Stoops and OU are 5-5 in last 10 Games

This has to be the worst Oklahoma football team in the last 10 years.

Don’t give me injures. OU’s stagnation goes way beyond injuries. Their place-kicking sucks. The running game sucks even more. The routes the wide receivers run? Don’t ask. The offensive line hasn’t improved since spring practice.

“If we keep making the same mistakes over and over, either we’re doing the wrong things or doing it with the wrong people,” said frustrated offensive coordinator Keven Wilson. 

May it isn’t the players Kevin…

Drink one for me,

Woody

Ndamukong Suh and Husker’s Defense Are The Nation’s Best

Do you remember what the Sooners were ranked at the beginning of the season? Top 3?

On Saturday night, in Lincoln, Suh and company delivered 2 sacks, 8 QB hurries, 12 pass-breakups, and (just) 3 points – shutting out OU without a TD for the first time in 11 years.

AND, The Nebraska Defense is getting better each week . They haven’t even begin to peak. Three more games (2 against the Kansas schools) and the Huskers will head to Big-D to face Texas for the Big 12 Championship.

How many points can Texas score against the Huskers’ front D-line? I’m guessing not enough…

GO BIG RED!

Drink one for me,

Woody

Pelini & Stoops’ Version of NU -vs- OU — Game of the Century

No, neither team is playing for a national championship this year. No, the Orange Bowl isn’t at stake. And no, there isn’t really a Heisman Candidate unless you consider Ndamukong Suh.

In any case, this year’s came could be special if for no other reason than the friendship and respect that exists between the Pelini Brothers (Bo and Carl – NU’s Head Coach and D-Coordinator) and Bob Stoops.

There are not 2 other programs in the country that play at the level these two do with the respect the programs, players, and fans have for each other. No worries to were you version of Red and White either in Lincoln or Norman. No fighting, no cussing, no physical abuse. Just good ole’ midwestern fun watching 2 great teams play their hearts out,.

I hate losing to the Sooners, but I support them the rest of the years. Most Sooner fans feel the same about my Huskers.

Regardless — GO BIG RED!!!!

Drink one for me,

Woody

Rednecks vs “The Arts” In Our Public Schools

With increasing unemployment comes reduced tax revenues, failed bond issues, and cancellation of specific ‘programs’ in the public schools. The first to go is usually the new band uniforms, the art classes, the music and speech programs in general.

Its never the reduction in the plethora of coaches, the new football uniforms, or the sports programs in general. Why?

When so many conservative issues are being attached, why not the strong hold of conservative values in our public schools? BTW, have you ever met a redneck that wasn’t a conservative? I don’t get it…

Year after year we hear that ‘school teachers / unions’, as a block, support liberalism and liberal candidates. If that is true, were have organizations like The National Endowment for the Arts (http://www.nea.gov/) been when music and speech programs are dying on the vine while football coaches, with losing records, continue on as ‘business as usual’? Most schools, turning their backs on the arts, hire additional coaches in an attempt to improve ‘their record’.  Oh BTW, many of these guys do teach courses like Underwater Basket Weaving or Drivers Ed for a couple hours a day before heading off to practice, weight training, and planning for the next big game they’ll more than likely lose.

Don’t get me wrong, I was born in Nebraska and if you’d cut me, I’d bleed Scarlet and Cream. But enough is enough. The last thing this world needs is another generation of rednecks that can’t speak in public, appreciate a good play, or display simple humility to the fellow human beings…

Drink one for me,

Woody

Nebraska’s Huskers are in Trouble

No worries about Suh and company on defense.

But on offense, whoa dude…

Nebraska’s offense has scored a total of 30 offensive points in the last 3 games! That is 2.5 points/quarter over the last 12 quarters of football!!!

AND, that is against 3 teams that have combined for 12 loses already this season. But yet, Nebraska stands atop the Big 12 North with a 2-2 (5-3 overall) record.

Next week its Oklahoma at 7PM in Lincoln. How many points do the Huskers score in that game?

After that, they play Kansas, Kansas State, and Colorado – teams that have already (combined) lost 13 games.

Do the Huskers win the North? The defense better start doubling or tripling the output of their offense!

GO BIG RED!

Drink one for me,

Woody

Nancy Pelosi Gives American People the (Wrong) Finger

In this morning’s Sunday paper I noticed this picture along with a Health Care story. My first impression was, “isn’t that the wrong finger Nancy?”

Shouldn’ it be the middle one? This graphic must represent Washington-speak for ‘f-ck you’.

 

Drink one for me,

Woody

Lynyrd Skynyrd: 32 Years Ago We Lost Freebird

32 years ago tomorrow, with a plane crash in Gillsburg Mississippi, we lost orginal band members Ronnie Van Zant (lead singer), guitarist Steve Gaines and vocalist Cassie Gaines (Gaines sister).

Work had begun on a new album in 2008 but the project was interrupted by yet another tragedy – the deaths of found member/keyboardist Billy Powell and longtime bassist Ean Evans in early 2009.

Beyond the tragedy(s), the history, the killer guitars and the raging songs, Lynyrd Skynyrd is about survival of spirit – unbowed, 100% American, stubbornly resolute.

With their first new studio material since 2003’s Vicious Cycle, God & Guns is released today, September 29 on Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records.

With members Gary Rossington (guitar), Johnny Van Zant (vocals) and Rickey Medlocke (guitar), along with longtime drummer Michael Cartellone, Lynyrd Skynyrd have recorded an album that lives up to their legacy which begun 35 years ago in Jacksonville, Florida. Since the 1977 crash, the band tragically has lost Allen Collins, Leon Wilkeson and Hughie Thomasson, yet they rock on, and on, and on…for us – their fans!

Today, the band is Gary Rossington- Guitar; Johnny Van Zant- Vocals; Rickey Medlocke- Guitar; Mark “Sparky” Matejka- Guitar; Michael Cartellone- Drums; Robert Kearns – Bass; Peter Keys – Keyboards; and Honkettes: Dale Krantz Rossington and Carol Chase.

Skynyrd Nation – please support this phenomenal group.

Drink one for me and Freebird!

Woody

 

Life on Mars? YES!!! I Have Visual Proof!

YES – on DVD. Have you ordered yours? It was released just a few days ago. Check out Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Life-Mars-Complete-Jason-OMara/dp/B001XRLWLU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1255740895&sr=8-1.

I’ve watched the first 4 episodes and have fallen in love with the show all over again.

If you were in your late teens to pushing-30 in 1973,  this will be your all time classic TV favorite. The sound track alone is to die for.

The story lines and relationships between the people at the precinct are priceless as well. From “the Lou” to Sam to “No-nuts”.

BTW, I’m in love with Annie. Whoa, dude!

Check it out and band together with me and let’s get this show back on the frickin’ air!!!

Drink on for me,

Woody

OU Will Be 3-3 After Tommorow’s Red River Shootout

OU will be 3-3 in their last 6 games, counting last year’s bowl game with Florida, after tomorrow’s Cotton Bowl fight with Texas. Do you think OU can win it? Yes, Bradford is back and they have ’decent’ running backs but their receivers are ordinary and the offensive line suspect at times. Their defense? Slightly above average.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Texas is overrated.  No way they are playing at a top-5 level of play. However, this year, they out-class the Sooners in virtually all aspects of the game.

As we all know, the game is worth play…”on any given Saturday”. Tomorrow, that saying is only a pipe-dream for Sooner fans. I wonder how many of them will stick around for the entire 4th quarter? I predict that many will head north – early, back to Oklahoma. Many will stop in Ardmore, OK and dine / drink at Two Frogs Grill (http://www.twofrogsgrill.com/).

In early December look for Nebraska playing (and beating) either Texas or OSU for the Big 12 Championship title.

Drink one for me,

Woody

Brooklyn Brewery Keeps On Swing’in

Brooklyn has always been a haven for immigrants and entrepreneurs. Beer is a natural extension of this…

The Brooklyn Lager has caramel malts that show in the finish. It has great flavor, smooth, refreshing and very versatile with food. It is top notch all the way. On Woody’s scale of 1 to 10, I give this a lager a 9.

The Brooklyn Oktoberfest is brewed from the finest German malt and hops, full bodied and malty, with a bready aroma and light, brisk hop bitterness. You are not going to believe this, but I give this entry a 10! My first 10 ever. Keep up the good work boys!

Drink one for me,

Woody