<p>Florida State destroyed Syracuse 59-0. I bet if I had been at the game the Florida State coach would have put me in to play. </p>
<p>That article in Cal is shocking. Their players are dumb enough to compete with any team.</p>
<p>The Oregon Duck’s uniforms were sort of interesting today. They were a cross of camo and yellow.</p>
<p>Auburn!!! Wow.</p>
<p>DB stands for Dumb Backs in Georgia. Why try to intercept a 4th and 18 ball.</p>
<p>That Georgia game was pretty exciting. </p>
<p>I can’t believe number 4 Stanford lost to unranked USC.</p>
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<p>None of the Pac-12 teams this year were good enough to be true National Title Contenders anyways.</p>
<p>What happens to Fl. State’s wins when the criminal investigation is - cough - allowed to happen? </p>
<p>Anyone surprised by athletic admissions at big schools has been napping for decades. Even the Ivy League has made special rules for teams with losing records to lower standards to up their competitiveness. (That said, I didn’t think that was true when I was Yale a long time ago … well maybe hockey.)</p>
<p>Yes, lots in Tally needs explaining: we have physical evidence from the victim, photographic evidence of a battery, a complaint by the victim, an investigation by the sex crimes unit, a prominent criminal defense attorney, alibi witnesses, a suspect who have invoked his fifth amendment rights and the SA is not involved? </p>
<p>I thought the Harvard-Penn was amazing too Harvard led 38-0 after three minutes of the third quarter, then Penn scored 30 straight, including two two-point conversions. They got the ball back deep in their half with about two and a half minutes left and no timeouts. Converted four (!!!) fourth downs to get down to the Harvard 20 or so, but couldn’t convert the fifth time.</p>
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The perpetrator was described as being between 5’9" and 5’11" I believe, Mr. Winston is more like 6’6" despite being listed at 6’4".</p>
<p>Congrats Duke, one win against Wake Forest and you will most likely be BCS ranked!</p>
<p>I was glad to see the Chiefs lose to the Broncos. Alex Smith and Andy Reid may be come back kids but Peyton Manning will be in the superbowl this year.</p>
<p>Well my husband is psyched that his team has the best record going into their bye week.
Plus the Cougars won.</p>
<p>The really scary thing about Seattle is that they have performed as well as they have without Percy Harvin for most of the season. Now that he is back, add one more weapon to their potent arsenal.</p>
<p>Harvin seemed to enjoy playing against and beating his old team.</p>
<p>The thing that bothered me the most about this weekends NFL play was the concussion on Welker. He was hit in the head and fumbled because he blacked out. He was removed from the game but then put back in. He caught another pass and then had to come out. If he had gotten hit after being put back in, he could have died. The Broncos are idiots to have placed him in at such a risk. The NFL should investigate this and fire everyone involved in putting Welker back into the game.</p>
<p>^^^^^razor, I’m horrified about that. What I did learn about concussions when my daughter had several was that the first concussion is bad enough. But the real danger is a second concussion following closely after the first one. Those second concussions can be fatal. It’s really scary, and Welker’s judgment would have been impaired, so if the excuse was “he said he was okay,” that’s really REALLY lame.</p>
<p>D2 had a very severe injury during a school soccer game where she was literally unconscious on the field for at least a minute. I was not there because I got caught in bad traffic and turned around and went home when I realized I would not even get there in time to see the game. I was NOT INFORMED by her coaches. They attempted to play her the next day because she told them “she was fine.” When she got dizzy/nauseated during warmups, they benched her THANK GOD. Again, I was on the way to the game (a tournament 40 minutes away) when D called and said she wouldn’t be playing so don’t bother coming. I still knew nothing of the injury the previous day (D hadn’t told me because she was afraid I “would freak.”). I never knew anything about it until a trainer of a competing team called me a few days later to check on her because “he’d been worried sick about that kid all weekend.” I have never been so livid. </p>
<p>Policy at our school has been changed as a result of this incident. I still can get upset thinking about what COULD have happened to my D had she played the day after this incident. I still worry about residuals as this was the 3rd serious concussion D had suffered in her career. </p>
<p>Don’t get me started. I’m getting upset just writing about this…</p>
<p>Something needs to be done about this issue. The fans complain but the fans be damned. No sport is worth your intellect…or your life.</p>
<p>He recovered his own fumble, so did he really black out?</p>
<p>In other news, the Patsies have a terrible defense. This team is not going far in the playoffs.</p>
<p>^^^^notrichenough, yes, that could be. I was present for one of D2’s concussions. She was talking to me, albeit not herself. She spoke to her coach, her Dad, the referee. The next day she had no memory of any of it. She didn’t remember us taking her to the hospital for a CT scan, didn’t remember sobbing and rocking back and forth in our car from the headache pain. Really, an ambulance should have been called for her. In those days, people didn’t really realize the danger of these concussions. “You got your bell wrung” was a common phrase. In reality, these injuries are really, really serious. Remember actress Natasha Richardson?</p>
<p>Ouch … that’s tough way to lose a game. When a linebacker is hugging a tight end like that, and to call it, then pick up the flag.</p>
<p>I would be horrified about that too nrdsb4.
D played soccer, but barely even had a pulled muscle, but I cant imagine coaches that didn’t get kids checked out/ tell the parents.</p>
<p>Not that I want to alarm you, but I just read something about the suicide rate in football players & it seems to be tied to brain damage from concussions.
[Timeline:</a> The NFL’s Concussion Crisis | League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis | FRONTLINE | PBS](<a href=“http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/league-of-denial/timeline-the-nfls-concussion-crisis/]Timeline:”>Timeline: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis | League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis | FRONTLINE | PBS)</p>
<p>I had a mild concussion/ didnt black out, but it was quite a while before I was myself again.</p>
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<p>He got hit in the helmet (not the arms) by two players. He blacked out briefly which is why he dropped the ball. If he had suffered another hit like that one when they returned him to the game, I think we would be looking at Wes Welker the vegetable. </p>
<p>Nrdsb4, that is some pretty scary stuff about your daughter. I’m glad it worked out ok.</p>
<p>I’ve seen Welker get hit in the head so often he’s a major candidate for brain damage later.</p>
<p>It looks like being in the ACC is like being in a roach motel – once you go in, you never come out.</p>
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<p>Read more here: [RALEIGH</a>, N.C.: Court preserves lawsuit over Maryland leaving ACC | College | NewsObserver.com](<a href=“http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/19/3386881/nc-court-preserves-acc-lawsuit.html#storylink=cpy]RALEIGH”>http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/19/3386881/nc-court-preserves-acc-lawsuit.html#storylink=cpy)</p>