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Trojans & Bears ready to RUuUMmmBLE!

When heading off into a big game, every football player knows there is a spot you need to touch before you enter the field… at Florida it is a Gator and the Trojans have their own. Sooooo, why shouldn’t the crazy football fans in our family have the same opportunity!     

 

Our ‘touchstone’ is a sign “Trojans Forever”.

Trojans Forever

 

 This weekend is going to be the Southern California Trojan’s biggest Challenge. This weekend they face the Bears of California, Berkeley. Berkeley? Yep, they’ve come a long way from the left leaning, protesting, burning bras ( small ones),  and pot smoking days of the 60’s. However, these Bears are not to be underestimated.

 

 However, ‘bear meat’ is in season and it is unusually sweet.

 

 

 Here’s a few official and unoffical observations:      

Maualuga
Bears will be Trojans Toughest test ( Daily Trojan)
Pete Carroll & Jeff Tedford Talk
with ROSE Bowl on the Line
BEAR Coach: Jeff Tedford’s perspective
Cal Football Fan
Cal wants to “smell the roses”
Another November to Remember for USC?  

 

Well, there is another game being played this weekend…. some place back east… you know… on the other side of Colorado somewheres. I hear that the winner may get a chance to play for the National Championship and the loser someone like Rutgers… wherever that is?

Fight On!

 Roger Freberg

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Roasted Duck comes Early! USC — 35 Oregon — 10

little trojans... big dreams!Well… finally a ‘cup-cake’ game! We have waited all year since Arkansas for a game that would be decided relatively early… so that we could sit back and enjoy the game!

The game really wasn’t close… and this may seem rather partisan… but the Oregon Ducks showed little class: Number 99 appeared to be thrown out after his second low blow, and after the game, most of the Oregon players just walked and ‘ducked’ into the locker room without shaking hands …and the Oregon coach seemed to waste everyone’s time with unnecessary time outs and questioning and protesting virtually every call.

Sheeeesh! It’s not like he had a chance to pull an “Oklahoma.”

However, roasted duck was very sweet this year!

Here’s what others are saying:

Dissin’ Ducks!
Trojans Pluck Ducks!

Oregon’s Photo Gallery
Oregon’s Take on the Game

Next up: CAL Bears come up next week followed by the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame! Kristin plans to join us to watch the Trojans meet the Irish two days after Thanksgiving!

fight on!

Roger Freberg

 

 

 

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Southern California Trojans won’t ‘Duck’ this Weekend

Southern California Trojan FootballNow, the Trojans enter the season when the big games start happening. Oregon, California and Notre Dame will determine as — we would say in the old days — ‘will this be one more step towards the Rose Bowl… or one step back to the Fiesta Bowl?” Of course, this was all before the BCS stuff.

Yep. we’ll be traveling down to the Southern Cal — Oregon Game this weekend just ahead of some anticipated storms… should be quite a game … and with the Ducks… anything can happen!

Last week, the Trojans looked pretty good even throwing in their 3rd string against a team that would have trouble with their local Palo Alto High School football team… but it was great to see all the guys get some playing time.

USC wrote up a good interview on some of the anticipated matchups in the big Homecoming game… here’s a link

Now, let’s see some football! FIGHT ON!

Roger Freberg

 

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Going through College…. fat, drunk and stupid

fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son... are you holding up your GRE score or your IQ?

Hey I don’t blame these boys from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ( allegedly students there) from pouring one down from time to time…. but , dudes, aren’t you missing something? I am kinda old fashioned, but… aren’t parties more fun with women? By the way, if you don’t like your picture on my blog… don’t post it on the internet.

Oh, here I go being ‘judgemental’ and ‘offering unwanted advice” again.

dah Big WEeeEEeEeeeenie Award!However, I thought that there had ‘to be a prize for playing this game”… like graduating and earning a ‘dah-ploma’ and a good job? They do graduate — on the average at Cal Poly — in roughly 6 1/2 years. Did you hear that Momsy?

I guess they’ll have to settle for the coveted “Big weenie Award”… along with the approximately 10,000 Cal poly students that never finished their senior projects.

 I can’t blame them too much… I mean, there’s nothing to do in San Luis Obispo…. it’s kinda like ‘God’s waiting room.’ Hey, even their university President has his own packed cellar…. I’ve seen it… burp!

Anyway, I recieved this email this morning from their student newspaper…… well… read it for yourself: My worst party Nightmare.

I had thought about linking blogs about college students and their drunk nightmares from Technorati … but it was amazing… bad enough to survive this stuff… but now it will live forever on the internet. It’s like getting a tatoo with your first girlfriend’s name on it… it is just embarassing later on. So, I had mercy… no links and no capes.

Roger Freberg

 

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Stanford COULD Beat Trojans… IF… they were the ‘INDIANS’, again.

Stanford... back in the old days... when they respected diversity
Oh, I remember the old days of the Stanford “Indians”… it was a cruel wind that blew through Palo Alto when they struck down their mascot in favor of… well… a tree. It’s kinda hard to say… goooo trees! Beeee a tree! Remember your roots are deeeeep!

Of course, some of the reaction at the time had more to do with who was in charge… and the mascot became a target.

Regardless, I am still fond of those old days… and as long as there are no old Trojans to protest, I am hoping my alma mater keeps their famous mascot… of course, it helps in choosing a symbol that can’t complain…. like bears, lions, banana slugs and ducks.

I do think that Sanford has changed and moved away from it’s athletic heritage… so maybe now they should be called the ‘Stanford Librarians.” It’s a thought.

I guess this is a lot to say in order to avoid talking about the Stanford-USC game this weekend… I am hoping that the Trojans take out their recent frustrations out on the.. er …  ‘librarians.’

Of course, maybe Stanford could win… it could happen… really… but then we’d be really suspicious as to who was betting what in Las Vegas.

 

Roger Freberg

What USC’s Pete Carroll thinks!
Slaughterhouse Saturday?
Bay Area invasion