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I interrupt this ACC student section ranking to bring you this post...Maryland is going to miss the NCAA Tourney for the 3rd time in the last 4 years. Unless we beat UVA (which I don't even think we'll do), and then do some damage in the ACC Tourney, we're headed to the NIT yet again.

Maryland had a 68-55 lead with 4:48 to go. We got outscored 18-2 to end the game. Unfreaking believable.



I'm normally super optimistic about things like this, but not anymore. I'm not going to get my hopes up and allow MD to crush them. My health can't take it anymore.

ACC Student Section Rankings

A recent Baltimore Sun blog post that ranked the basketball Student sections in the ACC made me think “I can do this a million times better!” So below, is my attempt to rank each team’s student section. Tune back each day (or every other day) as I count down to the best student section in the ACC We’ll do this Top 10 style, starting with the worst section first.

Starting with the worst today, coming in at # 12, the University of Virginia


#12 – UVA

I hate UVA for a lot of reasons and # 1 on my list of “reasons to hate UVA” is their student section. UVA likes to think they’re an ivy league school. They dress up in ties for games, they wear pastel colored shirts with popped collars, and they give off this aura of “douchbaggieness.” (Yes, I just made up that word and when you look in a dictionary of the future, they’ll have a picture of UVA students next to the word and definition).
Maryland fans in particular probably hate UVA fans the most for several reasons, but number one on my list came in 2002, when Maryland was playing at UVA. The star on that National Championship team, Juan Dixon, overcame a lot in his life but I’m sure one, if not the most difficult things was having to deal with both of his parents passing away from AIDS. So how does the UVA student section welcome Juan Dixon to Charlotte? By chanting “Crackhead parents!” Maybe one of the most classless things I’ve ever heard or seen in my life. The Terps still managed to win that game by the way. Here was Dixon’s stat line for the game, in which he overcame that horrible showing of humanity from UVA:

player start? Mp pt fgm fga fgpct ftm fta ftpct r a b s pf 3fgm 3fga 3fgpct Juan Dixon 36 16 5 13 38% 5 5 100% 3 4 0 0 2 1 3 33%

UVA’s student section has also been know to try to use “cheersheets” like the Cameron Crazies do, but their cheers are often lame, unoriginal garbage, much like their student body. Here is an excerpt from a UVA cheersheet that the DC Sports Bog on washingtonpost.com got a hold of last year:
“As we all know, Maryland fans are thugs. They probably don't even own a tie, never mind a blazer, and chants such as "You are all thugs," and "We don't riot," are perfect. Other parts of the cheersheet include making fun of Vasquez’s big nose and calling Mike Joes a nobody. Hardly a nobody.

The other thing wrong with UVA’s student section is something they can’t control, which is their arena. Their old venue got a lot more sound out of it and was a much harder place to play. Their new arena, in which they try to copy Maryland’s Comcast Center, except sans the ability of the place to be loud and intimidating like Comcast is, doesn’t have the same effect as their old court.

Here’s UVA’s student section score, which is what I’ll use to evaluate each school’s student section:

Attendance of students at all games (1-10) – 7
Creativity of student cheers (1-10) – 4
Intensity of students at games (1-10) – 8.5
Ability of arena to get loud (including proximity of students to court) – 8
Ability to united student section in cheers, movements, etc. – 9

Total score = 36.5/50

People are finally realizing what I’ve said all along…

J.J. Redick isn’t an NBA talent. Sorry folks. He’s a lights out shooter and the ACC’s leading scorer, but in the NBA, he’s outsized, less athletic, bad at defense and not as fast as the competition he faces. And those are things you can’t teach. JJ made himself a good player by making up for his lack of size, athletic ability, and speed by improving on other skills hat anyone can learn – such as shooting 3’s. Although you can get by doing that in College Basketball, that shit don’t fly in the NBA.
Hence, on most nights, you’ll see a “Did not play – Coach’s Decision” next to JJ’s name in the box score. And I applaud Orlando’s coach Stan Van Gundy for letting JJ rot away on the bench. Now JJ wants out of Orlando. He’s quietly bitching and moaning about not playing. You can read more about it here in an article the Orlando Sentinel recently did.

Sorry JJ. When it comes to playing in the NBA, it’s REDICKulous to think you should be an everyday player. If the Magic we’re sucking this year, I’d say sure, play JJ and let him embarrass himself on a daily basis. But the Magic are doing good, so I think Stan Van Gundy should be coach of the year in the NBA. He’s got the Magic playing great AND knows how much JJ sucks and keeps him on the bench.
As long as you’re airballing on shots like this below JJ, you should continue being the Magic’s #1 bench warmer.

Think of the Children!!!

Ah, mocking the 18-1 Pats...it never gets old. Don't you just wish the NFL would punish Bill B. for spygate and for walking off the field early by making him go to these third world nations and hand out these shirts? Oh, sweet poetic justice that would be!
As most of you know, during each major championship game, there are two shirts and hats made so they can have them on hand after the game for each team that wins. It was often a mystery as to what happened to the shirts of the losing team until a sports journalists was in Africa a few years back and saw hundreds of Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champion tee shirts. Once the word got out that the NFL is a good samaritian and donates the losing team's incorrect merchendise to poor third world countries, I was just waiting for pictures of the 19-0 Patriots shirts to surface. Today, on this glorious Friday, my wish has come true!


The clown pointing at the shirt is freaking hilarious.



And now, I leave you with an inspirational poster...
You stay classy, Bilacheat.

Hey hey! Ho ho! The Pats are not 19 and 0!

Another HILARIOUS Patriots 19-0 item that was made prematurely. A real post will be coming soon, I promise. If the Pats had gone 19-0, I probably would have enjoyed this ad a lot more because it made fun of the 72 Dolphins, who I hate.

19 and NO!

I'll have a much more detailed description of the Pats loss last night up soon. But until then, I HAD to post this weblink that my friend Mike sent me. It might not be up too much longer, so the screen shoot is below and a better up close view is under that.



The item description is good too:

You can buy the item http://www.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=298538#reviews

25 Years of Hating

Today I celebrate the 25th anniversary of me!

Yes, I know what you’re thinking – what is he writing about? Who cares that he turns 25 today? Its true, no ones comes to this blog to read about my feelings, unless they are somehow connected to that of a sports team. But now that I’m a quarter of a century old, I thought I’d turn this blog into more of a personal reflection of my life…

Just kidding!

The reason I bring up the 25th anniversary of my birth is that it is also, ironically, the 25th anniversary of the Super Bowl XVII champion Washington Redskins, who as you have probably guessed by now, I don’t like very much. Many of you probably don’t know (and I didn’t know until recently), that the 1982 season was actually cut short by a player strike and the NFL extended the regular season into January of 1983 and created a 16 team playoff tournament. Pretty crazy, isn’t it? The Baltimore Colts were one of the few teams who didn’t make the playoffs that year as they were 0-8-1. You can read more about it here.

My Mom has told me on many occasions that I sat in the hospital bed with her and watched the Redskins win Super Bowl XVII. It is so ironic that my first experience with sports had to be the sadness of the Skins winning a Super Bowl. But that wasn’t the worst part about 1983…
It began by the Colts having the first pick in the NFL draft that year, after finishing as I mentioned earlier, 0-8-1. I think I remember folks telling me that the Colts owner at the time, Robert Irsay, who was an alcoholic jackass, was mad that Baltimore hadn’t given him a new stadium so he basically made the team suck to spite them. More about this later, but Irsay was basically taking a page out of the movie “Major League” and from that Simpsons episode where they want to move the Isotopes (which I think was there way to poke fun at Irsay and the way he denied moving the Colts to Indy all along)




In the 1983 draft, the Colts selected John Elway. Elway, being the douchebag that he is (as far as I’m concerned he can rot in hell with Robert Irsay), threatened to not play in the NFL if the Colts didn’t trade him because he didn’t want to play in Baltimore. He said if he wasn’t traded, he would pursue his Major League Baseball Career with, guess who, the New York Yankees. So the Colts traded Mr. D-Bag to Denver and that continued a chain of events that resulted in the Colts sneaking out of Baltimore in the middle of the night on March 29th, 1984, at 3:00 A.M. in Mayflower Trucks.



So although I started writing this with the intention of talking about why I hate the Redskins, I ended up ranting about the Colts and why people should hate them. And don’t tell me that Art Modell did the same thing to Cleveland when he moved to Baltimore, because he didn’t. In short, Art left Cleveland’s history, name and colors in Cleveland and guaranteed an expansion team to the city. The Irsay’s on the other hand stole the Colts’ history in Baltimore and even though they agreed to support Baltimore in getting an expansion team, they backed out at the last minute and supported…Jacksonville. Yes Jacksonville, who despite making the playoffs, still can’t sell out their own stadium. Good move NFL. I rant about this in a previous post if you want more info. I think if Indy really wants to close the door on this whole thing, all they have to do is give Baltimore back the history they deserve. Did you know that John Unitas, may he rest in peace, had all mentions of his name in the NFL hall of fame removed because the bastard Irsay family said that he played for the Indianapolis Colts? He was so mad that it said he played for Indy and not Baltimore that he had his names removed from the hall of fame. If that doesn’t make you hate the Irsay family, I don’t know what will.

Anyway, on this day of my birth, I celebrate the Redskins’ Super Bowl Irony as well as the start of the long death of the Colts in Baltimore. I leave you with this – The Baltimore Colts Fight Song. You can listen to it here. Check out that page for other great information about the BALTIMORE Colts past!



Let's go you Baltimore Colts,
And put that ball across the line!
So, drive on you Baltimore Colts,
Go in and strike like lightning bolts!
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Rear up you Colts and let's fight!
Crash through and show them your might!
For Baltimore and Maryland,
You will march on to victory!