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SeattleUte · 11-20-2005, 09:01 PM

Football, properly executed, is a brutal game. It's meant to mimick Greek hoplites vs. Persians, Roman legionaires vs. Carthaginians. However dandy a thing a fireside may be in the abstract, having your team attend a fireside the night before the game is the nuttiest thing I've ever heard of. Then's the time that a coach needs to be motiviating his team to want to rip somebody's head off, to split the enemy in half collarbone to crotch. Is that what BYU footballers were doing at the fireside the night before the game, working up a bloodlust? I don't think so. I bet that's what Whittingham and the Utes were doing.

MikeWaters · 11-20-2005, 11:45 PM

if it was by a fire, and involved pagan dancing, then I approve of a fireside before a game.

They may have been tweaking their haka moves. You never know.

11-20-2005, 09:01 PM	#1
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	Blame the fireside eve of game fireside for your misery. Football, properly executed, is a brutal game. It's meant to mimick Greek hoplites vs. Persians, Roman legionaires vs. Carthaginians. However dandy a thing a fireside may be in the abstract, having your team attend a fireside the night before the game is the nuttiest thing I've ever heard of. Then's the time that a coach needs to be motiviating his team to want to rip somebody's head off, to split the enemy in half collarbone to crotch. Is that what BYU footballers were doing at the fireside the night before the game, working up a bloodlust? I don't think so. I bet that's what Whittingham and the Utes were doing. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

11-20-2005, 11:45 PM	#2
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	if it was by a fire, and involved pagan dancing, then I approve of a fireside before a game. They may have been tweaking their haka moves. You never know.