[Ed. note - Bumped to front page due to awesomness]

(My network has interecepted an email from septuagenarian O.C. Gary Tranquill to the oldest sophomore QB in America, David Shinskie. For the benefit of the Boston College community, I have provided it below.)

Dear Uncle Dave,        

What a mistake it was to get involved with an older man. Not that I am a spring chicken, I'm 70 - but I swear, I almost believe you enjoy embarrassing me in public. Seriously, the first shutout since 1998? I can't take it anymore. It's over. We're done. You are no longer my QB-1.

Not that you ever really were my guy. Our facebook relationship status was always it's complicated. I was ready to commit to you just a few weeks ago, but you handled it the worst way possible. You did just the bare minimum to string me along. It was never great with you, just always just enough. And your high maintenance ways made it difficult to consider my other options.

But you always rang me late at night, talking up your strong million dollar arm. Let me tell you something, I was once the QB coach of the Rhein Fire, I have been with bigger arms.  

I think I could look past all of that.  Here is the deal breaker: you just stare at other people.  It's ok to look. I actually think that you looking around makes things interesting for us.   But you. You just stare, and it is embarrassing me.  Virginia Tech thought they could score whenever they wanted because you just stared at other people and gave it up.

You say you are going to change, but you have been doing the same thing for well over a year now. You promised me you would change after you fell over yourself when we visited with Clemson. (Ohh how I have tried to forget that day.) You promised to change after we went on vacation to San Francisco, where your staring allowed those guys from Southern California to have their way.

It is like when Oprah quotes Maya Angelou, ""When people show you who they are...believe them."  I can see now that nothing has changed. And I can't expect anything to change. So pack up, and go sit on that bench over there. It is over between us.

It has been emotional.

- GT Da OC

[Ed. note -- Bumped from Fan Posts]

A small proposal.

We might be small, but we sing better than any other fan base in college football. And this this is not a recent development,  it is our tradition. So much so, that we have the oldest fight song in collegiate athletics.

In case you need to be reminded, "For Boston" is over 125 years old and sounds like this:

Now we already adore singing some sentimental songs, like "Build Me Up, Buttercup!" and "Sweet Caroline."

BC should be looking to further embrace and extend our musical heritage. If we are going to be Harvard on weekdays and Alabama on Saturdays (and at Mass on Sundays),  we are going to need to something that will overwhelm Alabama's Rammer Jammer. I believe that this year we can start a new tradition that will accomplish this goal.

We need to start singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" before and after our games, very much in the way Liverpool FC does in the English Premier League. The lyrics perfect capture everything that is right about Boston College:  the solidarity, fraternity, and Christian triumph of hope. The song is perfect for moment that we are in the midst with Mark Herzlich.   

AND IT IS THE MOST POWERFUL SPORTING ANTHEM IN EXISTENCE AND NO MAJOR PROGRAM IN UNITED STATES IS DOING IT.  We can be the first again!

BEHOLD!

This is something that we can implement immediately, our student section will instantly rally around and will sing, will instantly improve our game day experience, will memorialize what has happened with Mark and invigorate the amity Boston College alumnus already overwhelmingly feel towards each other.  It will also cost a negligible amount to implement and will not require approval from our neighbors.

So what say you?  Is this a good idea? Can we make it happen?