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Title: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 12:27:23 PM
That's right, but not on these boards. We've got Wisconsin vs. Nebraska today? Who wins, y''all? (and be careful with your answers!)  :fuelfire: :tongue:
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 12:29:15 PM
Oh now, Revolution.

You know how it's going to end.

What time does the game start?
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 12:31:47 PM
7pm central time. Our unis we're using for the game are ugly as hell in my opinion, but that won't stop us from getting out of our slump, and winning. :p
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 12:35:36 PM
Wisconsin vs. Nebraska... winner? fans of mediocre football  :fuelfire:
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 12:36:41 PM
7pm central time. Our unis we're using for the game are ugly as hell in my opinion, but that won't stop us from getting out of our slump, and winning. :p

Okay, thanks.

For some reason, I thought it was an afternoon game.  Maybe it'd been scheduled that way, and updated, but I didn't see it updated.  I dunno.  This happens a lot.

There's still much resentment down here in Nebraska, about the way the effete easterners are trying to make the Nebraska-Iowa game into a "rivalry."  Iowa ain't nothing, never has been.  It's like they were looking at a map, and said, "oh, look, Nebraska and Iowa are right next door to each other, and so they're two peas in a pod, like each other, and so they'd be good rivals."

Bah humbug.

Iowa doesn't resemble Nebraska any more than Bolivia does.

The majority fan sentiment in Nebraska is that Wisconsin evolve as our main rival.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 12:38:27 PM
GOOD!  :-) I think everyone in the Big 10 are rivals, but that's just my opinion. Everyone knows the crap teams though, so those kind of rivalries are laughable.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 12:38:42 PM
Wisconsin vs. Nebraska... winner? fans of mediocre football  :fuelfire:

Oh now.

Slumps happen.

Good things don't go on forever.

Having a good run from 1887 until 2003, it was about time Nebraska went into a temporary slump.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 04:37:09 PM
Scores thus far (4:45 p.m. central time) on games that matter:

Indiana 29, Northwestern 44, final
Minnesota 13, Iowa 31, final
Penn State 35, Illinois 7, final
Marshall 21, Purdue 42, third quarter
Ohio State 7, Michigan 6, third quarter

Baylor 63, West Virginia 70, final

Stanford 13, Washington 17, final
Arizona State 17, California 7, second quarter

Arkansas 10, Texas A & M 58, final
Missouri 21, Central Florida 16, final
Tennessee 30, Georgia 30, halftime
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 29, 2012, 04:46:50 PM
Sorry, Rev--in this one, I've got to go with frank.  He's gradually turned me into a Nebraska football fan, Julius Caesar Watts notwithstanding.  (Besides, in 1983, Wisconsin knocked my alma mater out of the NCAA D-I Hockey tournament. :fuelfire: I was a freshman at the time.)
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 05:39:00 PM
Oh now.

Slumps happen.

Good things don't go on forever.

Having a good run from 1887 until 2003, it was about time Nebraska went into a temporary slump.

It wouldnt be trash talk if I didnt kick you while yall are down.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 06:02:44 PM
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Baylor 63, West Virginia 70, final

Man, talk about no defense...

Oh, and the Badgers/Huskers are both 3-3 since meeting. Something's gotta give tonight.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 06:06:31 PM
Scores thus far (6:00 p.m. central time) on games that matter:

Marshall 41, Purdue 51, final
Ohio State 17, Michigan State 16, final

Arizona State 20, California 17, fourth quarter
UCLA 14, Colorado 7, second quarter

Tennessee 44, Georgia 51, fourth quarter

The most important game of the day doesn't start until 7:00 p.m. central time; sorry.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 07:16:53 PM
I was at the local VFW Club picking up Saturday supper, and while waiting for the cashier to give me my change, I happened to catch a glimpse of the television, seeing what was probably a replay of something in the Ohio State-Michigan State game; I guess the winning touchdown.

Awesome.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 07:26:03 PM
Latest scores, circa 7:30 p.m. central time:

Wisconsin 0, Nebraska 0, first quarter

Texas Christian 14, Southern Methodist 7, second quarter
Texas Tech 0, Iowa State 7, second quarter
Texas 14, Oklahoma State 7, first quarter

Arizona State 27, California 17, final
Stanford 13, Washington 17, final
UCLA 21, Colorado 7, third quarter

Tennessee 44, Georgia 51, final

Towson 9, Louisiana State 7, second quarter
South Carolina 7, Kentucky 17, second quarter



Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 07:29:44 PM
Wisconsin 7, Nebraska 0, first quarter
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 07:30:11 PM
Latest scores, circa 7:30 p.m. central time:
Texas 14, Oklahoma State 7, first quarter

2 minutes later
Texas 21, OkSt 14

the big 12 has given up on playing defense
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 07:38:20 PM
Wisconsin 14, Nebraska 0, first quarter.

I wonder what's going on.

Osborne retired yesterday.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 07:41:27 PM
Wisconsin 14, Nebraska 3, first quarter.

Something's going on.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 07:50:29 PM
The guy in the cubicle must be making nice-nice with a secretary in the office, instead of tending to business.

For these "live scoreboards" on the internet, what they have is guys sitting in cubicles, each watching a different game on television, and punching the numbers into the web-site as they happen.

Especially during evening games, sometimes it's a long time before the guy gets back to punching in the numbers.

"When the cat's away, the mice will play....."

Leaving all the rest of us wondering what's going on.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 07:56:15 PM
I have to say that unlike a certain quality of individual Nebraskans, the Nebraska football team itself has never been a good "come-back team."

If the score's Wisconsin 21, Nebraska 3 at the end of this first quarter, game's over.  It's done.  Wisconsin's won.

Despite its greatness on the gridiron, that's always always always been Nebraska's weakness.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:03:02 PM
The best come-back I ever saw, which certainly has to rank as one of the most spectacular outcomes in the history of college football, was near the end of the Ohio State-UCLA game, in either 1978 or 1979; I forget which.

By fortuitous random chance, that game was one of only perhaps a dozen college football games I'd ever watched in their entirety, from start to finish.

UCLA was ahead of Ohio State by six (I think it was six), with only about a minute to go in the game.

Ohio State got the football way back at its 5- or 10-yard line.

Well, there was only about a minute to go; it looked as if UCLA had already won.

The Ohio State quarterback, Art Schlichter, unerringly threw pass after pass after pass, connecting every single time.

I never in my life saw such perfection in passing.

Ohio State won that game.

I then decided Art Schlichter had to be the best, the greatest, college football player of all time.

Well, he probably was, college.  But then he turned pro, and got all corrupted.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 08:05:03 PM
I have to say that unlike a certain quality of individual Nebraskans, the Nebraska football team itself has never been a good "come-back team."

If the score's Wisconsin 21, Nebraska 3 at the end of this first quarter, game's over.  It's done.  Wisconsin's won.

Despite its greatness on the gridiron, that's always always always been Nebraska's weakness.

Wisc up 20-3 now
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:07:31 PM
Wisc up 20-3 now

But this is the second quarter, not the first.

If Wisconsin scores one more time, a touch-down, it's over, done, finished.  Wisconsin can celebrate.

If Wisconsin scores one more time, a field goal, it's sort of iffy, but the odds are 90% that it's over.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:09:27 PM
The NCAA scoreboard still shows Wisconsin 14, Nebraska 3.

The guy in the cubicle who's supposed to be punching in the numbers isn't doing his job.

He's probably bouncing around on the carpet with a secretary.

Either that, or partaking of Jim Beam from a drawer in his desk.

These guys really need to have the boss hang around after hours, to be sure they do their job.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:15:04 PM
Well, Hell.

The guy who's supposed to be punching the numbers into the internet scoreboard must be in the men's room now, puffing on the wacky-weed.

This is really a pain; he's supposed to be in his cubicle watching it on television and punching in the numbers as they happen.

And I assume he's well-paid for doing that.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 08:18:05 PM
Well, Hell.

The guy who's supposed to be punching the numbers into the internet scoreboard must be in the men's room now, puffing on the wacky-weed.

This is really a pain; he's supposed to be in his cubicle watching it on television and punching in the numbers as they happen.

And I assume he's well-paid for doing that.

What site are you going to for the scoreboard? ESPN does it pretty much instantly
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:19:12 PM
You know, when these internet scoreboards first came into being, I thought they'd be the greatest thing since the invention of sliced bread.

Because I'm deaf, I can't hear a game on the radio.  True, there's television, but trust me, it's very awkward, and not worth it.

So in the past, I used to just wait until the Sunday newspapers arrived the next morning, to learn who won, and what happened.

Well then, internet scoreboards came along, promising instant, up-to-the-minute updates as things happened.

Yeah, right.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:21:13 PM
What site are you going to for the scoreboard? ESPN does it pretty much instantly

I'm using FoxSports.

I used ESPN two years ago.

Every year, I try a different site, hoping to find one that delivers.

ESPN wasn't delivering two years ago, nor was CBS last year.

And the year before that.....

These guys in those cubicles really need to be supervised, watched over, and yelled at if they're not doing their job.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:22:18 PM
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/gamecast?gameId=322730158

Top of the page, Frank. Just click on WISC vs NEB, and you've got live updates.

I'm happy with what I see from Bucky tonight, but it ain't time to celebrate yet. Whole half to go.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 08:23:10 PM
20-10, Nebraska starting a comback
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:24:07 PM
http://espn.go.com/

Top of the page, Frank. Just click on WISC vs NEB, and you've got live updates.

I'm happy with what I see from Bucky tonight, but it ain't time to celebrate yet. Whole half to go.

Okay, I'll try that one again, but two years ago.....

Anyway, ESPN shows 4:10 to go in the half; FoxSports is still showing 11:50 to go in the half.

Damn those guys.

It seems an easy job, and they're probably well paid for it.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:26:08 PM
Uh uh.

ESPN has a glaring error.

They show Michigan State having beaten Ohio State.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:26:22 PM
Sorry. THIS (http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/gamecast?gameId=322730158) link will take you directly to it. It shows 3:11 to go in the half.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:27:32 PM
Damn.

Do these internet scoreboard companies hire dyslexics or illiterates or skid-row bums or primitives to punch in the numbers?
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:28:13 PM
Uh uh.

ESPN has a glaring error.

They show Michigan State having beaten Ohio State.

That is quite a faux pas. They'll most likely fix it by tomorrow. :lmao:
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 08:30:44 PM
Uh uh.

ESPN has a glaring error.

They show Michigan State having beaten Ohio State.

Not on my screen, the internet must hate you

(http://imageshack.us/a/img685/5138/scorep.jpg)
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:32:21 PM
That is quite a faux pas. They'll most likely fix it by tomorrow. :lmao:

Near the end of the season, it gets really bad.

They promise a "live up-to-date" scoreboard, for example, on the weekend Army-Navy's the only college football game scheduled.

One still has to wait for the Sunday newspapers to come in the morning, because the guy in the cubicle's gone to a casino with his hottie, thinking because it's only one game, and usually a pretty boring one at that, nobody's going to want up-to-the-minute scores on it.

It's also bad during late-night games, such as those on the west coast.

They're doing their job only during the first half of a Saturday afternoon, and then they start tapering off.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:33:48 PM
Not on my screen, the internet must hate you

(http://imageshack.us/a/img685/5138/scorep.jpg)

Ooops.  My bad.

I was seeing the "14" and the "20" as the scores.

Damn.

Sorry.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:34:49 PM
I think you should go beat the shit out of the man in the cubicle, Frank. It's the only solution.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:35:13 PM
Well now, I immediately take that apology back.

It shows exactly what I see it showing, cutting off the score on the right side.

20-14.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:36:41 PM
I'm digging for "paint" on this computer--it's new, so I can screen-capture what I see.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:38:20 PM
My link now shows :44 in the 2nd.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:39:22 PM
My link now shows :44 in the 2nd.

Mine shows :44 too.

But damn, I'm not finding paint in this computer.

I know it's here.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BigTex on September 29, 2012, 08:39:47 PM
Well now, I immediately take that apology back.

It shows exactly what I see it showing, cutting off the score on the right side.

20-14.

the 20 and 14 are their rankings
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:40:13 PM
Mine shows :44 too.

But damn, I'm not finding paint in this computer.

I know it's here.

So you're not using the ESPN one? Did the guy get back to his cubicle then?
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:42:10 PM
Son of a...! He MISSED the FG!
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:42:57 PM
So you're not using the ESPN one? Did the guy get back to his cubicle then?

No, I'm on ESPN.

The guy at FoxSports must be passed out at his desk now.

I found Paint, and am working on photbucketing right now.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:47:12 PM
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/dummiedestroyer/score.jpg)

So, one can see it gives the impression the final score was 14-20; one doesn't at first notice part of the right-hand side's been clipped off.

Oh well.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 08:53:31 PM
You aren't alone in your thinking. I didn't consider ranks either until something was said.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 08:55:16 PM
You aren't alone in your thinking. I didn't consider ranks either until something was said.

My apologies about the Paint brouhuahua.

I've had this new computer set up for a few days, but then I take my time customizing it, a couple of weeks or something, and I hadn't gotten around to finding Paint yet.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 09:08:09 PM
Third quarter now underway.

If Wisconsin scores first, game over.  No Rose Bowl for the Cornhuskers.

If Nebraska scores first, it's going to be a l-o-o-o-o-o-n-g game.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 09:09:52 PM
Oh by the way, I just saw on my FB that one of the bars in Madison is offering Free Jell-o shots with every Badger TD. I personally while drinking never had Jell-o shots. Never had the desire to mix a kiddie dessert with booze. As my father would say, "That's amateur hour. If you're gonna drink, just drink."

What I wos wondering is how crocked many of them are going to get. Lol. There's still a lot of game left, very probably another TD or two, and I doubt all the patrons are doing is waiting for scores to drink.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 09:16:21 PM
Touchdown, Wisconsin.

Game's over.

I could never figure that out.

"Come-backs" are a natural characteristic of individual Nebraskans; Hell, my own life is a litany of bad starts but good finishes.

But the football team's never had it.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 09:22:41 PM
Wisconsin 27, Nebraska 17, third quarter
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 09:36:39 PM
Wisconsin 27, Nebraska 23, third quarter.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 09:37:39 PM
Point-after successful.

Wisconsin 27, Nebraska 24.

I must say this year's ESPN is the best internet scoreboard I've seen since they were first invented.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 29, 2012, 09:47:14 PM
Wisconsin 27, Nebraska 27, third quarter
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: Revolution on September 29, 2012, 10:37:47 PM
20 unanswered points, and that's how it ends. Damn. Just damn...
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 30, 2012, 05:23:03 AM
Touchdown, Wisconsin.

Game's over.

I could never figure that out.

"Come-backs" are a natural characteristic of individual Nebraskans; Hell, my own life is a litany of bad starts but good finishes.

But the football team's never had it.

I guess the Nebraska football team finally got it, Coach.
Title: Re: Revolution vs Franksolich
Post by: franksolich on September 30, 2012, 05:24:32 AM
Well, I was surprised when I woke up this morning.

Wisconsin 27, Nebraska 30, final.

Based upon the internet scoreboard only, which shows scores and possession of the ball, when I went to bed circa 10:15 p.m., it looked to me as if Nebraska had run out of steam--we do do that, sometimes as early as mid-way through the first quarter--and the final score was bound to be Wisconsin 35, Nebraska 27, or even Wisconsin 42, Nebraska 27.

So I'm surprised, but not nearly as happy as I'd be in the past.