Cappy Commotion
by Run Up The Score on Aug 4, 2009 10:36 AM EDT
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Years of YouTube perusing, and I've never seen this before today. Behold Penn State's only Heisman Trophy winner:
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Also, some of the best music/video editing I've seen
At least with respect to PSU YouTube videos.
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by Run Up The Score on Aug 4, 2009 10:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I was just going to say the same thing
everything synced up real well, and just fit perfectly
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 4, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes.
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by Run Up The Score on Aug 4, 2009 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow...
that was amazing. Gave me chils
by RudyWasOffsides on Aug 4, 2009 11:48 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Muddier?
Is it just me, or does it seem like players back then got dirtier than they do today? You just don’t see huge mud stains on people’s jerseys anymore.
…or I’m just retarded and bored at work, who knows.
by PSUmob on Aug 4, 2009 12:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
no stats to back this up
but I suspect that (1) there is more artificial turf at major college stadiums than there was back then, and (2) schools that do still have grass are doing a better job of copying penn state.
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by Kevin HD on Aug 4, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hear that Purdue?
Teams don’t need to rip up your grass just by walking onto the field anymore, just ask us, we’re awesome at maintaining turf grass.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 4, 2009 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
PAT
IIRC, Purdue developed prescription athletic turf, the type of grass field just about everybody uses now. Except Penn State of course.
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by WFY on Aug 4, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was joking about last years Purdue game where our players must have slipped 15 times
on Purdue’s shitty field. Not to mention, clumps of grass and dirt were coming up everywhere like someone had put mini explosives on the field.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 4, 2009 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I seem to remember we had a disaster
with the field at Beaver Stadium, maybe 10-15 years ago. I think it might have been an Iowa game, but not sure (but another reason to blame Iowa anyway!). We had resodded it in a 2-3 week gap between home games and when they tried to play on it, it just came up in big globs. It was very embarrassing.
by PaJoe on Aug 4, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rutgers 1993
jtot just posted a link to some journal article/college course worksheet on the event. I thought it was in the thread about turfgrass, but I guess I’m wrong. How is it that out of nowhere we have apparently 3 separate threads that mention turf (and I think this event as well) all on the same day?
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 4, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You sure it was me?
I’m pretty forthcoming about my ignorance on the subject of turf.
"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
by jtothep on Aug 4, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
heh, well I thought it was, but obviously I was wrong
it was jesse. and it WAS in that other post.
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 4, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ahhhhhhhh
Those were the days! Great Clip.
Settle it on the field!
by PSUncle1981 on Aug 4, 2009 12:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow
A couple things struck me:
- he had a strange build: squat and wide torso and a long stride
- looks like he had good vision—definitely able to find the:
- huge holes that awesome o-line was opening. My word.
- pretty sweet combination of really tough and pretty fast when he got in the open and could open that stride
cool, cool stuff
"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
by jtothep on Aug 4, 2009 12:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
evan royster's
vision is eerily similar to what I saw out of cappy on this video.
I wouldn't trust old rooster me neither.
by spakajewia on Aug 4, 2009 12:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I was just going to say that
Cappy seems like a really shifty back in that video, much like Royster (good example at :20), but also a lot of patience to find the gap to make a play.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 4, 2009 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
All Kinds of Awesomeness
Love the old school stuff!
by SurfingLion on Aug 4, 2009 1:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Awesome......
which leads me to the question….
Is it almost time to start the official BSD countdown yet?
I’m starting to get jittery.
"A setback is just a set up for a comeback." -Drew Brees
by kajpsu on Aug 4, 2009 3:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Or they could just bump my FanPosts (and whomever takes over after I go on vacation) to the front page…
Now excuse me while I whistle.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2009 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Check it out...
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2009/8/4/976896/only-31-days-until-psu-football#19201838
There is a DEMAND for my Countdown FanShots to be bumped to the front page. Don’t deny the people!
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh, FINE.
But I’m not your monkey, RR. I’M NOT YOUR MONKEY.
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by Run Up The Score on Aug 4, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
RR, make him do a little dance
Do your happy dance, Mojo
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 5, 2009 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pray... For... Mojo
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by leeharvey418 on Aug 5, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Do you travel throught the phone lines to reach our vacaction spots?
Or do you go through FiOS or cable lines. I’m not sure how robots travel.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 4, 2009 7:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
One of these:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Multi-Troop_Transport
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2009 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ahh, nice
did you put some gangsta rims on that baby?
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 4, 2009 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bets on timeframe of next PSU Heisman Winner?
10 years? Never again?
I was out in the trenches, which enables me to paint such a powerful picture, like Apocalypse Now.-Cormega
by OMEGAMAN on Aug 4, 2009 3:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm still hoping some major scandal
will occur and make the Heisman useless. Then one of the other two “Best Player” awards will become the main one. Hopefully the Maxwell Award and then retroactively we’ll have the most winners of the most prestigious award in College Football.
by PSUisMyHeart on Aug 4, 2009 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
They should also ask why defensive players never win it
which sums up the very popular mind set that a dominate offensive team will always be rated higher than a dominate defensive team.
by Mr. Rosewater on Aug 4, 2009 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1
For Stacey Dash
"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
by jtothep on Aug 4, 2009 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh yes, she is a hotty
I’ve got a white friend who always says that blacks seem to “age better than whites”, whatever that means. Stacey Dash being in her 40’s does provide a strong case for that.
I was out in the trenches, which enables me to paint such a powerful picture, like Apocalypse Now.-Cormega
by OMEGAMAN on Aug 4, 2009 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Get the hell out!
She’s in her 40s? My oh my!
I’ll buy that, btw about blacks aging better. It’s fairly accepted (& oft bemoaned by the fairer sex) that men age better than women, but I’ve seen plenty of old (70?, 80?) black women in DC who don’t look a day over 50.
"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
by jtothep on Aug 5, 2009 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Your Stacey Dash sounds hot
but I have no idea where it came from? Tangent just to talk about hot older women?
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 5, 2009 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Post JoePa...
Since he doesn’t run up the score and freely subs out starters when things get out of hand, I can’t see a PSU guy attaining the nintendo type numbers needed to get in the good graces of the voters. (see Johnson, Larry Jr.)
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
by rahpsu92 on Aug 4, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the other bit difference
is PSU does very little to hype individual players (there is NO name on my jersey), and so you don’t get the Heisman marketing that other schools get into (Clemson RB height guide, anyone?)
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 4, 2009 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oregon has not frickin' clue what you are talking about.
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by Kevin HD on Aug 4, 2009 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, CJ Spiller is
a shoe in now that 4k South Carolina toddlers have his poster on their wall.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
by rahpsu92 on Aug 5, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Orange Bowl
Nice. I was there at the 74 OB. We were so up in those days.
by dr kill on Aug 4, 2009 6:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i was born in 86 but damn
the 70s look like a bangin time in that video
by borisborisboris on Aug 4, 2009 6:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Many people here claim to be PSU fans
However, if you haven’t read the book and/or seen the movie, Something for Joey, you are NOT a PSU fan. Sorry, that’s an unbreakable law. If you don’t tear up a bit during the Heisman speech (if not openly cry), you’re also not human, but that’s another story.
by Tailgate Shogun on Aug 4, 2009 7:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Sorry, TS - I am a fan, but....
I didn’t see the movie, ’cause I saw the real thing. Lucky enough to watch him play, and watch his Heisman speech. Read everything written (which was quite a bunch), and…..all true. Everything (except watching him play) was a tearjerker.
Newsflash: JoePa is old, and so is Pete the Streak.
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by Pete the Streak on Aug 5, 2009 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Numbers on the helmets
So I’ve been told we are going to have numbers on the helmets for the cuse game this year.
If JoePa okays it.
by speedomike on Aug 4, 2009 7:39 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
I would be happy to see that for a whole season.
Always been a fan of that.
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by Run Up The Score on Aug 4, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s too much ’bama for me, but not something I would get fake turf grass about.
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by Kevin HD on Aug 4, 2009 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eh no thanks
I wouldn’t go crazy for one game, but I like the consistency.
/getoffmylawn’d
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by psuphiman80 on Aug 4, 2009 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Somewhere in the
bowels of Beaver stadium Spider is cursing as he and his crew stick vinyl numbers on 100 helmets.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
by rahpsu92 on Aug 5, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree with the above Royster comparison
Not really the fastest guys ever, but let their Oline work and wait for the holes. Tough to tackle solo or on the first try, and once they hit open field, they had a nice stride.
I wish I could have seen him play live. Also, sometimes people forget due to a large number of NFL busts, but damn we have had a ton of good running/full/tail backs. I think it says something that our only heisman winner sometimes gets lost in the shuffle when discussing all time PSU backs. Not that he wasn’t awesome. But geez, Moore, Harris, Mitchell, Warner, Enis, Carter, Hunt, LJ, Campbell, Dozier, Cappy, Thomas, Anderson, Gash, Guman, McCoo, Milne, Pittman, Suhey, Triplett, etc etc. That is an impressive list with only about 1-2 minutes of thought.
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Aug 4, 2009 9:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Doh
That was going to be choo choo mccoo
by speedomike on Aug 4, 2009 9:41 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
5th one listed
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Aug 5, 2009 12:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol, so did Roland
I guess he took math down south (yeah yeah, I know he forgot about the first line of guys).
16th guy listed ;-)
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 5, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Enis
Unless you left him out for his troubles.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 4, 2009 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damnitalltohellfailpost
Yeah, he is 5th listed, if you didn’t see my above comment….ha
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Aug 5, 2009 1:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I swear I have post dislexia sometimes
I looked over that list twice before I wrote that, and swear I didn’t see Enis’ name.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 5, 2009 3:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
or maybe he was referring to Enis and just failposted
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 5, 2009 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah I fail so hard sometimes
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Aug 5, 2009 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Gary Brown?
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
by rahpsu92 on Aug 5, 2009 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great video
Did I ever tell you guys about the time Cappy’s mom sent me hate mail?
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 4, 2009 10:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, wasn't it because you were railing on the BE
I remember it being odd.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
by psuphiman80 on Aug 4, 2009 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah that's it
It was the summer of 2007 when everyone was writing about how great the Big East was because they went 5-1 in their bowl games over teams like East Carolina and Mississippi State or something. I was particularly hard on Rutgers and Cappy’s mom sends me an email calling me an idiot and saying how thankful she was her “Jonnie” wasn’t obsessed with football like I am and made something of himself.
It was totally bizzarre. So I immediately forwarded it to RUTS. I don’t think I saved the email, but he can verify I’m not lying.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 6, 2009 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Strange
That was an odd moment in BSD folklore. Us old timers remember way back. Soon it will be a story about how Mike fought John Cappelletti’s father for making a slight towards his shoes. Uphill, both ways, in the snow.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
by psuphiman80 on Aug 6, 2009 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What are you talking about?
It wasn’t John Cappelletti’s father, it was his pet dragon, and it wasn’t in the snow, it was in a whirlpool of molten lava.
by PSUisMyHeart on Aug 7, 2009 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is extremely weird
Both that Cappy’s mom would rip on you for criticizing the Big East, when her son didn’t play for a Big East team, and that she was reading BSD in the first place. It almost seems like it was a fake, but why of all people would someone pick out Mrs. Cappelletti to pretend to be and attack you as. Weird.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 7, 2009 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh please, do tell
Black Shoes. Basic Blues. No Name. All Game.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth."
by Roland86 on Aug 5, 2009 1:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I did not hear this
and I am intrigued.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 5, 2009 3:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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