Enjoy the good moments from a great retrospective on Rutgers’ year in football.
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Rutgers Lost Something Funny
Rutgers lost to Cincinnati, but rather than be pissed I’ll post something funny instead. Watch the video, then you can refer back to the transcript after. This video cracks me up even though I’ve probably watched it thirty or more times now since I was first introduced to it.
(Beat starts)
(Heavy breathing)
Voice 1 and Voice 2 (Harmonizing): Ahhhhh… Washington, Washington. 6 foot 8 weighs a fucking ton. Opponents beware, opponents beware, he’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming.
Voice 1: Let me lay it on the line he had two on the vine. I mean two sets of testecles so divine.
Voice 2: On a horse made of crystal he patrolled the land with the mason ring and schnauzer and his perfect hands.
Voice 1: Here comes George, in control. Women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll.
Voice 2: Ate opponents’ brains…
Voice 1: And invented cocaine…
Voice 1 and Voice 2: He’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming.
Voice 1 and Voice 2: Washington, Washington. 6 foot 20 fucking killing for fun. Spread, spread Delaware. He’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming.
Voice 1: Sue me if I go too fast but the sons of his opponents wish that he was their dad.
Voice 2: Got a wig for his wig, got a brain for his heart.
Voice 1 and Voice 2: He’ll kick you apart.
Voice 1 and Voice 2: He’ll kick you apart.
Voice 1 and Voice 2: Oooh!
Voice 1 and Voice 2: He’ll save children but not the British children.
Voice 1 and Voice 2: He’ll save children but not the British children.
Voice 1 and Voice 2: He’ll save children but not the British children.
Voice 1 and Voice 2: He’ll save children but not the British children.
Voice 2: He had a pocket full of horses, fucked the shit out of bears, threw a knife in to heaven and could kill with a stare.
Voice 1: He made love like an eagle falling out of the sky, killed his sensei in a duel…
Voice 1 and Voice 2: And he never said why!
Voice 1 and Voice 2: Washington, Washington. 12 stories high made of radiation. The present beware, the future beware, he’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming.
Voice 2: Did I mention his four nuts?
Voice 1: Well he also had four dicks.
Voice 2: If you took off his boots you’d see the dicks growing off his feet.
Voice 1: Well, I heard that motherfucker had, like, thirty goddamn dicks.
Voice 2: He once held an opponent’s wife’s hand… in a jar of acid… at a party.
(Heavy breathing continues)
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Rutgers Update
First off, the great news – Greg Schiano said no to Miami!
Second, an interesting note on TV coverage. If you check the 2006/2007 schedule, all twelve games were televised at least regionally. Several were national, including the RU-West Virginia and RU-Louisville games.
Just another sign of a great year.
What a finish to Rutgers’ regular season last night. I went to bed and woke up still stunned by how close the game was and how much I wish that one or two things had just been a little different, that Rutgers was so close to making it in to a BCS game last night. It was an amazing season on the whole with just that final sour note of disappointment in last night’s loss.
Still, Rutgers makes it to its second consecutive bowl game in, well, forever. RU plays Kansas State in the Texas Bowl, which actually sounds like a very promising matchup. Despite their overall 7-5 record, Kansas State did knock off last year’s National Champions, Texas, then ranked number 4 in the country. Overall I’d be pretty content, except for the fact that the national TV broadcast will be on the NFL Network, which can be seen by…nobody.
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Faded Away
William Dowling is still at it, years after having faded away. I remember the Rutgers 1000 program from my days at Rutgers, and the overall ambivalence most students felt toward the group even during those dark days when Rutgers football was as bad as it got. Many held similar sympathies about whether Rutgers should stay in the Big East and Div 1A, but I think that was driven mainly by the fact that Rutgers never looked as though the team could win. Now that the team has finally turned the corner, the group has faded away in to obscurity.
While I understand their concern, the group strikes me even more now as riddled with contradiction. They want the University to be great, yet point to other great schools with successful football programs.
Rutgers alumnus Mark Mattia, a 1975 graduate, said athletic director Bob Mulcahy has somehow sold the idea that a great football team makes a university great.
“That’s nonsense,” Mattia said. “Michigan, Berkeley, they are not great because they have great football teams. They are great universities.”
While Mattia is right on the point of great Universities, he overstates the power that Mulcahy actually has. I doubt anyone believes that merely having a good football team makes a great University. However, a good football team provides a source of pride in a great University in a way that merely strong academics rarely can and provides a constant source of attention. So long as the players continue to graduate and stay out of trouble (i.e. avoid the Miami model of football), the team has my backing.
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