football Stories - Sippin' On Purple
The Metamorphosis
Yeah, yeah, yeah, enjoy the first and last Mike Kafka pun in the history of this blog. I needed to have at least one, and I needed to do it fast. Unless dude gets arrested, and I have to bust out "The...
One Less Day til Football Season, Post 1: Quarterback
As previously noted, it was a truly terrible call on my part starting a blog in mid-June, the exact dead point of any college's sports calendar, but I guess you could think about it as me having a few...
USA! USA!
Woooooo!So, there's a reason for the flags. This summer, starting tomorrow, three of our boys in purple will be representing the red, white, and blue: football pre-froshes John Plasencia and Brian Smi...
Pat Fitzgerald will be our coach until 2015
My reaction:
One Less Day til Football Season, Post 3: Wide Receivers.
Another day another post. I wondered what I would do with myself with a job that gets off at 2 PM even though my friends generally don't get off until 5, and the answer is "start an overwhelmingly tho...
One Less Day til Football Season, Post 4: O-Line
Probably should start calling this "One Less Week" cuz of the frequency I've been doin em, but, hey.There's a line between being a football expert and being a guy who knows a lot about football. I, si...
One Less Day Til Football Season, Post 5: Superbacks
Pat Fitzgerald calls them "super players who do super things." Every other college football in the nation "tight ends and fullbacks." I call them "the topic of today's post, cuz I've covered every pla...
Here's to Coach Fitz.
Today, as you probably done heard, is Pat Fitzgerald's big day. Our coach is getting inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame for his service to NU as a linebacker back in 1995-96, when, as you...
John Plasencia named World's Best Tight End
OK, not actually true. Technically, Plasencia is just the World's Greatest Tight End in the World under the age of 19 after being named to the IFAF Junior World Cup all-tournament team, but, hey, we'l...
1LDTFS, Post 7: Defensive End
Why did I do two seperate posts about the defensive line, but only one about the offensive? I wish I knew. Sorry bout the double standard, offensive linemen. Days Left Til Football: 46. (Woah, under ...
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