That's a NoNo all you PoPo

College football season is here. Instead of seeing my Appalachian State Mountaineers crush Jacksonville by a final score of 56-7, I went with my friend and his family to see ECU destroy West Virginia. Amazing game and it would have been an amazing celebration if it weren't for the Police. When your football team starts the season off by beating the #18 team and then dominates the #8 team in the nation, you should be allowed to storm the field when you are not used to that kind of success. Instead, the cops were tackling students, throwing punches, and just being complete jerks. I mean come on, do you really think 30 something officers can hold back a couple thousand students? Security was informed that if the students tried to rush the field that law enforcement should try to deter them by making themselves visible and if that failed they were to just back off and let it happen. I guess making yourself visible means throwing punches at someone who is already on the ground as you will see here. Let the students celebrate. Here's another video for your viewing pleasure.

The Olympics

Have you ever realized that swimming and gymnastics are only exciting every 4 years? It's funny how swimmers and gymnasts get no love outside of the Olympics. Watching these two events got me thinking...who ever said gymnastics and swimming were for girls? These gymnast dudes are the freakin ripped. They gotta be pound for pound the strongest athletes there. Then there's the swimmers. Who cares if they have to shave their legs? Michael Phelps is the man and the U.S. swimmers showed up the trash talking Frenchies. Go Freedom Fries!!! I have to admit I hate the time difference, I'd love to watch the greatest coach in the world, Coach K, lead the best basketball players to gold but their games come on at freakin 8 in the morning. Oh well, Go USA.

Battle of the Champions

One of the many reasons I'm excited to be going to App State is the fact that they have a football team, unlike my previous two schools. However, App State doesn't just have a football team, the Mountaineers are freaking awesome. Can you say three back to back National Championships? Yeah, yeah I know most people say it doesn't matter since they play in the FCS and not the BCS but they still beat Michigan and even a couple years ago they gave LSU a pretty tight game. Later this month ASU will travel down to Baton Rouge again to take on the LSU Tigers. This game will put last year's BCS National Champion against last year's FCS National Champion. Not only will it be the battle of the National Champions but LSU will be looking to not become like Michigan and App State is out to prove that they aren't a fluke.



Now if I could just get my hand on some tickets.