FB: Empire 8

[maninorangehat]

SLU online archives only go back to '99, and it was probably a while before that the last time the Larries won.  StLarry thinks the game will be a pretty good one, SLU finally seems to have found some sort of running game and has a veteran D, and Alfred is always solid on both sides of the ball.

MIOH, what are you up to these days?  Saw you left the NC and freezing cold.

MIOH has left the NC and is currently working for a hippie art school in Boston.  He is currently seeking employment elsewhere  (hopefully at a school that has D3 Football).  

My guess is that the Pep Archives will provide us the answer on the last time the Larry's beat the Saxons.  

Also +K to Kaz for a month if he indeed was the Cow

MIOH would like to thank Tecmo for allowing his FF Team to get off to such a great start with the 111-86 Victory.

PG04 - MIOH hopes Jose Q's Bucs treat Drew Brees the same way the Indy D did.  

Go Bombers

[JQV]

St. Larry,

Where does SLU get players from?  When they were horrible I always assumed they struggled because it was hard to convince kids to go so far north.  If they have some ballplayers now, maybe that wasn't the problem.

SLU generally draws from the Upstate (CNY, North Country, Eastern areas), VT, and has started making forays into Mass, RI and FL.  Phelps is a great recruiter, and the reason why a lot of these kids will come up to the frigid tundra that is Canton.  His recruiting is probably the big reason the Saints are beginning to become competitive again.  That and the kids from FL probably assume that if it is in NY, it must be near the city 

Take it from a kid in Florida.  Generally, we succumb to the lure of yankee schools not because we think it is near the city but, rather, because we think "how cold can winter really be?  I'll just wear a jacket."

[realistic]

haha - thats great Q.

I did the same with..."I grew up in Upstate NY and was fine through 4 Ithaca winters....how bad can a Minnesota winter be?"   Similar results as you, I imagine.

[Stlarry]

St. Larry,

Where does SLU get players from?  When they were horrible I always assumed they struggled because it was hard to convince kids to go so far north.  If they have some ballplayers now, maybe that wasn't the problem.

SLU generally draws from the Upstate (CNY, North Country, Eastern areas), VT, and has started making forays into Mass, RI and FL.  Phelps is a great recruiter, and the reason why a lot of these kids will come up to the frigid tundra that is Canton.  His recruiting is probably the big reason the Saints are beginning to become competitive again.  That and the kids from FL probably assume that if it is in NY, it must be near the city 

Take it from a kid in Florida.  Generally, we succumb to the lure of yankee schools not because we think it is near the city but, rather, because we think "how cold can winter really be?  I'll just wear a jacket."

Haha, true.  Stlarry came in from MD, and the first winter was a huge shock, and everyone kept saying how it was so mild (only 2 weeks of -20).

[AUKaz00]

now, did you alfred guys have these CowBells before fisher? 

stupid fisher cowbells.

The short answer is yes.  The long answer is that I was using this particular cowbell when I was at AU and part of the Saxon Sillies who attended mostly basketball games and made lots of trouble.  It also is a percussive cowbell which must be played with a drumstick and is being phased in as the rhythmic device for at least one new cheer for the Pep Band.

Wait...YOU were one of those crazy Alfred hoop fans?  I loved you guys.  Easily my favorite road gym.  +k.  (And +k every day for a month if you were the guy dressed as a cow.  He was hilarious).

Sadly the cow was not me, but rather my friend J.J.  He indeed was great.  I still have my Saxon Sillies outfit in a box labeled "Saxon Sillies" in my basement and if Alfred enters Butterfield undefeated I will wear it there (and to Growney if the same requirements are met)!

Take it from a kid in Florida.  Generally, we succumb to the lure of yankee schools not because we think it is near the city but, rather, because we think "how cold can winter really be?  I'll just wear a jacket."

Kaz00's college roommate was from Oregon and our first three winters were so mild that he thought we were all a bunch of Nancys when we warned him about the cold.  During the third straight week of the mercury not cracking 20 our Senior year he was seen in our apartment wrapped in a blanket and rocking back-and-forth while muttering that he was never coming back to New York again.  Good times.

[AUPepBand]

My guess is that the Pep Archives will provide us the answer on the last time the Larry's beat the Saxons.  

Also +K to Kaz for a month if he indeed was the Cow

The last time St. Lawrence beat Alfred was 1990 in Canton. Pep recalls that the Larries rolled to a 27-0 halftime lead only to have the Saxons rally behind QB Lance Locey for a 28-27 lead; the home team hit a late field goal to win it, 30-28.

Since 1990, AU won in 1991 31-6, 1992 36-26, 1993 44-7, 1994 39-14 1995 42-0, 1998 28-20, 1999 39-23, 2000 21-7, 2001 31-12, 200216-13, 2003 24-14, 2004 16-9 (at SLU with Sarge, after SLU Security tried to ban him from the campus, hauling in two TD passes), 2005 42-7 and 2006 17-14.

That Saxon Silly Holstein bounces back and forth between Boston and NY as a regional sales rep for BOSE. JJ still is udderly ridiculous.

[Knightstalker]

haha - thats great Q.

I did the same with..."I grew up in Upstate NY and was fine through 4 Ithaca winters....how bad can a Minnesota winter be?"   Similar results as you, I imagine.

KS Neice and Nephew grew up in Saranac Lake and KS nephew has spent time in MN during the winter and thought it was a break from the cold.

[AUPepBand]

Speaking of which, does anyone know any good Bills bars in San Diego?

Is there such a thing as a "good Bills bar" outside of Buffalo?Dub watches football at Sandbar.  Go there.

EDIT: For the sake of clarity "Dub" = Former Bomber hoop player shaped like a dinosaur.  "Dub" does not equal "ICDubbz."

Pep annually makes a Habitat Spring Break pit stop for wings and pizza at Big Al's Pub & Grubberia in Cornelius, NC just north of Charlotte, which is a "good Bills bar." Proprietors hail from Friendship, New York here in Allegany County. Pep's first meal there was on the house when the old AU bus we were traveling in broke down at their exit.

Pep had hoped to introduce Pep Jr. to Big Al's but Pep Jr. wasn't much interested, himself being a diehard (and downtrodden) Miami Dolphins fan.

[Jonny Utah]

The winter of 93-94 might have been the coldest JU has ever been in his life.  The problem with those winters isnt the cold or snow, it are those dam wind tunnels that form up between those buildings on the South Hill.....Man Im getting cold just thinking about it.

[realistic]

yeah - the cold on the South Hill is bad b/c of the wind.  It's nasty.   But KS- I am surprised by what you said about MN, I've seen some winters and nothing was like the one I spent in MN.  For a St Johns playoff game the saturday after Thanksgiving it was -2 before the windchill at noon on a sunny day.  The worst day was when it was -27 before the windchill when I woke up.  Many nights it felt great to go inside to unheated ice rinks compared to outside.  Also - I never saw an engine block heater in NY.....

[not so rowdy bomber]

My guess is that the Pep Archives will provide us the answer on the last time the Larry's beat the Saxons.  

Also +K to Kaz for a month if he indeed was the Cow

The last time St. Lawrence beat Alfred was 1990 in Canton. Pep recalls that the Larries rolled to a 27-0 halftime lead only to have the Saxons rally behind QB Lance Locey for a 28-27 lead; the home team hit a late field goal to win it, 30-28.

Since 1990, AU won in 1991 31-6, 1992 36-26, 1993 44-7, 1994 39-14 1995 42-0, 1998 28-20, 1999 39-23, 2000 21-7, 2001 31-12, 200216-13, 2003 24-14, 2004 16-9 (at SLU with Sarge, after SLU Security tried to ban him from the campus, hauling in two TD passes), 2005 42-7 and 2006 17-14.

That Saxon Silly Holstein bounces back and forth between Boston and NY as a regional sales rep for BOSE. JJ still is udderly ridiculous.

NSRB is sure it doesnt pale in comparisson to the Saxon Sillies Brown Swiss... but someone back in the day had a fun idea to parade a ... uh...  one of those... uh... you know, it looks like uh...things around in front of the bench.

where is that thing anyways... and what happened to Bomberman this year?  He pulled a no-show at the FDC "Make it Rain" Game

[Stlarry]

yeah - the cold on the South Hill is bad b/c of the wind.  It's nasty.   But KS- I am surprised by what you said about MN, I've seen some winters and nothing was like the one I spent in MN.  For a St Johns playoff game the saturday after Thanksgiving it was -2 before the windchill at noon on a sunny day.  The worst day was when it was -27 before the windchill when I woke up.  Many nights it felt great to go inside to unheated ice rinks compared to outside.  Also - I never saw an engine block heater in NY.....

Engine block heaters were all the rage in the North Country.  Actually, the only time the local HS was closed was when the temp was -40 and the diesel froze in the buses.  StLarry always liked the frostbite warnings sent out just before going to class.

[superman57]

superman has grown up in upstate NY...and supermans uncle also grew up in upstate... untill he moved out to Portland Oregon a while back...and he said the one good thing about growing up out here is that you learn to drive in the snow...and when you go out west or anyplace that doesn't get a lot of snow they have no idea how to drive...

Supermans first year at fisher was the only day that fisher cancelled classes for weather... the wind was about 50 MPH and they said that we were not allowed outside...SUperman ran to the libarary and he almost got knocked down

[maxpower]

where is that thing anyways... and what happened to Bomberman this year?  He pulled a no-show at the FDC "Make it Rain" Game

He probably finally left. He was a music student, and I thought he was a senior when I was like a sophomore, but he just stayed and stayed and stayed....

Also he smelled.

The winter of 93-94 might have been the coldest JU has ever been in his life.  The problem with those winters isnt the cold or snow, it are those dam wind tunnels that form up between those buildings on the South Hill.....Man Im getting cold just thinking about it.

One night I had to walk home to the Gardens from Fall Creek, and by the time I got up that wind tunnel slope the muscles in my face were literally spasming. It felt like some creature was trying to escape like that scene in Alien.

Can't say I'll miss the winter all that much when I head west... but Autumn is my favorite season so that will be a bummer.

[superman57]

MIYH how did you like your monkey stomp... whose next on the Growny's Supermens hit list