Recent content by Chief Piasa

Schembechler never forgave us for firing his boy Moeller for winning 6 games in 3 years; he wanted our program to die and he had the pull to do it. I’ve hated those cheating SOB MI cheaters with white-hot heat ever since.

Boy, those orange hoodies really pop! /s

Yeah, he said in an interview that they almost did a ND series at WI when he was there and they tried to do one at AR when he was there, so he seemed happy to get this pairing.

They aren’t alone; graduates of Catholic schools other than ND are tired of the ND fans’ hubris. I have friends of Irish descent who can’t stand Fighting Irish fans! Chicagoland is close enough to ND that there is a disproportionate number of fans to bask in the glow of past glory. They are...

I am, but that's probably why I don't remember.

Can you see them from space?

That’s very true. And, like NIL, it helps to spend. I don’t know about 2026 payrolls but in 2025 the Cubs were 5th from the bottom in revenue to payroll spending ratio (26th place), just ahead of the Pirates. I’ll grant that that doest’t necessarily translate to success (they had a good year...

Cardinals fan here. This thread is trending exactly where most Cardinals threads go. It makes me wonder if the owners get together, discuss ROI rather than winning pct, and have an informal spending cap agreement. Cardinals fans live in mortal fear of the Cubs spending what they could afford to...

I’ll take your word for it; that was a bus trip and there may have been some schnapps involved!

Well, maybe the Fears for 4 pts will work, though.

I can confirm the ghost town part. On Dads’ Day in 1975 I didn’t order tix for the OSU game because he originally didn’t know if he could come. So when he arrived on game day we were able to get tix at the 35 yard line in the east front row. Even better, Archie Griffin made a sharp cut near the...

Winn, Walker, Wetherholt, Baez, Baez, Rodriguez, Bernal, hopefully Burleson, Herrera, Fermin plus McGreevy, Mathews, Leahy, Pallante, Hjerpe, Doyle I’m calling it now: dynasty! Having said the above, all this rebuilding was unnecessary until they went cheap and gutted the farm system (etc)...

My grandmother used to say, “If you can’t predict anything nice, don’t predict anything at all.” So, I predict IL 17-14 at the half. For the game, I predict, um,