2023 BOWL GAMES THREAD

[BelPTex]

Right. That was perfect!

 

[HToady]

I got shivers just watching that video clip. Miserable game at a miserable stadium

Miserable weather in a miserable town....

 

[Endless Purple]

In reference to a comment on the Penn St game as being the first team to potentially win all 6 major bowls, I put together the teams. I expect someone to get all 6 soon as with the new 12 team format potentially having quarter and semis in bowls teams can get two wins in a season towards it.

12 teams: Alabama, Florida St, Georgia, LSU, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio St, Oklahoma, Penn St, TCU, Tennessee, & Texas

Bowls needed:
Orange - TCU
Fiesta - Alabama, Georgia, Miami
Peach - Notre Dame, Ohio St, Oklahoma, Penn St, Texas
Rose - Florida St, LSU, Tennessee

Cotton and Sugar have been won by all 12 teams.

 

[Froglaw]

That is what I thought. Neither side thinking of being an example to the kids. But that is our new society, with the crud of social media stamping and influencing behavior.

What happened to “Great game and congrats”?

You don’t have to mean it, but you won’t be on YouTube for the next twenty years either.

 

[FroginBedford68]

LOL I saw that when it happened and meant to rewind to see if I had seen it correctly.

No really, that's why I had intended to rewind. Sadly I forgot...

Shake'em if you got'em....

 

[BrewingFrog]

Now that it's (mostly) over, here's the larger chunk of the music I was going on about last week. You'll recognize it when the choir starts in...



So, what the hell are the crooning? Orff had studied an old manuscript from the 11th Century, lamenting the fickle nature of fortune. The Roman pantheon contained a god, Fortuna, whose whims were ever changing...

O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite!

O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing ever waning; hateful life first oppresses and then soothes playing with mental clarity; poverty and power it melts them like ice. Fate – monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, you are malevolent, devoid of security and ever fading to nothing, shadowed and veiled you plague me too; now through the game I bring my bare back to your villainy. Fate, in health and virtue is against me, driven on and weighted down, always enslaved. So at this hour without delay pluck the vibrating strings; since Fate strikes down the strong, everyone weep with me!