FB: American Rivers Conference

[Klopenhiemer]

We've seen several players try to post here throughout the years, but the general consensus is that players should do their talking on the field instead of on a message board. I'm glad that we self regulate.

Don't you guys think it's funny that current players are concerned about what old fans are saying? I can't imaigine that the things that old sideline jockeys (like us) have to say being the least bit motivating.

What if you had read on here someone talking about how much they thought the Central Cheerleaders really stunk while you were on the sidelines???    That might have fired you up!!!
Actually, I can't remember a whole lot of player critiques on here...at least not negative.  I know we all push for players we think should be MVP or all-conference.  But I don't remember a lot of talk about how we thought certain players stunk up the field.  Now that I think about it I suppose there could have been someone saying Sherden should be all-conference and then was followed by a "no way, I saw him get shut down by our defense, Schuring should be all-conference running back over Sherden"  Maybe that is what LCNorse is getting at???

Nah, I really don't think I would have cared. 

Well what if a post would have said that all the Dutch cheerleaders were fat disgusting pigs who should be out on the farm eating out of troughs!  That might have fired you up. 

Klopenhiemer's Disclaimer:  This was only for laughs and at no point was it my intention or my thoughts that the Dutch cheerleaders represented any of the above statements.  I assume all past and present ones to be beautiful young laides.   

Oh, and have you guys heard the jokes about having to put in artificial turf to keep the cheerleaders from grazing? LOL -- come on, guys, these are old jokes and not anything to get fired up about. Maybe that's just me, though....

My personal disclaimer (as if it needs to be restated) : I'm not your typical chick. Me reading this board is somewhat of an oddity. I don't think the average cheerleader reads the board on a regular basis.

I agree totally with you DF1.  If you took a survey of the IIAC Cheer Squads I bet less than 5% even know of this board.  

What would you say the % is of Cheerleaders really know and understand the game?  How many of the gals on your squad/squads through the years really liked football enough to understand the game?  I don't think the majority of women know or really try to understand the game.  They may watch it and enjoy the game but I know many women come to the games to be with their spouses and they spend the time talking about anything but the game.  

True statement in the north. 
Not a true statement in the south. 
Those women know their football and love it.  Nothing like seeing the line to the womens restroom at a SEC game being longer than the one to mens room.  Do not ask them trival questions either, they will burry you!

[DBQ1965]

How did everybody find this site???

I think there was a link to d3football.com on some teams website when I was looking for a webcast.  I think it was BV but could have been Simpson.  I clicked on the link and then it took me a while to notice there was a message board. 

One day I was doing a search trying to find anything about D3 football, and this site came up.

[dutchfan1]

This is highly entertaining -- and you guys are all correct. I know several women that don't know the first thing about football. I also know plenty of women that can hold their own on any football conversation. Plenty of us truly love the game, despite never having played it.

Be honest, would you guys prefer a woman who knows her stuff, or one that is (or acts) clueless and stays out of "your domain"?

[Walston Hoover]

Of the 4 seniors on the Wartburg conf. championship VB team of 2002, all married former KNight FB players. I would put the football knowledge of most of them up against anyone.

[Klopenhiemer]

This is highly entertaining -- and you guys are all correct. I know several women that don't know the first thing about football. I also know plenty of women that can hold their own on any football conversation. Plenty of us truly love the game, despite never having played it.

Be honest, would you guys prefer a woman who knows her stuff, or one that is (or acts) clueless and stays out of "your domain"?

I think it would be very cool if my wife had a good working knowledge of football.  She loves baseball and really does know what she is talking about.  She loves the Cubs and it makes for a much more fun experience going to games.  I have never been one who thinks there is a man domain.  Unless it comes to "gutting deer" then I think the men can take care of that one

[doolittledog]

Advice for the day.

If you drop by the house for lunch, and your wife isn't having the best day with the daycare kids.  Do not, I repeat, do not in a smart ass tone tell your wife to "turn that frown, upside down"

Doing so gets you in trouble!!!

Are we under 60 days yet for kickoff Sept. 6th???

[DutchFan2004]

We've seen several players try to post here throughout the years, but the general consensus is that players should do their talking on the field instead of on a message board. I'm glad that we self regulate.

Don't you guys think it's funny that current players are concerned about what old fans are saying? I can't imaigine that the things that old sideline jockeys (like us) have to say being the least bit motivating.

What if you had read on here someone talking about how much they thought the Central Cheerleaders really stunk while you were on the sidelines???    That might have fired you up!!!
Actually, I can't remember a whole lot of player critiques on here...at least not negative.  I know we all push for players we think should be MVP or all-conference.  But I don't remember a lot of talk about how we thought certain players stunk up the field.  Now that I think about it I suppose there could have been someone saying Sherden should be all-conference and then was followed by a "no way, I saw him get shut down by our defense, Schuring should be all-conference running back over Sherden"  Maybe that is what LCNorse is getting at???

Nah, I really don't think I would have cared. 

Well what if a post would have said that all the Dutch cheerleaders were fat disgusting pigs who should be out on the farm eating out of troughs!  That might have fired you up. 

Klopenhiemer's Disclaimer:  This was only for laughs and at no point was it my intention or my thoughts that the Dutch cheerleaders represented any of the above statements.  I assume all past and present ones to be beautiful young laides.   

Oh, and have you guys heard the jokes about having to put in artificial turf to keep the cheerleaders from grazing? LOL -- come on, guys, these are old jokes and not anything to get fired up about. Maybe that's just me, though....

My personal disclaimer (as if it needs to be restated) : I'm not your typical chick. Me reading this board is somewhat of an oddity. I don't think the average cheerleader reads the board on a regular basis.

I agree totally with you DF1.  If you took a survey of the IIAC Cheer Squads I bet less than 5% even know of this board.  

What would you say the % is of Cheerleaders really know and understand the game?  How many of the gals on your squad/squads through the years really liked football enough to understand the game?  I don't think the majority of women know or really try to understand the game.  They may watch it and enjoy the game but I know many women come to the games to be with their spouses and they spend the time talking about anything but the game.  

i know plenty of women (girlfriends/wives) that understand nothing of the game, even if they are dating or married to a player.  you find it very different when the woman is the mother of a player though i think.

This is highly entertaining -- and you guys are all correct. I know several women that don't know the first thing about football. I also know plenty of women that can hold their own on any football conversation. Plenty of us truly love the game, despite never having played it.

Be honest, would you guys prefer a woman who knows her stuff, or one that is (or acts) clueless and stays out of "your domain"?

It is not my domain.  Mrs DF2004 is one of those mothers.  She knew absolutely nothing about sports when we met.  We got married and 4 sons later I would put her knowledge of sports in general and football specifically  against anyones man or woman.  She gets mad at other women who want to chit chat during a game.  She is there for the game not gossip.  As far as the domain comment I think it is great to have women more knowledgable about it.  Just don't ask me how to sew anything 

[Pat Coleman]

How did everybody find this site???

I think there was a link to d3football.com on some teams website when I was looking for a webcast.  I think it was BV but could have been Simpson.  I clicked on the link and then it took me a while to notice there was a message board. 

From one of those students who reads the boards.   

Shoot, I should have been gushing in my praise for Tim instead of putting in my 2 cents for Jermar getting MVP votes.  He used that as motivation for leading the Dutch to that triple OT win 

You know you are kind of right.  The players don't post when they are playing.  They don't want fodder for the other team to use.  I think you would be surprised how motivating some the posts can be on here to the players.  I know that the postings from here were motivation for the players.   You get some quotes on here and can fuel to motivate some guys.   

I would definitely agree with you Dutchfan...I remember a post from my junior year in which I got ripped on pretty good...one of my friends told me about it and I put it in my locker the rest of the year...that was just me. There was some guys who would read this everyday but on the other hand you could ask others and they would have no idea what it was...I'll let ya guess which one I was...

I'd kind of forgotten what bulletin board material was like until an opposing coach talked smack about me and a teammate of mine in, yes, slow pitch softball. He was complaining about lively bats and said, "guys who didn't look like they could hit it out of the infield were hitting home runs off us."

That stayed posted on my cube wall for years and I always hit it out of the infield against Comcast.

[Walston Hoover]

Was this on a slow pitch softball message board?
I don't know of too much "non-ingame" smack talk that I've heard. Loras and Luther used to be some of the worst talkers and could never back it up when I was playing. Not that they can now either, I just don't know if they still talk as much as they used to.
UIU was known for diarrhea of the mouth as well.
UD talked for about the first series and by then the game was over.

[doolittledog]

Was this on a slow pitch softball message board?
I don't know of too much "non-ingame" smack talk that I've heard. Loras and Luther used to be some of the worst talkers and could never back it up when I was playing. Not that they can now either, I just don't know if they still talk as much as they used to.
UIU was known for diarrhea of the mouth as well.
UD talked for about the first series and by then the game was over.

When I listened to the UD/Luther game from last season, when Luther was up 17-7 in the 1st quarter the announcer mentioned there was a lot of jawing going on between the teams.  After Dubuque went up 21-17 by halftime he didn't mention the smack talk anymore. 

When my father and I went to the UD/Cornell game last year we heard Brautigam tell the players to remember to win with class and he didn't want to see any trash talking or dancing around.  And the players listened to him because we heard or saw nothing out of the UD players.  I think having players sticking around Dubuque for 4 years now leads to a team that has respect for the other teams in the league.  Years ago when Dubuque was made up almost entirely of underclassmen you had a bunch of 18 year olds that thought they were going to come in and whupp some tail.  That didn't happen!!!

[Purple Heys]

When my father and I went to the UD/Cornell game last year we heard Brautigam tell the players to remember to win with class and he didn't want to see any trash talking or dancing around.  And the players listened to him because we heard or saw nothing out of the UD players. 

Concur with Doolittle...I was at that game.  UD had ample opportunity to posture as the game got out of hand in the 1st quarter.

My son told me that one of the UD D-line starting running some smack, but his teammates told him to cool it.

Football's a game of emotion, especially in college, you can't expect kids to keep their mouths shut all the time.

[D1HawkD3CUI]

I'll never forget watching Central play UD at home one year when one of their receivers starting jawing back at the crowd! He was having a rough afternoon and it must have finally gotten to him. It was late in the game and quiet enough that you could actually hear him yelling back at the crowd, pretty funny.

[Pat Coleman]

No, it's a league for the media companies in the D.C. area so there's a weekly preview and roundup and that sort of thing. Journalists, you know.

[doolittledog]

No, it's a league for the media companies in the D.C. area so there's a weekly preview and roundup and that sort of thing. Journalists, you know.

So you're getting traded to the Minnesota slow pitch league for a beat reporter and a college intern to be named later???

[Ash Park]

Was this on a slow pitch softball message board?
I don't know of too much "non-ingame" smack talk that I've heard. Loras and Luther used to be some of the worst talkers and could never back it up when I was playing. Not that they can now either, I just don't know if they still talk as much as they used to.
UIU was known for diarrhea of the mouth as well.
UD talked for about the first series and by then the game was over.

When I listened to the UD/Luther game from last season, when Luther was up 17-7 in the 1st quarter the announcer mentioned there was a lot of jawing going on between the teams.  After Dubuque went up 21-17 by halftime he didn't mention the smack talk anymore. 

When my father and I went to the UD/Cornell game last year we heard Brautigam tell the players to remember to win with class and he didn't want to see any trash talking or dancing around.  And the players listened to him because we heard or saw nothing out of the UD players.  I think having players sticking around Dubuque for 4 years now leads to a team that has respect for the other teams in the league.  Years ago when Dubuque was made up almost entirely of underclassmen you had a bunch of 18 year olds that thought they were going to come in and whupp some tail.  That didn't happen!!!

Yes UD has come a long ways from when that senior class were freshmen. We kind of ran the score up on them one year and were up big and threw a half back pass for some reason. Brautigam was about to the middle of the field yelling at Reasland. Casebolt was the offensive coordinator at the time and he was the one who called the play....I have no idea why he called that either. Didn't show much class at all, but UD had their chances last year to rub it in and what not and they didn't at all. They showed a lot of class in that blowout win last season and a lot of that credit has to be given to the coaching staff there at UD. It seems they have done a good job with those young men.