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Petro-Sooner
12/31/2007, 12:31 PM
WTF? Why is it not the Ft. Worth bowl anymore. Is bell helicopters tryiing to advertise so I will purchase one of its fine choppers? And while I'm at it why would peach be taken out of the chikfila bowl name.
Blues1
12/31/2007, 12:34 PM
$$$$$ --- Thay Don't care about Good Bowl Names anymore.....~
Yeah, 'cause "Ft. Worth Bowl" just screamed "class, tradition, quality". :D
Petro-Sooner
12/31/2007, 12:38 PM
HEH. Well its in texas so its like bigger and better or something.
I'm glad they changed the name. It really heightens the drama of Air Force playing a bunch of Berkley hippies. :D
1890MilesToNorman
12/31/2007, 12:55 PM
Air Force is making Cal look very bad. Or is Cal making Cal look very bad? I guess I better keep watching.
Make this the offical thread and give updates to us poor bastages chained to our desks.
I do get the weather channel in here so in exchange I can keep everyone posted on weather delays out of logan airport.
Air Force running over Cal at this point. Not a lot of point production, though. I think it's still 7-0 Flyboys. Cal had a couple chances in the red zone but couldn't connect.
AF QB breaks huge keeper run into Cal red zone. AF second and goal, now.
14-0 Air Force off a TD pass from Carney to the TE.
1890MilesToNorman
12/31/2007, 01:17 PM
Great special teams play by AF, recovered the kickoff at the Cal 40 after it hit a Cal player in the head. lol
Cal muffs kick-off, AF recovers in Cal territory - then Carney almost breaks a run up the middle for six. shoestring tackle saves the score.
Cal looks like the mid-major and AF looks like the BCS league team at this point.
bluedogok
12/31/2007, 01:18 PM
Did Cal show up at this game thinking they belonged in a BCS bowl game? It sure looks like they are "playing" the same way when Tech blew them out in the Holiday Bowl a few years ago.
I though Cal was supposed to be one of the fastest teams in the nation at the beginning of this season. AF is running at will on them.
bluedogok
12/31/2007, 01:20 PM
Fast with no direction is bad against the option.
21-0 FlyBoys
1890MilesToNorman
12/31/2007, 01:20 PM
21 - 0 AF
TD Air Force off the option pitch to the right. The AF back just outran the Cal defender to the corner. LOL. Team speed, PAC-10... :rolleyes:
Desert Sapper
12/31/2007, 01:21 PM
Cal sux.
I think Bell sponsored the Armed Forces Bowl, because the DOD is a primary client. This bowl helps that client, in that it gives another bowl option to the service academies. Because somewhere in the 90% range of all general officers come from the service academies, they would look favorably on Bell for future contracts (as opposed to Boeing-Sikorsky or Northrop-Grumman). Something like that. That's my theory, anyway. Totally unproven.
Fast with no direction is bad against the option.
21-0 FlyBoys
Point being that Air Force is outrunning them to spots not running past overpursuit.
Either Cal is half assing it out there or they're slower than hyped.
bluedogok
12/31/2007, 01:25 PM
Cal sux.
I think Bell sponsored the Armed Forces Bowl, because the DOD is a primary client. This bowl helps that client, in that it gives another bowl option to the service academies. Because somewhere in the 90% range of all general officers come from the service academies, they would look favorably on Bell for future contracts (as opposed to Boeing-Sikorsky or Northrop-Grumman). Something like that. That's my theory, anyway. Totally unproven.
I think Bell's helicopter division is also based in Fort Worth, if they aren't based there they still have a bunch of facilities there.
Cal TD
21-7 AF
21-7. Cal scores on 40 yd TD catch, after changing QBs.
LittleWingSooner
12/31/2007, 01:27 PM
There are way too many bowl games. 6-6 teams shouldn't be in bowls.
There are way too many bowl games. 6-6 teams shouldn't be in bowls.
To be honest, I don't mind having all this college football to watch during the holidays, even though I only get to actually watch a fraction of the games.
The problem is the bowl tie ins and "power" conferences getting so many bowl bids even though not all the teams are bowl worthy. Now that there's 12 games, it should be a 7-5 or 8-4 cut off for bowl eligibility regardless of what conference you're a part of. Just my .02.
Cal is the biggest myth in college football. They beat USC in OT back on '03, almost beat them again for a couple of years after that...and that's it. Yet somehow, that was enough to declare them an elite school. Yeah, an elite school that gets their clocks cleaned in every podunk bowl game they go to. :D
bluedogok
12/31/2007, 01:34 PM
I like watching them, it's still football.
The tie-ins going as deep as they do is a big part of the problem.
Cal may be just waking up, after all it was a 9am start for them.
1890MilesToNorman
12/31/2007, 01:45 PM
21-14 AF
The tie-ins going as deep as they do is a big part of the problem.
Reasons conference tie-ins with bowls suck:
1) Undeserving teams get picked ahead of more deserving ones just because they're in a certain conference. (i.e., 6-6 "power conference" teams getting to play in postseason when 8-4 mid-majors get left out)
2) One conference's third-place team blows out some other conference's seventh-place team, and the tired and annoying "conference power" drum gets beaten. Seriously, "conference power/superority" is the new Most Annoying Thing About College Football, replacing the old number one, "no system for crowning an actual national champion".
Another thing about bowl bids is that they're supposed to be a reward for teams that played a good season but how the team played down the stretch should also be considered. Last night's suck fest and this bowl feature teams that lost the majority of their games in the second half of the season (4 of the last 5, 5 of the last 6, etc.). How is that a good season or worth a bowl trip?
101sooner
12/31/2007, 02:10 PM
WTF? Why is it not the Ft. Worth bowl anymore. Is bell helicopters tryiing to advertise so I will purchase one of its fine choppers? And while I'm at it why would peach be taken out of the chikfila bowl name.
Uhhmmm... the game is named in honor of Mike "Helicopter" Bell. I thought everyone knew that.
And there seems to be a front moving up the eastern seaboard. Hail in nyc.
sooneron
12/31/2007, 02:40 PM
AF may be more white than that vaunted 1970 whorn team!
I mean they are LILLY WHITE! They did come to play. IF Cal can convert on 3rds more, they should win by winging the ball all over the field.
There's the usual quote for a Cal bowl game, "they were almost no. 1 halfway through the season!"
heh
TD : Cal
Flyboys: 24
Damn Dirty Hippies: 21
Sounds like a football game is breaking out!
sooneron
12/31/2007, 02:44 PM
It is funny watching Cal try to figure out how the defend that new fangled option offense that AF runs.
TheUnnamedSooner
12/31/2007, 02:50 PM
nm
Breadburner
12/31/2007, 02:55 PM
Oops AF can throw too....Heh.....
Breadburner
12/31/2007, 02:57 PM
Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....That was ugly....Poor kid....You hate to see that...Replay not for the faint of heart....AF qb took a hit and hurt the knee.....
sooneron
12/31/2007, 02:58 PM
AF qb goes down with grizzly looking knee injury . Ugh, why do they feel the need to show that a couple of times on replay?
BillyBall
12/31/2007, 02:58 PM
That was Willis McGahee ugly...
Breadburner
12/31/2007, 03:02 PM
Right up there with Joe Theisman and Napoleon kaufman...
101sooner
12/31/2007, 03:03 PM
That was Willis McGahee ugly...
Pretty sure the AF QB just tore every every ligament in that knee.
Man that sucks. He's what college football is all about.
sooneron
12/31/2007, 03:06 PM
Flyboys: 27
Damn Dirty Hippies: 28
en4cer
12/31/2007, 03:18 PM
WTF? Why is it not the Ft. Worth bowl anymore. Is bell helicopters tryiing to advertise so I will purchase one of its fine choppers?
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Petro-Sooner
12/31/2007, 03:27 PM
If it comes with AM FM cassete stereo then I may be interested.
Breadburner
12/31/2007, 03:34 PM
8 track only......
Petro-Sooner
12/31/2007, 03:35 PM
OUT
Blues1
12/31/2007, 03:35 PM
Air Force needs a lot of HELP....!!! - This day will probably lose a lot of Points for Blues1 ---- :(
101sooner
12/31/2007, 03:51 PM
That was a nice drive.
I really don't understand why AFA is going for two here. It doesn't help anything. :confused:
TheUnnamedSooner
12/31/2007, 04:23 PM
didn't hurt either.
True, but I don't think "because it can't make things any worse" should be a valid excuse for going for two. :D
sooneron
12/31/2007, 04:56 PM
True, but I don't think "because it can't make things any worse" should be a valid excuse for going for two. :D
I wish that was Bob's thinking in the second half of the first Mizzou game this year.
hgarmorer
1/1/2008, 09:33 AM
Any update on the Carney, last I heard it was his MCL and ACL?
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