FB: American Rivers Conference

[dutchfan1]

I graduated in 2000, which means I had the pleasure of traveling the 1999 and 2000 playoff series with the guys. (The only game I missed in my college career was the 2000 Miracle in the Mud game vs. Linfield.)

[DutchFan2004]

Oh wow you had some good years.  The miracle in the mud was a fun game I have seen it on tape.  My kids friend was a freshman in 2000 she was a excersie science major and on the golf team. 


Ok here goes the West bracket pick ems


UW over St Norberts  I know I am pretty brave on this Ha

UWL or Bethel  my first idea is to pick the home team but I think this is the year that Bethel gets the O fer off their backs

Whitworth over Oxy

then Central over the Johnnies by a last second FG

[DuffMan]

GO ST. JOHN'S!!!!!

Welcome to the good side! (or as we like to call it, the winning side )

[Touchdown Tommy]

They have a HOOTERS in Iowa???  I shudder to fathom what the girls look like.  Good thing you go for the FOOD...   

[Fannosaurus Rex]

I have never driven from Collegeville to Pella, but I have made the trip from Minneapolis.  The St. John's football team will arrive stiff, groggy and nearly comatose from boredom induced by a six hour bus ride through the corn stubble of southern Minnesota and northern Iowa.  Then they get to Pella and things really get dull.  I predict Central wins 14-0.  The Dutch will score on two big plays when the Johnnies are distracted once by a cheerleader pyramid and then by a passing flock of geese.

[Dsquared]

Only to be topped by the thought of a Hooter's in MN... I wonder if they offer the waitresses free body waxing as part of their wages... lord knows those Nordic women can grown the hair!!!  Then again... maybe the excess hair is OK in covering up the "it's really cold up here, I need to stay warm with it" chub...

[Touchdown Tommy]

Ok this requires an unbiased opinion from Kilted Rat.  He has spent significant time going to school in both states.  Please weigh in on this at your earliest convenience Mr. Vice President...

[DuffMan]

I have never driven from Collegeville to Pella, but I have made the trip from Minneapolis.  The St. John's football team will arrive stiff, groggy and nearly comatose from boredom induced by a six hour bus ride through the corn stubble of southern Minnesota and northern Iowa.  Then they get to Pella and things really get dull.  I predict Central wins 14-0.  The Dutch will score on two big plays when the Johnnies are distracted once by a cheerleader pyramid and then by a passing flock of geese.

Fanny,

I'm sure the Johnnies will be getting there Thursday evening or early Friday, so they will have plenty of time to loosen up from the bus.

[DuffMan]

Ok this requires an unbiased opinion from Kilted Rat.  He has spent significant time going to school in both states.  Please weigh in on this at your earliest convenience Mr. Vice President...

Since when was KR elected VP?

[Touchdown Tommy]

Duffy: Something to do with you not being in attendance this weekend in Pella...You were demoted to KR's assistant

[DuffMan]

Wow, and how many games did you and KR attend combined this year?  I was at 8.

[Kilted Rat]

They have a HOOTERS in Iowa???  I shudder to fathom what the girls look like.  Good thing you go for the FOOD...   

There is a hOOters in Des Moines (West Des Moines actually) just blocks from where I lived my first year down here.

The wings and beer there are good.

The eye candy is on par with that at your average NASCAR viewing party in rural Kentucky.

Ok this requires an unbiased opinion from Kilted Rat.  He has spent significant time going to school in both states.  Please weigh in on this at your earliest convenience Mr. Vice President...

The MN hOOters and even the Fargo hOOters are both far superior to the one in Des moines, it's not even close!

Minnesota Hooters:



Des Moines Hooters:




Duff,
Including this weekend, 3. Not bad for being 300+ miles away!

[dutchfan1]

KR -- if you hate Iowa so much, why not leave? Were you not accepted at any other medical schools?

[DuffMan]

It's cause he looks pretty compared to the rest of Iowa's population

[tmerton]

Remember this Hooters girl? (looks more like the grim reaper)



Oh, what a feeling. Toy Yoda!

PANAMA CITY, Fla. --
A former Hooters waitress has sued the restaurant where she worked, saying she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest.

Instead she won a new toy Yoda -- the little green Jedi master from Star Wars.

Jodee Berry, 26, then a waitress at the Hooters in Panama City Beach, won a contest to see who could sell the most beer in April.

Manager Jared Blair told waitresses that the contest was a regional promotion, according to the lawsuit, and that the top 10 waitresses from each restaurant would be entered in a drawing. The person whose name was drawn would win a "new Toyota automobile," the lawsuit says Blair told them.

In early May, Berry said, Blair told her she had won.

"I couldn't believe that out of all the girls who were entered, I was the winner," Berry said.

She was blindfolded and led to the restaurant parking lot. When the blindfold was removed, Berry wasn't looking at a new car, but a Yoda doll.

Berry said she looked beyond the $40 toy, hoping to see the car driving around the corner. Blair, she said, was inside the restaurant laughing. But she wasn't.

"A corporation can't lead their employees on like that," Berry said. "It's not good business ethics. They can't do that to people."

Berry quit the restaurant a week later.

She sued Gulf Coast Wings, owners of the restaurant, alleging breach of contract and fraudulent misrepresentation. She is seeking as compensation, the cost of a new Toyota -- the car.

Her lawyer, Stephen West of Pensacola, said he was also looking at false advertising statutes.

West said one other Hooters waitress verified Berry's story.

Berry said Blair knowingly misled them through the course of the contest by telling the employees he didn't know what kind of Toyota it would be -- whether a car, truck or van. The suit contends that he also told them the winner would be responsible for the tax on the new automobile.

West said those statements would go a long way toward defeating any defense argument that Berry misunderstood Blair.

The restaurant regularly had contests where management would come through with the promised prize, said Berry, who worked at Hooters for about a year before quitting.

Stuart Houston, a spokesman for the company, said it had not been served with the lawsuit yet and he would not comment.