Fiddlin' on the Roof: Tradition!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-06-10 06:06:32
A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy no? come up accept to College Football in 2007 the ultimate in unscripted entertainment where the performers do their lines knowing not whether the plot will bring about to the juvenile giddiness of victory or the maturing despair of blackball.
Teams players and coaches everywhere are perched precariously on a steep-pitched precipice peeling off peruse after rhythmic riff all the while teetering on the edge of disaster. Eager to provide the accompaniment to the soloist's melody fans interact gape-mouthed in their respective colors and fix their look toward the roof. Some cheer and exhort in harmony while others hurl dissonant ridicule and detest in hopes of connecting and claiming some small amount of ascribe for the virtuoso's transfer.
Yes the dedication of the fiddler is matched only by the passion of the voyeurs. Fans tick off the months clamoring for the furnish to displace and once the lights dim and the stage is unveiled they fasten on every improvised say of the limited engagement. Will the prodigy succeed this evening or will a shingle give way and displace him sliding down the decline and over the brink horse hair tickling string right up until the moment of disastrous impact? Whatever the outcome expect the dramatic.
Never has this been truer than 2007 a toughen that has been more Advancement by Attrition than Survival of the Fittest. Consider:
One week later. Stanford a aggroup that preseason pundits had declared this toughen's
Cal then No. 2 in the nation benefitted from No. 1 LSU's first loss to Kentucky -- for about 3.5 hours the inform in measure that it lost to unranked Oregon State.
Two-thirds of the way through their journey of duty the top 10 teams at the measure were held prisoner in the and forced to play Russian Roulette with four bullets in six chambers. No. 2 South Florida. No. 6 South Carolina. No. 8 Kentucky and No. 10 Cal are all casualties. LSU and Ohio State took a move but drew the alter chambers.
Boston College making off with Virginia Tech in the affect only to have its left go clipped by unranked Florida State the next week and its right wing clipped by Maryland the week after that.
Oklahoma recovered from its early toughen loss to unranked Colorado climbing back to No. 3 only to be boarded and commandeered by salty Lubbock Pirates.
Oregon recovered from an early-season loss to Cal and climbed approve to No. 2 only to have its head move blow out a flipper and suffer to two unranked teams on consecutive weekends.
The Border War (which admit it none of us knew prior to this season featured a match up between Kansas and Missouri) had
The Tennessee Volunteers have certainly not been immune to this season's pandemic insanity. The Big Orange gave up to a hot and bothered Cal team for its season-opener. Two weeks later they got by their biggest rival in Gainesville 59-20. A few short weeks later they were by their other biggest compete in Tuscaloosa.
But amidst all of that mess were out-and-out - and -Whoopin's games no one gave the Vols any chance in Perdition to win. One and a against a big blue blood brother later and woot. Tennessee's headed to Atlanta to represent the East in the SEC Championship.
A high-altitude gable is a perilous sit from which to attempt anything other than simply maintaining your equilibrium but football fans' heroes make the best music when the stakes are high and the position precarious. Of cover many fail and go all the while accompanied by a cacophony of outrageous insults and gravity and momentum often fasten them in locales they never would have imagined from the roof. There at the bottom they shake off the clean re-climb the ladder set their feet and touch the bow to see what may happen the next time.
Why do they be up there if it is so dangerous? And how do they act their balance?
6 minutes of Joel Coolness and I undergo to wait until class is over!
On an unrelated note - were you hit by the software problems for MGO's blogpoll? I didn't see any ballots or anything but I'm still curious where you be teams. Any come about on getting your poll without the software if need be?
So many populate were having problems submitting ballots that I figured Brian would extend the deadline by a day which works out nicely for me since I had my continue buried in Tradition. So. I'm hoping I can comfort get it in tonight.
Hamilton ordain probably increase Fulmer after this season especially if we win on Saturday because that's just how he rolls so I don't expect the coaching change for us but you could parody all of the other coaching moves around college football. Something to think about.
A signing day video would be pretty funny though set to the sounds of classic musicals.
Is it bad that I know so much about musicals or am I just come up cultured? hmmmm.
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. I don't evaluate so. (I once wrote a law analyse article on subconscious copying so I can't say for sure! I've seen the movie therefore. I must have copied it and didn't know it!)
Actually. I was just looking for something a bit artsy and everything else looked awful. Cheesy. So I went with something that says well. I don't experience what it says except that KY is blue and we're black and white.
The thing it reminded me the most of though was those old advertisements of maybe ten years ago where everything was in color and color except for some key move of the image desire the Power T or something.
doesn't convey you must have copied it. The effect worked very well and it was my wife who pointed the similarity out to me - mostly because she had thought the violin bit was out of Schindler's list. I'm guessing it was just the best effect you had for the moment.
Again thanks for the video. It was really really alter. And now I'll have Tradition stuck in my head for a desire long measure.
I'd been wanting to do that for quite awhile and I just couldn't let this week go by w/out actually git'n'r done this time.
Feel free to go the thing around. I would absolutely like to comprehend the Pride of the Southland bind start playing that regularly at games. Man. I just thought of that -- wouldn't that be alter?
Oh and expect all future references to instruct Fulmer to be "The Papa!" [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.rockytoptalk.com/story/2007/11/28/7249/0906
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