Rose Bowl

Ok, so this is probably only an extremely epic event in the world of yours truly for MANY reasons, but nevertheless:

1: It's Football

2: It's College Football

3: It's a PAC-10 v. Big Ten match-up

For these reasons alone, it will be amazing. For other reasons, which only Jobi knows besides me, it is a match-up that could decide my emotional stability for a long time to come.

USC V. Penn State.

I'm always going to pull die hard for the California team (but I would prefer if Cal Berkeley would get their goddamned act together sometime soon...), and USC hardly disappoints with Pete Carrol at the helm. His play calls and overall strategy are downright genius; it's really just too bad the PAC-10 recruiting pool is so weak compared to almost every other seriously competitive conference. So I'll be rooting with my 2008 rally beard in full growth, hopefully drinking far more beer than my liver will want me to after New Years Eve.

BUT

Joe Paterno is a legend and a demi-god in college ball, and this years especially strong Penn State team makes me nervous when I think about the relatively far less consistent and fierce showing the Trojans have mounted this year. The Trojans lost their bid by being stupid (akin to previous years' idiotic losses to unranked teams) and lazy. The JoePa's are a solid team and only lost the championship game bid by literally seconds. I've never seen them get lazy.

That being said, the Nittany Lions are playing on the hallowed Rose Bowl stadium ground, stained with the blood of countless USC victims. It's as if some modern day baptists were suddenly transported to the Colliseum and gazed upon the ruby stained ground of the arena before looking up to see the (real) lions' gates being raised. All too appropriately, the stadium will be a wash of crimson jerseys, as I don't think anyone not carrying a California drivers license will be allowed into Pasadena city lines. Joe Paterno may hold the statistical advantage, but the Rose Bowl is pretty much the same thing as home field advantage for Pete Carrol. The Trojans know that field like the back of their hand, and the Lions will be far deeper in enemy territory than they have been in a long time.


It's going to be epic.


If USC loses.....







Everything will be wrong with the world.




-Bloggi out

"Yo, what's that scar in your back?"
"Oh, that's from, you know.... the crazy"