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September 19, 2008

Do It for the Children

Filed under: Fans,Football — Chas @ 1:08 pm

“There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time, I owe him my best.” Joe DiMaggio. Source: The Sporting News (April 4, 1951).

This game means a bit more to me than others. Last year I decided that I would bring my daughter to at least one game each season. Hopefully, so she would have a good time and to learn a little more about the school and team I love. This is the game I’m taking her to see this year.

This is important since we live in Ohio and get nothing but Ohio State propaganda (along with an uncle that is a bit rabid about tOSU). Add in the threat of a couple grandparents that are Penn State grads and there is danger all around that she could learn the wrong lesson with the young, impressionable mind of 6-year old.

One of my fellow ticketholders is bringing his 6-year old son back for a second go round. He first brought him to the opener with Bowling Green. They live down in Morgantown and he has spent nearly a year re-educating the boy and bringing him over to Pitt. No small feat right in the belly of the couch-burners.

The poor kid was forced to watch Pitt lose to Bowling Green — and he took it hard. Tears and everything. It was like he was the embodiment of our collective id in his reaction.

The kids are coming. Many, many others keep trying to raise their kids the right way. Please, Coach Wannstedt, give us all something to justify the effort.





Here’s something from sportspickle.com you need to pass along to your uncle:

USC defends putting cupcake Ohio State team on its schedule:

USC head football coach Pete Carroll bristled today over continued criticism about his team padding its early-season schedule with cupcakes, most notably last Saturday night when the Trojans took on an almost comically overmatched Ohio State team at home.
“I realize that Ohio State is far from a national title contender,” said Carroll, “but not every game on the schedule can be against a great team. It’s just not possible. But playing a team the caliber of Ohio State helped us stay loose and work on some things for when we open conference play.”
The Buckeyes, while consistently strong in their second-rate conference, have famously been destroyed whenever they venture outside of the Midwest. But Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel said he appreciated the chance to play the Trojans.
“Games like this allow you to measure up against the top programs,” he said. “You kind of know going in that you have very little chance, but it’s a good experience. Many of our players had never been to Los Angeles before. They got to play on the same field as guys they see on TV. And now they’ll be sure to focus more on their studies now that they realize a future in football beyond college is a bit unlikely for them.”
Carroll says he will consider future games against the Buckeyes.
“I don’t want to just cast them aside simply because they are no good,” said Carroll. “They may not be as talented as us, as fast as us, or as strong as us, but believe it or not, that program has a lot of history in college football. They are kind of like Army in that way, and they should be allowed to remain in Division I football as long as they’d like to.”

Comment by Dan35 09.19.08 @ 1:58 pm

Just a heads up: ESPN Classic is showing the 1982 Pitt/Georgia Sugar Bowl today (Fri.) at 5:00PM

I don’t know whether they are showing parts of the game or if it’s going to be the story of the game in documentary fashion. It’s only scheduled for an hour, so I imagine it will be the latter.

Comment by ChrisA 09.19.08 @ 2:32 pm

For joy, Chris! To watch a great football team (that learned fundamentals when they were in junior high school, not college) and that wore great uniforms to boot (and white boots I must add) that had fun playing (Wanny gone by then?)will be a treat and DVR’ed as well.

Comment by steve 09.19.08 @ 2:51 pm

Off topic: I just caught a blurb in today’s PG that Coach Terry Smith of Gateway will be the East coach in the Army All-American game this year. Congrats to him and it will be interesting to see if he gets any more feelers to join the college ranks in the future.

Comment by johnny 09.19.08 @ 2:59 pm

I’ve taken my 5 yeard old to both games so far with mixed results:

The BG game was very hot (especially in the sun) and we spend most of the game watching TV in the Great Hall.

The Buffalo game was better, he sat in (or stood on) the seat and cheered a lot.

The guy beside me brougth a 2 year old and a 4 year old. He didn’t spend much time in his seat – God Bless him for trying, though.

Comment by ME2001 09.19.08 @ 3:45 pm

Why subject the kid to the agony of defeat?

Iowa 24 Pitt 6

Comment by Starbuck 09.19.08 @ 5:31 pm

Bottom line: Pitt football is bigger than Wanny.
Regardless of the high-level recruiting, he must go.

Comment by Gas 09.19.08 @ 6:47 pm

The line is really even for this game? No way Pitt wins this game. They will lose on both lines. Pitt never wins this game.

Comment by Jon C 09.19.08 @ 7:55 pm

I agree with Jon C, also Pitt is 5-13 in past 18 games vs. Division I-A opponents

Should we suck this bad with all that talent?

Wanny is a morom Iwoa is going to waer out the defense, Iowa 14 Pitt 6

Comment by Anton 09.20.08 @ 7:50 am

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