All hail the victorious Zips!!

[PAZipsFan]

The Zips have beaten the Flushes!! Kudos to the Akron defense for holding Can't at bay and keeping us in the game in the first half when our offense was ineffective. The Zips came out in the second half and took advantage of Cant's turnovers and made some big plays to come back from a 10-point deficit and bring the Wheel back home. It was unnecessarily exciting in the final two minutes, but Tate made a great interception on the final play of the game to flush Can't! And by the way... it's 3:55 on a Saturday afternoon, and

[Hilltopper]

It was way too exciting in the last 2 minutes! I'm not sure how we did it, but a win is a win.

[timmyboy]

I was at the game and i think this was the loudest we have been in a while. i sat right in with the student sections an had a good time. There were a few things i did NOT like though. We are not Cant State fans, so lets have a little bit of class and leave out the chant "Shoot Can't State" and "FucK Can't State". The guy who was standing right behind me ( they were calling him zippy) and the guy with the blue wig on, they were very classy.... when the student section started that chant, they came back louder with a chant an had them stop saying it. thanks guy. I took my niece who recently moved to akron from out of town to her first zips game, and now she is already begging me to take her to another one. Thanks again guys for making it enjoyable for her and everyone else........... and great game zips.

[GoZips88]

Time to disinfect the Wagon Wheel and put it back in OUR case where it rightfully belongs!GREAT showing by the AK-Rowdies and the Akron students in general. Not a real pretty win but we'll take it. Way to go Zips!

[Let'sGoZips94]

We Beat The Hippies Wahoo!!!!!!! Akron Akron Akron

[Valpo Zip]

Good game guys... was depressingly boring in the first half but we picked it when it mattered most.I am glad that zippy and Bleacher Bum (the guy with the blue wig) are amongst the leadership of the rowdies to direct the ship when something goes wrong.One observation... why would their students occuppy the best seats (50 yard line) while the rowdies are thrown in the corner? that is absolutely unacceptable. The rowdies section should be moved up by the middle.

[Quickzips]

Post-game thoughts:-GREAT win for the Zips. Awesome to take the last victory in the Rubber Bowl over Can't. I would have hated to have seen Can't walk out of the Rubber Bowl for the final time w/ the Wheel. It is with its rightful owner.-Did someone turn the lightswitch on for the offense about half way through the third? We did nothing, I mean NOTHING at all in the first half. Came out in the third and fumbled deep in our own territory. I'm thinking man this is it. Then all of a sudden things start picking up.-Jackson is going to make some mistakes, and he's gonna be rocky at times, but he still gives us the best chance to win. He can do things with his feet that Chris can't do and he's really not a huge dropoff in talent throwing the ball from Chris. I feel bad for Chris, but the fact of the matter is that Jackson gives this team the best chance to win week in and week out.-I LOVE having three good runningbacks. Kennedy, Williams and Allen made things difficult on Can't in the second half. When you always have someone with fresh legs to put in the backfield late in the game it makes such a huge difference. That said, we still need a little work on our short yardage sets.-Defense did a nice job all game. Jarvis and Edelman both got their yards on the ground, and I expected them too, but they weren't able to completely control the game like they did last year. Turnovers especially were huge. Who's INT was bigger, Corner's or Tate's???-Don't look now, but the Zips made ALL of their extra points and were 2 for 2 on field goals. Anyone know when the last time that happened?-Admit it, when Can't got the ball back the doomsday scenario's started running through your head. The 2003 game at the Rubber Bowl, Roethlisbergers miracle hail mary, Penno's buzzer beater at the Q. No such luck today for the Flushes. This was our house and it was our game.Now for the bad stuff:-Obviously this has to start with losing Mackey. Just a horrible, horrible turn of events all around. The heart and sole of the defense, a great kid, hard hitter, just loves the game of football. To lose him, apparently for the rest of the season, is just horrible. You have to feel for the kid in his senior year of all years.-Why on earth do we continue to insist on trying that stupid rugby punt??? We damn near gave up a safety on that in the first half. I can't see any reasonable explanation for it. It was another shaky game for Stec, but I've definitley seen worse from him.-We continue to lack discipline. Too many false starts, too many dumb turnovers, too many personal fouls. When will this team learn? We tried time and time again to hand Can't this game with dumb turnovers and penalties. Paris McNeal is lucky he didn't get flat thrown out of the game on the kickoff after Can't's second TD. This is one of the more disturbing trends of the JD era.-We still can't generate a consistent pass rush. There were times today that the midget QB had forever and a day to throw back there. I'm getting so tired of the 335 it isn't funny. It can't stop the run, you can't generate pressure with it. It is essentially worthless. Go to a 43 or if you have to go to a 34, but for the love of god get into a system that actually has a chance of stopping someone.-I have never, NEVER been so embarrassed to be an AK-Rowdie member in my life. The Fuck Can't State chants were classless and uncalled for. That is something I expect to see from Can't fans, but not from the Rowdies. There were plenty of young kids sitting on that side of the field not to mention the high school bands who had to listen to that all game long. No excuse. Just no excuse.-Finally, a big shame on WEWS Channel 5 for going to the Suckeye pregame while the game was in its most crucial stage. I've sent them an e-mail about this, and won't be watching their station anymore. I can maybe MAYBE understand switching if the OSU game had already started, but they sat there for a ten minute pregame at OSU while our game was still going on. Inexcusable.

[uafan]

The switch to the OSU game must have been done by ESPN. I was watching in another city, and I was PO'd when they switched with about 1:30 left in the game. Guess we know who pays the bills!Great job by the D, especially picking it up after Mackey went down. Not only his D play, but he is also the holder on placekicks.Offense took a while to warm up, but the coaches also took a while to loosen up and open the game plan a little. Again, we were lucky the punting didn't cost us. That roll out punt is awful! And, the last few punts did not cross midfield. You can't give a good team a short field like that as much as we did.

[RACER]

the defense was awsome.they saved the game time after time.when are we going quit having stupid penalties.the last out of bounds late hit almost cost us.no excuses for late hits.

[PAZipsFan]

The switch to the OSU game must have been done by ESPN. I was watching in another city, and I was PO'd when they switched with about 1:30 left in the game.

I guess that's one of the perks of living in Pennsylvania. I think I would have smashed my cable box with a sledgehammer if they cut away to the Columbus State game. As it turns out, I was surprised that the game was on here to begin with.I was really impressed by the Can't kicker when he nailed that 40+ yarder in the fourth quarter... so you can imagine what it was like to see Igor one-up him on the next drive. That was when I thought that this game might actually bounce our way. At least until Can't got the ball back on the last possession. I just about jumped out the window on the 15-yard late hit penalty. All's well that ends well, I suppose. This victory is just so much sweeter when you think about what they did to us last year and then coming into our house this year as the favorite.GO ZIPS!!And everybody vote for Zippy!!!