I love this kid. Did you all catch his tweet the other night after the whole O$U debacle finally let loose? He said 

We do things the right way.

Love his heart, his attitude, his dedication. I hope he accomplishes great things for the Lions this year. 

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This is just too funny. Les Miles disses them, again. So they hire Hoke. I don't know about you, but Michigan has been pretty entertaining to watch in the past few years. I hope it continues to be as comedic. 

http://mgoblog.com/content/its-hoke?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+mgoblog+(mgoblog)

I don't have much else to say about this, but no one reads Fanshots. Is that still true? Someone will still probably post this news somewhere else. I don't care, just wanted to put it out there. 

So apparently TPeezy and company have a car salesman hooking them up, but tO$U "investigated" and found no violation. The headline of this article certainly is pretty misleading, "No NCAA Violation" would lead you to believe the NCAA looked into the car situation and found nothing, but if you read the whole article it sounds like the University compliance department is looking the other way. 

I sure would love to drive a loaner car for MORE THAN A WEEK while my engine is being replaced. Oh, and I'd love to "test drive" a car ACROSS STATE LINES when I'm considering buying it to see if my momma likes it. 

I love reading the comments under the article.  Pryor seriously thinks we are all idiots to believe what comes out of his mouth (or tweets). 

This kid blows me away. First letsgopsu tells me he's a  Schreyer Scholar. Getting into that program is as difficult as getting into Harvard. Mike tells me he's the first three time academic all-american in PSU history.  Then I read this. 

He has amassed a grade-point average of 3.91 as a secondary education major in the Schreyer Honors College.

Wisniewski divided his time between the football field and State College Area High School classroom last season, teaching 10th-grade English.

And last spring and in the summer of 2009, Wisniewski traveled to the Dominican Republic to take part in a week-long mission trip. Leo and Steve Wisniewski accompanied Stefen on the summer trip and the trio helped build a church and played with the children of Haitian immigrants.

So not only is he exceptionally smart, and gigantic and athletic, he goes on mission trips every year? And he wants to be a high school teacher? (aside for that whole NFL thing)  I want this guy for a son-in-law.  And I don't even have a daughter...yet.  I seriously hope being a pro athlete doesn't mess him up, but it sounds like he's got a solid character foundation. 

Have any of you been reading Michael Robinson's blog? I know some of you follow him on Twitter, and I know I linked to a news article not long ago talking about his charity and all...but today's post is just amazing.  I didn't want to put in the fanshots and have it get ignored, so I'll quote some:

See as a professional athlete, we have a responsibility to the young football players around the country.  We have a responsibility to the game of football.  The more knowledge we can give to the young athletes of today, the better football that will be played in the future.  Something else I learned through this camp experience is how much we really are role models for these kids whether we like it or not.  When I spoke at the camp the campers listened to my every word and tried their best to do exactly what I said.  Some of the campers told me they wanted to be just like me when they grew up.  I think for some professional athletes it is tough to come to that reality.  The reality that young people are out there trying to be just like us so they watch and pay attention to our every move–good or bad.  See that is the catch most of us do not realize or want to realize that fact.  I feel it is easier to comprehend when you have children of your own because, if you are a mature adult, you think about your children before every action or decision you make knowing it will effect them in some way, shape or form.  Just think if all professional athletes thought about their young fans before some of the decisions they make.  I guarantee we would be in the news for more positive issues instead of negative ones.

Apparently Joe has been pretty sick lately, canceling one appearance earlier in May due to the flu and now not showing up at the last minute to a big dinner in Hershey due to an "intestinal virus".  really wish they had just said it was a virus and not included the word  intestinal there...it's something no one needs to know and only serves to elicit memories of Joe running off the sideline to "shit his drawers". 

I know he always claims to be healthy as an ox, and attributes it to Greek genes, I guess, but at his age this stuff can be tough and sometimes fatal.  I don't know many people as healthy as my 90 year old grandparents, but even with them I sometimes expect to get that phone call with tragic news any time.  Yeah, I can be morbid, but that's what happens when one day you have a perfectly healthy 49 year old dad and the next day he's dead of a heart attack. I'm not an anxious person, just a realist. I pray Joe recovers and is just fine and coaches for ten more years and a National Championship.

For those of you not following JayPa's Twitter...apparently Michael Robinson and his THREE kids (holy cow, already?) are staying with Jay this week while they're in town.  There's a nice article in the CDT today about it.  Good to see he's still Penn State proud.  His wife is like most of my friends who don't quite get it...

“What she’s most impressed with is we go all over the country and see Penn Staters and she just doesn’t get it — the difference in my tone, how I speak about the school — but now she sees it and she understands it.”

Read more: http://www.centredaily.com/2010/04/23/1932543/former-lion-qb-making-impact.html#ixzz0lvu4rGL4

 

 

Love the charity he's started too...

And Graham Zug is gonna be punting?  WHAT?

Is this 75 words yet? LOL

For those that don't know, BSD Mike and I live in Houston, TX.  When we moved in just before football season started last year, we saw that one of our neighbors had an Ohio State flag firmly planted in their front yard.  So most of the year we have a good time talking Big 10 football.  They are great neighbors.  Otherwise we are surrounded by Texas, A&M, and LSU fans. 

But this morning we opened our front door and saw this:

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Last week my neighbor, Jennifer, who is actually the OSU alum, predicted they would beat us and lose to Michigan.  She wasn't being mean about it or trash talking persay, just lamenting how "stupid" Pryor is.  Mike just laughed when she said she thought they would beat us. 

So this morning I sent my five year old over to slap some big old PSU magnets on their car.  This means war.

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/the-quad-countdown-no-10-penn-state/

Woo that's kinda bigtime.  Not that BSD needs any more press to hail its awesomeness.  Is this a Fanshot or a Fanpost, I forget?  New format for posting...weird.  Oh it's a Fanpost, I meant it to be a Fanshot.  Well 75 words, lalala...  

Found this link via Twitter.  Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MainlineMom

Interesting article about Jay Paterno's political amibitions.  I've been following JayTweet for awhile now and he's got a good thing going there, but Lord help us if he really were to become a US Representative for Pennsylvania.  Looks like that's what he's got in mind. 

"I'm a coach first and foremost," he says, "so probably not now, but somewhere down the road, three years down the road, who knows?"

 

I also thought this line was pretty funny about his dad's salary being made public.

He told the audience that he was happy that newspapers finally (using the state's new right-to-know law) reported his father's salary, which for years was a tightly held state secret.

It's $1.03 million (not including outside income). Jay says that he was happy to see it in print because "now my mom and I know what it is."

 

Please, Jay, stick to coaching and Tweeting.

JayTweet just posted that Sean Lee and Daryll Clark were voted the 2009 team captains...voted by the team.  Excellent choices, I'd say. 

One more reason for you to join us on Twitter.  JayTweet also posted a photo of Daryll Clark on graduation day in his cap and gown with a cool tie and glasses on that made Daryll look super hawt.  I'd repost it but by copyright law I really can't unless it specifically says it's available under Creative Commons.  So here's the link.