Smurfs Are Just Little, Blue Trolls
by Spears on Aug 31, 2011 10:46 PM EDT
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PrintLet's be serious for a second: Boise State is a very good football team. Many, many pundits are predicting that the Broncos are going to beat our beloved Bulldawgs this weekend. Nevertheless, half of the fun of being a sports fan is talking trash, and to talk trash properly, you need to be prepared. Here is some helpful topical information to aid you in supporting your team.
Wins and Losses
Boise State has compiled an impressive record since joining Division 1 in 1996. However, this accomplishment is largely due to the fact that Boise's seniors all played Pee Wee ball with the Broncos and therefore had some extra, formative years in the system.
Bronco Stadium has been called one of the most difficult places to play, and the Broncos are currently defending a 62 game win streak. With a seating capacity of 33,500, you can imagine how intimidated visiting teams must feel.
History
Fun fact: Georgia's football team was celebrating its fortieth year and the fifth anniversary of its first (AP Boand and Poling) national championship the year that Boise State University was founded (1932).
Playmakers
Boise's Heisman hopes rest on the shoulders of QB Kellen Moore, who is Communications major and a staunch advocate for second amendment rights.
History Redux
Boise is 0-4 against SEC teams. Who did they play last time?
Counter-Trolling
If a Bronco partisan brings up Georgia's 6-7 record from last year, encourage them to keep up the good work: if BSU continues to win 13 games every year while Georgia wins only 6 a year, they'll catch up to our all-time Division 1 win total sometime during the 2095 season. They can do it if they try!
A BSU alum might mention the unfortunate Liberty Bowl loss to UCF. Be sure to ask them how their last bowl match-up with a C-USA foe went. (Hint: Not so well.)
If a Bronco fan says something about our mascot's health, remember that you'll be in your home state, where no jury will convict you for any ensuing crime of passion. Alternatively, you can point out that Sarah Jessica Parker is not a great mascot.
How are you planning on talking smack this weekend?
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And not as effective against Pirates as one might think, apparently.
by vineyarddawg on Aug 31, 2011 11:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Kellen came to Boise State the year after our bowl game with ECU
Chris Johnson ripped us to SHREDS
by BSUbluNorange on Sep 1, 2011 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
That's the correct sound effect!
Great write up, some valid points on Div I wins and our last C-USA bowl game haha. Hopefully 99% of our fans aren’t ripping on you guys because of your struggles last year. The majority of us know who we’re going up against.
Come check out the anti-smack talk post, you’ll appreciate it. Go Broncos!
by BSUbluNorange on Sep 1, 2011 9:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Gratuitous Hype Vid in 3...2...1...
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Aug 31, 2011 11:41 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Another fun tidbit...
The name Kellen is of Gaelic origin and means “slender”.
Also of note, the name Aaron is of Hebrew origin and means “MOUNTAIN”
Just sayin.
"If there's one thing worse than chlamydia, it's Florida." ~ Emma Stone
by RedCrake on Aug 31, 2011 11:46 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 5 recs
I hate to harsh over the collective mellow and be "that guy" for the 900th time...
… (Oh who am I kidding? No I don’t.)
Georgia’s football team was celebrating its fortieth year and the fifth anniversary of its first (AP) national championship the year that Boise State University was founded (1932).
I appreciate the quality trash talk, but Georgia’s 1927 national championship claim is dubious, at best. The athletic department themselves only claim 1942 and 1980, and the only time Georgia was named the AP champion was 1980. In fact, the AP poll didn’t even begin until 1936. (The AP voted Ohio State as its champion in 1942, while most other polls voted for Wally Butts’ Dawgs.)
In 1927, Georgia finished 9-1 and was selected the #1 team in the country by the Boand system and the Poling system, which have been retroactively recognized by the NCAA as valid polls, but count for a national championship in kind of the same way that Princeton can claim to have 28 national championships and Yale can claim 27. The football media guide lists the 1927 team along with the 1946 and 1968 Georgia teams as squads that were ranked #1 by one recognized poll or another, but which weren’t really “consensus” national champions.
At any rate, we’ve been doing this far longer than the ponies have… and that’s the important point!
If Bama's gonna count a year where they lost their bowl game...
I’m counting 1927 :-)
Sacrificing goats, chugging Maker's Mark, and walking underneath The Arch.
by RedCrake on Sep 1, 2011 12:04 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
I saw "science" directly above "correction," . . .
. . . and, in my head, I combined them as “concision.”
Go 'Dawgs!
You are correct
The east was settled before the west. It’s history, but history is ongoing. Japan’s history is much greater than that of the United States, but we know what happened don’t we. Georgia has a credible history, not to be taken away or overlooked. History reminds us of one thing though," the times they are a changin".
An opponent in orange and blue who wants to ignore anything that happened before 1990.
Where have I heard that before?
by Spears on Sep 1, 2011 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
It's a good thing we don't play Boise every year...
… or their fans might get just as bad, too.
(I hate the team to which you’re referring.)
Oh, not at all. I name Florida...
… and I hate them a little more every time their name passes through my lips. I was just playing along with Spears’ jab in both directions.
(I hate Florida.)
I'm no neophyte, but
Japan’s history is much greater than that of the United States
I do believe we’re fighting unarmed opponents.
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
I'm not sure I get your point.
Are you implying that because Japan has a longer civilized history than the United States, but the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, that somehow Japan is Georgia and the United States is Boise? Or that somehow that history is undone by the dropping of the atomic bomb? Because for the record, Japan still has an older civilized history than the United States…atomic bomb or not.
by hailtogeorgia on Sep 1, 2011 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn't blow up...
I was just shaking a lot, but I got a glass of water and poured it over myself to cool myself off…I think it just made it worse though.
\nothingistoosoon
by hailtogeorgia on Sep 1, 2011 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions
"Who do we hate? Boise State"
Granted that is the chant from all WAC fans but as a DAWG fan in exhile in Reno NV I have developed a similair sentiment.
Last year while tailgating for the boise vs nevada game I found out about our impending matchup this weekend. The amount of shit talking I got from boise fans that evening about Georgia (even though I was at the last boise GA game, and AR boise game) really pissed me off. So watching their kicker miss twice from just behind the goal was amazing. (Plus I had just started more graduate work at UNR so it was even better to experience) Rushing the field on boise that night was a great experience (could have been the whisky since it was 15 degrees) but it would be much sweeter to get another GA victory.
If we play the same in the fourth quarter, we have a darn good chance!!
Every Dawg has his day, hopefully 13 days this year.
by RENO-DAWG on Sep 1, 2011 1:14 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Sorry you had that experience
Personally I found a silver lining in the loss and most true fans did. Everyone has crappy fans, i’m sure you’ve seen the pictures of two UNR students flipping off Boise State players after they stormed the field. Super trashy, my initial reaction was pissed off but slowly realized they probably didn’t represent all of the Nevada fans. Here’s to a great game!
Ps. I do have to say, revenge will be sweet on the blue this year :)
by BSUbluNorange on Sep 1, 2011 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Quick Correction
Boise’s last match-up against a C-USA foe wasn’t the Hawaii bowl of 2007 (though it was they’re last bowl game against a C-USA team). During the regular season they beat Tulsa 28-21 (at Tulsa) in 2009 and they also beat Southern Miss 24-7 (at So Miss) in 2008. So if you’re going to use that counter-troll be sure to ask “how did your last bowl game against a C-USA foe go?”
Thanks, KnightLine.
Corrected. Factually accurate trolling is good trolling.
by Spears on Sep 1, 2011 9:08 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
I'm listening to ESPN Radio
And they’re talking about Chris Johson finally signing. Do you know that guy? One of the best RBs in the NFL? Do you know who he played for? Against BSU in the bowl game you mentioned? I’m not excusing that loss. I am saying we got dominated by a player in that game. Named Chris Johnson.
So Chris Johnson is the excuse for getting trounced by East Carolina...
just like Zabransky is the excuse for getting trounced by Georgia in ‘05. Y’all sure do like to blame games on one person.
\yesi’mtrolling
\pleaseindulgemeandrespondanyway
by hailtogeorgia on Sep 1, 2011 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Like I said
Not excusing the loss. I was contemplating the importance of what bringing up the loss to ECU had to do with the game on Saturday. Nothing really. So I brought up one of the biggest bowl performers ( if not the biggest) in NCAA history. Also has nothing to do with the game. Right? Confused? So was I when I read this post.
Just so I'm straight on what you mean:
You brought Chris Johnson’s status as one of the best runningbacks in the NFL up because it wasn’t apropos? Okay.
by hailtogeorgia on Sep 1, 2011 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Not that Kellen needs any help, but
he is currently working on his Masters in Kinesiology. The reference to the meaning of his name"’slender" is interesting, as well as the second amendment advocate remark. I can think of someone from Griffin Georgia that resembles the same.
So he's gonna start coughing up blood?
Sacrificing goats, chugging Maker's Mark, and walking underneath The Arch.
I knew a few folks in college who were Kinesiology majors.
These were people of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know…morons.
by hailtogeorgia on Sep 1, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Did you know
that Kinesio is Romanian for “Bony Ass.”
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I would bet cash money . . .
. . . that NCT, in fact, knew that.
I would bet additional cash money that he has an informative anecdote that builds upon that knowledge.
Go 'Dawgs!
A Masters from Boise St?
that’s like what, the equivalent of a GED from New Hampshire? A bachelor’s from Piedmont College?
http://sportsandgrits.com/
Trash Talk
If a Boise fan brings up our bad record from the past two seasons remind them that we beat more BCS opponents in those two years than they have in their history.
Some other lines:
Paul Johnson thinks Boise is a little too gimmicky.
Houston Nutt thinks Boise’s entrance requirements are a little low.
by Tolirf on Sep 1, 2011 9:04 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
How will I talk trash?
I’ll let the anagram server do it for me….
You cannot spell Boise State Broncos without:
A Boobs Icons Tester – my God if this were the anagram for Georgia Tech I could die happy.
/fully aware of irony of using computer program to find play on words to make fun of nerdiness of opponent
Broadcasting live from a secure location underneath the Hell Gate Bridge
by The Quincy Carter of Accountants on Sep 1, 2011 9:22 AM EDT reply actions
All right, seriously, I've had "Too Much Information" in the can and ready to post for about a day, . . .
. . . but y’all (inadvertently) are stealing my thunder. I may just go ahead and publish the danged thing, but I kind of want to hold off until tomorrow to heighten the impact, even though, as we get closer, y’all keep saying everything you don’t know I’ve already said.
Go 'Dawgs!
Look at the diarhettic explosion of BSU fans!
Who’d a thunk?
Pepe Le Pew, that’s who! (h/t TKK).
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
What, no one got my obscure joke?
You mean, you weren’t there when my 3 year old son couldn’t say “skunk,” instead it came out as “thunk?” What the heck was I thinking…
/neverpostaftera12hourmidagain
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
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