If you are not familiar with the Red Means Go campaign then you definitely need to read this important entry.
We wanted to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the new contest to give away a $1,000 gift card to the NC State Student Store — click here for more
Tip to Deadspin. There is just no way that we couldn’t post this.
As you can see from the Wolfpack sign above, the evidence is pretty over-whelming.
Maybe the curse of NC State will finally work for all of our benefit and will result in this stain on humanity losing his seat and drifting off into obscurity. Maybe Murtha and Tom Daschle can find somwhere to play some shuffleboard together. Iran maybe?
In other shocking election day news, it appears that WorldNetDaily has finally found Obama’s ‘lost’ birth certificate. But…look at it carefully (below). It appears to closely match Lee Fowler’s report on NC State Athletics that was leaked to the public by “oldtrenchfighter” on Pack’s Pride’s message boards. Coincidence?
I’m sorry…I just cannot resist.
Jackson Native Stars in New Beyoncé Video
Former NFL Seattle Seahawks player and television reporter Eddie Goines has a newfound passion - acting. The Jackson native recently starred as the romantic lead in Grammy Award-winning singer Beyonce’s black and white music video for “If I Were a Boy,” the first single to be released off her upcoming album.
On May 14th of this year, over at my old site, Red and White From State, I made an entry that suggested something I thought that would look really neat at a home game:
Most of us have all see the flipcards that make graphic elements in the stands of a stadium: each seat in a given section has a card placed on it, and on a signal, everyone holds it up.
If you’re an avid NC State fan you may have missed it.
Perhaps you walked away from the television trying to beat your head against the wall after another of Tom O’Brien’s players was injured. Or…maybe you were in the stands during our televised games this season concentrating on a return on investment analysis of your Lifetime Rights If you were in the stands maybe you were so engrossed in the game that you were watching substitution patterns instead of the drivel on the jumbotron (which probably wasn’t audible anyway with Carter-Finley’s antiquated sound system).
In a stroke of rare sheer genius, NC State Athletics Director Lee Fowler has announced an original plan to increase apparel sales while raising excitement amoung the NCSU fan base. Contained in this official news release from Media Relations Director are the details to the plan.
AD Lee Fowler has declared a “Purple Out” for the October fourth game against ACC opponent Boston College. NCSU is declaring this “purple out” in an attempt to repair relations with their ESPN declared interstate rival as well as to increase sales of NCSU’s new purple jerseys. Fowler has stated “if it works at Georgia it will doubly work at NCSU”. In conjunction NCSU has announced their new “purple is the new red” line of apparel on sale now at the NCSU bookstore.
As a devout reader of the hilarious NFL Blog known to fans as KSK, I can’t help but think of their Rex Grossman posts everytime Harrison Beck enters the game - particularly this one (warning - more bad language than a BJD95 live blog that involves UNC or Duke).
I’m certainly glad Beck is taking the reins Saturday, since Daniel Evans or punting on first down (I’d prefer the latter) are our only alternatives. But I would suggest taking Tom O’Brien’s lead and keeping your sense of humor front and center.
In a few days we’ll renew our rivalry with South Carolina after a nine year hiatus, which is a real shame because it’s a fun rivalry that should be played annually. It would never be the Red River Rivalry or the Cocktail Party, but it’s a mutually-beneficial opportunity to capitalize on a spirited and profitable regional rivalry beyond each program’s natural rival.
This is personal for me. According to my folks, the roots of me becoming a loyal State fan (to a fault) stemmed from my fascination as a toddler with the Strutting Wolf.
The Tuffy of my childhood was rugged and vicious, leading us to a national title and two ACC titles. In the mid-90s, they tried to replace him with Sonic the Hedgehog, unsuccessfully (thank goodness). A few years ago they redressed him and gave him a trim and a shave to make us more marketable; few of us were pleased, most of us incensed. Now, he’s become increasingly scarce altogether; instead, we have Snake Eyes’ trusty companion Timber howling at the moon, sometimes with a few of his buddies (all guys aged 25 to 30 know that Snake Eyes was the coolest GI JOE).
Many of us grew-up listening to Skip Caray and following the Atlanta Braves from baseball’s worst franchise in the late 70s and 1980s into one of baseball’s best franchises since 1990.
The voice of our generation passed away in his sleep.
This post does an excellent job of highlighting various stories on the internet that may be of interest to you.
Dear Heather Dinich,
Good for you, having been to all of the ACC stadiums – it’s something I can’t say for myself. And kudos to ESPN for hiring an Indiana graduate and a Maryland resident to write a regular blog about the ACC.
I’ll be honest here, Heather. I’m provincially prejudiced and I don’t intend to change that about myself. I’m a born and bred North Carolina boy and times have been few when I cared what an outsider thinks about Carter-Finley, but your rankings lack credibility and beg for a response. I’ve been to Lane, Memorial, Bobby Dodd, Groves, Wallace Wade, and Kenan stadiums. And when I say I’ve been there, I’ve been there on days where actual games have been played and not just to look at all the pretty columns.
I first became aware of this via link to the Hole board, but it’s still an interesting time waster for a Holiday weekend (with little expected NC State news). Since we are not a message board, we can’t have elimination-style voting. So, just use the comments to list the other ACC teams in order of dislike (1 being the most hated, 11 being the most liked/tolerated). Personally, I have to split the hatred by sport - I mean, who could possibly hate Duke football?
Football:
1. UNC
2. Boston College
3. Virginia Tech
4. Florida State
5. Miami
6. UVA
7. Maryland
8. Duke
9. GT
10. Clemson
11. Wake
One can only imagine the recruiting implications that astute competitors can find in a University ADMITTING that they are the worst football program in all of America.
The contract called for a penalty of $150,000 per game if a date with a “team of similar stature” could not be arranged.Duke’s lawyers argued that the Blue Devils, who are 6-45 the past five seasons, are so bad that any team would be a suitable replacement.Judge Shepherd agreed in his summary:
Once again, the darlings in Chapel Hill get a pass. Per the N&O:
UNC-Chapel Hill will not face sanctions over a pickup game Tuesday.
The men’s basketball team played with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in violation of a rule that coaches are not allowed to watch pickup games during the offseason.
Division I basketball teams are also prohibited from any mandatory athletically related offseason activities through final exams, which began Monday.
I know what you more mature readers are asking and saying right now
Facebook? Is this a joke? What college student has taken over SFN?
Well, this is not a joke.
After reading dozens of articles in the past year in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and other business magazines SFN (and some of our bloggers) have taken the plunge into another realm of cyberspace by opening Facebook profiles. We’ve been pretty amazed at all of the various ways that the tool can be used.
Tip of the hat to the Pack Pride message boards for highlighting this fantastic YouTube Video titled, “Where Amazing Happens - NC State”.
Without explicitly stating it, this video provides a damning commentary of the current nature of the NC State athletics program as the bulk of the actual achievements in the video all took place in the past with none taking place within the last four years. How about we rename it, “Where Amazing Happened”?
The Final Four is almost here. Which means a lot of things…and this year it means that the world will have the ‘pleasure’ of watching the most amazing college basketball player in history!
With Rick Morrissey leading the charge in this fantastic article, we FINALLY have some other folks in the media willing to highlight some of the insanity around the world’s love affair with the previously unassailable Hopsandwalk.
Analysts for my network, CBS, portray Hansbrough as a crime-fighting special-forces soldier. He’s Batman Hansbrough. The only thing missing during some broadcasts of his games is the waving of the American flag and the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.
