FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Willy Wonka]

fins - What are Frank and I supposed to call ourselves at the Stiftungtingfest, being Gusties who hate the Johnnies but can't pass up the free food? Oh, the comradery and chance to rip on TDT in person aren't bad either

[frankrickard]

fins-  When will we get to sample the Eelpout ale?  On a similar note, the Gluek brewery will soon be putting out a Johnnie ale. 

[Buckman]

SJU has named Tom Stock as their new AD.  Here is a link to the article in the Times.
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060302/SPORTS/103020022/1002

Fins, where does Stock rate on the Finsleft Big Board of SJU AD finalists?

[Buckman]

50 to edit, 200 for karma - this script really begs for participation, doesn't it?

And if that's TDT, well, thank goodness it's a mask.  I don't think I can take viewing this on my blackberry again.  Much better on the computer where the pic's are small.

Enjoy the shooters.

My editing privileges kicked in at 40.

[DuffMan]

SJU has named Tom Stock as their new AD.  Here is a link to the article in the Times.
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060302/SPORTS/103020022/1002

Wow, I wonder how many more sponsors there will be this year?

[Kilted Rat]

Wow, I wonder how many more sponsors there will be this year?

Early rumors:
1.  I heard that instead of numbers, SJU FB players will now have the target logo on the sides of their helmet.
2.  Gags will now be referred to as Papa John's Gagliardi.
3.  Following each defensive Sack, a 8' Cashwise Paper bag will run from Endzone to Endzone.
4.  Speaking of Endzones, the South end zone will now read "Orville" and the North will read "Reddenbacher"
5.  The programs will weigh approx 27 lbs each and will feature 1 picture of a Johnnie football player and 2 full pages of football related information.
6.  The Rat Pak will be forced to climb into a giant Dcon box at half time and come out and lay belly up until play resumes for the second half

7.  The females students at the game will now be referred to as Benies and Jerries.
8.  All injured players will be taken off the field in a Cashwise shopping cart.
9.  The team will now be known as the SJU Tide with bleach
10.  The Menard's theme sing is now the SJU fight song.

[Kilted Rat]

Random tidbit of information: the chemical in D-con is actually Warfarin, a popular anti-clotting drug used in patients with heart attack and stroke histories.

The way it works is as follows: Mice and rats like to go through small spaces and end up scraping and cutting themselves on average several hundred times a day. D-con (warfarin) inhibits clotting and when the mouse/rat cuts him/herself on a sharp edge, they bleed out. This is why you usually don't see dead mice when your D-con is working, they cut themselves when they go back into the wall/basement/wherever the hell they live and bleed out and die there.

[DuffMan]

I always wanted dead mice decaying in my walls!

[Kilted Rat]

I guess dead mice in your walls is better than live mice in your kitchen!

Out of sight out of mind.

Personally, I prefer the traps. Nothing like hearing that characteristic SNAP in your garage and walking out and seeing this:





Careful, they can be tricky little bastards:

[DuffMan]

LOL, we had one in the office the other day that fell victim to the "shoe" trap.
SQUISH!

[Johnnie Red]

D-train, I'm not a judge, at least not yet. Tell Mr. Beaver to get the two attorneys who represented the guy who shot the deer hunters in Wisconsin.

Breaking news from Chaska. While patrolling at night, a Chaska police officer observed a juvenile male driving through a residential yard and a park. The male was driving at a high rate of speed without the headlights on. The officer stopped the vehicle and charged the male with careless driving. The driver stated he was driving in that manner in order to impress a girl he just me.
Rumored school this juvenile will be enrolling in next fall: University of St. Thomas.

A male student defecated on the floor of a men's restroom at the Chaska High School. He then picked it up and threw it at the bathroom mirror where it stayed until a custodian removed it. Video cameras showing students entering and leaving the restroom assisted in identifying the offender. The student told police he did not want to use the toilet because it was "disgusting," and he thought what he did would be a good joke. He was charged with public nuisance. Rumored school this student will be enrolling in next fall: Auggie Tech.

And yes, my office gets to prosecute both of these lads. Where is Justin Beaver when I need him?

[sju56321]

Actually, Beaver needs to retain the services of Gerald Boyle-well know Wisconsin defense attorney, who, by the way, has Mark Chumera (sp?), former Packer, as a non-legal assistant.

KR- the Rat Pack was still able to do their thing as late as the early to mid 80's, including grabbing an opposing cheerleader and passing her up the stands, during the NCAA playoffs. Apparently, resulting in SJU being banned from hosting.

[johnnie_esq]

My God, JR-- life is boring in the Carver Cty attorney's office right now!!!

Tmerton and KR-- I think the origin of the Rat comes from the SJU basketball fans back in the 40s and 50s-- they were so rambunctious and made playing at SJU so difficult that the Johnnie cagers became known as the gym rats.  So that's the origin of the use of the rat and Rat Hall.  The Rat Pack is the modern derivation of those fans and are now more prevelent in football than basketball or hockey.

My dad tells a story of a time in the early 1970s or late 1960s when the abbot didn't like the use of the rat becoming the SJU mascot.  So he purchased a Cardinal costume (after the Jays' cardinal and blue being the official school colors, and the religious use of "cardinal") to hopefully stop that use.

In much the rat tradition, the students at the time were not eager to satisfy an administrative edict, so they convinced a not-very-well liked student to wear the costume and be the mascot. He was to debut at a basketball game, and about halfway through the first half, the cardinal mascot walks into rat hall which was rolicking and wild as usual.

As he walks in, the place goes silent. Then someone from the student section started chanting, "Kill the bird! Kill the Bird!"

The student section joined in, and then decided to act on it.  About a dozen students chased the bird out of the arena, and came back with more than a few feathers.  The cardinal, needless to say, was never heard from again.

True?  Who knows.  But good lore, regardless.

[Kilted Rat]

Its Chmura... how does a guy go from upper level NFL TE to on trial for sleeping with his 17 year old babysitter to assistant to a defense attorney?

The world is a strange strange place




J-esq,
That could be the best Rat story yet!

[DuffMan]

My dad tells the story of one of the last (possibly, the last) basketball games in Rat Hall versus the Cobbers where when the Cobbers were announced, all of the student section proceded to pelt them with actual corn cobs.  Oh, to have been there.  This would have been circa the early 70's.  Maybe JR can confirm???