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When will these guys let it go?

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Dodo, you truly need help :eek:

It's game week for Miami and Marshall. Surely a Miami fan such as Dodo should ignore everything related to Miami-Marshall. :rolleyes:

Besides, a quick peek at the Herd Nation's sheltered workshop quickly reveals an obsession of their own...worrying about how we were mean to OU by scoring a late TD, trying to rationalize that Marshall's women are better looking, Terry Hoeppner's appearance on a Cincinnati radio station last night, and, of course, bringing up the sacredest of all cows, the 66-6 bitchfest. Well, OK, the 66-6 bitchfest is on a different board, but there are at least three threads on how much your non-obsessed brethren hate Miami on the first two screens of the sheltered workshop.

Three of those are regrettable but not surprising. The fourth is just plumb crazy.

RedSteve Wrote:It's game week for Miami and Marshall. Surely a Miami fan such as Dodo should ignore everything related to Miami-Marshall. :rolleyes:

It is Marshall-Miami game week 52 times a year for Dodo





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any of you guys coming to the game ?

SAHerdFan Wrote:any of you guys coming to the game ?

:rofl:

Nope. The weeknight game sealed the deal for me; there's no way I can take off from work for one day -- let alone two -- these days. And with my wife starting an on-call rotation that day, I would have to set up two days' worth of 24-hour child care.

Of course, the legend of Huntington hospitality was tempting me so....

RedSteve Wrote:Nope. The weeknight game sealed the deal for me; there's no way I can take off from work for one day -- let alone two -- these days. And with my wife starting an on-call rotation that day, I would have to set up two days' worth of 24-hour child care.

Of course, the legend of Huntington hospitality was tempting me so....

I'm not a fan of week night games either ...

Quote:Of course, the legend of Huntington hospitality was tempting me so....

Awwwwwwww. And we were so looking forward to giving all Redskin fans a warm reception. :angel:

SAHerdFan Wrote:any of you guys coming to the game ?

:rolllol: :lolup: :lolup:

Obsession = talking about a game as if it happened yesterday when it happened 35 years ago

Don't worry, once we are done playing you guys in baseball, you will be dead to me.

Dodo Wrote:Obsession = talking about a game as if it happened yesterday when it happened 35 years ago

Actually, it's out of respect for the Young Thundering Herd team...but I wouldn't expect you to understand that.

Dodo Wrote:Obsession = talking about a game as if it happened yesterday when it happened 35 years ago

Don't worry, once we are done playing you guys in baseball, you will be dead to me.

It is like we crawled through a thousand miles of desert to find the oasis. The MAC will be dead to us as well. And we couldn't be happier.

:rolleyes:

Respect or pity? Crikey, no Miami fan I have ever talked to has anything BUT respect for the young herd. It's widely recognized as an honorable thing that they did -- picking up and playing when they didn't have to. The Miami Student newspaper reports from the post-game issue even reflected that respect.

But continuous whining on the herd faithful's part about how Miami "disrespected" the young herd by not playing them easy and taking knees for the entire second half seems almost as disrespectful and patronizing as anything our fans could do.

Butting in for a second: the 45-17 Herd win was over quite possibly the worst CMU team ever to play on the gridiron. That was the year of the infamous Florida game, and we all but threw in the towel after that. In other words: it didn't appear to be a RUTS situation to me.


I now return you to the regularly-scheduled MU-MU do-do.

RedSteve Wrote:no Miami fan I have ever talked to has anything BUT respect for the young herd.

Read your beloved Hawk Talk tonight....

:ownd:

Herd-Redhawks, bring your flack jackets and bail bondsmen. :chair: :withstupid:

LetsGoHerd Wrote:

Dodo Wrote:Obsession = talking about a game as if it happened yesterday when it happened 35 years ago

Actually, it's out of respect for the Young Thundering Herd team...but I wouldn't expect you to understand that.

:lolup: :lolup: :lolup: :lolup: :lolup:

LetsGoHerd Wrote:

Dodo Wrote:Obsession = talking about a game as if it happened yesterday when it happened 35 years ago

Actually, it's out of respect for the Young Thundering Herd team...but I wouldn't expect you to understand that.

I understand it perfectly well. Obviously, you didn't read my post.

[quote]Some thoughts about the 66-6 victory of Miami over Pruett Institute of Situational Ethics in 1971 after the crash…

That crash was one of the most tragic events in all of college sports history. For all of those young lives to be snuffed out like that was unbelievably sad. Obviously, those young men's lives do not need to be forgotten -- and, indeed, they should be honored.

That being said, Pruett Institute of Situational Ethics decided to field a football team the next year. They knew what they were doing when they made that decision. I'm assuming that the anger towards Miami comes from the fact that Miami beat Pruett Institute of Situational Ethics so badly the year after "the crash."


I guess we've already beaten the box score thing to death. Obviously, Miami got a lot of subs in, and ran the ball most of the time (7 passes the whole game). Sure, some folks on the Pruett Institute of Situational Ethics board who claim to have been there didn't know the game was in Oxford or remember events that actually happened in different years, but that's beside the point. My question would be this: even if we did deliberately run up the score , in order to "respect" the loss that Pruett Institute of Situational Ethics suffered, how many years would we have to wait until we could “fairly