Showing posts with label Football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Football. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Talk amongst yourselves . . .

I'm still around. Mid-terms approach, and while I do have things to post on, they would take more time to write than I have just now; so, I will be away from "here" a while longer.

In the meantime: If I have to say anything more in this space about the significance of this Saturday at high noon*, the one annual event that all thinking people can point to as affirming a Manichean good-vs.-evil metaphysics, I really must revoke your college-football-fan credentials.
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*Well, okay, 11:00 am local time, which I admit undercuts the mythos of the day a wee bit . . . would Gary Cooper, over Grace Kelly's protestations, have gone back to defend a town in a film called Eleven AM???)

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Only two sports out here: Philosophy, and Spring Philosophy

(via Matthew Yglesias, who found it here. Click on image to enlarge.)

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

"You have been summoned here to answer the threat of Norman"

Image found here.

Surely y'all know that today at high noon (Eastern Time) on the fields of Big D, the army of all that is good and right in this green world of Middle Earth is called upon again, as it has been for the past 102 years, to battle the forces of death and darkness.

Though the battle may be in doubt, the eventual outcome is not.

It is the Good Fight writ large. Thus, they ask for no gold or garlands. A hearty "Hook 'em!!" will suffice.

UPDATE: They bow to no one.

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Friday, September 12, 2008

Being and Nothingness and a Cloud of Dust


Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life

(via Andrew Sullivan, and in memory of my bloggy friend Winston Rand, whose beloved Titans get mentioned.)

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