Perception

C4RDSF4N — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:06:44 -0000

Louisville has taken incredible strides in that last couple of years, jumping into the Big East Conference and now vying for a spot in the BCS National Championship game. Nationally, the college football pundits (here forward referred to as the `good ole boys') seem to think we are nothing more than a mid-major team from a mid-major conference. That wasn't exactly their opinion last fall when they pronounce that upon entering the Big East Louisville should dominate the beleaguered BCS league. Why? If we were nothing but a mid-major team from a mid-major conference, stepping into one of the vaunted BCS conferences should have been a daunting task. Louisville fell short of winning the Big East Championship, but they fared pretty well, playing in the Gator Bowl in their inaugural season. Now, the Cardinal team is poised to challenge for the National Championship game and suddenly the `good ole boys' revert to their perception of us as mid-major again. Why, because we have demonstrated to the world that the so-called mid-majors can compete with anyone. We have exposed their precious club for what it is, and the `good ole boys' are afraid if we actually play in the NC game other mid-majors will want their chance too. Suddenly there will be an out cry by the majority for a playoff system, and the `good ole boys' will lose their stranglehold on the rest of college football. It is fear that is driving their perception. And it is time that we exposed the `good ole boys' as the greedy, money grubbing elitists that they are.

GO CARDS!

'The Game' (appologies to William Shakespear)

C4RDSF4N — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:07:01 -0000

This day is called the feast of 'The Game'
He that wins this day, and comes safe home
Will stand tall when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of 'The Game'.
He that shall compete this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the eve, feast his neighbors,
And say 'Tomorrow is the aniversary of 'The Game'
Then he will strip his sleeve, and show his scars,
And say "These wounds I recieved on the day of 'The Game'.
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But He shall remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall the names,
Familiar on his toungue as household words,
Brian Brohm the quarterback, Smith and Stripling,
Urritia and Douglas, Omobi Okoye and Nate Harris
Be in their flowing beer mugs remembered.
This story shall the Cardinal fan teach his son,
And 'The Game' shall never be forgotten
From this day to the ending of the world.
But those in it shall be remembered -
The few, those happy few, the band of brothers;
For those today that play 'The Game'
Shall be brothers, be he ever so vile,
This day is his salvation:
And football players around the world,
Shall think themselves accursed that they were not here,
And hold their manhood cheap, while any speak that played today in 'The Game'.

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Perception

'The Game' (appologies to William Shakespear)