Hated to see Mich State suspend some players. Gonna stick with them, but may want to side with the Terps as well on Friday.
Saturday:
Croome it
New Year's Eve:
Fresno State
New Year's Day:
Illinois!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be safe.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Underdawgma early bowl release
Congrats to all the Underdawgma faithful who sided with the Falcons, yesterday. Today I would like to give you an early bowl treat:
Michigan State
I can't imagine that BC is very fired up about travelling to the Sunshine State again after all 27 of their fans made the trip to the ACC championship back in November. Also, early bowl results indicate that the favorites, (and general public) are bombing thus far, (dawgs are 4-2 vs the number).
Not only are the Spartans getting more than a field goal, the public is betting on BC, as the line has moved a point.
Michigan State
I can't imagine that BC is very fired up about travelling to the Sunshine State again after all 27 of their fans made the trip to the ACC championship back in November. Also, early bowl results indicate that the favorites, (and general public) are bombing thus far, (dawgs are 4-2 vs the number).
Not only are the Spartans getting more than a field goal, the public is betting on BC, as the line has moved a point.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
A Hawaii fan posted the following message on an internet message board:
When the Warriors rumble out onto the Sugar Bowl turf on New Years Evening,America will witness in them everything we hope to become as a nationsomeday. For in the warrior nation... America will see a coalition of race,creed, and culture so diverse yet so dynamic and wound together so tightlythat together they have forged a brotherhood so powerful that they'vevanquished every opponent put in their path. The Warriors represent what ournation can become if we ever put race, prejudice and hatred behind us andwork as one toward a common goal.The Warriors as a team have embued their spirit into their fans and intotheir State. When America looks into the Hawaii stands at the Sugar Bowl,they''ll see the same rainbow coalition of faces joined in spirit behindtheir team. Every race living and working together in the spirit of Alohaforging a powerful force and a mana so strong that very few can overcome it.In contrast, across the field we'll see the past... a part of our nationwe'd like to forget. In the stands a sea of white faces many of themdescended from former slave owners cheering on a team where 90 percent ofthe starters are descended from former slaves. These African Americanplayers from Georgia will witness the spirit and power of the warrior nationand when it's over win or lose they'll wish they were a part of the Warriornation, instead of being the white man's mercenary at the University ofGeorgia.
The Dawgma response: At least during our history we never ate our neighbors like you cannabilistic rainbow fags!
The Dawgma response: At least during our history we never ate our neighbors like you cannabilistic rainbow fags!
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Underdawgma pro selection of the year
After using "The Theory" in the pros last weekend, I am ready to give my Underdawgma "Pro" lock of the year for this Sunday's slate...
You guessed it - Atlanta Falcons
Not only will the "Birds of Pray-er" cover the spread, they will beat the cards straight up. Enjoy your winnings.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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Simon & Garfunkel
The year was 1986. I was hunting in Argentina with my grandfather, George "Sonny" Swift, and we had a 2 night layover in Buenos Aires before taking a plane to Esquel, (damn near close to Antarctica) to shoot geese. I had just rescued Grand-dad's farm manager, Terrell Dixon, from some cocaine-whores and their Indian pimp from a local disco club, (that's a story for another time). Seeing that I was in store for some extended travel time across the rather longitudinal country, I ventured to a street vendor selling cassette tapes. Unfortunately, the only thing I could find in English was Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits collection.
Over the next couple of weeks of hunting I found myself reflecting on life while listening to these somber tunes, repeatedly listening to "Sound of Silence" while driving across the barren wastelands of the Argentine countryside. Fast forward to a few moments ago when I read an article on AJC online that brought back memories of listening to another song from the cassette, "Mrs. Robinson".
My favorite verse of the song, "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio..." urges all of us to reflect on the good old days, and sometimes forces us to wonder what has happened to our childhood heroes, (or villains for that matter). One such villain of my teen-age past has resurfaced, and I want all of you to pay close attention to who now coaches the WNBA team from Detroit:
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/stories/2007/12/13/wnba_1214.html
These are dire times, indeed, dear readers.
Over the next couple of weeks of hunting I found myself reflecting on life while listening to these somber tunes, repeatedly listening to "Sound of Silence" while driving across the barren wastelands of the Argentine countryside. Fast forward to a few moments ago when I read an article on AJC online that brought back memories of listening to another song from the cassette, "Mrs. Robinson".
My favorite verse of the song, "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio..." urges all of us to reflect on the good old days, and sometimes forces us to wonder what has happened to our childhood heroes, (or villains for that matter). One such villain of my teen-age past has resurfaced, and I want all of you to pay close attention to who now coaches the WNBA team from Detroit:
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/stories/2007/12/13/wnba_1214.html
These are dire times, indeed, dear readers.
Falcons, Javelinas, and Dawgs, Oh My!
What a mess! Not only has the Atlanta Falcons football franchise seemingly imploded upon itself, fueled by the hubris of its current owner, and treachery of its former coach, but now this...
My father has retired from betting on football!
After last Sunday's tilt in which the favorites were an astounding 10 - 3, (and furthered by the Falcons inability to even try on Monday night) Dad has thrown in the towel. "This is the first time in 43 years that I have had a losing season in football, and I am afraid I'm gonna have to stick to the stock market", stated George Swift in an exclusive Dawgma interview on Wednesday.
Just what went wrong? I for one, think that there is a growing diconnect between players and coaches. As I stated to Matt Zemek a few weeks ago, today's atheletes live in a virtual world. When they are not playing football, they are buzy playing video games on their HD TV, or listening to the newest gangsta rap song about a Jamaican Drug Lord forcing his white girlfriend to engage in oral sex with his brindle-colored pit-bull. Mix in some steroids, cocaine, and a bag of weed and how can they distinguish between what is real and what is fantasy?
Welcome to pro football, Bobby "piss-ant" Petrino. You have to be one helluva leader to organize today's professional atheletes. It's not like at Louisville where the team members could only buy a few thousand dollars worth of party favors with alumni bucks. Today's pros have a much fatter pocketbook, and you better make sure you have a short leash on them, (or at least make sure that their leashes don't have a dead pit-bull on the other end).
The atrocities that today's athletes are committing are only going to get worse, (but humorously more creative, I hope). Thank God that we have a good Christian like Mark Richt, who has experienced the dark side, and knows that you have to let boys be boys every once in a while.
My father has retired from betting on football!
After last Sunday's tilt in which the favorites were an astounding 10 - 3, (and furthered by the Falcons inability to even try on Monday night) Dad has thrown in the towel. "This is the first time in 43 years that I have had a losing season in football, and I am afraid I'm gonna have to stick to the stock market", stated George Swift in an exclusive Dawgma interview on Wednesday.
Just what went wrong? I for one, think that there is a growing diconnect between players and coaches. As I stated to Matt Zemek a few weeks ago, today's atheletes live in a virtual world. When they are not playing football, they are buzy playing video games on their HD TV, or listening to the newest gangsta rap song about a Jamaican Drug Lord forcing his white girlfriend to engage in oral sex with his brindle-colored pit-bull. Mix in some steroids, cocaine, and a bag of weed and how can they distinguish between what is real and what is fantasy?
Welcome to pro football, Bobby "piss-ant" Petrino. You have to be one helluva leader to organize today's professional atheletes. It's not like at Louisville where the team members could only buy a few thousand dollars worth of party favors with alumni bucks. Today's pros have a much fatter pocketbook, and you better make sure you have a short leash on them, (or at least make sure that their leashes don't have a dead pit-bull on the other end).
The atrocities that today's athletes are committing are only going to get worse, (but humorously more creative, I hope). Thank God that we have a good Christian like Mark Richt, who has experienced the dark side, and knows that you have to let boys be boys every once in a while.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Great moments in Bulldog Sugarbowl History
The year was 1968. Georgia had completed a remarkable season behind the leadership of Brad Johnson and Jake Scott, and were headed to the Sugar Bowl to play Arkansas with National Championship implications on the line. Unfortunately, for the Dawgs, there was a far more dangerous opponent than the Razorbacks on the eve of the big game.
"Jake Scott was the only person at Georgia who could beat me at pool, at the time", stated George Swift III in a Dawgma exclusive interview. "We used to play all the time at the old Fifth Quarter in Athens during my tenure as a graduate teachers assistant in the Economics department, and as luck would have it, I ran into Jake and some of his teammates in New Orleans on the eve of the Sugar Bowl on Bourbon Street."
"Jake and his buddies were already drunk, so I continued to encourage their drinking into the wee hours", said Swift. The next day, Arkansas, (an 8 point underdog) trounced the Bulldogs 16 - 2 in a game that wasn't as close as the score indicated. "It was the most money that I had ever made betting on a football game at the time", chuckled Swift.
So, dear readers, keep an eye out for the football team on Bourbon Street this year. And also, pay particular attention to the Hawaii team loitering around Harrahs, (you know how Asians do love to gamble).
"Jake Scott was the only person at Georgia who could beat me at pool, at the time", stated George Swift III in a Dawgma exclusive interview. "We used to play all the time at the old Fifth Quarter in Athens during my tenure as a graduate teachers assistant in the Economics department, and as luck would have it, I ran into Jake and some of his teammates in New Orleans on the eve of the Sugar Bowl on Bourbon Street."
"Jake and his buddies were already drunk, so I continued to encourage their drinking into the wee hours", said Swift. The next day, Arkansas, (an 8 point underdog) trounced the Bulldogs 16 - 2 in a game that wasn't as close as the score indicated. "It was the most money that I had ever made betting on a football game at the time", chuckled Swift.
So, dear readers, keep an eye out for the football team on Bourbon Street this year. And also, pay particular attention to the Hawaii team loitering around Harrahs, (you know how Asians do love to gamble).
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
A dawg that will be missed
Just took a look at this year's graduating class on David Ching's blog:
http://ching-athens.blogspot.com/
While we had our share of housing majors, (what the hell is a degree in housing?) I thought several of our players will be earning some pretty respectable degrees. Among them is RB Thomas Brown, a communications major. My cousin, Elizabeth Swift, had many speech classes with our tailback, and said that he is a bright, humble person. If Brown makes it in the NFL, maybe we can get him or Mack Strong to replace that idiot at ESPN, Mark May.
In the immortal words of Men Without Hats:
"Well we got Matthew Stafford, and we got young Thomas Brown...
And when we touch the ball, we put down our heads
And we knock you fucking down!"
http://ching-athens.blogspot.com/
While we had our share of housing majors, (what the hell is a degree in housing?) I thought several of our players will be earning some pretty respectable degrees. Among them is RB Thomas Brown, a communications major. My cousin, Elizabeth Swift, had many speech classes with our tailback, and said that he is a bright, humble person. If Brown makes it in the NFL, maybe we can get him or Mack Strong to replace that idiot at ESPN, Mark May.
In the immortal words of Men Without Hats:
"Well we got Matthew Stafford, and we got young Thomas Brown...
And when we touch the ball, we put down our heads
And we knock you fucking down!"
Monday, December 3, 2007
Early lines on BCS games
Not suprisingly, UGA has opened as a favorite over the Samoans by 8, (I figured the opening line would be 7.5). What also does not suprise me is the early line movement of this game...
http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/odds/las-vegas/?s=1233
Could the underdawgma selection be in the Sugar Bowl?
Stay tuned.
http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/odds/las-vegas/?s=1233
Could the underdawgma selection be in the Sugar Bowl?
Stay tuned.
Collegefootballnews.com reporter responds to Dawgma...
Our friend Matthew Zemek at Collegefootballnews.com is apparently just as deflated as we are in regards to the state of college football's post-season:
My letter to Matt Zemek, (the same guy who wrote the "War and Peace" composition on the UGA TD celebration:
Hi Matt,
I consider you the voice of reason in this crazy world of college football. You showed me the utmost respect for my opposing view of the UGA celebration at the Cocktail party, and now I need some unbiased feedback from one of my favorite writers...
I just read Pete's take on the Les Miles soap opera. While I do not fault Kirk Herbstreit's reporting on this news, (from what my LSU sources tell me, it was a done deal) I do have a problem with the aftermath. Perhaps I am a bit biased, but I thought that LSU received a lot of love from ESPN after the events of Saturday night's upsets started to unfold. It was pretty much like, "sorry we screwed up with our premature report that your coach was going to Michigan, but we'll make it up to you". Not so long ago, (last year as a matter of fact) Herbstreit was campaigning for Michigan to get into the NC over Florida:
http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=BHkADG4UQjE
Michigan's conference championship was held when they played their last regular season game against the Buckeyes, and they lost! Here again, I had no problem with Kirk campaigning for Michigan last year. What I do have a problem with, however, is how Kirk and the other talking heads at ESPN really did a hammer job on Georgia because they did not win their conference.
Does UGA deserve a shot? Maybe, but I would have felt a bit of guilt had we been voted in the game. Don't get me wrong, there is really no single good answer as to who should be playing in the NC, but the way that ESPN promoted LSU, (at Georgia's expense) was disgusting to me. Essentially, the game that I love the most, is the only one in America that is settled by politics. There has to be a better way.
As a result of the final rankings, we also get some uninspiring BCS and other Bowl matchups. USC vs Illinois? - give me a break. Maybe the Fiesta and Orange will be somewhat entertaining, but as for the Sugar, I can tell you that while UGA has already sold out its allotment of tickets, I have talked to many big donors who are unhappy about this "nothing to gain" matchup, and are, therefore, not making the trip to New Orleans. Here's what should have been played in my opinion:
NC game: Ohio State vs Oklahoma (0 home losses and beat #1 in their title game)
Rose: UGA vs USC (battle of the 2 hottest teams)
Fiesta: Kansas/Missouri vs Arizona State
Orange: West Va vs Va Tech
Sugar: LSU vs Hawaii
And Matt's quick email response:
You're 1,000 percent correct, of course. (I assume you've read my 3-4 pieces cranked out in the past 14 hours...) These are awful matchups that insult our collective intelligence, the Fiesta Bowl excepted. The big problem with college football is that this sport's legendary unpredictability creates such abrupt shifts that the mainstream media outlets create a pack mentality when they respond to said shifts. It's virtually impossible to broadcast and maintain minority viewpoints in this sport/business, because it's so completely beholded to a few powerful interests. This is a fishbowl world where very little fresh, original thinking takes place; power brokers in college football are so narrow minded, it's staggering. Hello, Myles Brand. Where the ---- are you in all this? It's a dreary spectacle. The end of the season should always be a time of joy, as we look forward to awesome bowl matchups followed by a plus-one. Instead, we get crappy bowls followed by nothing... nothing but hypocrisy, shallowness, and greed that isn't complemented by creativity. (If you're going to be greedy, at least be smart and innovative in the process so that others benefit from your greed; in college football, the greedy ones don't share the wealth with others.) Hang in there. Maybe we'll get a plus-one in 10 years, after Mike Slive continues to deeply investigate and seriously ponder how to... gasp!... stage one lousy football game on the second Saturday of January at 8pm in a warm-weather city. (How hard can it be?) I'm venting too much, I know. I'll stop. *sigh* The more this happens in CFB, the worse I feel with each passing year. Grown people being dumb is never easy to tolerate. Matt
My letter to Matt Zemek, (the same guy who wrote the "War and Peace" composition on the UGA TD celebration:
Hi Matt,
I consider you the voice of reason in this crazy world of college football. You showed me the utmost respect for my opposing view of the UGA celebration at the Cocktail party, and now I need some unbiased feedback from one of my favorite writers...
I just read Pete's take on the Les Miles soap opera. While I do not fault Kirk Herbstreit's reporting on this news, (from what my LSU sources tell me, it was a done deal) I do have a problem with the aftermath. Perhaps I am a bit biased, but I thought that LSU received a lot of love from ESPN after the events of Saturday night's upsets started to unfold. It was pretty much like, "sorry we screwed up with our premature report that your coach was going to Michigan, but we'll make it up to you". Not so long ago, (last year as a matter of fact) Herbstreit was campaigning for Michigan to get into the NC over Florida:
http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=BHkADG4UQjE
Michigan's conference championship was held when they played their last regular season game against the Buckeyes, and they lost! Here again, I had no problem with Kirk campaigning for Michigan last year. What I do have a problem with, however, is how Kirk and the other talking heads at ESPN really did a hammer job on Georgia because they did not win their conference.
Does UGA deserve a shot? Maybe, but I would have felt a bit of guilt had we been voted in the game. Don't get me wrong, there is really no single good answer as to who should be playing in the NC, but the way that ESPN promoted LSU, (at Georgia's expense) was disgusting to me. Essentially, the game that I love the most, is the only one in America that is settled by politics. There has to be a better way.
As a result of the final rankings, we also get some uninspiring BCS and other Bowl matchups. USC vs Illinois? - give me a break. Maybe the Fiesta and Orange will be somewhat entertaining, but as for the Sugar, I can tell you that while UGA has already sold out its allotment of tickets, I have talked to many big donors who are unhappy about this "nothing to gain" matchup, and are, therefore, not making the trip to New Orleans. Here's what should have been played in my opinion:
NC game: Ohio State vs Oklahoma (0 home losses and beat #1 in their title game)
Rose: UGA vs USC (battle of the 2 hottest teams)
Fiesta: Kansas/Missouri vs Arizona State
Orange: West Va vs Va Tech
Sugar: LSU vs Hawaii
And Matt's quick email response:
You're 1,000 percent correct, of course. (I assume you've read my 3-4 pieces cranked out in the past 14 hours...) These are awful matchups that insult our collective intelligence, the Fiesta Bowl excepted. The big problem with college football is that this sport's legendary unpredictability creates such abrupt shifts that the mainstream media outlets create a pack mentality when they respond to said shifts. It's virtually impossible to broadcast and maintain minority viewpoints in this sport/business, because it's so completely beholded to a few powerful interests. This is a fishbowl world where very little fresh, original thinking takes place; power brokers in college football are so narrow minded, it's staggering. Hello, Myles Brand. Where the ---- are you in all this? It's a dreary spectacle. The end of the season should always be a time of joy, as we look forward to awesome bowl matchups followed by a plus-one. Instead, we get crappy bowls followed by nothing... nothing but hypocrisy, shallowness, and greed that isn't complemented by creativity. (If you're going to be greedy, at least be smart and innovative in the process so that others benefit from your greed; in college football, the greedy ones don't share the wealth with others.) Hang in there. Maybe we'll get a plus-one in 10 years, after Mike Slive continues to deeply investigate and seriously ponder how to... gasp!... stage one lousy football game on the second Saturday of January at 8pm in a warm-weather city. (How hard can it be?) I'm venting too much, I know. I'll stop. *sigh* The more this happens in CFB, the worse I feel with each passing year. Grown people being dumb is never easy to tolerate. Matt
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