BALBOA-DRAGO? Complete this sentence: A Butler-Duke national championship game represents the purest battle of Good v. Evil in sports since _______________.
Look, I have as many issues with Dook being douchebaggy as the next guy, but I have to give them credit for not being what other schools have become (especially 'Cuse, Memphis, and Kentucky) and being exclusively a two-year player factory--Duke still graduates a decent percentage of its players, even if they game the system to do so, and by all accounts, Coach K is a class act.
Oddly, it's the relatively good parts about Duke that makes them so irritating in their media coverage. Their scrappy! Their smart! Their not at all like the typical basketball players! Oh, and their fans (at least those that I've come to know), are the most insufferable sports fans I've ever met, and that's even true of many of the ones who I count among my good friends.
I would acknowledge, in the hope of not having to support my animus towards Duke with things like "facts", that my dislike may be somewhat irrational. In any event, I'd fill in Adam's blank with ". . .since Coach K dined alone."
Oh man, please read "their" as "they are". It's early, and I didn't have the fancy book learning of a Duke grad, so I can't be expected to always remember certain grammatical niceties.
No real comment, just a big giant GO DAWGS and hope Butler wins!! It's nice to have people honk at me for my BU rear-window sticker instead of my driving.
USA-Iceland in the '94 Junior Goodwill Games. Stahl going gloveside against The Cat has to be right up there with Webber's timeout in terms of bad decision haunting an athlete.
I am a lifelong Duke fan, dating back to when my dad introduced me to March Madness during the Brickey era, and if you can't remember him than I am proving my point that there was a time when Duke wasn't so widely reviled. But I'll totally admit that I won't watch games in public with other Duke fans, whom I have generally found to be loud and annoying and entitled. One of my good friends is a lifelong Yankees fan and feels the same away about their fans. So I totally get Jenn's and Jenn's Brother's Yankees point.
Wasn't the Giants-Pats Super Bowl more like Evil v. Slightly Lesser Evil At The Moment (I'm tempted to analogize to WWII, but am enjoying this thread and don't want Godwin's law invoked).
Not to get all Sportsguy on you but isn't the correct answer LaRusso vs. Lawrence? Maverick vs. Iceman? Balboa vs. Drago? Skywalker vs. Vader? Bailey vs. Potter?
Not intended to be a threadjack, but a new entry: ". . . since Daniel Snyder and Donovan McNabb sat across from each other for contract renegotiation." I am stunned at this trade.
You say you don't care for the sanctimony surrounding a team with "real student-athletes" that "plays as a team" and "does things the right way" - and you're rooting for Butler? That doesn't follow.
The irony is that I remember thinking of the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl as a Good vs. Evil game, only with the Patriots in the "David" role. It shows how much goodwill the Patriots lost as they racked up Super Bowl titles and controversies under Belichick.
Look, I have as many issues with Dook being douchebaggy as the next guy, but I have to give them credit for not being what other schools have become (especially 'Cuse, Memphis, and Kentucky) and being exclusively a two-year player factory--Duke still graduates a decent percentage of its players, even if they game the system to do so, and by all accounts, Coach K is a class act.
ReplyDeleteWhy the heck is Duke "evil"?
ReplyDeleteNorth Carolina-Michigan State in 2009?
ReplyDeleteOddly, it's the relatively good parts about Duke that makes them so irritating in their media coverage. Their scrappy! Their smart! Their not at all like the typical basketball players! Oh, and their fans (at least those that I've come to know), are the most insufferable sports fans I've ever met, and that's even true of many of the ones who I count among my good friends.
ReplyDeleteI would acknowledge, in the hope of not having to support my animus towards Duke with things like "facts", that my dislike may be somewhat irrational. In any event, I'd fill in Adam's blank with ". . .since Coach K dined alone."
Oh man, please read "their" as "they are". It's early, and I didn't have the fancy book learning of a Duke grad, so I can't be expected to always remember certain grammatical niceties.
ReplyDeleteFollowing the Good v Evil
ReplyDeleteanyone v the Yankees....or UGA v anyone (especially Florida), or Braves v Mets
(typed by Jenn's bro Brian)
It's the sanctimony; the idea that the school of Bobby Hurley and Corey Maggette is somehow purer than the rest.
ReplyDeleteNot that I don't completely agree with the sentiment (Jenn.).
ReplyDelete...since the last time I won any sports wager. If Duke loses, I win the pool!
ReplyDeleteNo real comment, just a big giant GO DAWGS and hope Butler wins!! It's nice to have people honk at me for my BU rear-window sticker instead of my driving.
ReplyDeleteHad West Virginia beaten Duke, I believe I would have won the pool.
ReplyDeleteUSA-Iceland in the '94 Junior Goodwill Games. Stahl going gloveside against The Cat has to be right up there with Webber's timeout in terms of bad decision haunting an athlete.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. Duke is the Percy Weasley of college basketball: good at what they do, but stuck up and annoying.
ReplyDeleteI am a lifelong Duke fan, dating back to when my dad introduced me to March Madness during the Brickey era, and if you can't remember him than I am proving my point that there was a time when Duke wasn't so widely reviled. But I'll totally admit that I won't watch games in public with other Duke fans, whom I have generally found to be loud and annoying and entitled. One of my good friends is a lifelong Yankees fan and feels the same away about their fans. So I totally get Jenn's and Jenn's Brother's Yankees point.
ReplyDeleteGiants - Pats Super Bowl?
ReplyDeleteTigers - Yankees Divisional Series in 2006?
Wasn't the Giants-Pats Super Bowl more like Evil v. Slightly Lesser Evil At The Moment (I'm tempted to analogize to WWII, but am enjoying this thread and don't want Godwin's law invoked).
ReplyDelete...and I'm that much younger than everyone else here.
ReplyDeleteNot to get all Sportsguy on you but isn't the correct answer LaRusso vs. Lawrence? Maverick vs. Iceman? Balboa vs. Drago? Skywalker vs. Vader? Bailey vs. Potter?
ReplyDeleteNot intended to be a threadjack, but a new entry: ". . . since Daniel Snyder and Donovan McNabb sat across from each other for contract renegotiation." I am stunned at this trade.
ReplyDeleteI'll post something. Obviously.
ReplyDeleteDo we only have to go back to the NFC Title game?
ReplyDeleteI would put my vote in for this. Especially because I just watched D2 again recently.
ReplyDelete"Congratulations, Captain Duck."
Bobby Hurley?
ReplyDeleteYou say you don't care for the sanctimony surrounding a team with "real student-athletes" that "plays as a team" and "does things the right way" - and you're rooting for Butler? That doesn't follow.
Belechikian evil skews the calculation so much that logarithmic paper is needed to display it.
ReplyDeleteAL-NL?
ReplyDeleteBecause Bobby Hurley and Christian Laettner were two of the most annoying players in the history of college basketball?
ReplyDeleteI going to have to go Lakers-Celtics on this one.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is that I remember thinking of the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl as a Good vs. Evil game, only with the Patriots in the "David" role. It shows how much goodwill the Patriots lost as they racked up Super Bowl titles and controversies under Belichick.
ReplyDeletelate on this, but...
ReplyDeletesince Lemond beat Hinault.