Nick Millis

Apparently Baraboo HS has banned the “U.S.A.” cheer from being used by their students, because to them it means “U Suck Ass”. Now I doubt that they thought of this ingenious cheer, but they must grow ‘em real smart-like in Baraboo.

But many parents, students and coaches say that the ban has had an unfortunate effort on school spirit. One parent said the stands were disconcertingly quiet at a recent boy’s basketball game.

“It’s really sad because we went to the game on Monday night and the students never peeped the entire time,” she said. “Truly, they’ve been having more fun when they’re not in their home gym because they can cheer.”

I haven’t quite decided who is dumber here: the kids or the parents. First of all, why would you cheer “U.S.A.” for a high school game? I guess if you meant it as U Suck Ass, you probably would. But then you have the parents, who apprently have no problem with their kids yelling this uber-creative cheer. “Man dad, they sure sucked ass tonight.” “Yes, Johnny, they sure did.” Then again, these are the same kids that seemingly have only one cheer and clearly have no school spirit since they “never peeped” at the last game on Monday. Kind of reminds of a little dictatorship I like to call The First Regin of Hornby.

I don’t want to post every commercial I see, but I just couldn’t pass this up.

Taco meat.

If you play me and my partner on Live in NCAA, take Louisville, put Michael Bush in at QB (who is apparently no worse than All-Everything Brian Brohm), go for a 2-point conversion after every TD (unsuccessfully), and then proceed to onside kick it no matter the situation, you should be fatally injured. Then again, we could let you get up by 11 with two minutes left, have you start talking shit, and then beat you. One of the two would probably work.

On NFL Live today, they were talking about the Saints and how unlikely their run has been this year in the sense that they are lucky to have the staff that they do. They mentioned the fact that everyone thought the Texans were going to draft Reggie Bush but did not, that Nick Saban of the Dolphins wanted Drew Brees at QB but the team doctors wouldn’t clear him, and that Sean Payton was a finalist for Head Coach in Green Bay, and would’ve probably taken the job had it been offered. I don’t have that big of a problem with Mike McCarthy, but it sure would’ve been nice to have Payton roaming the sidelines. That being said, here is a pretty good article from Page 2 on ESPN pretty much about this very idea.

Here’s my favorite part of the article.

Preposterous Punt Watch: “Now the Cowboys are forced to punt,” Al Michaels pronounced as Dallas faced fourth-and-4 on the Seattle 40, trailing 3-0. They’re not forced to punt. The idea that not punting on fourth down is some wild, desperate gamble infects the very vocabulary of football. The average NFL play gains about 5 yards; had Dallas gone for it, success was a strong possibility. Instead, punt into the end zone for a measly net of 20 yards in field position.