So I don't know why I wanted to believe so bad that we had a great football team. Clearly it's only the second year of the Butch Davis era and it's gonna take 3 years before they really turn it around, but after the Rutgers game I thought we'd turned the corner. We looked so good, and then yesterday we came out and were kicking Virginia Tech's butt up and down the field. Yet we get ahead 17-3 and can't close the deal, just like we did years ago at Virginia under Mack Brown.
I'm starting to feel like our whole football program is snakebitten, or tick-bitten. People really believe that by the way. Jim Tatum got hired to be our coach in the 50's after winning a national title at Maryland, during his rebuilding phase he got Rocky Mountain spotted fever and died. That tick is like our version of the curse of the Bambino.
Anyway, I hate to play the spoiled fan who blames the ref game, but the refs really did give that game to Virginia Tech. If you didn't see it, in the fourth quarter they made 3 or 4 calls that were obviously wrong which without any one of them being called, Virginia Tech would have lost. But we should have been up 30 points at that point anyway and it would have been moot. It had a lot to do with the refs but it had a lot to do with choking too.
It's sort of like when we come back and win one when we shouldn't in basketball, that's how it went for Virginia Tech. They're used to winning and we aren't. So they expected to come back at the end and when they started doing it, we seemed to expect it too, and we panicked and helped it to happen.
We have to get to the point where we expect to win if we hope to win the close games against other teams that expect to win.
Maybe we'll learn, we have the talent and the coaching to do it in most cases. (I'm still not sure about the conservative play calling, but we definitely come out prepared)
Anyway, I'm not going to give up yet, if we beat Miami next week, all is not lost on this season. And we still need to beat Notre Dame and State and Duke. We really have to win all those games to have a good season.
Virginia Tech is very fortunate to get out of here with a win. Hopefully we learned something from it. At least they didn't kill us. At least we're out there competing every week now.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
These Olympics need to end
Oh, I've enjoyed them. Too much obviously. But now I can't look away. I come home and turn on the Olympics and watch all night no matter what.
I'm getting a little sick of them but here I am on a Saturday afternoon watching boxing. I don't even like boxing unless it's Muhammad Ali. This is getting ridiculous. I watch everything. I watch diving. I don't care about diving. I watched less Olympics when I went to them in 1996. Don't get me wrong, it was fun being there. But there was so much other stuff going on besides the actual games.
Anyway this needs to end soon or I really will complete my final transformation into full-fledged couch potato.
Go Spain! I hate Kobe Bryant and I hate Coach K. They are perfect for each other. Two pompous egotistical jerks.
I'm getting a little sick of them but here I am on a Saturday afternoon watching boxing. I don't even like boxing unless it's Muhammad Ali. This is getting ridiculous. I watch everything. I watch diving. I don't care about diving. I watched less Olympics when I went to them in 1996. Don't get me wrong, it was fun being there. But there was so much other stuff going on besides the actual games.
Anyway this needs to end soon or I really will complete my final transformation into full-fledged couch potato.
Go Spain! I hate Kobe Bryant and I hate Coach K. They are perfect for each other. Two pompous egotistical jerks.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Welcome to the Log!
This is just a test. I'm not sure I really want to do this. In any event, I doubt I'll spend much time on this, just a few lines every other day or so.
So I saw Batman on Saturday. Or The Dark Knight I should say. It was pretty amazing. I'd say it's the best Batman yet, and I loved the Tim Burton movies, especially the second one. I wasn't a huge fan of the Jack Nicholson Joker though, and Heath Ledger totally kills in the new one. It's a tragedy that we won't get to see him do another one. That was the only bad thing, because at the end, they totally left it that way. That he would come back, that they would never kill each other, Batman becuase of his code and the Joker because he just loved to fuck with him and it wouldn't be as fun with nobody that cool to fuck with.
Anyway, anyone who likes this stuff will no doubt see it or already has, so it doesn't need my endorsement clearly.
But I think anyone will like this film. It has so much more going on than your typical comic book movie. So don't be afraid of the length. It didn't even seem long to me while watching it, just when I looked at my watch after.
Oh, and speaking of a movie with more going on than your typical comic book film, one of the trailers was for The Watchmen movie, which is the king of such comic books, by my all time favorite comic book author, Alan Moore who also wrote V for Vendetta, From Hell, and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen among others. This is his masterpiece and it looks really cool. It's directed by the guy who directed 300 (which was based on a Frank Miller comic book, who happens to be my second favorite comic book author) and it looks sorta like that but even better in the triler. I am so psyched for this one. I've been waiting for this movie for years. I remember years ago, Terry Gilliam was attached to it at one time and I was totally pumped, but that fell through. Anyway, the trailer totally has the feel of the comic down. So I think they're really trying to stay faithful which is good, considering after how the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen move was so ruined, Moore said he would never attach his name to any movie ever made based on his comic books. That's why he has no credit for V for Vendetta even though that one was a pretty good adaptation I thought. I don't know if Moore agreed.
Anyway, be on the lookout for that one. Not a lot of big stars in it, which I also like. I guess the biggest ones are fellow UNC alum Billy Crudup and Kelly Leak from the Bad News Bears.
So I saw Batman on Saturday. Or The Dark Knight I should say. It was pretty amazing. I'd say it's the best Batman yet, and I loved the Tim Burton movies, especially the second one. I wasn't a huge fan of the Jack Nicholson Joker though, and Heath Ledger totally kills in the new one. It's a tragedy that we won't get to see him do another one. That was the only bad thing, because at the end, they totally left it that way. That he would come back, that they would never kill each other, Batman becuase of his code and the Joker because he just loved to fuck with him and it wouldn't be as fun with nobody that cool to fuck with.
Anyway, anyone who likes this stuff will no doubt see it or already has, so it doesn't need my endorsement clearly.
But I think anyone will like this film. It has so much more going on than your typical comic book movie. So don't be afraid of the length. It didn't even seem long to me while watching it, just when I looked at my watch after.
Oh, and speaking of a movie with more going on than your typical comic book film, one of the trailers was for The Watchmen movie, which is the king of such comic books, by my all time favorite comic book author, Alan Moore who also wrote V for Vendetta, From Hell, and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen among others. This is his masterpiece and it looks really cool. It's directed by the guy who directed 300 (which was based on a Frank Miller comic book, who happens to be my second favorite comic book author) and it looks sorta like that but even better in the triler. I am so psyched for this one. I've been waiting for this movie for years. I remember years ago, Terry Gilliam was attached to it at one time and I was totally pumped, but that fell through. Anyway, the trailer totally has the feel of the comic down. So I think they're really trying to stay faithful which is good, considering after how the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen move was so ruined, Moore said he would never attach his name to any movie ever made based on his comic books. That's why he has no credit for V for Vendetta even though that one was a pretty good adaptation I thought. I don't know if Moore agreed.
Anyway, be on the lookout for that one. Not a lot of big stars in it, which I also like. I guess the biggest ones are fellow UNC alum Billy Crudup and Kelly Leak from the Bad News Bears.
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