The FSU faithful are going absolutely FREAKING insane
by AdamShell on Oct 7, 2009 2:34 AM EDT
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Florida State fans are making news with their plan to wear black at home against Georgia Tech this Saturday night on ESPN to protest Bobby Bowden. The measure garnered national attention, and been hailed as "innovative, and strikingly visual."
The movement has exploded with over 4550 members in the official Facebook Group only 48 hours after its creation. Creator Andre Roman projects it could easily reach 10,000 supporters before the game. Organizers expect to have at least half of Florida State's student section to be decked out in black.
With the recent news that Florida State is close to finalizing a deal with current Offensive Coordinator/ Head Coach in Waiting Jimbo Fisher, allowing Fisher to assume total control of the team, including personnel decisions, I wondered if the plan is still on. I caught up with Joseph Johnson, one of the movement's top organizers. Despite effort by some in the university to quash the measure, Johsnon says their passion for a quality college football program will not be silenced. Continue reading:
Ok guys, let me help you out here.
1.) Florida State is trying to finalize a deal with Jimbo Fisher so that he will essentially be the head coach. I mean, really, Bowden doesn't do anything anyway, so you're protesting someone who does absolutely nothing?
2.) Black is not strikingly visual. It's black.
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I really think that the guy running that blog may have blown a fuse or something. I mean, if you believe everything he’s written since Monday morning, and it’s 10,000 words if it’s 1, the only thing missing in Tallahasse is fat chicks in Viking helmets stabbing each other.
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
fat chicks in viking hats sound hot
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
Stabbing each other
Don’t forget that they are stabbing each other. It’s crutial to the visual.
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
And they're helmets
These are Brett Farve fans. More of a Wagnerian Oprea sort of thing.
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
eh...
well maybe if they were hot Norwegian blondes in Viking helmets I could go for it.
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
by carolinaeasy on Oct 7, 2009 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions
werd
And shouting ‘sack up and stab me!’
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
sack up?
lol…I can’t help but laugh
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
by carolinaeasy on Oct 7, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Is it crucial to the strikingly visual?
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
We'd be the same way if PSU had gone 33-24 since 2005.
Mike BSD would be writing a 100,000 word article right now after losses to Iowa, Illinois, and Temple.
yeah
but I don’t think our fans would bring a knife. We would at least bring deer riffles.
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
by carolinaeasy on Oct 7, 2009 10:15 AM EDT up reply actions
heck there are plenty of old timers who will wear orange
especially around the MSU game…if they move that game to weekend after thanksgiving, it could be an orange out because of buck season that monday.
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
by carolinaeasy on Oct 7, 2009 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions
chris bell would
"Wherever you go, Penn State will go with you. You are now a part of her. Her image will be cast in your image. Your reputation will become her reputation."
by noodlebucket on Oct 7, 2009 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Facebook Groups
I tend to be skeptical about anything I see on facebook. There were close to 5,000 people in the “Whiteout College Gameday” facebook group and as we all know, that ended up being an epic fail. I’d say at least half of those people are members of the Seminol hoi poloi, and won’t actually be at the game, but rather, sitting at home in their jorts and black t-shirts.
God Created the World Out Of Nothing, Paterno Built A National Superpower On Cow Fields...
by Adam Bittner on Oct 7, 2009 8:37 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
So you get 5 or 10k
wearing black out of how many in the stadium – 70,000 or so. It looks more like a background for the rest of the folks wearing Red and Yellow than a statement.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
From personal experience with facebook group "invitations" for events
most of the time you click yes, with no actual intention of actually going or doing whatever the event is. I’ve both done it, and had people do it to events I’ve set up.
"My wife and I are wearing custom Nike jerseys...
I’m wearing #20 and she’s wearing #10. We’re painting our faces, arms, and legs black, and my face will read J on one cheek and I on the other, while hers reads B on one cheek and O on the other. Between us will be a sign in the shape of an M that lights up in miniature black lights and reads, "Bye-Bye Bobby." Speakers from my backpack will play last night’s interview from Bowden’s golf cart with my wife playing the role of Heather Dinich. (And I’ll play the role of Uncensored when we get back to my mother-in-law’s house after the game – boom chicka wah wah.) No idea where this was going, sorry. Go team
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
Worked for Ted Danson, and his life turned out OK.
by Jeff Junstrom on Oct 7, 2009 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Everything’s ‘heaven’ with him, if he had a piece of gum, “I’m in heaven.” Had to taste a chocolate bar, “oh, oh, I’m in heaven.” This parking space is “heaven.”
Whoa!
Heather Dinich did that interview? Didn’t she get started on her ‘journalistic’ ladder climb playing the Old Guy’s Gotta Go angle in State College with JoePa?
/shaking head….
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Nothing like an experienced
journalist to cut right to the heart of the matter.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
The first guy to swing at me
Will not be able to even comprehend the consequences
by Trus1te on Oct 6, 2009 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Doak does not check for knifes or guns
Tomahawk Nation: No-Holds-Barred Nole Analysis
by FSUncensored on Oct 6, 2009 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
Do they check for morals? Or souls? Or brain cells?
Guess not. Sounds like he’s been there before.
Bacon is almost as great as being a Penn Stater
Wow, people really are going insane down there, I highly doubt that this sort of nonsense will ever happen up here. Does anyone else think that this whole situation spiraled out of control INCREDIBLY fast or am I just totally out of the always exciting ACC loop?
That really got out of control quickly.
Brick killed a guy. But everyone does, murders, kills, steals from you, steals from me, runs their D1 program into the ground. Whatever.
by Jeff Junstrom on Oct 7, 2009 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Zug H. Pryor (Or Jeremy H. Boone, or whatever we're saying these days)
What the hell are they drinking down there? Are they really taking their knifes to the game? What are they doing with their knives?
by Jeff Junstrom on Oct 7, 2009 9:31 AM EDT up reply actions
You know
It wouldn’t suprise me in the slightest if the next post on that blog is a 14,000 word manesfesto about how Bobby Bowden dumped his silo of pig-crap into Lake Tallahasse.
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
Tomahawk nation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN99jshaQbY
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 7, 2009 9:47 AM EDT up reply actions
I bet he's in there somewhere.
Check his IMDB page and see if he’s credited for the episode.
by Jeff Junstrom on Oct 7, 2009 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions
WTF?
I really think someone needs to check the masses down there…Take Cartman’s mic away.
I know what they need
A little swagger will fix all of this!
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
by carolinaeasy on Oct 7, 2009 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions
Man
I totaly want to swing at him.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
No, I haven't
Nor apparently, will I be able to. Which is one of the primary reasons I want to. I feel I need to experience this unknowable thing, or things.
Plus, he sounds like a douchea and could use an ass kicking.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
Wonder if I could sign up to pat down some fans this week?
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
by carolinaeasy on Oct 7, 2009 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm sorry ma'am
the bald midgets will need their own tickets to enter the stadium.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
This seems to be a regular feature
The women standing next to Sterger are usually better looking.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 7, 2009 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't know that I'd say she is better overall
I mean, Sterger has to be really smart, right?
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
I used to read some of her SI 'columns'
They weren’t nearly as terrible as, say….dodd, doyel, schlabach, ops
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
I would give her a bone
/obligatory
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Oct 7, 2009 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions
You know whats funny
I didn’t realize there was a knife and a gun ’shopped into their shirts until I looked at this picture for the second time.
Agree
What was the first thing each male looked at? So, yeah, something changed there.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 7, 2009 8:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I was thinking what
nice smiles they have and was going to ask them for their number…of their dentist.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
So if you were an FSU fan explaining this situation to someone who knows nothing of it:
We have this legendary coach named Bobby Bowden. He once went twelve years without finishing out of the top five and basically built our program from nothing. This season, we started out 2-3. But don’t worry, we plan on running our coach out of town a year and a half prior to his planned retirement. We have this great guy to replace him. He has made a career working as a quarterbacks coach for the Bowden family. He also briefly went out on his own where he coached an over-hyped #1 draft pick that never panned out as well as potential NCAA hall of famer Matt Mauck. Did I mention his first name is Jimbo?
For the record, I would love to see Bowden go tomorrow, but seriously, this reaction cannot be considered anything but knee-jerk unless these people all felt this way prior to the season.
but if you read all their stuff
they aren’t specifically raging about this season. it is the last 9 or so seasons (essentially this past decade) where they’ve only had double digits wins once. this season has just been the final straw…also i’m sure it doesn’t help that they are now the 4th best team in FL.
We decide when you hear the snap count...
I pretty much agree with you.
Are they going to get that much better without Bowden ? Answer is probably no. At the end of the day, what he did at FSU is unparalleled and shouldn’t be looked at as the norm.
Florida Gator fans are about to get a big wake up call when Tebow leaves as well. Too early to tell right now, but it SEEMS like they are getting a taste of the post-Tim Tebow era via their offense “sputtering” in the post-Percy Harvin era.
120 teams playing big boy football…….if your team is in the top 20 I think you are doing pretty good. Who has dominated college football for the last 10 years? Answer: Nobody.
Be careful FSU fans……you might just get what you asked for and in the process you might also be showing your ass. 18 months isn’t going to kill you. Wait it out and let him go when his contract is up.
"Art...saw this guy tackling full speed on the gravel, then calmly picking rock chips out of his knees and elbows as he hustled back to the huddle. He didn't have much meat on his bones, but he used everything he had. We got Lambert as the 46th pick of the draft."
Dan Rooney
Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.
Two things
1. How are they so damn sure that Jimbo Fisher solves all their problems?
2. They joined the ACC, they got used to winning just because, so two things happened simultaneously, the jones caught up, and FSU fell back to the pack. I think that is one of the core problems that got Penn State in trouble early in the decade.
I also think that if they had joined the SEC instead of the ACC, they would taken a couple of those 3-8 seasons like we had to. The inverse of what would have happened had Penn State joined the Big East, rather than the Big Ten.
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
Point 2 clarified
FSU got complacent and lazy therefore, the jones caught up etc…
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
Counter Point
Florida Gator fans are about to get a big wake up call when Tebow leaves as well. Too early to tell right now, but it SEEMS like they are getting a taste of the post-Tim Tebow era via their offense "sputtering" in the post-Percy Harvin era.
I spent a week in Florida on their practice field with the team and the coaching staff. They are not going to see that big of a drop off after Tebow. Yes there will be a drop off at first but they will reload.
I know a lot of you hold the SEC in contempt on here, but studying the Gator’s system, meeting the coaches first hand and seeing what is going on there is amazing. Meyer is a good coach, and a solid human being. He might not be leading a grand experiment but he is holding his team accountable and is a great leader. Say what you will, but they are recruiting their arses off and getting top tier players who fit their system. I don’t see them falling off the top 10.
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
They will eventually. Its the facts of life.
No team dominates for more than about a decade at a time. Not consecutively anyways. No one ever can see why a team so great could have downturns, but it happens(Re: FSU of the 90’s). Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow. Not that they will forever be bad, but it is tough to sustain success for such long periods of time. This isn’t a slight to Meyer, it happens for everyone. They may not be as bad as we or Bama were in the early 00’s or ND recently, but they won’t be top 10 forever, neither will USC.
Every elite team goes through some period of varying lengths and varying degrees of suckitude. For some it is worse than others, it might be brief for UF but it will happen sooner or later.
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
I never said never
I was responding to Echos implied assumption that the minute Tebow leaves they are going to drop off the face of the top twenty five.
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
no... when Tebow leaves, we get this:
Just remember: If you are fortunate to spend five or even twent minutes with Tim Tebow, your life is better for it so there is no way the NCAA will survive his ascension into the heavens errr… being drafted as a tight end or fullback uhhh.. goin somewhere else
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Oct 7, 2009 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
In all fairness
When Tim Tebow graduates, why would we want to keep on living anyway?
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
Disagree
There’s always a spot as a fullback in the NFL.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Oct 8, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Come on
Jesus walks on water, heals the lepers, throws the moneychangers out of the temple, stands up to Pilate, gets crucified, rises from the dead, then plays wildcat quarterback for the Jaguars? No way.
Tim Tebow’s diploma is the seventh seal. He picks it up, rips it in two, then it’s time to go looking for Charlie Manson’s bottomless pit in the desert. All hell’s breaking loose.
Prepare yourself.
Where’s the Beer and the Bar-b-Que?
I agree.
I’m simply saying this…….The drop off from Tebow to Brantley doesn’t have to be precipitous for it to be enough to bring their fanbase back down to earth. You can’t lose the greatest college football player of all time and think you are just going to keep on truckin.
"Art...saw this guy tackling full speed on the gravel, then calmly picking rock chips out of his knees and elbows as he hustled back to the huddle. He didn't have much meat on his bones, but he used everything he had. We got Lambert as the 46th pick of the draft."
Dan Rooney
Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.
I can agree
But I see their offense looking more like it did in Utah.
I am Laura Nichols and I like Bacon.
BSD is an addiction, and this is the first step.
Nice Avatar!
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
His contract is up at the end of this season.
"Want a donut go to dunkin donuts, want a linebacker go to Penn State."
- Cris Carter, NFL Draft, 4/25/09
Interesting.......
I have toned down my Bowden and FSU hating quite a bit over the last decade. Part of that has to do with FSU not being as good, part of that has to do with us having our own off field issues, and part of that has to do with the fact that Paterno seems to have no issue with them so why the hell should I sweat it. Because of that, I have not been a Bowden basher and I certainly don’t pretend to know how much “Coaching” he is doing which seems to be a hot button issue when comparing Paterno and Bowden.ab
So…….while listening to Atlanta ESPN radio today while waiting for my wife, Peter Tom Willis is interviewed. One of the personalities, Chuck Oliver (I believe he was an Auburn Lineman at some point) says to PTW…….“So….I have probably been to 20 or 25 FSU practices over the last 4 or 5 years and not once did I see Bobby Bowden anywhere near the practice field until practice was over. That is when he would come down in his golf-cart to give a wrap up the day sort of talk to the players. So if he isn’t Coaching, and he isn’t able to hire and fire coaches, and he isn’t at practice…….what is he doing ?”.
PTW just went on talking about his respect for Bowden and that Bowden does a lot of delegating etc.etc. I thought it was interesting to hear that because Todd Blackledge and Kirk Herbstreit would have never reported the same thing from Happy Valley.
"Art...saw this guy tackling full speed on the gravel, then calmly picking rock chips out of his knees and elbows as he hustled back to the huddle. He didn't have much meat on his bones, but he used everything he had. We got Lambert as the 46th pick of the draft."
Dan Rooney
Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.
Your wife is Peter Tom Willis?
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
We in here talking about practice... What are we talking about, man.. Practice?
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member
by TheMightyErik on Oct 7, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Tomahawk Nation has gone insane.
Along with Billy Joel songs, they are now making ABBA songs about their coaching situation:
http://www.tomahawknation.com/2009/10/9/1078049/offbeat-friday-chuck-amato-sings#storyjump
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