever. More than a decade later, they’ve avoided the bankruptcy for as long as possible.
And so here’s the next story, the numb and numbly titled Now What?
Speaking of the radio, I returned to the old format for about five minutes this evening. Ingram Smith, sitting in for Chuck Oliver, asked all the right questions about a football game coming up this weekend. I surely gave all the wrong answers. The final conclusion: if the ball bounces the right way the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry will have a close finish.
Speaking of football and old and tradition and finishing … Here’s the historic Penn State press conference from this evening. I especially like when the students in the room started asking questions.
That will be around water coolers for a good long while.
