Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Owlscoop Hall of Fame


# This is the first time the word "gauche" has been used on this board, but not the first time the word douche has been used, as in, "you are a douche"." - sonny 72 to an upstart poster who thought the thread he was responding to was "gauche".

# "Speaking of spinning...the other day I'm at the gym and this lady who I have spoken to a few times starts talking to me about her spinning class. She's telling me what a great workout it is and how you burn so many calories and that I really should think about coming to one of the classes. As she's talking, I'm looking at her 5'4" 165lb frame, with her pit stains and ass sweat showing, thinking "WTF am I doing talking to this lady about spinning?" I have no interest in spinning. If I want to ride a bike I'll go outside and ride one." - tuowls4 on the benefits and perils of gym membership.

# "The only issue I had with Imus is that he took a shot at college athletes. Even though we hear about the worst of them gambling and not going to class, the vast majority work incredibly hard to ballance athletics with scholarship. So it bothers me when people take a shot like that at them.....On the other hand, as a Temple Graduate, I believe everyone from Rutgers has syphillis." - Tannhäuser getting to the point about the REAL problem with the Scarlet women's b-ball team.

# "For too long these fools have owned a monopoly on distasteful dialogue. I love them allowing me to sit at the table of degenerate behavior, sipping from their cups of venom." - delawareowl summing up the Imus thread (DISCLAIMER: This post was selected on its merit and not as an attempt to be gratuitously inclusive)

# "Okay, My last post under this thread. Sarge is retreating back to the bar. I guess the years of losing has gotten you guys fired up. I'm just trying to get laid at my age." - Sgt Jr Rider coming to the realization that brokering a piece is preferable to brokering a peace.

# "It's not reported in the liberal media, but Tiger is actually a pain in butt on the course. In fact, last time I played with him he tipped over a golf cart, tried to hit on the beer cart girl, and took a leak just off the 12th green b/c he was so drunk. Believe me, that is the last time I take him to Augusta." - tuowls4 in response to the question "Why is Tiger Woods still not allowed to play at certain clubs, because of the color of his skin?"

# "We all have a choice in this life, ignore the jerks. Their words are like farts in a high breeze.-----Gone with the Wind." - coolhandred on Howard Stern, Bill Conlin, Howard Eskin, Billy Packer, Rush Limnbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Jackson, Angelo Cataldi, and the rest of the meat heads at WIP

# "While I am shocked that Imus would call them "nappy headed hos," I am equally as shocked to learn it is spelled 'hos' and not 'hoes.'" - tuowls4 giving insight into how he is really a farm boy at heart and how poorly he'd fare at a hip-hop spelling bee.

# "We shouldn't be suprised when an idiot says something stupid." - Firefly Dave on the Imus /Rutgers controversy.

# "Adamany would have called for a task force to look into converting the football dollars to poetry scholarships for congressional pages." - FishPro12 noting how TU's past president was somewhat less supportive of D1A football than the current one.

# "paper mill odors are worse than a West Virginia hooker" - jr rider's contribution to a discussion of the "worst smell" coming from a factory into public air.

# "(1) Because the fate of the world does not depend on Temple's football prowess. (2) Because we travelled a long way to see old friends, and we're not going to let yet another beating stop us from having a good time. (3) Because some of us drink beer when we're happy and drink beer when we're sad. (4) Because you can't get all distraught over whether or not a 19-year-old linebacker should have made that tackle. Life is short (especially if you drink beer when you're both happy and sad).." - Nightbird's explanation to Papreps as to why it's okay to tailgate after a loss." [Nominated by readspec]

# "Think of it this way. You live in a trailer park. Everything you own is either from the dollar store or the flea markets. But you are obliviously happy, drinking Bud and watching NASCAR. Then one day a tornado comes, and wipes out everything. You are standing there looking at the rubble, you look at your neighbor's rubble, and then say to him " Aw f**k it. Let's get drunk." - FishPro12's explanation to Papreps as to why it's okay to tailgate after a loss."

# "Paste a sign on the side of the bus: "Free pot and beer. Departure in 30 minutes." - FishPro12's contribution to a thread on TUFB entitled "Getting students on board...."

# "That kind of reminds me of Jim Brown describing why he dislikes the modern-day touchdown celebrations. I'm paraphrasing here, but his remark was something like "when you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before." Of course, when put into that context, you can understand if Temple players of the recent past tended to violate Mr. Brown's dictum." - TempleBAPittMPA on putting humility in proper context.

# "The program finally appears to be in the hands of bricklayers, not straw and dung chuckers." - MH55 on his perceived new direction for TUFB.

# "Light fuse, stand back and seek cover cause its finally going to happen....here, at Temple." - MH55 showing how his post-8YV view of TUFB has blossomed into Golden visions of sugar plums.

# "That girl has the skiniest arms I ever saw on a woman. Is she originally from the Sudan?" - coolhandred on Ann Coulter.

# "You are stupid to the point of creating entertainment value. Traveling circuses used to put people like you into their freak show acts." - collapse responding to his favorite nemesis commenting that Iraq is safer than Philly..

# "I hate the damned mascot. Ever since that cartoonish figure was hatched and the basketball team decided to drop the cherry away uniforms for black, we have sucked. At football games, I have often wanted to throw rotten vegetables at Hooter. The punk-ass mascot has to go." - BlenyOwl's birthday tribute to Hooter.

# "some slapdick sent by bradshaw: "coach chaney it's this retarded bird thing that doesn't even resemble an owl's birthday we want you to wear these sneakers."....chaney: "oh sure buddy, i love hooter he's my friend, i'll make all my assistants wear them too." - MH55's reply to BlenyOwwl's opinion that the coaches who wore sneakers for Coaches vs. Cancer National Awareness Weekend actually did it in honor of Hooter's birthday.

# "Dozens of cheerleaders, a lively band, a dozen mascots and now, the appearance of a third designated mascot for the most comatose fan base in 1A...the loudest cheer for the Irish guy sinking a 15 footer...men wearing suits and gym shoes, even a bad look if you're carrying a purse, stinking of aqua net and triple jumping urine puddles on the 13th St Fkd El Platform..." - MH55.......and don't even think about an attempt to put it in context.

# "Professor Weinberg used feta cheese. He had three of those bunson burners to cook. Pigeon eggs were his choice. I never took a summer course with him, but I heard when it was really hot, he would make them outside Barson Hall on his '71 Volkswagon Beetle. He suppossedly had tin foil on the ground so when the omelet would slide off it wouldn't hit the ground. My friend Vlade told me he saw the good professor frying scrapple one day near the bell tower. He did love his breakfast." - BlenyOwl's diatribe in response to Bill Conlin's simple question as to what kind of cheese the professor used.

# "Its just my opinion, but when I see NIT, I think Not In Tournament." - lateowl05 paying tribute to the history and tradition of the ORIGINAL post-season tournament.

# "Our alumni are the worst in human history as well as any other form of life force history on our planet." - dadamany doing some PR work trying to motivate the alumni base.

# "I remember posting things similar to this when I was an undergrad. Back then all I needed to worry about was if I was going to drink Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday." - TUTKE responding to the above and showing his age (ed....students now also worry about Sunday through Tuesday).

# "dickie V and the rest of the college gameday tools can suck a bird." - T4TempleU after ESPN Gameday said "no need to do that"..."thats not a floor storming kind of situation" when TU upset the 19th ranked Terps.

# "I'd rather piss 35 bucks away at a T & A bar that subject myself to this garbage." - Owlfan...Jersey after watching U Mass embarass the Owls 60-36 (no, not in football - in hoops).

# "Every now and then a blind squirrel finds a nut...." - rpalmer70 in response to COOKIE79's suggestion that Adamany and/or Bradshaw accidently did something right when they hired Al Golden.

# "the only regular student bw reached out to was the one pumping the keg, and that was with his cup in his hand...." - COOKIE79 with a retroactive critique of coach Wallace's "reaching out" to the students. [Nominated by Jerseyjoe027]

# ">"....we need somebody that will come in here and eat, live, sleep, and shit temple football..." - COOKIE79.

# "Its time to fix TUFB AND the associated departments that will help resuscitate it. Time is up too, as it should be, for incompetent, ambitionless assholes." - MH55.

# ".....you little piece of shit troll......it's fuckstains like you that are probably in charge of something in the athletic department and are the foundation of all that's wrong with temple and the world in general......get a life, and get off your mama's nipple, you fucking classless ass pirate. - COOKIE79, disproving 12345temple's theory that he knows nothing.

# ".....it is very difficult to remain a temple football fan these days because of the situation that this jerk has brought to our university...... ." - TUPSUBill 's retrospective critique of Bobby Wallace after 65-0 pummelling by Wisconsin.

# "We're not in the business of running a professional sports program." - President Adamany.

# "Good, asshole, try running a fucking college one then!!!" - COOKIE79 in susinct response to the above.

# "They come out with this brilliant marketing idea of this new retarded owl thing and its suppose to make us millions in sales.....I've puked up shit that looked better than that thing.....I'm going to Vegas in a few hours....fuck it.." - COOKIE79 preparing to take the cartoon owl to Vegas and hoping to leave it there.

# "We should be declaring a moratorium on posts attacking Adamany & Bradshaw. In exchange, I'll leave Mr Wallace alone." - MH55 making a promise that is unthinkable.

# "Temple stepped away from the Big East like Jimmy Hoffa stepped away from the mob." - collapse in response to a poster who thought TUFB left the Big East on its own.

# "i'm just a jack-off mortgage man in pittsburgh, there's nothing i can do but bitch on the internet." - COOKIE79 doing a little self-assessment.

# "if franklin field is such a shithole, temple football should be a perfect fit." - COOKIE79's counterpoint to MH55' point on historic Franklin Field.

# "I won't park four blocks away, have 4 cans of Bud chilling my plums down 34th st to sit down on a tin bench in the shade and try to make out a crackling loudspeaker." - MH55 getting all nostalgic about historic Franklin Field.

# "i think attendance went up the first year because the poor and cheap bastards that couldn't or wouldn't buy eagle's tickets came to see the stadium." - COOKIE79 postulating on the increased attendance at TUFB in 2003.

# "do whatever the fuck it takes to get in the mac or any other conference. if they want basketball, give it to them, if they only want football, fencing and the circle jerk team, give it to them. (i heard our athletic department has the circle jerk champions of the world team working right in vivacqua hall)." - COOKIE79 coaching the TU Athletic Department in the art of negotiation.

# "a pack of down syndrome squirrels drinking mountain dew has more organization than you guys do." - COOKIE79 giving a vote of confidence to the TU Athletic Department.

# "Coach [Staley] and [women's BB] players are a lighted candle in the overwhelming darkness of current Temple athletics." - Jimowl

# "I bought this huge box of Lemonheads. I like to eat the outside part fist and get to the sweet part. When I get real dangerous I put like ten in my mouth at one time and swish it with a mouthful of Milwaukee's Best. Talk about heaven." - BlenyOwl

# "All of Vivaqua Hall should go to the...[Huge Canoe and Kayak Fair, the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset,NJ]... because right now TU Athletics is up the creek without a paddle." - Fanfortruth

# "If Adamany is Mr. Burns, BB is Smithers, and Temple Athletics is the three-eyed fish downstream from the Springfield nuclear power plant." - PM_TU98's allegory of TU athletics.

# "There was this football player at Okalhoma who got drunk and hurt his hand or other body part....they requested an additional year from NCAA and NCAA granted it....hell, they should have taken a year away from the player for being stupid." - Hampton Roads 6on Bryantgate.

# "Beer Reports will be furnished upon request. I am a commonsewer of beer." - BlenyOwl

# "I think that they should take Jesus off the cross and put John Bryant up there." - Owl_in_Israel hinting that the Bryant injury just might be getting blown a bit our of proportion.

# "It gives university bureaucrats an activity they perceive as important to keep themselves busy for a few months. Now this nonsense of academe. Will it ever end? (I just departed a day of budget hearings on eduction in PA.) I'm not usuallly so cynical." - JED_72 on the expenditure to hire a PR firm for the "new" Temple logo.

# "That is where Chaney made a mistake, he should have told Ingram to punch someone in the nuts......Then again at the press conference Chaney would have said he was tired of the moving screens and in response sent his nut buster into the game, he would go on to say he had two other nut busters on the bench. Then he would claim he is an old school ball buster and as such took matters into his own hands (bad pun)." - oleowl with a would've, could've, should've approach to the Chaney suspension.

# "There will be no sympathy for Hodge because he is a starter and one of the better players in the ACC....now if he was a stiff like Bryant it would be a different story." - Templerob opining that the NCAA gives more weight to the level of the inability than to nature of the disability.

# "Hodge and company are petitioning the NCAA to give him an additional two years eligibility. Apparently Hodge's nuts are worth at least twice as much as Bryant's arm." - collapse trying to figure out which part of the anatomy the NCAA values the most.

# "Can't watch women's basketball. Perhaps I could if...the pretty ones were wearing bikinis. But they are not. And in most cases I am glad. Could you imagine Pat Summit prancing up and down the sideline in a thong? Ew." - BlenyOwl pondering options to perk the interest level in women's hoops.

# "We don't know. You should do a little research and tell us. And while you're at it, have a doctor look in your ear to make sure the hole doesn't go all the way through." - collapse in reply to a hairbrain who wanted to know if John Bryant really died from his hairline fracture.

# "It was happy hour." - 99NCAA explaning his behavior after being accused of an unwarranted verbal attack.

# "You giving a lecture on class is like my dog giving a lecture on Einstein's theory of relativity." - TempleBAPittMPA responding to Red&BlackAttack's sarcastic comment "Calling a kid that your coach and player injured a cripple. Classy".

# "That hot looking chick with Orange hair and the jewelry with her name across her chest always passing out stats to the press....she's a looker...and she's gone...." - OwlsFanCuseAlum responding to Papreps's poll question "Who will Temple, in its infinite TU wisdom, fire first?"

# "What happened to the people on unicycles, juggling and picking their noses at the same time?" - BlenyOwl lamenting the declining quality of TUBB halftime shows.

# "One of the 50-50 girls tonight asked me to buy a ticket. Naturally being the great man that I am, I obliged. That is when the trouble started. I opened my P coat to get the moolah out and one of 12 cans of Milwaukee's Best fell out of my inside vest compartments i designed myself(fully equipped with ice packs)...the can, a 12 oz., hit the ground and started shooting up and hit the girls in the thigh. i quickly picked it up, but as i bent over, ice started pouring out....i made my way to the trashcan and threw out my damaged can....figuring I still had eleven i made my way to the top row of the liacouras center...i figured that i go in the corners where it isnt crowded...i left my insulated beer holding vest up there and brung three down with me in my P coat....to make it look less obvious, I brought a cup similiar to what they sell....after my three were done, I returned to get threee more from the cooler apparatus...it was working great!...however i ran into problems late in the first half...I noticed someone found my stash....what was I to do?.....I watched in horror and envy as they drank my Milwaukee's Best by the can....they even took my inside holder....." - BlenyOwl reminding us of the intrinsic beauty of college sports.

# "Go to JP's Take Out Chinese Food.....Nowhere to sit.....Has bullet proof glass you have to pay through.....Not the cleanest place." - BlenyOwl's no-holds-barred (windows barred, yes) restaurant review.

# "Excuse me, does A.H. stand for ass hole or dick head?" - sonny 72 in reply to a poster named A.H.

# "When a man's heart is full of deceit it burns up, dies and a dark shadow falls over his soul. From the ashes of a once great man has risen a curse, a wrong which must be righted. We look to the skies for a vindicator, someone to strike fear into the black hearts of the same men who created him. The battle between good and evil has begun, against an army of shadows comes a dark warrior, the prevailer of good with a voice of silence and a mission of justice.." - Lee Stan's stirring tribute to COOKIE79.

# "If it's raining out and you can find a hole to stand in, you'll be in business." - Death insightfully responding to an inquiry as to any good watering holes within close proximity of the Liacouras Center.

# "Pepper spray into the eyes of Carroll, Stochitias (sp?), and Lee? Maybe stun guns?"....."Rebound, get in Carroll's face, jersey and head"......"And give Carroll a little nirple irple while under his jersey? Why not go the extra mile?" - BlenyOwl, MH55, and heavy2345, respectively, debating a strategy to stop St. Joe's.

# "I am thinking of sneaking in a case of Milwaukee's Best [into the Liacoris Center] and hiding it in the top row. This way I know why my beer tastes skunky and why I have the craps the next day." - BlenyOwl pondering an opposing version of the "born on date" to guarantee freshness.

# "Getting older is the antedote to the horrific experience Temple sports has put us through." - sonny 72 drawing on experience with TU sports to give hope to a future generation.

# "god i wish you could dig up posts from years ago, because i would like to put a book together from all of mine. it would start with the young optimist who could actually see a light at the end of the tunnel to gradually turning into the total fucking nut job who wants to dig his eyeballs out with his fingers everytime he hears the words "Temple Football"." - COOKIE79 reaffirming his faith.

# "Oh my achin' ass, talking to you people on here is like hanging around my house when my wife has all her miserable fucking friends over. We have the estrogen club message board here where everyone hides behind bogus ass screen names and types out all their bitches, gripes, moans, groans and yeast infection frustrations out." - COOKIE79 lashing out in frustration at fellow posters.

# "Always good to tell the truth, my fifth grade nun, Sister Jake Lamotta said." - BlenyOwl justifying his candor on a touchy subject.

# "Reading is better than sitting in front of the TV scratching your ass repeating mornic myths that have been proven false hundred times over." - tony_d on the value of one of the 3 R's (the one that actually begins with 'R', rather than 'W' or 'A').

# "Politicians are the DREGS of socitey Dems and Republicans alike! $$$$ grubbing self fucking serving whore prostitutes is what they are!!!" - Templerob's unbiased analysis of our political system.

# "Don't you go worrying about the facts or reality, Bill Bradshaw is our AD......I feel very confident that nothing is about to happen." - nittanyowl trying to calm our fears as he optimistically looks toward the future.

# "Used to be that basketball was an "oasis", following the horrors of each football season. Our oasis has turned into a CESSPOOL!!" - HooterMan trying to look on the bright side after a disappointing loss to St. Joe's.

# "BB is working on a 10 for 1 with PSU. We get a home game in 2018 which will be played at Beaver Stadium." - '87OWL complimenting Bill Bradshaw for his creativity and foresight. [Nominated by BirdsEyeVU]

# "Your right Biran they should not of thrown beer on him.They should of pissed on his ass." - Templerob demonstrating to Philly Brian that, despite political differences, he has respect for Mayor Street.

# "Offer them free drugs and alchol and sex with the dance team after the game. I am sure that will entice em"...."Have you tried "dropping" (maybe use a low flying traffic helicopter) leaflets on campus to show them where the L center is?" - Templerob and sjdock, respectively, offering suggestions on how to boost student attendance at home BB games.

# "Like having Super Bowl in fucking camden in the middle of october." - Templerob commenting on Jacksonville's ambience.

# "I get gas trying to watch you spell....." - Owl_in_Israel in response to Templerob's inquiry into whether any other Eagle fans get "tearey eyed" when the Kelly kid sings the national anthem.

# "I want a Jewish head coach from Israel. He will build a fence around Philadelphia and it's suburbs and will not let any local kids get away. They will not be recruited by Temple. They will be drafted. We will play in a bowl game every year but only in Florida where our people can come see. The average age of the crowd will be 86. The game will be called the Wheel Chair Bowl." - IBOT commenting on his suggested improvements to TUFB recruiting methods and their potential results.

# "We could get Gibert gotfried as our public address announcer." - BlenyOwl expanding on IBOT's above suggestion for the Kosherization of TUFB.

# "Right now, this fan base is more limp than a 90-year-old guy who has run out of Viagra. Fire Bobby Wallace today and hire someone who they can identify with tomorrow and this fan base will have all of the energy of a 16-year-old boy held hostage in a woman's prison." - hankd69 Putting TUFB fan apathy into terms we can all understand.

# "Whatever the dwindling number of football fans are left may or may not go to heaven but they are definitely in hell on earth." - bergbros2 on the curent state of TUFB.

# "If I woke up and Bill Cosby was playing with my nipple, it might take me a year to come out and tell people too." - COOKIE79 engaging in some wishful commentary on the Cosby groping allegation.

# "Brock's offense is funner than a ho-down in Florence, Alabama ." - Lee Stan in his first episode of STATMAN and RAYMOND.

# "I feel like a battered dog that gets that one kind gesture, like getting to sleep inside once a year." - nittanyowl explaining how he felt after reading the long-awaited Task Force press release. [Nominated by Ricog]

# "TUFB needs to be cleaned out from the back end, a colonic, rather than a visit by a nurse with a spoonful of mashed carrots." - MH55's 'back-door' comment demonstrating his willingness to search every nook and cranny for a solution to TUFB's ills.

# "The game will be played in the Eastern time zone."...."I thought Duke--being in North Carolina and all--was in the Southern Time Zone." - Death and S_Artim respectively, helping clarify the TU / Duke tipoff time.

# "...and I'm watching, wearing my boxers and black socks stuffing myself with peanut butter Tandycakes and warm Pabst." - MH55 describing how he spotted a Temple shirt when he watched 'My 13 year old is having sex with adult men' on the Maury Povich Show.

# "1. There were supposed to blur my face or put a black bar over my eyes....2. She was built like a 14 year old." - nittanyowl clearing up the mystery of how a Temple shirt happened to appear on the show MH55 was watching.

# "I was at the Eagles game yesterday and a Temple game broke out!" - BlenyOwl's succinct commentary on Andy Reid's recent impersonation of Bobby Wallace.

# "Antywane hasn't blocked a shot since he's been born. He's 6-9, and just walks around like he's a host in a movie house. 'Would you like to sit down front? Would you like popcorn? Shit." - Coach Chaney espousing the wisdom gained over 1000 games of coaching. (Nominated by TTTTuuunnniiiitttt)

# "The #1 Bobby Wallace is hard to pass up. If we're going to have a guy acting like he's dead on the sidelines, he might as well be." - MH55 expressing his opinion on which Bobby Wallace should coach next year. ( LINK to full thread by request of COOKIE79)

# "It's all about the ass.......if the team starts winning, no matter who they play, the groupie young chicks will start hanging around the stadium, by the hundreds." - COOKIE79 contributing to a cerebral discussion on how to boost TUFB attendance.[Nominated by Ricog]

# "After that showing I feel like following Temple football is a lot like being on an airplane that's lost one of its engines. We're picking up speed in our descent, one co-pilot (Adamany) is dead, the other (BB) is frozen and BW is frantically flicking every switch in arms reach trying to stabilize our course." - an excerpt from Hoots_a_lot "airing" out his frustrations. ( LINK to full text - nominated by SalTheOwl )

# "Why not Joe Montana or Dan Marino, they've got "name". Seriously, lets get serious. I'd vote for getting Pop Warner's DNA and clone PW II." - sjdock72 on the suggestion of trying to get Ron Jaworski to be TU's new FB coach.

# "sjdock, please go away, unless you have something.....to add on Temple sports. You're basically just a waste of other people's time here, much more so than the football program itself." - Owl_Observer pointing out that the slimey rock keeping TU football down is just a wee bit above the one sjdock crawled out from under.

# "Just remember to hide your Temple paraphrenalia in the trunk, along with the liquor and any other important stuff you don't want stolen." - S_Artim imploring us to protect the things we cherish. (Surprisingly, Papreps did NOT reply by asking "How much liquor will the trunk hold?")

# "Temple has a DC-Baltimore area pre-game alumni tailgate in lot No. 11-B. Hopefully this won't serve as a tipoff to the College Park vandals looking to slash tires and steal stuff." - S_Artim issuing an invitation....with limitations.

# "One win and you guys think you are a cross between the 62 Packers and the 85 Bears. The only reason that you guys might have some success is that you have a VU guy as AD to show you chowderheads what the hell is going on." - Forever Football defending VU against a cocky RU poster. [Nominated by Ricog]

# "we certainly set ourselves up for all of the knucklehead, ignorant wwf nfl media to take a shot at us......." - TUPSUBill naively suggesting that the knucklehead, ignorant WWF / NFL media NEED a reason to take a shot at TU.

# "could the reason for our poor local recruiting also be attributed to the fact that BW isn't a Philly guy?..........or the fact that the administration doesn't know their head from the ass when it comes to athletics?" - Owlfan...Jersey in a discussion of the problems with temple athletics.

# "30-0 at halftime. I left good music to see this? I decide to leave. As I am walking out of the stadium, I hold up my (bluegrass festival) wrist band and show it to a stadium official. I ask, "Do you know what this is?" He says, "No." I' say "It's a weekend pass from the state mental hospital. You have to be 'effen' nuts to come here to see this sh*t." True story.." - FishPro

# "if we had played UVA hard, and gotten worn down at the end of the third quarter, I would be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Saturday just looked like the tunnel. Dark, damp, foreboding, with little droplets of water near the supporting timbers, forecasting an ugly future.....I have little confidence that this coaching staff can plan its way to the next subway stop, yet alone a football victory." - FishPro optimistically looking ahead to the rest of the season.

# "Yeah, we play 5 ACC teams, and on paper it looks exciting, but 11 Saturdays of losing 44-14 will drive people away faster than a chemical spill at the nature center." - FishPro equally optimistic as he looks ahead to 2005.

# "We stunk Saturday--it doesn't matter if someone else stunk worse." - TempleBAPittMPA regarding the inappropriatness of gloating over the Orange's worse beating than the Owls.

# "I'm ashamed of my alma mater and their awful effort. When these two meet, it may get very ugly." - OwlsFanCuseAlum sensing the futility of the upcoming TU/SU clusterfuck*.
* Credit: COOKIE79

# "just vommited and i don;t feel better...damn." - Victory engineer doing some general venting....literally.

# "The degree of sustained garbage when mediocrity is viewed as an improvement is absoluely mind numbing."...."If we had any more "perspective", we would be in a collective padded cell begging the nurse for more haldol." - bergbros2 and PM_TU98, respectively, in response to Owl_Observer's suggestion that TUFB fans "Need some perspective". [**An Owlscoop HOF Double-Header**]

# "If this team can be the 1A version of the Washington Generals and play every game on the road as the designated 1A patsy to turn a profit, so be it." - bergbros2 masking his TUFB frustration with a practical suggestion.

# "Does hooked on phonics accept charitable donations?" - TU Grad in response to sjdock72's suggestion that, rather than go to the game at Maryland, he make a contribution to a more worthy charitable institution because "This place obviously just waste it away." [Nominated by Jerseyjoe027]

# "It really is this simple: We stink. Again." - McAdoo cutting to the chase in a discussion as to the possible explanations for the poor attendance at the home opener.

# "Just once I'd like to see this guy say, "I must be a complete and utter asshole for not calling a non-shotgun quarterback sneak with a 6-2, 250 pound quarterback on two third-and-ones." - Papreps' response to Bobby Wallace, after losing the opener 44-14, saying "We played well" in a TV interview.

# "If losing does not embarrass you is there any amount of money, if given to you, that would persuade you to quit your job tomorrow and if so how much money would loyal supporters of the football program have to raise to see this dream come to fruition?" - TU Grad' s contributuion to "Questions for Coach Wallace".

# "Steve Spurrier is waiting by the phone for the call from Adamany. You can return to your rubber room now." - negativeh in response to Templerob's suggestion that TU get a big time coach.

# "Looks like Coach Pasqualoni is having some problems with his secondary." - BirdsEyeVU grossly overstating the obvious after pointing out that the Orange gave up 5 passing TDs in their opening 51-0 trouncing by Purdue.

# "A screen play...sheer brilliance by Bobby Wallace...he should wear a freaking ski mask on the sidelines...BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN STEALING MONEY FROM TEMPLE FOR YEARS." - owlaboutit critiquing Coach Wallace's play calling after the 2004 opening loss to UVA.

# "Survival is the operative word. I have no illusions that BW will make it hapen. He is the undertaker. The funeral is in January." - FishPro after the 2004 opening loss to UVA.

# "IBOT is the typical broken down Russian consumer. He's happy just to have a half loaf of stale pumpernickle and a crock of watery potato soup which is basically what he's been getting for his TUFB money but, it's all he knows so it's all he expects." - MH55 as part of his comparison of the TUFB board to the 1950' Soviet Union. (Click HERE for the full post, which was added by overwhelming popular demand)

# "if it ever got to fighting in the parking lot, MH55 would stop throwing chairs at Rick to help him chuck crap at VT, Rutgers, U-Conn, etc." - nittanyowl commenting on how we all have a higher common calling.

# "ahhh whatever fuck it..... " - COOKIE79 after a long and heartfelt soliloquy of the frustrations all Owl fans can all relate to so well.

# "People mingled and conversed. There was coffee and cake in the kitchen. Then at the end of the night, we all took turns laying in stone coffin, reciting our sexual histories." - nittanyowl describing the get together at coach Wallace's for the practice field contributors.

# "Your image has a lot to do with your mindset....if you look like a bunch of clusterfuck retarded cartoon characters somewhere in the back of your mind your not taking yourself seriously." - COOKIE79 on the value of image.

# "jingoistic jarheads with a license to broadcast" - S_Artim on the WIP Broadcast team.

# "Do you think little green men want to listen to Ange and Howard argue about Andy Reid's playcalling for the next 9 months all the way back to Alpha Centauri humming along at warp 6?" - PM_TU98 on the same subject.

# "How did you know about the corned beef rolls?.....I saw them - or what remained of them - on the road. I noticed also that the lemon curd tart had sustained some superficial damage." - Tannhauser on hallucinogens (not on the subject of hallucinogens....actually ON hallucinogens).

# "(215) 204-8499 gets you to the ticket office." - MissionMan losing patience with a new RU poster inquiring about the precise location of his seat at the LC.

# "How big is the bar?" - Papreps on Cartucci's after reading a nice review about its unique ambiance.

# "Even if you did get the WIP signal, it's still possible for you not to hear the comments made if you don't have the radio on at the time." - Death overstating the obvious.

# "I dont mean to interupt all this fun but can we change the game to "name that dissapointment." - TTTTuu...iitttt in frustration during "Name That Owl".

# "This thread is like watching two 95 pound weaklings argue over who is stronger." - 1993RC on a thread that was a pissing match between TU and RU about attendance.

# "The film clip I saw may just have been an excerpt of a larger performance, but the first thing I could think of is "bi-polar".....I'm not sure I'd want someone like that at the nuclear switch." - TempleBAPittMPA on Howard Dean.

# "While we're on the subject of rich kids, I guess all schools that have a half court shot contest awards the winner with a 2 year lease on a Range Rover" - Owlfan...Jersey on Villanova.

# "Feb 5th also doesn't work since it's garbage night in Easton." - SalTheOwl on coordinating a date for the New Recruits Meeting.

# "" 80 year old former pop start Prince was seen performing at Villanova University today. His wheelchair and oxygen mask prevented him from dancing the way he once did but that did not stop the Villanova faithful from partying down to the singer's hit 'tonight were gonna party like it's 1999'." - lateowl in a futuristic look at the celebration of Villanova's next NCAA tournament bid.

# "In Chicago, your dead ancestors can vote as well" - Waffletown on the Democratic Primary.

# "My transcripts couldn't possibly do justice to the scene, the man was positively scary." - Nightb...Denver on Jim Mora.

# "The only real question is who is the biggest know-nothing dickhead in our town: Smith, Eskin or Fredericks." - Tempmike on Philly Media.

# "We don't need to hear additional people such as yourself bashing the school or the program. We get enough of that crap from the Philadelphia media." - Owlfan...Jersey in retort to a critical RU poster.

# "Occasionally, I go over to the WVA board and make a crack about dental deficiencies and corncob pipes but I don't go on about it for weeks." - MH55 on the value of moderation.

# "He's not a bad player when he and the ball happen to meet." - MissionMan expressing his chagin at a certain TU hoopster.

# "Somebody tell me what the point of that question was." - TempleBAPittMPA in response to a question as to who is/was the best TU Hispanic player.

# "Damn...you guys really know your basketball. It doesn't matter who is right or wrong. That was a long-winded but great dialog." - McAdoo on the Noveleque writings of Tytonid and Shawn Pastor on the thread "Hawkins CBS Sportsline... Link".

# "I'll continue to respond to your stupidity until my sorrow for you exceeds your false bravado and hateful statements." - tony_d on sjdock72.

# "HA HA !! LOL LOL ! OWLPOOP- ...... HA HA LOL LOL!!!!! ...... ROTLMAO!!!! Booh YAH!" - BearcatBobby on any and all subjects.

# "This guy is a dunderhead, who massquerades as a sports commentator." - coolhandred on Al Morganti.