"I can shoot with my left hand, I can shoot with my right hand, I'm amphibious." - Charles Shackleford, NC State basketball player.
Your NC State preview, after the jump...
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Non-Metallica Pump-up Song of the Week
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There are some games that just seem to stick to you personally. Ones that make such an impression on you, that you can point to it as the moment when you realized that you could express much more anger than you'd previously thought. Years later, you’d look back at that game as the beginning of your journey to becoming a ranting blogger.
For us, that game was NC State in 2004. Ten sacks… we gave up ten sacks!! If that didn’t anger us enough, our kicker had to deal with crowd noise from visiting fans on the possible game winning field (which he missed, because it was an important kick and he was Brandon Pace). Yes, the visiting fans were placed front row in the South End Zone. So on top of realizing that our offensive coordinator was incompetent, we also found out that our Athletic Director was straight up retarded.
Needless to say, it was quite a day.
Also, Phillip Rivers is a douchebag.
And now the Wolfpack return to Lane Stadium for the first time since that fateful afternoon in 2004. Fortunately, they kinda suck now.
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Rant of the Week
This is going to anger some of you, but you know what movie is ridiculous? The Dark Knight.
Look, I love this movie. I will watch it any time it comes on HBO. But if you actually delve into the plot just a little bit, the absurdity of it is pretty overwhelming.
Let’s just take the opening bank robbery. Great scene, right? Ok, but for a good two minutes, a freaking school bus was parked halfway inside the bank!! And no one outside noticed?? There wasn’t one person that was like, “WTF is a school bus doing INSIDE a bank??” And how the hell, in a crowded downtown street, was the driver able to get the bus to 50 mph going backwards??
And the part where Morgan Freeman is looking at the drawings for the new Batsuit and says, “You want to be able to turn your head”... WHAT?? You build a $50 million car for the guy, but you can’t make a freaking suit that allows him to turn his head?? Medieval warriors were able to figure it out, but not Wayne Enterprises.
As you can probably guess, we watched the movie last night, and spent the rest of the time destroying it. We thought about popping in Sudden Death afterwards, but that would have been plot hole overload.
All that said, if TheDark Knight came on again tonight, I’d assuredly watch it over the Dolphins/Panthers game. It is one kick-ass film.
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The Bad Guys
As we mentioned, NC State kinda sucks. They are 4-6, with losses to Duke and Wake Forest. Their quarterback, Russell Wilson, isn’t terrible. The guy has 26 touchdowns on the year. Tyrod has 12.
Other than Wilson, NC State pretty much defines mediocre. The team, the fans, the school. It’s all kind of “meh”.
We hope the Hokies know more about this shit team than we do...
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The Hokies
The question for the Hokies is going to be whether or not we keep the pedal downr offensively. I was told that Tech looked great against Maryland (I personally thought we looked kinda blurry and spin-y). We are faster and stronger than NC State. If Voldemort just lets the guys make plays, then we should be fine.
As for the defense, there should be no issues. Sure, Wilson is better than terrible. But Tech leads the ACC in pass defense, and will hopefully show why on Saturday. A few early turnovers could turn this one into a route fairly fast.
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The Game
Oh, the last home game of the year. Is there ever a sadder time? It seems like just yesterday I was telling a scalper to eat me when he wanted $50 for two Marshall tickets. We should always remember that each season is shorter than it should be, and each moment should be cherished*.
*Except for the entire UNC game. I wish that game was a person so I could punch it in the face.
The game is at 3:30, so tailgate your freaking faces off. It’s your last chance.
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Replacement Offensive Coordinator of the Week
We’ve had one replacement OC sitting in our back pocket for a while now. We just didn’t know when the right moment would present itself.
Well, with a certain overweight coach getting in trouble for inappropriately touching his players (read into that what you will), we knew it was a sign...
Finally, we can be coached by a true hero…
Here's hoping Baby Mangino can turn Russell Wilson into one of his own, and makes him shit himself.
YESSSSSS BABY MANGINO!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.-Albert Einstein.
ESPN thought Einstein was talking about Tim Tebow when he said this, but really, he was talking about Baby Mangino.
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