I'm glad we are on to numbers because, this being rivalry week and all, I am reminded of the Simpson grad who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. So, when the boy was 18 the dad took him to the Simpson admissions office. The admissions officer said, "we just have one test, what is two plus two?" The boy scratched his head and thought and counted on his fingers and finally he said, "uhhhh, four?" And the dad said, "Ah come on, give him a second chance."

And when I say, "Another served," I don't mean another, I mean Another. This feels like an old Abbott and Costello bit.

This being Central v Simpson rivalry week, I am doing some research to come up with a Simpson insulting witticism.  I find it interesting to learn that the seventh president of Simpson College was named, Another Simpson. Another served from 1892 to 1898. I believe large families were common back then. It makes me wonder if Another had a younger sibling what their name might be? If I was their father, it would be Andanother for a girl and Notanother for a boy.

I will defend the time-outs by noting that five yards are too hard to get against Wartburg so you don't want to give them up to a delay of game penalty. It is much harder to defend not being able to get the right people on the field and a play called in the allotted time. It looked to me like Central was the team with the big game jitters. It is not what this old fan is used to seeing.

Well that is discouraging. Central hasn't had much of a running game for several years now.  This year it has been much better. So maybe somehow it can contribute to a Central win Saturday.

Hooray it is finally Central v Wartburg week and both teams are undefeated. This kind of reminds me of trying to handicap a stakes race. You know the talent is there, but you don't know which horse is ready to run a really big race. It looks like the track should be dry and fast.  I think to win, Central will have to get off to a fast start and avoid mistakes. Wartburg doesn't look like a team you want to play catch-up against. If this was a research paper, I would footnote Professor Obvious here.

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Quote from: doolittledog on September 19, 2025, 01:07:59 PMWill be getting to Dubuque about 11am tomorrow.  Mrs Doolittle thinks it would be better to stay home and put up Halloween decorations than risk sitting through the predicted rain tomorrow.  Not sure how many of our kids will be there.  They're all in Dubuque but not sure about job schedules and what not. 

So since it was 2010 for the last victory in the series for Loras...

There's a man sitting on a park bench with his dog.  Another man sits down and says "hey, does your dog do any tricks?"
The man with the dog says sure, watch this.  "Hey Rusty, UD beat Loras in football"  the dog then does a back flip.
The other man says wow! What does your dog do if Loras beats UD?
The man with the dog says "I don't know, my dog is only 14 years old!"

How do I dislike a post Pat?

Don't "dislike." Fire back. Tell the story about the guy who walked into a bar with a crocodile. He says, "do you serve alums from the University of Dubuque in here? The bar tender says, "of course we do." So the guy says, "good. I'll have a beer and my friend will have a UD grad."

Why does the ARC use teasers? I hate teasers!

It is funny that when a local Chicago tv weather man puts up his regional map, the only two cities it names in Iowa are Waterloo and Oskaloosa.

I guess if I ever had to spend three days in an ARC town other than Pella, Dubuque might be tolerable. I would be careful not to cross Ms Doolittle though.

The weekend Wall Street Journal has an article about how to spend a three day weekend in Dubuque. Of course the fist thing to do should be to get back in the car and drive to Pella. They missed that obvious move but it still paints Dubuque in pretty nice light.

Congratulations to the University of Dubuque Marching Spartan Band for a splendid half-time show and to who ever runs the web cast audio-visual for actually letting me see and hear it.

After looking forward to watching Central play in California ever since the schedule was announced, I was very disappointed to find I would have to pay to see the video. Even though I am Dutch by association, and not birth, I am still too thrifty to pay for something I am used to getting for free. Fortunately Treavor Castle's play by play made me feel like I was there.

I watched the Eau Claire marching band's half-time show. They are really good. Boy am I jealous!

Congrats to the Eau Claire band on a great half time show. The sax solo in the Dolly Parton song nearly made me weep.