Monthly Archives: September 2008

College, Football, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Picks

Pick It Standings Week 5: College Football And Picks Crash of 2008

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The turbulent economic turmoil faced in this great nation has finally trickled down to all that is near and dear to our hearts here at the KCCGD. Much like the market, many high stock football teams tumbled over the weekend and panic is pulsating through the minds of many a sports junkie. Looking at this week’s standings, we can see that Cabbottmtf is turning into the Warren Buffett of pick ’em with yet another consistent week while Krizzou makes up a step with some apparent wisdom from Alan Greenspan.  The Purple Yeti?  Well, it seems he was too busy checking out Sarah Palin’s ass.  Somebody bail him out STAT.

Rank Pick Set Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Total
1 Cabbottmtf 17 11 9 13 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58
2 krizzou 16 12 8 11 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 56
3 Purple Yeti 14 10 8 10 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46

As for hot button topics from the weekend, we’re gonna roll through it O’Reilly/Colbert/Olberman style:

  • Gary Chandler from K-State was arrested Saturday for driving with a revoked license.  The former Big 12 defensive newcomer of the year, apparently lied to the cops and then came clean about his name in the process.  Now being an alum from the ‘ole KSU, all I can say is, “WALK!  Everything is about a 15 minute jaunt from each other! DUDE!” Ron Prince gave Gary his walking papers until his legal troubles are fixed and my guess is this incident will tacked on to Prince’s dossier.  The case for delivering Ron Prince’s walking papers at the end of the year is quickly stacking up.
  • The toast of college football this week is the BIG 12!  That’s right, 3 of the top 5 are Big 12 boys will Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texes rocking it respectively.  The Big 12 blogger Tim Griffin pointed out this morning on the ESPN College Football Insider Podcast that all of the ranked Big 12 teams (6) are facing the unranked teams to start out conference play.  Chances are we’ll get at least one or two upsets.
  • While the Yeti was busting a sweat tonight at the gym, a large barrel chested man sporting an Oklahoma football shirt was squeezing out a quick spin on the bike.  Yeah, so what?  Welp, the Yeti also follows pro football and he just had to see the start of Monday Night Football.  After popping on the game, Oklahoma decides to switch up and run the elliptical.  But instead of choosing the machine in front of the game, he squats right down on the one in front of Dancing With The Stars!  That alone tells me that the Sooners will have at least one loss and just may miss the Big 12 Championship game.
Bar Games, College, Food, Football, Kansas State, Nebraska, Sports Bars, Texas, Waitresses

Ugly Joe’s And Jack’s And Jane’s With Stupid Shocking Games

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Ugly Joe’s

Another stunning week of college football flew by and we here are the KCCGD spent most of the day just recovering.  Apparently the football gods forgot to tell the teams that upsets are supposed to happen one or two times per week.  What wasn’t very upsetting was our time with the folks at Ugly Joe’s.  Krizzou, Jolly, Tyson,  and company helped make this barspot one to remember.  So let’s piece together what happened.

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Barspotting, College, Football, Picks

Pick It and Stick It: WTF Just Happened?!?!?!

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So I’m sitting over at a friend’s house rocking out and ruling some Scene It.  Welp, the host’s wife passed out and it was time to go.  Driving away from there I popped the game on the radio and JT the Brick was yammering on about how USC is not showing up.  Welp in between his actual show, they were dropping in updates to USC vs Oregon State game.  I came into with about 10 minutes to go into the game and USC down 7 with the ball on their 5 yard line.   Here’s this week’s picks first:
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Kansas Talent Caged To KU, What Up Ron?

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Cat’s Meow No More, EPIC FAIL

So Jeff Martin wrote a piece today in the KC Star stating the obvious:  K-State recruiting is hurting bad, especially in state.  The article talks about how all of the in state talent is heading to Jayhawk country or out of state.  They even had Jeremy Crabtree from Rivals.com come out and say the same thing.  So yup, Ron Prince is riding the JUCO train now.   Nothing wrong with that, right?

I’m not so sure.  Prince was quoted as focusing on in state talent at the beginning of his tenure and then he double backed on his words by preaching the balance of in state and JUCO kids.  Maybe that’s why some recruits ran away, like Chris Harper.  His family didn’t trust Ron and he moved to Oregon.  Is he talking the talk and not walking the stomp?  What’s up?

I understand that when you’re losing you need to bring in talent wherever you can get it.  But when you talk about bringing in the in state kids and not following through on that, you will lose credibility.  Nobody expected KU to do so well and the Wildcats will have to deal with that but if the recruits don’t trust the coach then what does that say about the talent on the field?  So far, not so much.

The knife in the eye from the piece was Harper stating that he was open to going to K-State if  Snyder was there.  Double Ouch.

Barspotting, College, Football, Kansas State, Texas

Barspotting: Some Of The Football Watched Will Be Ugly, Joe’s

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This week takes us to what used to be Fuzzy’s South. The last time I was there, I left it pretty fuzzy. But that was then, now it’s for football. With 2 of the 3 local teams out on shore leave this week, K-State is the only one left ready to roll. Hopefully they’ll take out their frustration Louisiana-Lafayette. But who knows? It may be ugly for the Wildcats too.

That Boy Is One Ugly Mutha F*********

When: Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Where: Ugly Joe’s – 1227 W 103rd St, Kansas City, MO 64114
Time: 11:30 AM ish
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Pick It Standings Week 4: I’m Really Thirsty All Of The Sudden

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Here’s the standings for Week 4. Purple Yeti needs to stop gulping down Rockstar energy drinks and actually focus on some pics.  Cabbottmtf stretches his lead out against Krizzou with the key picks of Texas, Alabama, Georgia.  Heck he’s been drinking the southern belt kool aid.  If each participant was a Kool Aid flavor I’d say that Cabbottmtf would be Cherry Cracker, Krizzou would be Rock-a-dile Red, and Purple Yeti would be Purplesaurus Rex (of course).  What do you think?

Rank Pick Set Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Total
1 Cabbottmtf 17 11 9 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50
2 Krizzou 16 12 8 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47
3 Purple Yeti 14 10 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42

Speaking of drinking the Kool Aid, apparently East Carolina dropped the BCS Buster title over the weekend in an overtime loss to NC State (BCS Buster should be a Kool Aid flavor btw).  So now Boise St assumes the title after their whuppin of Oregon.  I’m not sure they can match the sweetness that was the win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, but let’s hope they can deliver.  The last game of the season should be a great one against Fresno State.

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Downtown KC, Small (Not Big) Willie’s Style

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Willie’s

It’s another week of football down and it’s getting achingly close to conference play.  The day’s event took us to Willie’s next to the Power & Light district.  It was kind of a blah afternoon after football leading up to some major action for the evening’s games, much the build up of non-con games before the real meat of the conference ball.  At any rate we learned about premier teams, KU’s play, and some cottage fries.
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Pick It and Stick It: Nothing to Shake a Kid at

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After watching Louisville shake K-State worse than Leon Patton’s kid, a new found fire sprung from within the Yeti’s belly. This fire does not encourage me to abuse a child, however, it does inspire me to spit fire on the pages of picks laying in front of me this week. By all means, I’m not making light of the serious situation that Patton and those involved are faced with, but it would at least nice to see that kind of rage out on the football field. The Cats laid down to Louisville and their running game (the much hyped about, trying to bolster up type game) to a back seat to Josh Freeman laying out interceptions for the Cards to pick up. With no running game, Josh was gonna get nabbed for at least one. I blame Josh for one of the two he tossed. He are the other kind of picks:
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Barspotting, College, Football, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Sports Bars

Barspotting: Two Spots, One Week, Zero Time (except for Willie’s)

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One quick note before the Saturday spot.  The ole KCCGD crew is heading out to Kite’s (formerly Rusty’s Last Chance) to watch K-State vs Louisville.  Freeman got some front page love yesterday on espn.com as the Big 12 Blogger Tim Griffin talked about Josh being up there as one of the league’s best quarterbacks.  He also picked the Wildcats with the shnide over the Cardinals.  It’s on the road but they travel well and Louisville may be out a couple of offensive linemen for the game so I’m with Tim and giving the Yeti Schnide to K-State.  Here’s Saturday’s spot:

Willie’s Kansas City

When: Saturday, September 20th 2008
Where: Willie’s Kansas City, 1501 Grand Av, Kansas City, MO 64108
Time: Evening-ish.  Probably 5pm.
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College, Football, Iowa State, Kansas State, Picks, Texas

Pick It Standings Week 3: I Thought Baseball Season Was Over

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Here’s the updates to the pick it and stick it set. The picks were more even this week as things are beginning to iron out in the top 25. Still, there may be some upsets lurking here and there. There’s also the matter of the special rescheduled match up of the rated Texas Longhorns and Arkansas Razorbacks. I’ll tell you right now: Hook ’em Horns!

Rank Pick Set Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Total
1 Cabbottmtf 17 11 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37
2 Krizzou 16 12 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36
3 Purple Yeti 14 10 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32

Okay, so I know the SEC has about 5 teams in the top 10 but what’s up with the Auburn vs Mississippi St game?

Chris Todd pitched a complete game and so did Wesley Carroll in a losing effort. I could find any stats as I’m wondering how my hitting did on my College Football Baseball Fantasy Team performed. What I did find is a history of 3-2 scores in College Football. Note the epic battles of Kansas State versus Iowa State in the 1920’s with the Cykes winning both struggles. I wonder if we’ll see that at Arrowhead.

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Sopping Wet Still From Football And Some Stromboli

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Maloney’s

One of the bigger games of the week happened the previous night with KU narrowly losing out to South Florida in an exciting game.  Too bad I didn’t pop out to see it because I was holed in waiting for the tornado sirens to blare down for the evening.  So strolling into Maloney’s Saturday morning, I figured that the much of the severe weather was over.  After watching the games, however, the natural disasters were all over the place.  At least Maloney’s was a tiny comfort riding the day out.
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Pick It and Stick It: It Should Be Rivalry Week But It’s Some Other Dumb Name

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So I’m sitting here listening to the what will probably be the best game of the week, KU and South Florida tied at 34 with under a minute and KU with the ball, and I’m wondering why college football deemed the USC vs Ohio State game the Collision at the Colosseum? Going over the barspotting post, it looks like it should be Rivalry Week. Iowa vs. Iowa State, Texas vs Arkansas, Notre Dame vs Michigan. Those are big time games. Granted UT and Ark got moved because of Ike and the Domers against the Wolves isn’t nearly what it was, but it seems like those handful of games should at least match the big time game Saturday night. I know one thing, I’m glad I’m not at The Other Place again because I don’t think the Iowa fans in the area can handle another loss to the ‘Clones. Here’s this week’s picks:
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Pick It Standings Week 2: Well You Know Something Mean Gene

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Here’s the update for the pick ’em after week 2.  The Yeti will have to knock out some serious upsets while Krizzou and Cabbottmft are fighting it out for the top. It’s early still so we’ll see how it fleshes out in the end. That’s what she said.

Rank Pick Set Name Total Points
1 cabbottmtf 28
1 krizzou 28
3 Purple Yeti 24

So what was up with the excessive celebration call at the BYU vs Washington game?

I’m not sure which is more hilarious, that Jessie “The Body” Ventura was doing color commentating or that people are forgetting that the kick was BLOCKED. Sure every sports mouth out there is screaming ref murder because they punished the kid for rocking out too much, but if they would have protected the kick and hit the extra point it would have been moot.

The unusual thing is that it went against the home team at the last second. Every person related with football knows that calls can go against you that seem chinsey. They will then point out that any team shouldn’t put themselves in that position in the first place. Of course, spectators toot a different horn.

College, Football, Kansas, Kansas State, Sports Bars, Waitresses

Rainy Day Football at Danny’s Bar & Grill

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Danny’s Bar & Grill

The overcast clouds could only hint at to what was to come for another day of college football as I pulled into the parking lot Saturday morning. For some teams, the rain was hard and heavy. For others, it was destination cloud nine. The warm comfort of Danny’s Bar & Grill covered me as I was covering them. Isn’t it ironic? Don’t ya think?

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