FB: American Rivers Conference

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CCIW 945 pages, IIAC 845

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IIAC food for thought:

BV:  Bubble team seeking key position(s)
Central:  Kicking coach = President = Institutional Committment
Coe:  If sparked, could ignite
Cornell:  Dillon building Rome
UD:  Chapalty benevoence raises UD, IIAC
Loras:  Good, wholesome school
Luther:  Prez former Wartburg football coach
Simpson:  New coach invigorates alums
Wartburg:  Karats are orange
IIAC/NCAA:  Turf moritorium - save atmosphere

[Superfoot Wallace]

Who here has had (still has?) a muscle car?

The reason my pops moved us into an old dairy farm had nothing to do with the fact the barn can hold thirteen hot rods...

oh wait,

that's exactly why we moved!

289's and C-4's here heys, though my pops was a bowtie guy save the '49 Mercury.  Let's see who here knows what an Offenhauser is without the aid of google.  Overhead valves, cams et al are for sissys as the MoKans say.

BTW, hay is a natural dessicant.

signed,
Zora Duntoff

[doolittledog]

Redlands returns the bulk portion of a good defense and I believe most of the skill side of the offense including the QB.  They have a lot of confidence that this team is playoff ready.  They usually have a big squad.  The '07 edition of the DBQ would handle them by a couple of TD's...the '08 Sparties are going to have their hands full early in the season after a long trip.

I will say this, Ted Runner Stadium is not an imposing place to play...but its a good sized and nicely kept stadium with putting green grass.  It's wide open at either end so the noise does not reverberate and accumulate.  I played there in Pop Warner, Junior High and High School football...it's a fast track.  I always liked playing there.  When the field gets wet, it gets very slippery.

Be prepared for very hot, dry weather....very different from the humidity.  Could get in the low 100's and then it's a baking heat.

Oh yeah, when you are there...those things to the North...big, high, rock-looking things...those are Mountains.  It's where we keep our snow.

The game is being played at 7pm...will that make it any better???

I tried selling my wife that we could visit her grandmother and spend friday night at her place, drive to Redlands saturday morning and then go to the game that night, drive into Disneyland sunday morning and spend the whole day there and spend the night there, drive monday back to her grandmothers and spend the night again before flying out of Vegas for home on tuesday...but she didn't think that was the best idea I ever came up with...said something like "stop dreaming and get back outside and shovel the snow off the walks" 

[youcantseeme]

Geez nice work fellas with the 10 pages of dialogue that I have to catch up on.  It is always nice to see the offseason activity.  I am going to react over the next couple of posts.

[admin]

Not if you change to a fake e-mail address ...

[footballdaddy]

Who here has had (still has?) a muscle car?

You know the kind, where women and small children ran when you gunned the motor.

I had a '67 LTD convertible with a 390, Flags and all.

Red with a white rag top.

My wife made me get rid of it when we had the kids.  Had to buy food and clothes for the yard apes instead of new headers and muffler kit.

We drove it across country one summer from Dallas to California...one of the best vacations together we ever had.

I remember pulling into the hotel at Vegas under the lights of the Flamingo Hilton (Back then...)

(Heavy sigh...)

My nicest one was a '76 Trans Am. Custom Goldenrod Yellow, no screaming chicken on the hood, and '78 special edition wheels. Brought the speedometer back around to zero one day. One I'd like to have back.

[TheOne89.1]

SK, those jokes remind me of Denstad.  Spent one night in Clinton ground 20 with a 30-pack telling plenty of jokes along those lines.

Still too young to have gotten a real muscle car...my pops had a 70's Pontiac Ventura though with a 307 in it.  One time in college he told me he was kind of glad he got rid of it before I got my license.  He thought I would have killed myself for sure with all the power and no experience behind the wheel.

Keep up the stories of muscles cars...I love reading about them and gives me something to do while waiting for the snow to clear until we can see the green grass of the football fields.

[footballdaddy]

Probably my best muscle car story is this. I actually manage the service department of a car dealer. Back in 1995 a kid just graduated college and bought a new Mustang Cobra convertble. He came in about a week after he picked it up and said he thought it didn't have much power. I asked if I could drive it, so he got in the passenger seat and his buddy got in the back seat. I took it out and drove it. We got to and entrance ramp to the freeway and I started accelerating hard up the ramp, didn't spin a tire and didn't get even close to redline. I must have shifted better that he did because we were going 105 at the top of the ramp and I think his buddy fouled himself. I allowed that I thought it was running ok. He said "Yeah I guess you're right!" I don't think either one of them had gone that fast that quick.  I never saw the kid again! 

[Walston Hoover]

Speaking of muscle cars. My '92 Dakota had plenty of giddy'up in HS and the Quad cab made the chicks melt when I showed them the window that opened to the bed. 

I still drive a Dodge, Grand Caravan that is. 

[Klopenhiemer]

Probably my best muscle car story is this. I actually manage the service department of a car dealer. Back in 1995 a kid just graduated college and bought a new Mustang Cobra convertble. He came in about a week after he picked it up and said he thought it didn't have much power. I asked if I could drive it, so he got in the passenger seat and his buddy got in the back seat. I took it out and drove it. We got to and entrance ramp to the freeway and I started accelerating hard up the ramp, didn't spin a tire and didn't get even close to redline. I must have shifted better that he did because we were going 105 at the top of the ramp and I think his buddy fouled himself. I allowed that I thought it was running ok. He said "Yeah I guess you're right!" I don't think either one of them had gone that fast that quick.  I never saw the kid again! 

Daddy that is a heck of a story.  Lets hope that kid never figured out how to drive it like you did.  Odds are he would have ended up road kill. 

[Klopenhiemer]

Speaking of muscle cars. My '92 Dakota had plenty of giddy'up in HS and the Quad cab made the chicks melt when I showed them the window that opened to the bed. 

I still drive a Dodge, Grand Caravan that is. 

Walston I got you beat.  I drove a 1984 Nissan King Cab pickup.  Equiped with 5 speed manual and a barring in the transmission that knocked so loud you almost yelled come on in to it. 

Crusing into the parking lot cherping the brand new BFG radial made chicks come running out from 1st period class. 

Here is a story for you all regarding this pickup. 

Homecoming of my sophmore year in HS.  Me and a buddy were in the back of the school after football practice.  We saw a huge wet spot on the black top.  I drove into it popped it nuetral and held her to the floor.  Just as I was jamming it into first gear and fish tailing around the corner, me and my buddy laughing our heads,  saw my mother get out of her car and stare directly into the cab.  I immediatly parked the truck, handed her the keys, and asked how long it would be till my old man tanned my hide.  Funny thing my mother never told me dad about that, and it was our little secret. 

[sportsknight]

SK, those jokes remind me of Denstad.  Spent one night in Clinton ground 20 with a 30-pack telling plenty of jokes along those lines.

I'm actually pretty sure that he's the one I heard the Helen Keller jokes from.  Good Dude, that Denstad.

On the topic of classic cars, I'm also too young to have been around most of the good ones, but a couple of my uncles are pretty big car guys.  One has an early 50s Alfa Romeo that he took me for a ride for, but would never in his life let me drive.  The other uncle has a '77 or '78 Vette that he hardly ever takes out of the garage anymore.  He bought it while his late wife was going thru cancer treatments, and since she passed about 4 years ago, he hasn't driven it much.  Last I heard he was thinking about selling it, but I'm not sure if that ever happened.

The closest thing to a classic car that I've ever owned was probably me 93 Sunbird.

[Klopenhiemer]

SK, those jokes remind me of Denstad.  Spent one night in Clinton ground 20 with a 30-pack telling plenty of jokes along those lines.

I'm actually pretty sure that he's the one I heard the Helen Keller jokes from.  Good Dude, that Denstad.

On the topic of classic cars, I'm also too young to have been around most of the good ones, but a couple of my uncles are pretty big car guys.  One has an early 50s Alfa Romeo that he took me for a ride for, but would never in his life let me drive.  The other uncle has a '77 or '78 Vette that he hardly ever takes out of the garage anymore.  He bought it while his late wife was going thru cancer treatments, and since she passed about 4 years ago, he hasn't driven it much.  Last I heard he was thinking about selling it, but I'm not sure if that ever happened.

The closest thing to a classic car that I've ever owned was probably me 93 Sunbird.

I hear that Sunbird is still sought after by many collectors. 

[RFB]

Doolittledog ...

Thanks for your assessment of the 2008 season for UD.  I'm thinking Coach wouldn't have scheduled the trip to Redlands if he didn't think the Spartans had a chance.  Who wants to go all that far just to be embarrassed?

Hey, we flew all the way to Oregon for the playoffs in '02.

I think....Oh wait I know I would rather fly to Oregon and get embarassed in the playoffs than fly to CA for the opening game and get embarassed. 

On a side note:  I do not think UD will get embarassed, I look for a good game. 

Redlands returns the bulk portion of a good defense and I believe most of the skill side of the offense including the QB.  They have a lot of confidence that this team is playoff ready.  They usually have a big squad.  The '07 edition of the DBQ would handle them by a couple of TD's...the '08 Sparties are going to have their hands full early in the season after a long trip.

I will say this, Ted Runner Stadium is not an imposing place to play...but its a good sized and nicely kept stadium with putting green grass.  It's wide open at either end so the noise does not reverberate and accumulate.  I played there in Pop Warner, Junior High and High School football...it's a fast track.  I always liked playing there.  When the field gets wet, it gets very slippery.

Be prepared for very hot, dry weather....very different from the humidity.  Could get in the low 100's and then it's a baking heat.

Oh yeah, when you are there...those things to the North...big, high, rock-looking things...those are Mountains.  It's where we keep our snow.

The 2007 DB team would beat Redlands by a couple of touchdowns? Not sure what you're basing that prediction on. I would like to hear your take.