In honor of College Football Live and dreamy Jesse Palmer reentering my life this week I decided to highlight the top Inter-Conference Games of ‘08. I’ve excluded Ohio State at USC for two reasons: 1) I have made it blatantly clear that I think that the Big Ten should be considered a mid major, and 2) I think we’ll have to choke down enough hype leading to that game without me adding to it.The games I’m highlighting also exclude traditional inter-conference rivalries that occur at the end of the season. Sorry Georgia Tech fans.
6) Illinois v Missouri (St. Louis, MO) August 30th
What Makes This Game Good: Missouri is coming off a solid 12-2 season. They destroyed Arkansas 38-7 in their bowl game. And they return starting QB and Heisman hopeful Chase Daniel, who threw for over 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns last year.
Illinois and the Fighting Zookers went to the Rose Bowl last year. They return QB Juice Williams. He’s more of a threat with his legs than his arm at this point in his career, but the potential for a breakout season though the air still exists.
Need to Know Fact: These teams played last year with Missouri winning 40-34.
Key Matchup: The running back position. Going into this season Missouri loses Tony Temple who ran for over 1,000 yards and 12 TDs and Illinois loses starting RB Rashard Mendenhall who ran for over 1,600 yards and 17 TDs. Which team will get the balance in the run game to help out the guys behind center?
Booth’s Prediction: I think this game comes down to QB play. Missouri.
As far as we’re concerned Will Ferrell’s legacy will be his contributions to our everyday vernacular. The guy has spent his career introducing line after line for dudes like us to recycle when the opportune time presents itself.
So with Step Brothers opening this week — and growing on us despite our current reservations with regards to Will’s overexposure — we decided to log our all-time favorite Will Ferrell lines. We’re pretty sure writers had nothing to do with these, the majority being ad-libbed.
The Ron Burgundy Lines
We’re certain Will made Anchorman solely to give a generation of young men a lifetime’s supply of reusable lines…
“I’m kind of a big deal. People know me.” - A little played in 2008, but there’s no denying the pure awesomeness. Best used on chicks in 2004, before they realized it was from a movie.
“A whale’s vagina.” - Classic response for when anyone asks what a foreign word or geographic name means.
“I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch.” - Best used after your first sip of scotch, if you rarely drink scotch.
“Agree to disagree.” (in Burgundy voice) - Last resort comment when losing an argument with your girlfriend. READ MORE >>
This ESPYs promo is a couple weeks old but since we refuse to have anything to do with the ESPYs — outside of mocking them, of course — we’re just getting around to it.
NBC should seriously consider scrapping the Jimmy Fallon idea and hiring Oden to take over for Conan. We’d stay up every night.
WWI. And WWII…School with McCain…Ha. Oden looks old. Self-deprecation is the best.
Gibbs12 posted this recently and we had to pass it along solely for the Alex Trebek moment in the middle. We’re going to figure out a way to make that our ring tone.
Anna Rawson is the new biscuit on the LPGA tour. Interestingly enough, she’s also one of the few biscuits on the LPGA tour. She recently did an interview with Oob Golf (via Hot Clicks) and discussed her love for college football, the Korean clique on tour, hiring her hot college roommate to be her caddy, and whether she’d prefer to win an LPGA tournament or make the cover of the SI swimsuit issue.
Did we mention she’s also Australian and part-times as a model? Yeah, we pretty much love her. We’d definitely be willing to not cheat on her for at least a month.
