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by Kevin HD on Sep 10, 2008 9:00 AM EDT in Football Comment 14 comments

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The anticipation of what the refs will think up by next year's UConn game is killing Temple Football Forever. The blown call in last year's game was truly a joke and led directly to us all having to stomach UConn's rise to (and I still can't believe this actually happened) 13th in the BCS rankings.
LaVar Arrington, who had his deal to buy the Sports Cafe swiped from under him, literally wishes a plague on the crooked owner of the place. This is not only totally warranted, but also totally awesome.
After a humbling win against Duke this week, LTP wonders if the schedule needs to be more focused on fan interest rather than taking a 4-0 OOC record to the bank.
LTP actually takes a shot at PSU's week three opponent, Syracuse. TNIAAM is depressed but hardly uninterested. We'll catch up with them in a couple of days.
Paint The Town Orange reacts to Illinois' week two performance and expresses concern about their run defense. Penn State's Big Ten opener against the Illini is just three short weeks away.
This one is from the vault, but for you game theorist, the now defunct Pitch Right posted a thorough analysis of what to make of the new craze that's sweeping the nation: the hula hoop the spread offense.

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Interesting Paint the Town Orange stat

Illinois gave up 173 rushing yards to EIU. Maybe the Illinois defense was just uninspired by their opponent and played soft. Or it could be a major weakness exploited by the PSU running game.

by DCPSU on Sep 10, 2008 9:41 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Gawd the Sportscafe is such a dive.

I spent too many college nights drinking Michael Shea’s with a bunch of dudes. The only thing that made it decent was the patio in the front and the proximity to my old apartment.

Strange bouncers, too. I remember a friend taking the basketballs from the free-throw shooting game and throwing them around the bar. He never was asked to stop, let alone get kicked out.

A plague would probably be an improvement.

by Cairo on Sep 10, 2008 9:54 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Boycott Sports Cafe

I used to like going to the Sports Cafe on occasion, even though it really went downhill a ton from the time I first got here in 2005 until it closed last winter. The place was really a dump though, and sometimes didn’t even have food! Seriously, one time a couple buddies and I went to order some wings, and the guy at the counter said he had to go in the back and count how many wings they had — only nine! And that they wouldn’t get more in for four more days. That, and the place was never clean either, not remotely (I’m surprised it took the health dept that long to shut them down). Oh, and not being open during the World Cup in 2006 because they failed to pay their electric bill, causing their power to be shut off. I could go on and on. Everything that was constantly wrong with the place convinced us that the management of Sports Cafe had to be among the worst management in the history of business. In any case, until the current owner sells the place, I’m never going back. Kevin Anderson’s not getting another penny of my money. Tell all your friends to boycott the place too!

Let's Go State!

by Gopher Broke on Sep 10, 2008 10:08 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The best thing about the Sports Cafe

Was the free food. I can’t even tell you how many times my friends and I would spend the night drinking there and sit in the booths near the food counter.
We would just wait for a good looking order to come up on the counter, and when they called the name for the food, we would just walk up, pretend it was ours, and then take it back to the table and eat it. They never asked for a receipt or anything.
Ahhh, free chicken fingers and fries are the perfect end to a night of $2 amber bocks!

I bleed Blue and White.

by Horse N Buggy on Sep 10, 2008 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hahahahaa.

I did that once too. I swear I would do things in that place I would never even consider doing anywhere else on Earth.

I would intentionally play “Roundabout” by Yes five times in a row. It’s a lame song to play at a bar and it lasts ten minutes. People would start leaving the bar midway through the second song, but no one in the establishment would get up and kill the juke box. I don’t even think I last to the fifth song.

Maybe Kenny Anderson got a better offer from Brandon Short

by Cairo on Sep 10, 2008 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

By the end of it's run

Sports Cafe was nothing more than roll over seating for Cafe 210 West. Want to sit outside, Cafe is full, Sports Cafe will do. It opened while I was in school, they never cleaned it after it opened. So for the first year or so it was okay. Cheap Beer, decent wings, and they never cut anybody off. The last time I was there was for the Eagles/Patriots Super Bowl. I tipped the bartender $10 to play the Rocky soundtrack, it got a pretty good reaction.

"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008

by jesse. on Sep 10, 2008 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Boycott!!!

Anderson has always been a scumbag. No surprise he screwed someone else. The fact that it was Lavar is the last straw for me.

by ebradlee10 on Sep 10, 2008 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Re: Temple

did you see the Al Golden presser after the game? His dedication to that team is impressive.

by PSUgirl on Sep 10, 2008 12:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

A blah 2 weeks

I feel like the next 2 weeks are gonna be pretty boring around here. (Let’s hope the off-field shenanigans keep it that way.) Syracuse and Temple don’t generate any interest or concern or even notes from the opposing team’s bloggers (like OSU).

Got anything that can keep us stoked until some exciting PSU football arrives??

by NJ lion on Sep 10, 2008 7:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Very few things in life sucked worse than the Sports Cafe. Great spot if you want to hang out with 50 dudes and no girls while eating shitty food.

Beyond that, it was a garbage dump.

I fully support Lavar on this one.

by Tailgate Shogun on Sep 10, 2008 7:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I graduated before the existence of the Sports Cafe...

is it on the west end – used to be a Pizza Hut?

pinkertonpark.com - you owe yerself a laugh.

by rahpsu92 on Sep 11, 2008 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Usually don't do this but....

It amazes me how many ignorant morons like yourself are talking sports on the internet these days. This phenomena is one of the reasons I am disliking college football more and more. You only point out the few select instances where a team appears to benefit from a “bad” call and discredit all of the positives the team displays during the SEASON. For instance, you say how the “blown” call in the Temple game was such a joke. You are such a joke you do not even know the details. The Temple players foot landed in bounds with 42 seconds to play. If Temple went for 2 and were successful, they would be up 3. That leaves UCONN with 42 whole seconds with 2 timeouts to drive and set up a field goal to either win or send the game into overtime. More importantly was the call. This play was ruled a TOUCHDOWN and was reviewed. The booth reviewed the play and it certainly appeared that the Temple player’s foot was in bounds. However, not one camera view available for the booth showed the player actually possessing, or even holding, the ball. Because the ball could not be seen, there was NOT CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE that the player had possession of the ball. If you would like, I could send you a video from a UCONN camera that showed the ball was on the lower part of the facemask by the neck. The Louisville game was another controversial one. The Larry Taylor fair catch play was indeed an awful call but CERTAINLY did not take the game away from Louisville. What everyone seems to forget in this game were the 2 plays that happened later in the game that negatively effected UCONN. One was a punt that CLEARLY hit a Louisville player first and was recovered by a UCONN player on the Louisville 1 yard line. The other was another CLEAR fumble by Louisville. It seems that the refs knew their Larry Taylor fair catch play was wrong so they made up for it with these atrocious calls. Instead of totally degrading your integrity and continue to rip you a new asshole, I suggest you take your glasses off and change your biased and square views because it shows that you really have no idea what you are talking about.

by ur a square on Sep 11, 2008 12:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs