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They are celebrating their 8th Anniversary at Hoppin' Frog and pulling out some old bombers: "That’s right! You could win the opportunity to purchase these super rare bottles, currently only available for consumption in our tasting room, to take home at special anniversary prices." Barrel-Aged B.O.R.I.S. Royale Imperial Stout (May 2011) - $27 Barrel-Aged B.O.R.I.S. Royale Imperial Stout (August 2011) - $24 Barrel-Aged Naked Evil Belgian-Style Barley-Wine (2011) - $34 Barrel-Aged Naked Evil Belgian-Style Barley-Wine (2012) - $30 Barrel-Aged B.O.R.I.S. Bairille Aois Imperial Stout (2013) - $27 Barrel-Aged B.O.R.I.S. Van Wink Imperial Stout (2013) - $28

You may not have heard this, but there is a movement afoot to ban abbreviations. Consider this your warning.

Time for everyone to wake up after the long weekend. Zippy is trailing Joe Bruin 75-25.

D'oh! My bad. I put it onto the master list. Also, could you please not abbreviate my name?

Heck of a tally this week for our little tailgating group. 32 delicious beverages. Bell's Mars Clown Shoes Muffin Top DuClaw Euforia Epic Fermantation Without Representation Pumpkin Porter Flying Dog Mint Chocolate Stout Franziskaner Hefeweizen Goose Island Matilda Lagunitas IPA Lagunitas Night Time Ale Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro Otto's Black Mo Stout Otto's Black Nitro IPA Otto's Double D IPA Otto's Mt. Nittany Pale Ale Otto's Red Mo Otto's Wit Sierra Nevada CANfusion Sierra Nevada Chico King Sierra Nevada Double Latte Sierra Nevada Maillard's Odyssey Sierra Nevada Myron's Walk Sierra Nevada Tater Ridge Sierra Nevada There & Back Sierra Nevada Torpedo Pilsner Sierra Nevada Yonder Bock Sierra Nevada Yvan the Great Spring House Big Gruesome Peanut Butter Stout Stone 18th Anniversary IPA Troegs Perpetual IPA Voodoo Wynona's Big Brown Ale Wachusett Blueberry Ale Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen I know there are more beers to claim. Just write 'em in and I will add 'em to the list.

Ladies & Gentlemen, I introduce to you: Jawon "avoid contact at any cost" Chisholm.

LZip, if u need a ticket that will be easy to get. Let me know.

I would get a Zips tattoo, but I am confused about what colors it should be.

That really sucks for Blowing Green fans. Gotta feel for 'em.

I like the first comment on the PD article. "Zippy would box Brutus and hit him upside the head.......and then drop Kangaroo scat on him."

Thanks, Zippy5. The trip to Pittsburgh is shaping up to be a great beer weekend.

Sharp Edge looks like a must do. I bet I can get an amen from ZipGrad01 on that. Thanks Dr. Z.

How is it possible that Zips fans are just now hearing this Jawon Chisholm story? Unbelievable. Cue GP1 for a lazy journalism quote.

Yah mo b there.

Tailgate action was a little different Thursday to say the least. First of all, not 1 person set up a canopy, so the lot looked a little strange. There was plenty of good food available starting with breakfast on through lunch and dinner. Johnny Zip's Bison Sliders were on point as were GoZips19's beef sandwiches. Also, ZipGrad01 & Jimmy the Zip had an excellent little fish fry going on. The beer situation was a little different too with home brews being brought in. ZG01 & JtZ both brought along corny kegs of their homemade hefeweizens (they need to tell me the name of their breweries) and I brought along a couple of bombers of BA Imperial Porter that I had been working on. I decided to bring the 12er of Beer Camp for the Penn State tailgate. I am going to list some of the beers I saw friends drinking, too. Please fill in the gaps. Redhook Out of your Gourd Pumpkin Porter New Belgium Tour de Fall IPA Dogfish Head Punkin Ale Goose Island Oktoberfest Stone Coffee Milk Stout Shiner White Wing Elevator Three Frogs IPA Portside Ironclad Double Pale Ale Left Hand Blackjack Porter Moab Johnny's American IPA Karpackie Super Mocne Hoppin' Frog Infusion A Coffee Porter Schnieder Weisse Porter Weisse The Bruery Mischief Miller Lite Bud Light 3 Floyds Man-O-Awe ZipGrad01 Hefeweizen Jimmy the Zip Hefeweizen Ficken die Blitze Crown Porter Thirsty Dog Rail Dog Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald As always, check out tailgating pics (and add your own) at www.facebook.com/akronzipstailgaters

We have to go balls out to win this game. No playing "not to lose". I want to see the Zips open up their bag of tricks and take some chances. Neuter the Nits!

I knew someone would take that bait. Too easy.

I saw quite a few electronic billboards around town proclaiming "ZIPS WIN!" for a Marshall ticket promo.

Play of the game was Fransohn Bickley's block on the Woodson to Wolf TD pass.

Freddie & Freda are sad.

Lots of good points made in this thread. Bottom line is this: Until Akron students are proud to be Zips, attendance will always be a problem. Just winning is not going to fill a 30,000 seat stadium. Winning will help to foster UA pride with the student body, which is a good thing but traditions aren't built in a day. The decades of irrelevance cannot be erased by a new stadium and the hope that Bowden is turning the program around. If you are a Zips fan now, enjoy whatever successes the team has in the moment because it could be fleeting. If you are on this forum, you obviously have love for the Zips. If you are like me, a lot of times you wonder why others don't share the same passion & pride. I work with an engineer alum who you couldn't hog tie to come to a game. Akron is just the place where he got his degree. No school pride whatsoever. This is a huge well documented problem for all the MAC schools and until guys like my engineer colleague become the exception instead of the rule, we are always going to be in the same boat. I agree with GP1 that focusing on the things you can control yourself is the way to go and I will take it a step further. If you come to the game and enjoy yourself, make it a point to bring a friend along and try to show them the best time possible. If everyone would do this the attendance for Marshall would be at least 18,000. Some people, when exposed to the atmosphere, will come back on their own.

YES, WE CAN.

Gosh, I dont know what or who to believe! EA says Chase Murdock is the best LB in the MAC, but Hustle Belt's #2 player in the league, Junior Sylvestre must not be worth keeping an eye on. Elton. Dropping science like Galileo dropped the orange.

Even Ivy League guys jump around like Jr. Hi. girls when they get new unis.

Don't forget to include #CapitalOneZippy in your social media posts or your vote won't count.