FB: American Rivers Conference

[Klopenhiemer]

Don't go knocking choir boys. I'm a former one myself. 3 time champs of the tenor/bass drink-off.
Tenors-Women want us, men want to be us.

Oh I'm bad, reeeeeeeeal bad.

Walston.....I will become an ex-anything with promises of free beer.

Make sure you stop by. We'll be the rowdie group of hasbeens and neverwere's throwing the football around. I'll be the overweight (but not obese) guy with the 48 ounce non clear plastic mug full of *pop*.
Tunes will be blaring from our minivan and we'll probably make you clap along to the Wartburg fight song, but that's about it.
I grew up Presbyterian and am Scottish so you guys can't be all bad.

Throwing football around, 48-ounce non-clear plastic mug full of "pop", blaring the tunes, and you're Scottish...you know Walston, for not being a Scots fan, you don't sound all that bad either.

For being a "hasbeen or neverwas" I will commend you for being able to throw a football and handle a 48-oz plastic mug at the same time. I am sure I will stop by. I am planning on getting there around 9, but that depends on my Friday night activities in the greater-Peoria area.

So what you're saying is...you'll be there by 9 since choir practice won't keep you out late on Friday night in the greater-Peoria area...right?

WH...I dont think you want anything to do with the tenor-women

BTW:  Any Dutch people know anything else about the supposed kid leaving for BV.  Is this confirmed and who is it?

[Walston Hoover]

Hell yeah. Thanksgiving isn't a holiday if you don't barf up your meal playing football after the game.
A couple years ago, my wife's family and mine decided they would do Thanksgiving together (15 minutes apart and my wife and I were the only kids married at the time)
We mentioned to my father-in-law (a former Knights LB) that we would have to use his yard then for the GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE BOWL.
I woke up at 7 Turkey day morning to the sound of a lawnmower/ Went to see what the hell was going on, and the F-i-l was out and had strung out his yard and was mowing lines in it. Had a 50 yard field with straight lines and 7 yard endzones. Buried wire flags(substitute for pylons) marked the boundaries.
Great offensive showdown that day. The Power line running across the field about 15 foot in the air had more pass breakups than our whole team that day.
I am the oldest of 4 boys in my immediate family and the oldest of 18 cousins on my dad's side (mostly boys) We use any excuse we can to have a football game.

[Wartburg Fan]

Boy everyone sounds in good moods today, what happen to all the fighting on this board    JUST JOKING GUY




                                GO EVIL EMPIRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess on my Sons wife's side of the family they play football and basketball. On my side we just eat then go to sleep.

[BB]

Free beer....great!  

How many injury/illness/out of shape/nap time outs occured during the after thanksgiving battle?   That game would probablly going under the "its a marathon not a sprint" category!

[DutchFan2004]

Did someone say "free beer" ?!?!

You know, I have an orange sweatshirt and an orange winter coat I could throw on saturday!!!

Though I suppose that after hosting my side of the family on Friday my wife will have just a bit of cleanup around the house for me to do on Saturday.  Hopefully I will be able to watch or listen to the game this week. 

Go Knights!!! 

Clean up is what Friday is for.  You can still make it.

Thursday is with my wifes side of the family.  Friday is with my side of the family.  Which makes Saturday clean up day.  I probably COULD make it to the game.  But I suspect if I did do that my wife would write a letter to Santa telling him I had been a bad boy this year.  I want to find toys in my stocking this Christmas...not a lump of coal!!!

Now, if Wartburg makes it to another round after this weekend.  I think my wife would let me go at that point...provided their game is at least in a border state to Iowa!!!

Well you did make the sacrifice of spending Thanksgiving with her side of the family.  I will have a house full.  If my Dr student does not have to work in the ER we will all be home for the holiday.  That has not happened for a long time.  I think we will get the grubbie clothes out and have the traditional family football game.  This goes back to when I was a boy.  Uncle, Aunt, my Dad, me and other family members would get out in the weather no matter what it was and play.  Does not sound like we will have snow this year but has happened.  Those are the most fun.  I think I will attempt to get the youngest son on my team.    Hopefully that will make up for my lessening mobility.  

I have heard of other families doing things like this.  My family is to small and far to Irsh to crawl out from under the whiskey flask and play a game on Thanksgiving.  Anyone else have and fun family football related traditions?

You don't get much more Irish than our family.  The wiskey was for after the game to ease the pain.    Now that I married into a dry family that saved more than my life.  We take advil for after the game 

[sportsknight]

Don't know if anybody else say this, but the Massey Ratings have put together a list ranking all the college football programs in the country...http://mratings.com/rate.php?lg=cf

Some notables:
40.  Iowa
122.  UNI
124.  Iowa State
238.  UW-Whitewater
283.  UW-Stevens Point
309.  Monmouth
322.  Wartburg
340.  Drake
349.  St. Ambrose
351.  Winona State
376.  Redlands
415.  BV
417.  Simpson
435.  Billy Penn
436.  Loras
444.  Northwestern (Iowa)
479.  Central
492.  Luther
495.  Coe
541.  Upper Iowa
614.  Dubuque
668.  Cornell
691.  Waldorf

Congratulations, Rams.  You're not the worst team in Iowa!

[sportsknight]

On the subject of Thanksgiving football games...

Despite having big Irish families on both sides of the ol' family tree (dad is one of 9 kids, mom one of 6), my aunts and uncles didn't exactly keep up on the progeny scale.  Therefore, we couldn't really get any good games going.  On my mom's side of the family I only have 6 cousins, all of whom are either 6+ older or 10+ younger than me.  Plus, there'd only be five of us males, so teams would be uneven.

We did put together a game on my dad's side of the family a couple of times back in the day.  We had similar numbers out there (6 male grandkids) but we were a lot closer in age (13 years between the oldest and youngest).  We could usually even talk a couple of uncles into coming out and being "All-Time Quarterback."  However, the games got shut down pretty quickly when my oldest cousin (who was in grad school at the time) clotheslined my younger brother (who was about 10 at the time), and he ended up landing on the back of his head on the cement sidewalk.  That was pretty much the end of that.

[scottie]

Nothing says "Thanksgiving" like some good Scottish music!   



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[Klopenhiemer]

Nothing says "Thanksgiving" like some good Scottish music!   



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1/3 Irish
1/3 Scottish
1/3 Norseman
I am only a third generation American as well. 

Nothing says Thanksgiving like Jamsion, Dewars, and Lutafisk!

So basically we cant, spell, we love whiskey, and we wear helmets with horns on them while we eat our viddles!

BTW:  Not add a morbid tone to the board, but we had bagpipes at my grandmothers funeral and there was nothing more impressive than hearing those babies belt out the sweet Scottish music. 

[davedevine]

This weekend while the IIAC COY was putting up Christmas decorations around his house and walking the aisles of Fareway picking up Thankgiving fixins', the IIAC championship coach was winning a first round football playoff game and planning strategy for the second round game.  My guess is Coach Willis would prefer the playoffs to buying a turkey.

That was classic, thanks for the good laugh.

[kohawkfan]

Don't know if anybody else say this, but the Massey Ratings have put together a list ranking all the college football programs in the country...http://mratings.com/rate.php?lg=cf

Some notables:
40.  Iowa
122.  UNI
124.  Iowa State
238.  UW-Whitewater
         242. University of Sioux Falls (NAIA)
283.  UW-Stevens Point
309.  Monmouth
         315. Gustavus Adolphus         
         318. Morningside (NAIA)
322.  Wartburg
340.  Drake
349.  St. Ambrose
351.  Winona State
          359. Augustana IL
          370. Wabash
376.  Redlands
415.  BV
417.  Simpson
435.  Billy Penn
436.  Loras
444.  Northwestern (Iowa)
479.  Central
492.  Luther
495.  Coe
541.  Upper Iowa
614.  Dubuque
         640. Grinnell         
         647. Graceland (NAIA)
         649. Briar Cliff (NAIA)
         650 Grandview (NAIA)
668.  Cornell
         688. Dordt (NAIA)
691.  Waldorf

Congratulations, Rams.  You're not the worst team in Iowa!

I took the liberty of adding a few more.

[scottie]

BTW:  Not add a morbid tone to the board, but we had bagpipes at my grandmothers funeral and there was nothing more impressive than hearing those babies belt out the sweet Scottish music. 

Sorry to hear that, Klopenhiemer.  But, yes, you're right....When played well, bagpipes are actually a beautiful instrument. (When played badly, they are brutal.)  I hope that the majority of our pipeband is still in town to play during the pregame on Saturday.  Since several of them are Canadian, I don't suppose they rushed home for Thanksgiving.  It's a top-notch pipeband which brings a nice little touch to the Monmouth gameday experience.

[formerscot4]

Oh I'm bad, reeeeeeeeal bad.

Walston.....I will become an ex-anything with promises of free beer.

Make sure you stop by. We'll be the rowdie group of hasbeens and neverwere's throwing the football around. I'll be the overweight (but not obese) guy with the 48 ounce non clear plastic mug full of *pop*.
Tunes will be blaring from our minivan and we'll probably make you clap along to the Wartburg fight song, but that's about it.
I grew up Presbyterian and am Scottish so you guys can't be all bad.

Throwing football around, 48-ounce non-clear plastic mug full of "pop", blaring the tunes, and you're Scottish...you know Walston, for not being a Scots fan, you don't sound all that bad either.

For being a "hasbeen or neverwas" I will commend you for being able to throw a football and handle a 48-oz plastic mug at the same time. I am sure I will stop by. I am planning on getting there around 9, but that depends on my Friday night activities in the greater-Peoria area.

If yoru not doing anything Wednesday night the band I am in is playing in Brimfield at Burnzees Bar and Grill. If you like some good old fashioned rock n roll!!!

[Klopenhiemer]

BTW:  Not add a morbid tone to the board, but we had bagpipes at my grandmothers funeral and there was nothing more impressive than hearing those babies belt out the sweet Scottish music. 

Sorry to hear that, Klopenhiemer.  But, yes, you're right....When played well, bagpipes are actually a beautiful instrument. (When played badly, they are brutal.)  I hope that the majority of our pipeband is still in town to play during the pregame on Saturday.  Since several of them are Canadian, I don't suppose they rushed home for Thanksgiving.  It's a top-notch pipeband which brings a nice little touch to the Monmouth gameday experience.

That has to be pretty damn cool.  My doctor is a Monmouth grad and he has always spoke highly of the experience he had down there.  I will be dirving by Peoria on Saturday on my way back to Chicago, but I will not have time to stop and catch the game.  Wish I did have the time tho!

[DBQ1965]

Nothing says "Thanksgiving" like some good Scottish music!   



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How about some good single malt?