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Beat ArmyAs of this posting, there are 27 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes and 22 seconds until Navy beats Army. The senior service has a right to a certain degree of pride. They’ve got those great uniforms and the Lord knows they’ve got demanding work. But the Blue/Green team has some aces in the hole. You might try some broken field running past our strikers, but you’ll find that when it comes to a broken field, they were there before you. You might try to move the ball down field using a passing game, but I really can’t recommend it. Stick to your ground game. It’s what you know best. You might count on team spirit – that whole “twelfth man” thing – to get you through our front line. You can go tell that to the Marines. Who will probably take one look at you and pass you on to the ordies. Those guys are nuts. If you decide to try an end around we’ve got stealth of our own. At half time, you might feel like you’re ready for a water break. You’ll find these guys waiting for you. The SEALs you won’t see, they’re already in your backfield. They were actually there before the game started, you just didn’t see them. And if they’re feeling generous, you won’t feel much pain, either. When the clock’s ticking down and you’re behind by seven, don’t even think about trying a “Hail Mary“pass. If you’re feeling a little knocked about after the game, you’ll find the medical corpsman equally adept at airing you out as patching you up. And if he’s better at the former than the latter – or even not as good – you’ll find the chaplain standing ready to ease your passage. Hell, we’ve even got Lance Armstrong on our team. Give up already. We’ve got you beat.
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Heh.
Having a bit of fun on a Saturday morning Lex?
Thank God we finally got a new HDTV so that we can watch The Game. It’s great too … 40″ flat screen Sony. Wish you were living nearby Lex, so you could explain to us how to play our DVDs through the dang thing. And then there’s new thing called BluRay or something. What’s with that? Is it going to be another Betamax vs. VHS thing?
We try to keep up with technology, but we seem to keep missing a step, because the new changes keep piling up on each other. And the guy who delivered this gorgeous thing doesn’t speak English very well, confining himself to thrusting a paper under our noses and saying “You sign this, please.”
You know, there’s a definite “hole in the market” thing going on here. Clever articulate young folks could get a profitable business going as Technology Tutors, training the older folks in how to operate all this new stuff. Even in this recession, they could make a mint.
Marianne
Well, that was fun! I stole a pic for background, too. I’ll help y’all holler for Navy when the time comes, but today it’s – ROLL TIDE!!
Miss Birdlegs, ya’ll can say that right up till ya’ll meet them boys from Gainseville…chomp…chomp, 20 yards here, 50 there, and we’ll be more than happy to take that #1 from ya’ll
And yes, Go Navy, Beat Army!
yuck it up while you can, but I shall make the exact opposite pre-dict-ion.
GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY.
I laughed when I saw the “great uniforms” photo, because the actual castle where the winged monkeys flew out of during “The Wizard of Oz” is located directly across the Hudson from – you guessed it – West Point!
Oh, and even though I am forced to wear Army green – on account of my chosen profession – I told the wife that I’ll consider switching teams when I’ve spent as long in the Army as I did in the Marines. So I’ve got another 16 yrs to go before I have to cross *that* bridge…
Plus, it’s just way too much fun to call up all my new Army buddies and laugh at them once a year.
Oh, and I have a question: What’s with the two stars on Bill’s blanket? Sometimes I see the ‘N’ with one star, other times it has two – what gives?
Marianne,
The “Betamax vs. VHS” battle was actually between BluRay and HDDVD.
BluRay won.
That being said, the selection at the various stores I have seen show BluRay has a long way to go before replacing standard DVD, so you may want to wait before getting a player.
Pure gold, Cap’n.
GO NAVY!! BEAT ARMY!!
GO NAVY BEAT ARMY!!
WHOOP WHOOP!!!! (For those unaware – “Whoop” is a term used for a West Pointer in a teasing kind of way – it’s the sound the monkeys make in the Wizard of Oz… who wear uniforms similar to West Point and come out of castles reminiscent of theirs as well).
MajHarvey,
You get a star for each victory/year. Four would be the max.
For Marianne, with apologies to Bruce Jones:
VHS vs. Betamax was all about videoTAPE, and VHS won that battle with Sony’s Betamax. That bit of history expired with the advent of the LazerDisc and DVD.
DVD’s (45 record size) replaced LazerDiscs (78 record size for us old folks), and BluRay is an HD (High Definition) variant on the DVD. They’re the same size, but require a altogether different and new (of course) player … it’s about twice the price of the standard DVD player. A BluRay player will play standard DVD’s, but are required for BluRay (HD) DVD’s.
…and that’s the simple explanation, Marianne. The short of it is if you want HD DVD on your HD TV, you’ll need a BluRay.
Oh, yes… GO, NAVY!!! BEAT ARMY!!!
Marianne,
Call the Geek Squad. They’re in the yeller pages.
re HD: more resolution = more observable pimples and other nasty things I’d rather not see. The folks round here that like all that bizzare, physics ignoring animation and SciFi, love HD and BluRay (I thought that was some type o’porn!)… Do you remember when they just went to color on the TV?
Heck, I think Navy is gonna take Notre Dame next week! I went to the Temple game last week on a whim. Navy looked good.
b2
Lotsa nice pictures, EXCEPT for SEALs. This perpetuates a sad trend I have noticed. C’mon, Lex, just one? No fair talking about them and then being a tease (and you’ve already pulled the pinnipedia stunt, so give it up)
Bruce Jones, Peter Gunn and B2 … you are gentlemen all and scholars. Thanks so much for the help and information. Geek squad, eh?
Lex, my hero … you printed a great pic of SEALs running on the beach some months ago. Did my heart good — and my circulation, too. Could you repeat, just for the Lex Babes and the Lex Gramma?
Marianne
The things I do for you guys.
Sheesh. I need a shower. A hot shower. In case that wasn’t clear.
Because a cold shower would be sorta ghey, given the circumstances.
Marianne,
FEAR THE GOAT!
“I Don’t Think So” boom boom boom, boom boom boom.
Last weeks Temple game gave me a sore throat!
I suffer from Navy Football Turrets… Thank God I watch them over TV!
GO NAVY!
Lex -
It ain’t the cold shower that’s the ghey bit…. it’s that second link, thing gives Top Gun a run for it’s money in the latent homosexuality stakes.
PeterGunn,
No worries. The quotes were used to say that BluRay v. HDDVD was the same type of battle, just with hi-def compact disc instead of tape; the competition wasn’t with standard-def DVD. I presumed Marianne already had a DVD player, and so was suggesting that she might want to wait before buying a BluRay. It may be a while before there’s enough market to bring prices down.
B2, you sayin’ you don’t wanna see Navy beat Army in HD? Add in SmellOVision and it’s almost like bein’ there!
Bill C-
Ok, I’m still not getting it. One star for a victory/year? Now I have to ask what that is – it can’t just be for beating Army, or else you’d have like 8 by now. Is it for every year you win the Commander’s trophy? Lex, help us out here…
The athletes would get stars on our letter sweaters for each year we’d beaten army. Bill the Goat’s blanket mimicked what you’d see on a senior’s sweater in his fourth year, so you can think of it as rolling four-year average. If Navy had beaten Army for his first three years, he’d wear three stars. After the game, if Navy wins, he wears four.
It’s a four year program, so if Navy loses the next two years, the incoming seniors – if they’d played varsity their whole time – would only have two stars on their sweaters. Like Bill. The goat.
Bruce,
I’m actually neutral re Army-Navy game. I have no affiliation with Annapolis- I just served in the US Navy and was trained to be officer by Marine NCOs. Don’t get me wrong- I do get choked when Anchors Away is played and I have great respect for CanoeU grads. If my son were to get in there I might show some interest but he seems to want the Point. Of course the Spartans are his favorite subjects and he loved watching the Marine silent drill show…..
re the outcome- I wonder if anyone has ever done a study seeing which players are in better shape 10-15 years up the road, Army or Navy? I’m sure the 1 or 2 Navy SEALS the favored team may offer will be, and the dozen or so Marines (a guess), but I’m not sure about all those SWOs, Bubbleheads, aviators and supply officers, support (formerly GURLS), Medical, legal, PAO, etc. (Bless ‘em all) would match up against a crowd that will end of primarily infantry officers, especially today….Ever been to Bragg for business and arrive before 0900? Nobody is at “work”- the entire Corps is PT-ing! Heck. Maybe there should be an alumni game ‘tween the institutions? Gently sobering thought given the game and the War, ain’t it?
b2
B2, maybe you should refine that question, ask who would be in better shape, the Army or the Marines?
Maj Harvey,
Did some research. Everything Lex said is dead on. The reason for the two stars. Back in the day Plebes were not allowed to play varsity football. The N star blanket represents the first class(senior) with two football victories, going for the third.
Byron,
82nd AB + Rangers+ ARSOF =/> entire population of Marine Infantry.
Answer that question yourself. Looks like a tie at best.
BTW, my mascot “Jonathan” loves goatmeat! Let’s get off this subject..I see the humorless (when it comes to Navy football??Bill C. posting. I’m bugging out…
b2
B2,
Goatmeat – I had a lot of that growing up. It was a favorite of my Grandmother who still lived on the Jicarilla Apache Indian reservation. She always had a pot of this Goat stew on her stove. When ever we broke from chopping wood you could go in and have some along with the tortilla’s or sopapilla’s (fried bread).
Could go for some of that right now. Just got to get my hands on a goat!!!
BT: Jimmy T sends.
Yay! Pictures! Yer the best, Lex
and re: showers, it isn’t the temperature we care about so much, but the use of soap.
Ok, pardon the crushing density of this former Marine, but hasn’t Navy beat Army every year from 2002-present? Like 6 years in a row? Does the counter reset itself after star #4?
Wiki says this:
“Navy has now reestablished itself as the dominant team in the rivalry, having won every game against its service academy rivals since losing in 2002 to Air Force, and thereby winning the trophy in 2003 through 2007.”
Major Harvey,
In one word, sir, “yes.”
Again… GO NAVY BEAT ARMY!