"Ya lose cool points when you take a broken jaw." LL Cool J on "ESPN First Take," 8/27/08.
Living outside the competitive cauldron of college football known as Los Angeles can really put a Trojan at a disadvantage. You really do miss all the great stuff that happens. You can't just show up on Howard Jones field for the open SC football practices. You don't have time to search out all the area newspaper articles and columns online for gossip snippets. You don't get to hear the latest on the 11 o'clock news.
I rely mostly on a couple of well-honed Google Alerts to keep me up-to-date, along with two blogs that were installed by The Man himself to keep the faithful in the loop. Without USCRipsIt.com, the blog from Pete's website, I probably wouldn't know anything.
But, once in a while, something happens that is just too juicy for the national media to avoid. And, my husband has a couple of daily check-in websites that are different from mine; so, we divide and conquer. I was pointing out a column from the Orange County Register last night that had found its way to msnbc.com -- about how the new head coach at UCLA had evolved quickly through camp from his formerly optimistic "bucket of hope" to doomsday-type words like "challenge" and "adversity."
He said he could top that. Sure enough. Thanks to him, I didn't power down the laptop last night before seeing the EPSN Blog Network post for the Pac-10 that spread the rest of the good news about UCLA football this season.
That would be the brilliant piece of creative work posted above, an ad that will now find new life in a variety of forms and functions. A gift that just keeps on giving. In the age of farking and photoshopping, it will probably not only live, but thrive on t-shirts at the USC bookstore for decades. Maybe longer.
Not surprisingly, most of the responses to the blog had been posted by SC fans. A few Washington Husky fans weighed in with such descriptors as "slick" and "sleeze," now common adjectives in front of Mr. Rick's name. My favorite was reply #26, which read something like "didn't they forget to put "there" at the end??"
While I was sleeping, a new post went up on the EPSN blog dated today with the comment "What is Neuheisel pointing at??" followed by the link to this updated piece of artwork:
THAT'S truth in advertising.
Another poster had suggested that Pete's head should be photoshopped onto the top of the Monopoly Man for a shirt. Yeah, I would buy that one. Don't know about copyright issues, but whoever owns the rights to the Monopoly Man would probably make a lot more money this year from the licensing fee on units sold at the SC Bookstore (and USC Trojans Bookstore Online) than from trying to sell board games to the video generation.
Sanchez has been cleared by the doctor to play and will likely start against Virginia on Saturday. We don't really know what we have on offense because, so far, all we have is visions of the defense sending a few people to the hospital. And, yeah, we know from last season that ya got to play the game. All the games.
We probably have every game circled this year already. But, now, December 6 has REALLY big, red circles on it. Along with smiley faces, arrows, and exclamation points.
Bring it, bRUINS. Bring it Over There.
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