It’s almost here….

That last paragraph brought a tear to my eye….Either that or my scolding hot coffee.

Hey, if you don’t like RUTS, you can just tell him.

You don’t need to make these anonymous insult posts about him missing the first game (and most others) because he lives too far away. You know, Harrisburg?

Oh, and don’t think just because we park in the red lot four rows away from the stadium and donate an amount to the NLC roughly the same size as the national GDP of Blogswana that we’re not hard core fans.

For crying out loud, we rented an apartment in State College this semester just to make our tailgating that much more efficient. We’re the first ones in the lot at 7am, and the last to leave.

Why? Because we don’t believe in religion. We believe in Penn State football.

A game against Coastal Carolina isn’t Penn State football.

And you guys that willingly pay for this are enabling that kind of shameful scheduling.

Maybe it’s me, but that picture of Jerry Rice (FFOC ad) looks like Benson.

that we “love-PSU-football-but-can’t-make-the-mental-leap-to-obsess-about-recruiting-season” fans get to use to remember what number goes with the player. This way we can sound intelligent next week when Mike Mauti subs in for Chris Colasanti. Posers? I’ll let you decide.

“There is no way you’re passing up one last Labor Day weekend getaway to the beach house in Margate to see Coastal Carolina.”

The beach house is in Avalon, not Margate!

And our last QB, Michael something is actually a running back.

Mike, I’ve gotta say, this post (and its comments, of course) has got me rethinking what this phrase means to me. I used to freakin hate its use. Hate it! Mostly cuz of its origin: a device media members utilize to remind their readers—their constituents—that they have more access to a sport, its teams and its players and coaches and to assert, quite inaccurately, that, as such, they ‘know’ more about all of it. That they are more and better than the ‘casual fan.’ Those of us in DC have been hearing that kind of nonsense from the Post’s Thomas Boswell for years now. But the game has changed, and, as we saw on that Costas piece a few months back, Blogswana has rewritten the landscape and these dbag columnists are losing their power. The website mob is taking over, and in some cases we’re even showing we’re smarter! (actually not that often yet, but we’re trying).

Anyway, I love what you’ve done with the casual fan here. Its an age-old football tactic, too—playing the underdog card. Rep some bluecollar in the face of the fruh-fruh! Self-deprecating doesn’t hurt either (yeah, we’re the geeks who posted every day of the offseason). And it’s a great narrative, too. All set up to culminate in a celebration of why we’re all here: love, man.

I’m trying to get my last preseason fix, and this hooked me up. I identified most with this line: ’We’ll be the ones hastily wiping the tears from our eyes so we can watch the drum major nail the flip without blurred vision.’ Ain’t a goddamn thing casual about that.

Living in TN, I don’t get to go to many games. In fact, the ones I have been able to go to in the past (and buy tix for) were games like this weekend’s game. And I bought the tix, drove 14 hours straight, sat in the nosebleed, and enjoyed every SECOND. But that’s just me. If I lived in PA, I would be at every game, no matter who were are playing.

And I love cheese. Mmmmmmm. Any food is good tailgate food!

“Let them live in their oblivious utopia where any day they can sit in Beaver Stadium and let the sun, rain, or snow fall on their face is a good day.” When you can only get tix to 1 or 2 games (usually the OOC games) and have to make a multi-state drive to PSU, ANY game is a good game. But it’s more than just the football – it’s tailgating, ladder golf and Yuengling, seeing Mt Nittany, women’s volleyball, soccer, seeing the old dorm, Waffle Shop, the bookstore for blue and white stuff, the shrine, the bars – everything that makes Happy Valley and the PSU football experience what it is. So criticize those of us who go to these “crappy” games, but we’re still gonna go to relive the college days and enjoy a little Happy Valley utopia.

My girlfriend gives me 39 hours, I’ll give her the other 8000 in a year.

OK, she’s gotta give me the Superbowl, the first two days of March Madness, Masters Sunday too. But you get my point.

Hey, I agree to an extent with M1EK, I don’t agree with the Bowl Subdivision game, but at the same time the current trend for better or worse is to play those weak teams, so I am going to sit back and enjoy a win.

i havent read anyones post yet, im too excited to not automatically say hell to the yes… this was an awesome post mike, it really damns the man. eff you old man who looks at me when i stand like im still in the student section and the one that shakes his head when i yell till i cant talk because I CAN AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF THE GAME…..whooooooooo thanks mike