Recent content by denguegopher

Eric Strobel: Played football, baseball and graduated from HS with him. He was great at all three sports.

I'm a Vegas local and have not heard much about this. It would not surprise me if it were true however.

They can drink cold caffeinated drinks. I heard that the church bought some stock in Pepsi and it was quickly revealed to their Prophet that cold drinks with caffeine are OK...

I know, for some reason there are people who care about more than what happens in our own lives. The attack that happened at the Southern Israel concert has no effect on my life. The destruction of Gaza has no direct effect on my life. But I care about what happened at that concert and what is...

My wife went there and I think what I bolded is correct. However, I think that once every two weeks or so they can have the opposite sex in their dorm rooms for a couple of hours on Sunday afternoons, with the door open. Glad I didn't go there.

We have MORE than earned it.

OK, I live out of state so the Buffalo game is "away" for me. I just learned that I will be attending. The wife noted that we have a buy one get one ticket on Delta. It has to used by Aug 31, so our choices were limited. After thinking about it, I believe that her logic is two-fold, and it's not...

It looks like their legendary coach, Bruce Rollinson, retired a couple of years ago. He was right out of Central Casting, big mustache and gravelly voice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Rollinson

I wrote a supportive letter, although I was pissed about the game. When Wacker's nephew, Tim Schade, called an audible to a pass (incomplete) that stopped the clock and pretty much provided Illinois with the chance to win. His letter was friendly and apprecialive.

I was a grad student in Columbia, SC and watched the game in a bar. I was absolutely sick after the game. I wrote Wacker a letter and he wrote one back!

Why the hell they called that pick-6 bootleg pass pass I will never know. Mason found ways to lose painfully.

Too many men on the field. I was at this game. Perhaps the stupidest play calling ever. At one point we passed three times in a row, two incompletes and one complete but Decker was near the sideline and his momentum easily took him OB. Three key/free TO's for TTU. God I was pissed.

Some of the conference switching has trickled down to DIII. I see that Luther College will be joining the Midwest Conference in the fall of 2026. Perhaps the new conference will conducive to a bit more winning for the Norse. Things have really been lean for a while.

Yeah, everything looks better when its associated with winning.

My retired, very bored, and once a year Gopher game attending buddy informs me that we have an airbnb booked that is located 1.6 miles from the Cal stadium entrance. I haven't asked, but I'll bet he would know the BART fare from the Oakland and SF airports to the closest Berkeley stop. Don't get...