| 2009 BG College Football Pick'em Champion |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|10:08 pm] |
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I won the College Pick'em league this year and also won it back in 2007. Things came down to the final week in 2008, and I lost a fairly close league. I ended up having my best year nationally I think being in the 98.8th percentile out of a sample size of 130 games throughout this season. |
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[Nov. 20th, 2009|09:40 pm] |
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Week 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
Predicted: Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Actual: Northwestern 27 Purdue 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
Predicted: Minnesota 31 Purdue 24
Actual: Minnesota 35 Purdue 20
Week 7: Ohio St.
Predicted: Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Actual: Purdue 26 Ohio St. 18
Week 8: Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 34 Illinois 17
Actual: Purdue 24 Illinois 14
Week 9: @Wisconsin
Predicted: Wisconsin 27 Purdue 17
Actual: Wisconsin 37 Purdue 0
Week 10: @ Michigan
Predicted: Michigan 35 Purdue 13
Actual: Purdue 38 Michigan 36
Week 11: Michigan St.
The defense couldn't play with a lead and Purdue got flagged for excessive celebration for things such as hugging the mascot after a TD. Special Teams pretty much single handedly lost this game for Purdue when they gave Michigan State a return to something like the 5 yard line to kick the winning field goal.
Predicted: Michigan State 31 Purdue 27
Actual: Michigan State 40 Purdue 37
Week 12: @Indiana
This is one of those games that is embarrassing to lose, but Purdue just might do that. They do seem to get up for games that halfway mean something to them though. So, hopefully that means they won't have a half-assed effort like they did against Wisconsin a few weeks back. Both teams will play hard, but I think Purdue will have a bit more talent to win the game.
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 5-7 |
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[Nov. 16th, 2009|08:00 pm] |
144 and 143
Women that are that same size in the real world go claiming 105.
I always joked about the weight correction value for women being 15 pounds, but I think this proves it's 30.
De-bunking this totally being put on extra muscle mass:
Before anyone goes saying those numbers are inflated almost 40 pounds because of muscle, keep in mind that Gina Carano (2nd girl) has no abs in that video. Abs are almost entirely a product of a low bodyfat percentage. This proves that she is well above 10% bodyfat. I'd guess about 12 or 13 percent based on the outside vertical border of the abs starting to show, but none of the horizontal definition lines. Yes, she's hot as hell and far leaner than most women. I'm just pointing out that if her weight would be greatly inflated by muscle mass, there would not be enough room for fat and therefore, she would have shredded abs. I'll figure you could put about 10 extra pounds for Carano on muscle mass and about 15 to 20 on Cyborg.
Another big point:
Weigh-ins are usually done in a very dehydrated state. (because you can significantly temporarily lower your weight to make the weight class...which was most likely 145) Therefore, it would not be too much of a stretch for these two to be around 150 once they re-hydrate to a normal hydration level. Remember that water is roughly 8 pounds per gallon. and dehydrating out 6-7 pounds wouldn't even be sweating/peeing out 1 gallon. |
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| Week 11 Purdue Footbal Predictions |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|09:35 pm] |
It's almost like winning twice when Purdue makes a comeback win and might end up losing Dick Rod his coaching job too.
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Week 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
Predicted: Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Actual: Northwestern 27 Purdue 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
Predicted: Minnesota 31 Purdue 24
Actual: Minnesota 35 Purdue 20
Week 7: Ohio St.
Predicted: Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Actual: Purdue 26 Ohio St. 18
Week 8: Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 34 Illinois 17
Actual: Purdue 24 Illinois 14
Week 9: @Wisconsin
Predicted: Wisconsin 27 Purdue 17
Actual: Wisconsin 37 Purdue 0
Week 10: @ Michigan
This was a very impressive offensive performance by Purdue in this game. There were a bunch of bad calls that went against Purdue, but they won in spite of them. The call where a Michigan Punt Returner trips on his own with nobody within 2-3 yards of him, fumbles the punt that Purdue recovers, and they flag Purdue 15 yards for kick catch interference. Even with the win, I'm angry the Big Ten is not apologizing for that terrible call that could have cost Purdue the game. (the call was late in the 4th quarter)
Predicted: Michigan 35 Purdue 13
Actual: Purdue 38 Michigan 36
Week 11: Michigan St.
This is an important game for Purdue in that a win for them would make a bowl game a slight probability. The problem is that it is also a must-win game for Michigan State since they have Penn State to end the year, which will be a likely loss for them. Therefore, you can't really give Purdue the motivational edge. I'm really having a hard time picking this, so I'll just go with Michigan State since they have a bit more talent.
Michigan State 31 Purdue 27
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 5-7 |
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| I've seen this one before: |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|09:19 pm] |
I've seen this picture before, but saw it again for the first time in awhile the other day.
The thread this was in of course turned into some debate. Surprisingly there were even bigger douchebags than the vegans when they started fighting with Atkins Dieters. If there ever were two groups of dieters that could exterminate each other, I'd pick those two groups.
Those two groups debating would remind me of a gold-digging woman in her SUV that is talking on her cell phone and drives right through a fully occupied 4-way stop without stopping and hits a bicyclist that also ignores the 4 way stop. The guy on the bicycle would have love handles hanging out of his skin-tight spandex shirt on and ran the stop sign, because bicyclists believe they "share the road" with cars when it is convenient for them, but don't want to follow the same traffic laws as cars when they are inconvenient for them. The bicyclist could be the vegan since they would likely be self-righteous about the environment like vegans are about eating meat. The gold-digger could be the Atkins dieter since most gold diggers are ignorant about the world around them like Atkins Dieters are ignorant about the first law of thermodynamics. |
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| Week 10 Purdue Football Predictions |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|09:22 pm] |
I think I took a time machine back to the mid-90s and Purdue was coached by Jim Colletto. He eventually moved on to bigger and better things by being offensive coordinator for the 2008 0-16 Detroit Lions. I guess they got rid of him, but I'll never understand why people keep hiring him.
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Week 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
Predicted: Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Actual: Northwestern 27 Purdue 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
Predicted: Minnesota 31 Purdue 24
Actual: Minnesota 35 Purdue 20
Week 7: Ohio St.
Predicted: Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Actual: Purdue 26 Ohio St. 18
Week 8: Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 34 Illinois 17
Actual: Purdue 24 Illinois 14
Week 9: @Wisconsin
I dropped my post like Purdue WRs dropped passes in this game.
Predicted: Wisconsin 27 Purdue 17
Actual: Wisconsin 37 Purdue 0
Week 10: @ Michigan
This is one of those games where Michigan isn't really good, but Purdue isn't exactly coming off a good game either. Purdue has either won or played respectable games on the road everywhere in the Big Ten at least a few times in the last 10 years except for Michigan. They always seem to get blown out even against a mediocre Michigan Team.
Michigan 35 Purdue 13
Week 11: Michigan St.
Michigan State 31 Purdue 24
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 4-8
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| Week 9 Purdue Football Predictions |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|09:09 pm] |
I don't have much to say about the last week other than Purdue won a game they should have.
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Week 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
Predicted: Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Actual: Northwestern 27 Purdue 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
Predicted: Minnesota 31 Purdue 24
Actual: Minnesota 35 Purdue 20
Week 7: Ohio St.
Predicted: Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Actual: Purdue 26 Ohio St. 18
Week 8: Illinois
I could nitpick this game and say Purdue should have won by more, but you have to take what you can get with how they handed away the Oregon/Northwestern/Minnesota games.
Predicted: Purdue 34 Illinois 17
Actual: Purdue 24 Illinois 14
Week 9: @Wisconsin
I actually think Purdue has a chance in this game. I'm still picking them to lose, but they are capable of winning it if things go right for them. The key will ride on how well Purdue's Defense stops the run, which has been questionable at times. They also have to avoid the obvious in turning the ball over a bunch.
Wisconsin 27 Purdue 17
Week 10: @ Michigan
Michigan 28 Purdue 21
Week 11: Michigan St.
Michigan State 28 Purdue 24
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 4-8
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[Oct. 23rd, 2009|10:19 pm] |
I was reading the Purdue Messageboards after I got back from the game and I couldn't stop laughing at a random screenshot of the boards during halftime of the game. Purdue was up 9-7 at the half in a game they weren't expected to even be in. Almost every thread was either complaining about the game or arguing with other board members.
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Week 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
Predicted: Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Actual: Northwestern 27 Purdue 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
...see the first part of this post
Predicted: Minnesota 31 Purdue 24
Actual: Minnesota 35 Purdue 20
Week 7: Ohio St.
To my credit, I didn't call this a "no chance" game last week by mentioning how I could see Purdue staying in the game with how poor Ohio St. looked on offense. Don't get me wrong though, I didn't expect Purdue to win. Most of the 2nd half was me and the rest of the crowd around waiting for Purdue to beat themselves and lose the game. To their credit, they hung on to the ball, covered punts, and didn't throw bad interceptions in the 4th quarter. Purdue had very few upsets under Joe Tiller, but they got their first one fairly quick with Danny Hope. (Purdue's "Big Upset" over Notre Dame in 97 turned out to not be one at all once the season was said and done) I'd say the only big upset Joe Tiller had was over #3 Kansas State in 1998.
Predicted: Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Actual: Purdue 26 Ohio St. 18
Week 8: Illinois
Purdue goes from playing the toughest game on their schedule to the easiest game on the schedule (and yes, I'm not forgetting about Toledo / Northern Illinois...I think they both are better than Illinois) The only way I see Purdue losing this game is to turn the ball over a bunch of times like they did against Northwestern. Purdue switched punters so hopefully we can expect to quit seeing shanked punts.
Purdue 34 Illinois 17
Week 9: @Wisconsin
Wisconsin 24 Purdue 10
Week 10: @ Michigan
Michigan 35 Purdue 21
Week 11: Michigan St.
Michigan State 28 Purdue 24
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 4-8
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| Ralph Lauren fired a Model for being too fat: |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|09:51 pm] |
Personally, I think she is a bit too skinny for my liking. I'd like to see a little bit more lean body mass on her.
The Shallow Police are sending out an APB:
Of course the shallow police are crying about everything. The most typical bitch fest is about how they don't make dresses for normal sized women.
I decided to investigate this matter:
I went to Ralphlauren.com to see their current inventory of different dresses in different sizes. A woman that would be my size would be an XL. Therefore, it isn't exactly a very strict standard for a woman to fit in an XL. After all, if I'm "overweight" for a male according to the BMI, and therefore would be significantly overweight for a female. (the BMI is BS, but I'll just use it here) Plus I lift weights and the shallow police would be the first people to say that lifting weights makes you "big and bulky". Therefore, the shallow police that don't lift weights would be less "big and bulky". (note to people not familiar, the "big and bulky" thing is sarcasm) These numbers are as of the evening of October 19th.
XS = 23
Small = 28
Medium = 28
Large = 28
XL = 27
Size 0 = 8
Size 2 = 33
Size 4 = 33
Size 6 = 34
Size 8 = 35
Size 10 = 32
Size 12 = 32
Size 14 = 30
Size 16 = 21
OMGDZ WTF BBQ! Ralph Lauren only is selling 8 dresses to anorexic people:
Where is the outrage here? I think anorexics should start the bitch-fest about how they are being ignored by the fashion industry. Fat people are getting TWO AND A HALF TIMES the number of dresses as anorexic people. The shallow police swear up and down that "normal" people can't get a dress from any of the fashion industry. Of course, the shallow police probably consider "normal" 5-4 210.
I think the fashion industry practices commercial Darwinism:
It reminds me of the Saved by the Bell episode when Zack was competing against Jesse, Kelly, and Slater for selling friendship bracelets. Zack decided to give one from Jessie, Kelly, and Slater to Mr. Belding. Mr. Belding walked by some students showing his friendship bracelet. Some student then walked up and returned his friendship bracelet saying, "I don't want one! Belding's wearing one!" The rest of the students followed his lead.
I figure it is kind of like that with fashion items. The designers don't want fat people dragging down their clothing image . It's like how clothing image is a 50/50 split between the model and the clothing. Therefore, they want to keep people from dragging down their clothing's image too much. I figure it is some capitalism vs. Darwinism type of line graph the marketing department likely made. I bet they find the best balance between keeping fat people out of their clothes and not cutting down their consumer base too much. (if they kept it to only attractive sizes, they would only be able to sell to about 10% of women)
I thought about taking a stand:
That one saying goes, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Ralph Lauren is the enemy of the moment for the shallow police, therefore they are my friend. I thought about wearing nothing but Ralph Lauren day after day. I think I have enough to last about 3 weeks. But, I figured that would take too much effort and it would look to stupid after a few days wearing only one brand.
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[Oct. 18th, 2009|10:33 pm] |
405/11:
I haven't bothered posting about my lifting much lately other than a few bench press PRs, but this one is quite a milestone. You always have those milestone numbers that are multiples of 100 and you have milestone numbers that go with multiples of 45 pound plates on each side of the barbell. (example 135, 225, 315, 405, 495, 585)
Deadlift has pretty much been one of those lifts for me that has been on fire when I'm not injured. I had to deal with an injury between late November 2008 and February 2009. I obviously lost a lot of strength when I wasn't doing them. February through April was mostly taking things easy and re-adapting to the sumo stance. Since about May, it has been a very nice run for me.
Around May, my estimated 1 rep max based on the charts was in the area of 505, which is the most I have done for 1 rep. I haven't maxed in a very long time, and likely won't until late January. However, getting 11 reps of 405 pounds like I got today is just destroying some of my old numbers. Like I said, I won't be maxing for awhile, but I expect to absolutely crush my old records. The most accurate formula for me estimating the 1 rep max (based on consistency of my own lifts) is estimating my max to be around 535 right now.
Of course most people will only look at the weight and not take into account the number of reps and think 505/1 is better than 405/11, when 405/11 is a lot better. It's kind of like I can answer to some average joe what my powerlifts are and they will be more impressed by my bench press than my deadlift. (where my bench press isn't in the same league as my deadlift)
Either way, I'll likely keep upping the weight by 5 pounds per week until I start getting in the lower rep ranges, where I might up it by 10 or 15 per week. (It might take me 6 months to get a chance to max if I keep improving and only up the weight by 5 pounds per week)
WoW:
I hit 80 on my death knight, a few days ago, but can't find where it is storing my screenshots. I wasn't that impressed with the WoTLK expansion. Cohesion between leveling zones was almost non-existent. They did such a great job with cohesion on the Burning Crusade expansion. Sadly, I had more fun leveling 60-70 for the 5th time in TBC than I did leveling 70-80 for the first time in WoTLK.
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| Week 7 Purdue Football Predictions |
[Oct. 16th, 2009|10:44 pm] |
Here is a summation of the Purdue Boards from last Saturday. Purdue was up 10-0 and was looking very good until they had their typical meltdown.
"Are you fu%#ing serious?", "UNBELIEVABLE!", "Fire our Special Teams Coach NOW!" "How do you only punt the ball 7 yards when that is all you do?", "I'm canceling my season tickets!", "If you fumble you sit!", "We are DEAD LAST in college football in number of turnovers!", and various posts blaming the QB for the bad punts, field goals, and fumbles
We got to see:
An interception returned to the 2 yard line or so (might as well been a pick 6)
A 7 yard punt, which converted to a TD
A fumbled kickoff right after the TD that came right after the punt
A blocked field goal returned for a touchdown
I think the ESPN sideline reporter should have questioned why Danny Hope didn't punt the ball late in the game to try to have special teams hit for the cycle with a blocked punt returned for a TD. Honestly, Purdue might have been the last team to have both a blocked punt returned for a TD and a blocked field goal returned for a TD in the same game. (@Iowa 2002)
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Week 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
Predicted: Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Actual: Northwestern 27 Purdue 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
...see the first part of this post
Predicted: Minnesota 31 Purdue 24
Actual: Minnesota 35 Purdue 20
Week 7: Ohio St.
The only way I can see Purdue staying in this game is from how bad Ohio State has looked on offense at times. Ohio State seems to score more points on defense and special teams than they do on offense. Purdue probably is on pace for an NCAA record for most points given up by defense and special teams. The biggest question will be how will Purdue lose this game. I'm guessing multiple instances of a blocked punt or punt return for a TD.
Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Week 8: Illinois
Purdue 34 Illinois 21
Week 9: @Wisconsin
Wisconsin 24 Purdue 10
Week 10: @ Michigan
Michigan 35 Purdue 21
Week 11: Michigan St.
Michigan State 28 Purdue 20
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 3-9
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| Thanks WoW |
[Oct. 12th, 2009|12:08 am] |
So, I've been continuing to play WoW and dinged 78. I was looking for where the next place to level was and figured it would be on the southeast corner of northrend since I started on the southwest corner, moved to the south central zone, and then moved to the east central zone. Therefore, I figured the southeast corner would be the next zone since the line I moved in had every zone a level or two higher.
...but noooooooo.....
Howling Fjord is the second starting zone for northrend. A bunch of enemies are already too low to give me xp and a bunch of alliance quests are sitting there to be had. I didn't even bother looking where I needed to go because the game always did a good job directing you to the next zone in TBC. Hopefully I can get most of the lowest level quests done before I ding 79. The funny thing is that I almost completely finished Howling Fjord about a year ago on a horde character, but remembered almost nothing about it. That's not a good sign on the level design.
Dragonblight just might possibly be the worst leveling area in all of WoW. It's more boring than driving through Northern Ohio. It was so shitty with the flat and open terrain that I thought the zone was partially finished.
I don't like how half the zones are snow zones. If I want snow, I can look out my fucking window November through March. Just make something up, like a dragon flew by and breathed fire on the zone and created all these lagoons and sandy beaches.
It's like blizzard played tic-tac-toe with levels on zones. There isn't really much of a pattern to them.
...and I remember thinking TBC was going to be the expansion that too many zones looked the same. I thought every zone was going to be hellfire peninsula, but was wrong. (despite hellfire being a very nice zone) Hellfire, Zangarmarsh, Terkorar, Nagrand, Blade's Edge Mountains, and Netherstorm all were very unique to each other and all really nice zones. Shadowmoon Valley was really the only shitty zone in terms of scenery.
I don't get why they have "no fly zones" in Dalaran. (the main city of Northrend) That seems very square-like to slow you down through town. My only guess is maybe the gigantic graphics demand on that town would cause too many people to bitch about how slow the framerate would be. I think I experienced the slowest framerate I have ever seen out of any game for my year-old upgraded PC in Dalaran.
I'll likely ding 80 without touching half the zones in WoTL. That's a good thing though so I can cash in the extra gold that quests will give when I get level capped. I need to buy an epic flying mount for my Death Knight, and also will need to pay 1k for dual spec, and maybe another 1k for top end backpacks. I think I'm sitting around 2k right now. |
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| Week 6 Purdue Football Picks |
[Oct. 9th, 2009|09:43 pm] |
Last week's game reminds me a lot about one of the most famous NFL press conferences of all time since last week's game had 6 Purdue Turnovers.
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Weak 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
Purdue made 6 turnovers in this game and still had an overthrow of a wide open receiver at the end of the game that would have won it for them. The sad thing is that Purdue could have very easily had 8 turnovers in this game. They fumbled a kickoff that was overturned on a review and muffed another kickoff that they barely covered up when the ball was on the ground. I'm trying to remember, but I think it was 3 turnovers in 3 straight plays for Purdue late in the 2nd quarter. It would have been 4 turnovers in 4 plays if the one didn't get overturned.
Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Actual: Northwestern 27 Purdue 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
This is a tough game to call simply on the fact that Purdue has probably looked better than Minnesota this year. The difference is that Purdue has found absolutely every way to lose games. The offense seems to routinely disappear in the 2nd and 3rd quarters, even if they look really good in the 1st and 4th quarters.
Minnesota 31 Purdue 24
Week 7: Ohio St.
Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Week 8: Illinois
Purdue 34 Illinois 21
Week 9: @Wisconsin
Wisconsin 24 Purdue 10
Week 10: @ Michigan
Michigan 35 Purdue 21
Week 11: Michigan St.
Purdue 28 Michigan St. 27
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 4-8 |
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| ESPN Should Deep-Throat Someone Other than the West Coast |
[Oct. 5th, 2009|09:28 pm] |
I think Monday Night Football should start at 1AM Eastern Time on Tuesday Morning:
Some people on the Aleutian Islands miss out on the starting of games, because they start at 2:30 PM their time. I can see Sig Hansen pounding on the controls of the Northwestern or Johnathan Hillstrand getting every other word bleeped because they missed the 5 unforced turnovers in the scoreless tie of the first quarter of a game between the Raiders and the Rams. Since Sunday/Monday night football caters to the west coast, why don't they cater to the west coast on the Bearing Sea and not the west coast on the Pacific Ocean.
MNF continues to cater to the 14% of people that live in pacific time by starting games at 8:30 Eastern. Who gets fucked over the most? The FOURTY SEVEN PERCENT OF THE COUNTRY THAT LIVES IN THE EASTERN TIME ZONE! You have to get 5 or 6 hours of sleep per night if you have a normal-timed job in eastern time. 79% of the country is either eastern or central. Even a 7:30 start for central time zone is still bullshit because games don't end until 11:30 their time. 7:00 Eastern time is a reasonable request.
West Coast Missing the 1st quarter >>>>> East Coast Missing the 4th quarter
I don't know why this [beep] game has to [beep]start at [beep] 2 [beep] thirty! JaMarcus Russell has [beep] thown thrown 3 [beep] interceptions in his first 3 [beep] possessions. [beep] MNF starting times are [beep]more bull [beep] than [beep] lost pots in the [beep] Bearing Sea!
Other Ideas for MNF Consistent with the current MNF:
• Make Bryant Gumbel and Pam Ward the main announcers
• Have Tony Kornheiser and Dennis Miller as the color commentators
• Have Troy Aikman as the sideline reporter wearing a Dallas Cowboys cheerleading uniform
• Have more Viagara / Cialis commercials
• Have the announcers step up their soapbox against the beer commercial for having too much sexual innuendo that followed the Viagara / Cialis commercial
• Use phrases like "game face, 110%, one game at a time, lunch pail" at least 20 times a game along with the phrase "throw under the bus"
• Having a commercial after a TD and another after a kickoff isn't enough; throw in a commercial after each first down; it could be like college football with stopping the clock to move the chains
• The NFL could then bitch about games taking too long and will solve the problem by doing something like not stopping the clock when going out of bounds. They will just ignore the obvious reason why games are too long.
• They could have those "flat stomach rule....obey" ads that you see on the shitty internet sites
• They could bring pop-up ads to TV and have them pop up right in the middle of a play
• They could require you to go to the link on the pop up and have you answer a question about the pop up in order for it to go away
• If the pop ups aren't loading, have a mechanism in there to cut the game feed until the pop up feed is there
Shifting gears from sarcastic to serious makes me really consider boycotting MNF unless I really care about the game. Boycotting it could help reduce the ratings, and might make them consider moving games earlier.
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| Week 5 Purdue Football Predictions |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|09:58 pm] |
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Weak 3: Northern Illinois
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
I agreed with the timeout Purdue called at the end of the game even though everyone else didn't. The nature of losing the game wasn't as bad as it normally would have been considering Purdue fought back and made successful adjustments at half time. (one thing most people didn't talk about)
Predicted: Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Actual: Notre Dame 24 Purdue 21
Week 5: Northwestern
This is a must-win game if Purdue wants to have any chance of making a bowl game this year. Honestly, the entire schedule is win-able with how tough Purdue has played teams this year. They just need to start coming out on the winning end of these close games. Northwestern is not that good and Purdue should win this game if they come out focused.
Purdue 31 Northwestern 21
Week 6: @ Minnesota
Minnesota 31 Purdue 27
Week 7: Ohio St.
Ohio St. 24 Purdue 10
Week 8: Illinois
Purdue 34 Illinois 14
Week 9: @Wisconsin
Wisconsin 24 Purdue 10
Week 10: @ Michigan
Michigan 35 Purdue 21
Week 11: Michigan St.
Purdue 28 Michigan St. 27
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 31 Indiana 27
Final Record: 5-7
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| For those quiz shows that like to show how "stupid" Americans are.... |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|10:14 pm] |
Americans are "stupid" if they don't know who the leader is of some 3rd world country like Kazakhstan. (after being ambushed on the street w/o a chance to google it)
Here's another one using the same logic!
I know that Peyton Manning is the quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts
Peyton Manning doesn't know I'm an engineer
....therefore he is stupid! |
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[Sep. 25th, 2009|08:54 pm] |
It only took me 3 games this year to miss a pick.
Week 1: Toledo
Predicted: Purdue 21 Toledo 17
Actual: Purdue 52 Toledo 31
Week 2: @Oregon
Predicted: Oregon 24 Purdue 13
Actual: Oregon 38 Purdue 36
Weak 3: Northern Illinois
This game was disgraceful for Purdue on both sides of the ball.
Predicted: Purdue 38 Northern Illinois 24
Actual: Northern Illinois 28 Purdue 21
Week 4: Notre Dame
This is a tough game to pick based on how Purdue played at Oregon, which might have been a tougher game on the road than Notre Dame at home, compared to how bad Purdue played against Northern Illinois. Purdue always seems to find ways to lose games in this series, so I figure some sort of pick 6, punt return, or fumble return will cover it. I'm guessing this will be a high scoring game.
Notre Dame 33 Purdue 30
Week 5: Northwestern
Purdue 41 Northwestern 35
Week 6: @ Minnesota
Minnesota 31 Purdue 20
Week 7: Ohio St.
Ohio St. 24 Purdue 7
Week 8: Illinois
Purdue 27 Illinois 21
Week 9: @Wisconsin
Wisconsin 24 Purdue 14
Week 10: @ Michigan
Michigan 35 Purdue 10
Week 11: Michigan St.
Michigan State 28 Purdue 23
Week 12: @Indiana
Purdue 41 Indiana 27
Final Record: 5-7
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| The Lesser of Two Evils |
[Sep. 21st, 2009|07:15 pm] |
You constantly see obese people ridiculing anorexic people. Through many eyes, anyone that gives a rat's ass about their diet, must have an eating disorder. If fat people argue that they are "genetically" fat or that people need to accept their lifestyle, maybe they should hold those same standards for the other side of the spectrum. All I'm asking for is some consistency.
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