My wife and I are staying at a B&B in Ebensburg over the Iowa weekend and I've never been to Cambria County.  We're looking to have a nice dinner for our anniversary Friday night.  For those who are familiar with the area, is there a restaurant that you can recommend?  I'm not looking for something that's going to run us $75 a plate and not fill me up but I want a good meal in a nice atmosphere.  Thanks in advance for the responses!

I know it's early but I didn't see it mentioned on here anywhere so far.  Lastnight we received another 4star verbal commitment from hard running FB Zach Zwinak.  So lets get the siren going and whoop it up!  As per FOS we now have an average of 3.94 stars which is the best in the country.

Zach Zwinak commits

Look at all those stars!

PSU Football is on a roll!  This is the team to seize the day and take advantage of the negative press that OSU is receiving, the boat loads of talent that we have and will have soon, and the great schedule that we have this year which can put us in the MNC or at least the BCS as the best team in the Big Ten!

I think a Big Ten Championship will catapault us into the forefront of the Big Ten and the media will begin to recognize us as the dominant program in the Big Ten instead of OSU if we take care of business this year.  This year is very, very important off the field IMO.  We can do great things this year!!

WE ARE!!!

Now that I got your attention I just wanted get a discussion going about multiple related topics.

1  Kyle Prater chooses USC over Illinois

I guess we won't have to worry about seeing Aurelius Benn II coming into Happy Valley and tearing up our secondary. 

2  On another note, Villanova and Temple renew their rivalry in the City of Brotherly Love tonight.  There's always the Happy Valley connection with Golden and D'Onofrio and many of us also root for Temple when they're not getting their heads bashed in by our Nits.  If anyone can find a tv listing for this game that would be great!

3  Last but not least (figuratively and literally) we have our first Big Ten team taking the gridiron tonight when Indiana meets mighty Eastern Kentucky.  Hopefully the Hoosiers won't embarass the conference by losing tonight.  Thankfully this game will appear only on the Big Ten Network so if they do lose it'll be our little secret.  :-)

Looks like Chafie pulled a Scott Boris and got Aaron Maybin some pretty decent chedda.  Aaron is in Buffalo and will join them on the practice field.  Details haven't been released except the fact that he can earn up to $25 million with this new 5 year deal.  I hope he has a great rookie season.  That means that 2 PSU Alums got paid today and yes.............there's no flags on the field!!!!!!!

Maybin signs with Buffalo

Looks like the Champs Bowl is history and we're adding another New Year's Day Bowl game with a larger payout to our conference's already impressive list of bowl affiliations.  This speaks to the fact that money talks and bull crap (media slamming Big Ten) walks.  Nice job by Delaney.  I'm not a Big Ten fan but the conference does a great job of running this business like a business.  The Big Ten may not have the on the field glitz of the SEC in recent years but it's probably the best run conference in the country which means even though there's peaks and valleys, it'll remain vibrant and strong in the long term. 

Big Ten adding Gator Bowl in 2010

I think that I'm a good judge of talent when it comes to football.  I've played or coached football my whole life.  I've analyzed film and evaluated mostly offensive skill positions.  When Daryll Clark was being recruited out of Ursuline before he was a commit to PSU and before he went to Kiski I watched his film and I thought that he was something really special, a hidden gem.  He had nice footwork, he was a passer first but he knew when to tuck and run, and he viewed the entire field and delivered a nice ball.  Okay, now that I'm done blowing my own horn, I'd like to say that I see those same qualities in Rob Bolden.  I think that he'll be the best of the 3 QBs when he arrives on campus.  If any of you have seen the reports coming out of the Elite 11 this week, he's been blowing up!  I hope that he does everything he can to digest the playbook and get ready to be the QB at PSU because he's special and I think he could be our starter for a few years if he comes in mentally prepared for college football.  I only wish his school allowed its students to graduate early so he could be here for the Spring. 

None of this is meant to slight PJ or Newsome.  Anyway, does anyone else have an opinion on Bolden or who you think is the best of the 3 future QBs? 

Okay, am I the only freak who's sitting here refreshing BWI, FOS, and BSD to see the announcement from Bolden?  What's taking so long?  Am I also the only one who is nervous about Lville in the last 24hrs?  Hopefully the late jitters are unwarranted and hopefully in the next few minutes we'll get some good news but I thought we'd have something by now.  Okay, now I'm just ranting.........okay, I'm done now.  Come on Robert!  Join the family already!!!!

WE ARE!!!

Since the White Out has been already declared for the Iowa game, we need to come up with a theme for the OSU game.  We all expect the OSU game to be the biggest of the year so it's worthy of some sort of group effort. 

At first I thought of bacon but then I thought that would be too greasy so then my mind wandered to the Urban legend that is Terrelle Pryor.  I thought of how awesome it would be if we let him know just how country we all are in Happy Valley.  Now of course some of us like myself are Urban Cowboys but that doesn't matter none(threw that in for affect).  We're all rural brothers from Happy Valley regardless of our background so maybe we can all do our best to dress the part on 11/7.  I definitely think my youngin(I'm scaring myself) and I will be in HV with a Too Country Tshirt and a pair of overalls!  Who's with me?!!!! 

I like this one because it's redneck sheik!  It shows some skin but covers the nipples! 

This is a nice selection for the ladies because they can wear their sports bras under the overalls if it's an Indian Summer!  Nice!!