Maryland vs. Memphis — Fear the turtle!
Yeah, I know. I’m not a sports fan.
But I’m a Maryland Terrapins fan.
I was at the Terps-Cal football game last fall with a motley crew of former college bad boys who’ve gone respectable: Skidar the economist; Bongin’ Bob the producer; Tony the tiger, a reporter feared all over Florida, and his beautiful columnist wife; Kurt the Pa. professor; Godfather Don and Scott, who Skidar calls “the big Jew” because he’s like 6′ 8″ or something.
The Terps were vast underdogs. But even early in the game it was obvious that the Terps were going to win big. And it wasn’t the action on the field that told me that.
It was the students from Cal in the stands. They were lame as could be.
They were a bunch of lightweights. Rum-swilling know-nothings. Knew zip about Berkeley, had no idea it was the cradle of student activism in the 60s. It was like somebody from Mount Vernon (that’s Virginia, in case you’re from Berkeley) being unaware that George Washington once lived there.
That’s how I knew Cal stood no chance against the Terps in the first round of the NCAA.
Later today they face Mempis, the former women’s teachers college once known as West Tennessee State Normal School.
A guy who posts on this board under the alias terps suck (and who follows college sports intensely) assures me they are to be reckoned with. The Tigers are favored by 5. We’ll see.
The Tigers almost went down to Cal State Northridge in the first round but got saved by a hot outside shooter who spells his first name Roburt. They won 30 games but played a bunch of high schools. Three of the starters who took them to the championship game last year are in the NBA now.
Skidar and the boys will be watching that game from many points distant. I’ll be watching that game with terps suck – and hoping they don’t.
Go Terps!
March 21, 2009 - 12:43 AM
My nephew goes to Cal and he is not lame at all. In fact, he is one of the brightest boys I ever met. I only wish my own son were that bright. He’s 34 and still lives at home with me in Waynesboro. He got laid off when Dave’s Meat Market on Main Street closed and he’s been trying to get a job a Kroger’s but they told him he’d have to cut his hair and he won’t do it. I told him, cut your hair, what’s the big deal? But you and your ilk would probably side with him.
My nephew’s hair is a little long, but it’s cute on him, and he’s in college. Really, all of Sarah’s kids are cute, not that mine aren’t, I just wish he’d get a job, that’s all.
Anyway, Memphis has a big size advantage over Maryland, who will mix zone and man-to-man as they did against Cal but it will take a supreme effort and Memphis playing as poorly as they did against Cal-Northridge for the Terps to win.
You know, that picture looks like Wilford Brimley. If you’re ever in Waynesboro, come over and I’ll fix some of my special oatmeal, it’ll put stars in your eyes. But don’t come by this week, I’ll be in Budapest.
How did a liberal TWERP fan wind up in Roanoke anyway?BTW…did you learn about the virtue of high taxes and goverment dependency at that sorry institution?
Dear 7nationarmy,
Congrats! You have posted the strangest comment on this blog so far.
Hee, Hee, “terps suck.” Very original with the TWERP fan dig. You even capitalized TWERP just in case your wittiness somehow escaped the casual reader. You should write for the Tonight Show, or something.
Bottom line, Dan. Big and tall is usually going to beat small and scrappy. This Henderson-Miles guy looks like a 30-year-old Shaq. Down by 22 with 13 minutes to go, I am reverting to Terp-fan stasis: expecting to lose, but glad we got this far.
Oh, and 7nationarmy … you may want to check what’s in that special oatmeal. Maybe your son has been eating too much of it.