On the Road Again

Both the Irish and the Wusslers head east this week. While the Irish are in the unfriendly confines of Chestnut Hill, MA, the Wusslers will be safely ensconced in the basement of my parents' house in Scotch Plains, NJ watching our boys take on the BC Eagles.

Safe and warm here; not too confident about the environment 250 miles NE of here. I share Godfather's non-confidence about tonite's soiree. BC picked this weekend to dedicate their Doug Flutie statue, so it's almost like we're BC's Homecoming game. Nice.

Haven't really watched the Eagles this year, although I've been surprised they lost to Clemson, which is having a bad enough season to fire its coach. But they're at home, and they're always up. Maybe BC can come out in green jerseys and jinx themselves. Probably not.

Wish I could predict success in Don's "keys to the games", but i haven't seen that from our team this year, so it's not looking good for the good guys.

Interesting the way the bandies have to choose between Bball and Hockey band. I loved hockey band, and, in fact, played at the last game in the 82-83 season which was the last as a varsity sport for a long time, as i recall. Always a good time. Not so say I didn't also love Varsity Band. I recall students were only able to buy tickets for half the home games, so I would try to sub as much as possible for the games I didn't have tickets for. Didn't miss many in 4 years...

Back to football.

Don, I did a little research (not much). I'm guessing that Charlie's first two games, at Pitt and at Michigan, were "upsets". UCLA last year as well. But you're right about us not beating "better" teams. We don't do it.

And tonite, I'm afraid, will be no different. While I'll predict an Irish field goal in our score, it won't propel us to victory. Not sure how you came up with 25 for BC Don. 2 safeties?? Let's be more traditional. BC 28, ND 17

GO IRISH!!!! BEAT EAGLES!!!!!

The Colonel