Captain Kangaroo

Why are we discussing CJ Spiller on a Zips web site?

At least the NCAA lets him do the fun stuff. Allen Iverson would like this one single bit.

How about - Ball State = Adult Zip-or-Treat Each participating Lot 9'er brings a 6 pack of high-end beer to the pre-game. Must be a 6-pack. No 22oz'ers. Lot 9'ers bring their 6 pack to participating fan's tailgate and say "Zip or Treat!" They then are given a beer from the participating tailgater in exchange for one of their own. You continue around the lot until you have 6 new, different beers in your 6-pack. Personally, my favorite beer is always my next beer. I'd rather try 6 different pumpkin beers than drink a 6-pack of a single brand. Zip-or-Treat would be a good way to try a bunch of different beers and have a little October fun. Costumes optional. Kids Root Beer Exchange is also an under 21 possibility. Thoughts?

Wash them down with a couple highballs, and you're set.

So is the Ball State Tailgate theme "Balls"? Meatballs (many options here), sauerkraut balls, melon balls, rum balls, spinach balls... Just make sure not to get any balls on your chin.

I forgot a few of mine. I'll need to look them up later. Here is the updated list: 1 21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon 2 3 Floyds Alpha King 3 3 Floyds Apocalypse Cow 4 3 Floyds Artic Panzer Wolf 5 3 Floyds Brian Boru Irish Red 6 3 Floyds Dreadnaught 7 3 Floyds Gumballhead 8 3 Floyds Pride and Joy 9 3 Floyds Robert the Bruce 10 Abita Lager 11 Abita Purple Haze 12 Amstel Light 13 Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Ale 14 Atwater Detroit Pale Ale 15 Avery While Rascal 16 Ayinger Bräu Weisse 17 Beck’s Sapphire 18 Bell's Java Stout 19 Bell's Porter 20 Blue Moon Rounder Belgian-Style Pale Ale 21 Boddingtons 22 Boulder Planet Porter 23 Boulevard Bully! Porter 24 Boulevard Dark Truth Stout 25 Boulevard Pale Ale 26 Breckenridge Avalanche 27 Bud Light 28 Budweiser 29 Cellar Rats POC Pilsner 30 Coors (Banquet Beer) 31 Coors Light 32 Corona 33 Corona Light 34 Dale's Pale Ale 35 Dark Horse Kmita Kolsch 36 Dark Horse Thirsty Trout Porter 37 Dogfish Head Sixty One 38 Dominion Oak Barrel Stout 39 Dragon Mead Final Absolution 40 Duvel Tripel Hop 2013 Sorachi Ace 41 Fat Heads Oktoberfest 42 Fat Heads Oompa Loompa 43 Fat Heads Spooky Tooth 44 Flat 12 Hello My Name Is Amber 45 Flat 12 Pogue's Run Porter 46 Flat 12 Walk About Pale Ale 47 Flying Dog The Fear Pumpkin Ale 48 Fort Collins Brewery Maibock 49 Fort Collins Brewery Dopple Bock 50 Founders Dirty Bastard 51 Four Horsemen Hop Rush IPA 52 Four Horsemen Nugget Head Hoppy Wheat 53 Goose Island 312 54 Great Lakes Alchemy Hour Double IPA 55 Great Lakes Burning River 56 Great Lakes Christmas Ale 57 Great Lakes Commodore Perry 58 Great Lakes Dortmunder 59 Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster 60 Great Lakes Lake Edmund Fitzgerald Porter 61 Great Lakes Nosferatu 62 Great Lakes Oktoberfest 63 Great Lakes Rye Of The Tiger IPA 64 Green Flash Double Stout 65 Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest 66 Heinenken Dark 67 Hofbrau Hefeweizen 68 Hofbrau Oktoberfest 69 Hop City Barking Squirrel Lager 70 Hungry Bee Rehive Ale 71 Iron City Light 72 Jacko Travler Shandy 73 Keystone light 74 Killian's Irish Red 75 Kona Pipeline Porter 76 LaBatt Blue 77 Lagunitas Hop Stoopid Ale 78 Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin 79 Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro 80 Left Hand Nitro Stout 81 Left Handed Polestar Pilsner 82 Leikeim Dunkle Weisse 83 Leikeim Kellerbier 84 Leikeim Weizen 85 Leinenkugel Summer Shandy 86 Leinenkugel's Hoppin' Helles 87 Lost Coast Downtown Brown 88 Magic Hat Circus Boy Hefeweizen 89 Maumee Bay IPA 90 Miller Icehouse 91 Mönchshof Kellerbier 92 Mooshacher Schwarze Weisse Dark Wheat 93 Mt. Pleasant Train Wreck Ale 94 Natural light 95 Newcastle 96 North Peak Viscious Wheat IPA 97 Ohio Brewing Buckeye Blonde 98 Ohio Brewing Company Steel Valley Stout 99 Old Milwaukee Light 100 Oskar Blues Dales Pale Ale 101 Oskar Blues Ten Fidy 102 Pabst Blue Ribbon 103 Peoples Mr. Brown Ale 104 Red Hook Pumpkin Porter 105 Rince Cochon 106 Rivertown Pumpkin Ale 107 Round Barn Brewery Oronoko Cocoa Stout 108 Sam Adams Imperial Stout 109 Sam Adams Porch Rocker 110 Samuel Adams: Fat Jack 111 Schafly APA 112 Schafly Extra Stout 113 Schafly Oatmeal Stout 114 Schafly Porter 115 Schlafly Pale Ale 116 Sheaf Stout 117 Shiner Oktoberfest 118 Sierra Nevada Hoptinum 119 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 120 Sixpoint 3 Beans 121 Sixpoint Sweet Action 122 Sol 123 Southern Tier Pumking 124 Southern Tier Pumking 125 Sprecher Black Bavarian 126 Stella Artois 127 Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic Ale 128 Stone 17th Anniversary Götterdämmerung IPA 129 Stone RuinTen 130 Stroh's 131 Sun King Osiris Pale Ale 132 Sun King Sunlight Cream Ale 133 Sun King Wee Mac Scottish Ale 134 Sweetwater 420 135 Sweetwater Blue 136 Thirsty Dog Citra Dog 137 Thirsty Dog Old Leghumper 138 Thirsty Dog Rail Dog 139 Triton 4-Barrel Brown 140 Triton Deadeye Stout 141 Triton Magnificent Amber 142 Triton Railsplitter IPA 143 Triton Sin Bin 144 Troegs Dream Weaver Wheat 145 Troegs Mad Elf 146 Troegs Nugget Nectar 147 Tyranena Bitter Woman IPA 148 Tyranena Chief Blackhawk Porter 149 Tyranena Headless Man Amber 150 Tyranena Rocky's Revenge Brown 151 Tyranena Sheep Shagger Scotch Ale 152 Tyranena Stone Tepee Pale Ale 153 Uinta Black Lager 154 Uinta Punk’n Harvest Pumpkin Ale 155 Unibroue Maudite 156 Upland CV Pre-Prohibition Lager 157 Veldensteiner Zwicklbier 158 Warsteiner Premium Verum 159 Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen 160 Weihenstephaner Pilsner

I'm guessing the same whiz kids that screwed up the Harney/Treadwell paperwork last year got promoted to Football Operations?

WTF kind of recipe is this? I assume you spread it over sticks of butter and eat it like a Popsicle?

The defense steps up: 52-10 NIU

Does playing Grand Theft Auto 5 in Poland count as "playing in Europe"?

23 yards shows home run potential? That's a short porch. Biggs, Hendry, Kennedy...those guys were a threat to go all the way at any given time. I miss those guys.

"Potential" simply means you haven't done it. There are graveyards full of coaches who made their player decisions based upon potential rather than results. If a duck can pull a truck, then hitch 'em up. If a horse can't pull a truck, then make glue.

Great point. Home field advantage at the Rubber Bowl was a massive, borderline unfair plus for the Zips. I think we were something like 39-1 over our previous 40 games there. Again, great point.

1-7 MAC team beats #24 ranked opponent

Thanks for posting. I like reading that we made it to the 2nd round of the NCAA tourney. I guess that's one way to advance to round #2...add a play-in round and call it round #1.

When college players whine that they should be paid, do any of them consider they're getting free trips to Hawai'i and Puerto Rico while most other students are working at the Student Union?

I contend the sideways pass has been our #1 option.

This team lost 3 MAC games, and still won the MAC Championship

@ DIG: Back to a cushy TV gig. @ Other People: Bowden will make the Zips a winner. I have no doubt. He works hard, and he knows how to get the job done. It will simply take time. There are no shortcuts. Bowden needed to take-on 5th year seniors. Otherwise we'd be getting absolutely killed with true Freshmen of defense instead of James, Capi and Mizell (as only 3 examples). As time goes on, the reliance on these transfers will wane, and they will be replaced by 5th year kids recruited by the Zips out of high school. Bowden and Milwee make mistakes. Zips football fans are allowed to discuss the game strategies and results just like any other fans. Bowden coached at Auburn. He can take it.

It was a funny story with him...he left the Zips to coach for the 49ers under Mike Nolan. Shortly thereafter Nolan got fired. Nori still had a residence in Stow, and was still collecting a paycheck from SF, so he moved back. The Stow HC job opened up in the interim, and he took it. Nori played a couple years in the NFL. Pretty big coup for Stow to get him.

Two additional "Former Coach" Updates: Former Zips RB coach Reno Ferri now holds the same position at Towson, where the Tigers are #2 in the latest FCS poll. Former UA OL coach Mark Nori, who left the Zips in favor of the SF 49'ers staff, has his Stow Bulldogs at 5-0 as they enter this week's game against the 5-0 Hudson Explorers.

I think if you use the sampling of a single game, anyone can look bad. Based upon Louisiana, LT Smith is a chump. Bickley had 5 receptions for 79 yards and 2 TD's against Louisiana. Pretty good for a true freshman. He's probably going to end up a lot closer to Garrett Wolfe than you might want to acknowledge. To the main point - I don't think the coaches blew the game. But they blew some major chances to win the game. And the coaching staff needs to be flawless if the Zips are to beat upper-tier MAC programs. Throwing the ball on 3rd and inches when you have Hundley in the backfield is not smart football. Just like it wasn't smart football to run a sweep with "Mr. Outside" Juwan Chisholm on the 1 yard line against Michigan. Having Pohl throw on 3rd and goal from the 4-inch line was as dangerous and ill-advised as it was for him to throw in a similar situation at Michigan. We get too cute inside the 5 yard line. We are the opposing defense's dream with our inside-the-5 playcalling. Kicking from the far left hash with Dr. Shanken Stein was a big blunder. He's not a good kicker. Bowden needs to play to win. His offensive playcalling is poor when it needs to be sound. The pooch punt was extremely bad. With our existing punter bucking for team MVP honors, why do you take the ball out of his hands and let a QB kick it? There was no need for such a high-risk call, and it cost us 7 points. BG has more talent the UA. But last Saturday, poor playcalling cost us a chance at the upset. MAC teams choke when the pressure it on. BG would have layed entirely different if it were 24-21 in the 4th, instead of 24-14. And the Zips defense would have had a spring in their step. Instead we let BG off the hook, and lost our 30th consecutive road game. Compare that with NIU, who's WON 27 of their last 29 road games. Beautiful day in Bowling Green. But a tough day to enjoy.

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BG did not score an offensive TD against Indiana. The same Indiana who has surrendered 35, 35 and 28 points in their other 3 contests. Indiana rolled up over 600 offensive yards against BG. That tells me BG's offense is weak, and their defense is overrated. A healthy Zips team rolls in relatively easy fashion, ending both their epic MAC, and overall road losing streaks in one fell swoop. Zips 38 BG28 #turnthecorner

Looks to be a beautiful day, and only a 2-hour drive. I think I'm gonna pull the trigger on this one. Maybe get the kid some Myles Pizza for the tailgate.