Life is good for the Clemson University football team these days …
Head coach Dabo Swinney‘s squad is undefeated, ranked in the Top Ten and firmly in control of its destiny for an Atlantic Coast Conference championship (and possible NCAA playoff berth). Seriously, Clemson is a legitimate national championship contender.
Even better for Tiger fans? Their arch-rivals, the University of South Carolina Gamecocks, are in the midst of a full-scale implosion – with head coach Steve Spurrier resigning after a 2-4 start to the 2015 season.
And while Clemson is no longer “Clemsoning” on the football field, it is continuing to “Clemson” on the fields that surround it …
Earlier this week, Clemson’s athletics department announced that it was using a helicopter to help dry the ground at several grass (well, dirt) parking lots near Memorial Stadium (a.k.a. Death Valley).
The lots have been beaten up by back-to-back home games played under extremely wet conditions, and officials are hoping the whirring blades of a chopper will dry them out.
Genius, right?
Actually, this isn’t a new thing. Earlier this year the Anaheim Angels (or whatever the hell they call themselves these days) used a local police helicopter to dry out their water-logged outfield. You know, because that’s obviously what California taxpayers should be spending their money on …
Anyway, in addition to the helicopter Clemson is spending money on graders, dirt dryers and all sorts of other equipment in the hopes of drying out the ground. We wonder: Is there beach renourishment money available for this?
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Maybe IPTAY’s paying for it……………..
OR…….they will just go up on the rates………………
“BUT” if they had grass parking lots like in Germany this would not be a problem
The Germans grade & level the field, lay “kinda/sorda cinder blocks with the holes facing vertically (i.e. upward), fill the “holes” with dirt and level it out
Presto-Chango!!!!—-a grass parking lot that doesn’t rut out!!!!!
Saw a number of the lots when I was over there during the “Bosnia” thing.
I thought it was a good idea myself and it can rain a shitload in Germany.
Then again, they don’t have Rednecks spinning their truck tires or Winnebago’s to deal with………….
Maybe GT and pogo can become ex-pats in Germany. Great opportunity for them to introduce gigantic tires on pickups to the peckerwood-deficient Germanic cultures, and try their best to fuck up as many of those parking lots as possible.
They can try but the “Polizi” don’t fuck around over there…………..
What I wouldn’t give for a fresh Schnieder’s Hefe-Wizen or an Erdinger as a 2nd choice
And no fucking fruit in it either!!!!!
Konigsbacher when you are in Rhein-Hessen.
and you’re both showing off ….
I don’t know about “tomstickler” but I got a paycheck to boot!!!!
Seems like I remember you posting about quaffing a brew or two overseas while sporting “Crackerjacks” and getting paid by “Uncle Sugar” (LOL!!!)
Yep! It was a great time for me. When I was being transferred from the Med to the Intrepid in Norfolk, the officer in charge of arrangements re-routed me to Frankfurt for a two-week layover so that I could marry my German fiancée!
When my Dad was stationed in Germany we experienced all that we could (I was about 11 years old.0 I loved visiting all of those castles, the mountains, and Holland and so forth. (But I’ll share the story of Dachau another time – it’s too beautiful a day to remember that).
I didn’t have the chance to visit any extermination camps (let alone Normandy/Omaha Beach) but from what I’ve heard from guys that did is the gloom hangs like a fog. You are correct —-it is way too pretty a day for that heavy subject
Still have your Frau at your side????
Anyhoo……it’s “MOTORSIKLE” WEATHER!! and I’m gonna ride mine today through Sunday as much as I can possibly can (and as much as Mrs. Sparklecity will let me get out of “honey -do’s” – LOL!!!!!!!!)
Wishing all “FITSTERS” the enjoyment of a nice fall weekend!!!!!
Thinking about firing up the FXD in the morn, an putt up 25 a hundred miles to the center of “GODS country”, extreme lower Greenville county along the banks of the unspoiled lower Reedy!
you’re showing off…. but as soon as I can find my copy of Clemson’s “Road Kill Menu” — you’ll see it posted here ..!!
That works great if they are only used for parking, however these fields are also used for intramural sports. Cinder blocks and a hard fall are not a good mix.
they say the average IQ in the us would rise by 20% if gt and pogo moved to germany
We are taking in refugees already, we’d rather stick to only taking ones that will work. You can keep those two welfare queens.
Athletic department money. No story here.
But it’s Clemson. Gotta leave Gamecocks fans with SOMETHING to look down our noses at your school for, right?
Well, no. Guess you don’t. lol
If it was any other team, no story.
I look at it like this: football is serious business.
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All the Clemson fans buying Clemson gear are paying for this, no tears shed from me.
That’s always the response to the reckless spending at Clemson, USC, etc.
Probably because it’s the truth. The athletic department is a separate entity. They make their own money from boosters.
well- sort of. Employees (staffers, support folks, maintenance, parking lot attendants, managers, etc) are paid by the state- and state tax money. Some coaches get stipends on top of their state funded salary (some don’t)- and that is athletic department generated (boosters, sponsors, etc) money.
It’s Tater Town, this is what they live for. Over engineered solutions to simple problems. The only good thing to ever come out of South West Pickens Agricultural and Mechanical Institute was Clemson Spineless Okra and some decent blue cheese.
Was that blue cheese aged in Stumphouse Tunnel?
It used to be, but now they make it in special rooms designed to mimic Stumphouse Tunnel. :(
Yep, from what I remember reading in “The Greenville News”
(you know, that aging dinosaur printed media FITS likes to rag on???)
I take offense at that statement, and rebut with two simple words:
CHARLIE WATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ESPN College Gameday, the quitter’s new gig.
Life is good at Clemson University – top notch ranked science and engineering programs while USC can’t even find a new dean to replace that clown Ambler,
top notch president and former engineer while USC is stuck with a second rate public health pretender who loves locker rooms a bit too much.
After y’all lost Amiridis it was clear that the decline would accelerate.
Now y’ll lost Spurrier too….its not even fun to compete with USC anymore…
And oh yeah,,,,ranked number 5 in foot ball.
At least Pastides hasn’t had another nervous breakdown (USC called it a “sabatical to Greece”) since Sorenson fell face first into his Cheerios.
And Pastides wil pay Spurrier til end f the season!
For what?
Word has it Spurrier will have to walk around Pastide’s office with his shirt off for two hours a day.
Judge: Do you want to stay with your mom?
Child: No. She beats me.
Judge: Then do you want to stay with your dad?
Child: No. He beats me too.
Judge: Do you want to stay with your grandparents?
Child: No, they also beat me.
Judge: Ok. So do you want to stay with your uncle and aunt?
Child: No. They beat me too
Judge: Ok. So tell me who you want to stay with?
Child: I want to stay with Steve Spurrier and the Carolina Gamecocks. They dont beat anybody.
After a 2 year study, the National Science Foundation announced the following results on the American Male’s recreational preferences:
The sport of choice for unemployed or incarcerated people is: Basketball
The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is: Bowling.
The sport of choice for blue-collar workers is: Football.
The sport of choice for supervisors is: Baseball.
The sport of choice for middle management is: Tennis.
The sport of choice for corporate officers is: Golf.
Conclusion: The higher you rise in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.
“And while Clemson is no longer “Clemsoning” on the football field, ”
Funny, they have yet to go a season without doing it, so how is it over? Its not. They will choke this year, Tiger fans just pray it isn’t to lowly USC, because they suck. Doesn’t matter, we will still beat them and be right where Clemson wants to be and thinks they are but only has one time since we joined the conference. We own this place, so get your ass back in line, and learn your place. 2nd place is only the 1st loser. If you aint first your last. Go Noles!!
USCe wishes they could choke, but in order to choke you have to have a sizeable lead at some point during the game.
Didnt your mom choke on my big black cock?
I hear your daughter does.
Don’t have one champ but nice try. I’m starting to think you might too.
NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dwb619, how can you even type right now when you are fisting squishys ass so hard? that’s NICE!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO. again I don’t have one so how could it be so funny?
I think you are just like the 99% of free shoe university fans who cannot think cognitively. Look back and tell me, when was the last time Clemson lost a game where it was favored or against an unranked team? You will have to take off your shoes and socks to count that high and then borrow someone else’s to get to that number. Much lower for For Sure Underachiever.
Free shoes U is more preferable than Cocaine University. Maybe your jacked up kicker driving under the influence can help you out, I hear he’s back on your team. Your coach runs a real “clean”program doesn’t, much cleaner than the drug tests there. Also it’s not hard to beat unranked teams when you never really played for a title. We do and the truth really fucking sucks doesn’t it loser. Now take that and stick it up your pooper because it’s less of a wooping than your team will get it when we play. Just telling you how it really is
Marx on Capitalism
http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/resch/Marx%20on%20Capitalism.pdf
Go Aggies!
Marx abandoned volume three of Capital while attempting to write the
chapter on “Classes.” The reason was he had to face the total
incoherence of his view on the subject.
Ralph Raico, a prominent gay libertarian historian, wrote the definitive article on it:
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/raico/raico34.1.html
You’ll have to forgive my mentioning he’s gay if you’re offended, I think it relevant because you are gay and I thought it might be of interest to you.(and if not, accept my apologies)
I wonder what a dirt dryer looks like.
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now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?
“I know,” said the Branch Manager, “Let’s have a meeting,
propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and
we can be on our way.”
“No, no,” said the Hardware Engineer, “That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I’ve got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car’s braking system,
isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way.”
“Well,” said the Software Engineer, “Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again.”
One of my Clemson friends was ripping Clemson about this fiasco last week.