Banker Bites

I can't believe its almost kickoff time and we haven't had any score predictions for today.

BYU 28
Utah 24

My Two Cents

College Football Experts

Sorry C-BCAC Smack blog followers, I've been in some mandatory training this week and it's taken me away from my posting here. This won't be long as I've got plenty to do today before kickoff in T – 7 hours and counting but I've been chewing on this for several days and I just have to spit it out now.

As you all know, I bleed blue with most diehard of Cougar fans and I loathe almost all that is Red. I just can't get behind a team like the one on the hill. But my comments here aren't an attempt to show how awesome BYU is or how much the Utes suck. I wanted to talk about the perception many Cougar fans have that they know EVERYTHING about college football. I think some of the things that really get on Ute fans' nerves about Cougar fans are:

• The world revolves around BYU
  
• Every Cougar fan "knows" that every call that goes against the Cougars was a bad call and they could call the game better
  
• For all their expression of college football knowledge, many don't know a thing about it if it isn't BYU
  

Let me illustrate. Recently, while emailing a good friend of mine, he made the comment that his in-laws won't let him watch football when he is around. While lamenting his dilemma, he said, "Unless BYU is playing, then they are college football experts." I think this is true of so many Cougar fans. I don't think the sun rises and sets with BYU football, but many do. While attending the games this season I saw the shift in enthusiasm for the team after TCU exposed the Cougars. The UCLA game was so energized. The electricity was almost tangible. Fierce chants of "B-Y-U" rang through the stadium every time we handled the Bruins. But since the TCU loss, the fans were more lethargic, less willing to stand up on big plays. It was as if the Frogs not only beat the Cougars, but they also separated many fans from their enthusiasm, simply because BYU was no longer on the magical BCS rollercoaster. With BYU fans, I don't think there is much room to even allow the possibility of cheering for another school exists. I'm not suggesting that we cheer for Utah EVER, but I enjoy watching other teams such as Oklahoma, Florida, and USC. I can tell you who is sitting where in the polls and whether I feel they belong where they are ranked. But I fear too many BYU fans only believe that Provo is the center of the universe.

That being said, I'm cheering on the blue and white today in Rice-Eccles. And though I may have just ranted about BYU fans, I don't exclude the narrow-mindedness of so many Ute fans, many of whom I can safely refer to as BYU haters. While listening to the radio, and reading through posts on various websites, all you hear is "After Utah wins, we're having a BYU sucks party." Well if all you are doing is having a "BYU sucks" party does it matter who wins? You can have one of those anyway. I truly feel that some Ute fans only cheer for the red for lack of another school nearby to root for. I have a suggestion; there is purple 45 minutes to the north or another blue team 90 minutes away. I don't think that true fan hood should revolve around cheering for one team, simply because you hate another. Get a team and get behind them. I hate the Utes because I am a BYU fan and not a BYU fan because I hate the Utes. I know plenty of Utah fans that simply hate BYU because they love their Utes, but I don't know one Cougar fan that loves BYU only because they hate the University of Utah.

Game Day!!

The trash has been spoken and its now its game time baby!! May the best team win. After the game, I'll either be doing two and quite possibly three things: 1. Savoring the 3rd straight BYU victory. 2. Hanging my head in agony from defeat. 3. Option 1 or 2 but in jail for civil disturbance.

Whatever the outcome, I expect a victory post by the time I get home.

Victorious Dining

I couldn't let the entire rivalry week pass me by without posting my own version of smackaliciousness.

Some places to enjoy the victory after the game Ute Fans.

Those two are obvious. Then there's,

A UTAH Original. Or...

They're known for their exotic meats, maybe Cougar's on the menu.

I only recommend it because it was founded by the University of Utah's founder, Brother Brigham. It feels appropriate. Don't you think?

Or just head home to finish off the last few scoops of Dreyer's Utah Blitz in the freezer.

Be sure to avoid any restaurant that serves Apple Beer and closes before 11:00 p.m. or else you'll have to listen to blubbering whinneyness, sniffing and sob stories in broken-hyperventilated-sentences of how the game was lost and you might just loose your appetite.

Nice Win Utes!!!!

Pirates are Original

You Quegs Have your share of Stupid fans. The Pirate Fan at least has some originality, this guy is just lame and lacks any remnant of an original Idea. Byu is going down this year and so all you will have to hold on to is the hope that your Basketball team survives. I can't stand 98 percent of all BYU fans and it is probably because of the pompus way they carry themselves and how boastful they can be when they are winning.
I was at a game a few years ago and a BYU Queg was running his mouth the entire game and was seated in the U's Student section and was chirping in everybodys ear. Lucky for him they won on the "Prayer". Unlucky for his nose was flattened because that was the final straw that broke a fairly large mans patience. I have never found pleasure in seeing someone hurt. But that was pretty nice. Just a little Tact is all I am asking for. If I were ever to go to a game down south I would not rub an entire section saying the team that they love sucks. Cougar are Closeminded. It is always the calls that were wrong, a missed PI, the sun was in his eyes..... and so on. Utah can never outplay the cougars they are just to good. It should be a battle for 60 minutes or maybe more. The best week all year. Rivalry WEEK!!

watch other True Blue fans that make the Pirate look good

Banker’s Bites

THE HOLY WAR

Forgive the use of the clichéd, inaccurate title, but it's that time of year and its here, so we're going with it.  This game is building up to be one of the biggest, if not THE biggest in the history of the rivalry.  It will be only the second time both teams have been ranked going into this game; the highest rankings to be certain. To get the excitement to a fever pitch, here are some recent memories in the rivalry:

1984

BYU caps off a perfect season 24-14 over the Utes and goes on to win the National Championship

1996

BYU torched the Utes 37-17

2000

In the final game of legendary head coach, LaVell Edwards (in front of a sold out Utah crowd) Brandon Doman reminded all of we Skyline alumni why we were so dominant in the late 90's as he took the ball in for the final score of the game. 34-27. Farewell coach

2001

Cougar fans enjoyed a memorable start to the season, including a 24-21 win over Utah to start the season 12-0 (only to lose the final 2 games.)

2004

I can't in good conscience leave this one out Ute fans. The Cougs were in the mire and muck of a filthy season while the rivals were rolling the competition. Utah won handily, got a Fiesta bowl invite, pounded Pittsburg and finished the season with the notoriety of being the first "BCS Buster"

2005

Unlikely hero, Brett Ratliff engineers a final drive in Provo for a 34-31 win in OT. The heated rivalry steps up here

2006

Harline is still open. 33-31 Click here to relive the glory

2007

4^th and 18 for 49 still ringing fans? 17-10 Here's the big catch

Yewt R' a Pirate!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYAIW_NUSaI

More moronic Utes at it again!! Last time I checked their mascot was a native Utah indian tribe. Well, now they think they're PIRATES!!!!! What's next, Care Bears?

At halftime of one game I had to ask this idiot in person..."What's with the pirate costume?" What a surprise, the brilliant idea (with the ship, don't forget that masterpiece) was drawn up on a NAPKIN, after getting plastered! I'm sorry, but this far out does any stupid thing a BYU fan can be blamed for.

You yewts are hard core fans!!! Too bad you're royally confused. Let me give you a hand. This is NCAA football, not MLB baseball. You don't live in Pittsburg, you live in Utah. You're the freaking UTES, NOT stupid PIRATES. Do you need me to remind you where to pee? No, not in your cup. Of course after the first quarter you wouldn't taste the difference, so go ahead....piss away. No, not on your son either! He might learn some bad habbits. You have shown him so many good ones, why do something stupid like pee on your son? After the game, are you going to set sail to finally get that blasted Peter Pan and Wendy? If you do, don't forget Tinkerbell and her pixy dust. After all, she may be the source of the MAGIC!!! BYU 33 Utah 31 - Again!