Posted by NoleCC

By Bill Kristoph

Another home loss. Another poor showing of unity by FSU fans. Another oddly-called offensive game. Another solid second-half performance by the banged up defense. Seminole fans had better realize that the problems with FSU football are real, and they won’t change any time soon. Welcome to the era of loyalty and golden years for Coach Bobby Bowden. The ‘Noles are at the bottom of the Atlantic Division, and their only chance of being on top is to imitate the chimps in the Careerbuilder.com commercial. (Hint: It’s linked to their website just for you Jeffery.)

I’m not angry as a fan anymore. I’ve grown up as a Jets fan and Mets fan, so part of me feels that a lot of ‘Noles are just spoiled and whiney, but watching a football dynasty continue to fall is painful. On top of that, the black uniforms made FSU look like a high school team. On second thought, that’s appropriate. Someone should tell Nike that it is very hard to read garnet numbers on a black jersey from the stands.

Anyway, it’s on to better and brighter topics from the B.C. game…

We had an invasion of Oregon Ducks (above) in my section. What is up with that? Did these guys take a wrong turn somewhere? On top of that, a young woman next to them was wearing garnet fishnet stockings with her skirt and top. I wouldn’t recommend that to any other ladies out there, especially when it’s 85 degrees. Perhaps the Ducks invaded because the proposed “blackout” would have made them highly visible. As you can see from the picture it failed miserably aside from the student section. Or, maybe it’s a political statement about FSU football being a dead duck. Either way, it was strange.

On top of that, the FSU band decided to play karoke favorites at halftime. I’ve spent a couple of Saturdays at different karaoke places in Tallahassee, and I’ve never heard anyone sing any of the choices the band made: Rock ‘N’ Roll All Nite, You Give Love A Bad Name and Sweet Caroline. It’s bad enough to go out knowing I’m going to hear bad singing, but when one of the Eastern Michigan crew that sometimes sits with me broke out with her own version of Sweet Caroline, I had to cringe. No, Denise’s singing wasn’t all that bad, (it went something to the effect of Sweeeeeeet Carrrrrolineeee… hmm hmmm hmmm… you uh… hmm ::pause:: hmmm ::pause:: hmm hmm Sweeeeeet Carrrrrrolineeeeee) but suddenly I felt like I was no longer in Doak Campbell Stadium and was in some nightmare, stranded in Chestnut Hill listening to B.C.’s rendition of the song. Hey band, next time don’t pick anything that is a tradition of the opposing team. Mmmkay? And to give a bit of credit to EMU crew, they pointed out it might have been a bright idea to put the words up on the videoboard while the band was playing.

In tailgating food news… the Boston Brown Bread I made went over well. It will be heading into the Thanksgiving tradition I liked it so much. Too bad I forgot some sort of sweet butter.

And finally… one positive note. FSU went out of their way to honor the Seminole tribe. Even if the FSU black jerseys are a Nike ploy to make some extra cash from an alternate uniform. One member of the tribe, a student at FSU, was given Chief Osceola’s Spear to plunge into the midfield logo before the game. It’s a rare event that someone other than Osceola does that, and it was great to see an actual Seminole Tribe Member do it. Hopefully more events and recognition like this can be created. Anyone associated with FSU owes it to the Seminole Tribe for continued support of the use of their name.

One other FYI, the Maryland game is set for 7pm on ESPN2 next weekend.