MooPig Report from the Middle :: "Fake your Own Injury"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Jan 11, 2013  |  BryanTX

[Picture LINK] " ... I stopped a long time ago caring who walks off with the trophy. But I love great stories, and I appreciate hard-working salt-of-the-earth people. (John Canzano)

Oregon Player Faked Injury To Get Walk-On Ebanez In Fiesta Bowl - Business Insider:

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" ... It turns out that Ebanez ... [# 91 in photo] ... is a Rudy-esque figure — a walk-on who worked hard and found his way onto one of the best teams in the country.

He grew up in North Pole, Alaska, and he explained, "They have candy canes for light posts on the main street, and a giant Santa house."

He's graduating in the spring, meaning the Fiesta Bowl was his last game ever, and his coaches and teammates love him. So it should come as no surprise that one of his teammates pulled a clever trick to ensure that Ebanez would get on the field at the Fiesta Bowl. (Tony Manfred | Jan. 8, 2013, 1:41 PM. HERE) ..."

" ... [T]his is serious stuff to Ebanez. He's at practice every day where he stars on the Ducks scout team. He goes so hard in practice that two years ago he was named the scout team's offensive player of the year. Last year, amid a shortage of defensive backs, he jumped in on defense and was named defensive scout team player of the year. This season, nobody was surprised when Ebanez was named scout team special teams player of the year. (John Canzano, The Oregonian. December 31, 2012 at 2:17 PM, updated. HERE)... "

" ... [S]ince he [Ebanez] is not on scholarship and dedicates so much of his time to the full-time job that is college football, Ebanez has had to take out more than $70,000 in student loans during his four years of college. In fact, the NCAA is so strict with regulations during the academic year that the non-scholarship players aren't allowed to dine alongside those receiving financial aid for playing sports. (ibid.) ... "

The authors of these articles point out the college school of football meritocracy.

Football lore is full of "meritocracy." With the number of games available on so many levels, one could root for his Pop Warner mighty mites on one afternoon, root for his High School team another day, root for his College team on Saturday, and tune in for his Professional football team on Sunday. It's true. There is lots of occasions to watch meritorious football playing, live and boisterous.

I played football through high school. I went to a small private university, that had a football team, but I wanted to try something new. In college I took up Rugby.

I soon learned how to fake an injury for the team. Yes, sometimes the team is gasping for air, and barely able to scrum up, so the captain quietly whispers "Two Minutes Darnell" ... and I would feign an injury so the team could get a two minute blow. Sometimes, I didn't need to fake an injury, as some long legged Fly Half would run right over me, or a rabid Hooker who had it in for me.

You see, Rugby goes forward as the clock runs, there is no break between plays, and if you stop with the ball or fall down with it, you are the epicenter of a loose ruck. Plenty of opportunity to fake your own injury.

That's MooPig's Report from the Middle, where the men are meritorious, women are strong, and the children are above average. Thank you, Garrison Keillor.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/oregon-faked-injury-ebanez-fiesta-bowl-2013-1
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/oregon-faked-injury-ebanez-fiesta-bowl-2013-1#ixzz2HicXjyWu
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2013/01/canzano_blog_oregon_ducks_play.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2012/12/canzano_a_fiesta_bowl_story_wo.html
http://dochattanooga.com/brighter-side/oregon-football-player-faked-injury-in-fiesta-bowl-so-walk-on-could-play/

MooPig College Football Bowl Watch 2012 -- 2013 :: "South Carolina vs Michigan"

VIDEO: Jadeveon Clowney delivers crushing hit in Outback Bowl - NCAA Football - Sporting News: "Clowney’s prowess was on display for the nation Saturday against Michigan. Peeved by a bad spot on faked punt by Michigan that gave Michigan the ball, Clowney made the Wolverines pay."

This YouTube has 1,788,076 Views, submitted by ESPN Published on Jan 1, 2013 "Jadeveon Clowney with a huge hit on Vincent Smith to force a fumble."
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1. Andrew Mascharka 14 hours ago --  I'm a michigan fan but that was the BIGGEST hit I have ever seen

• Reply · 19 reifsneider 9 hours ago --  he hit him back into 2012

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http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2013-01-01/jadeveon-clowney-hit-south-carolina-michigan-sack-fumble-recovery-outback?ncid=webmail27
http://youtu.be/W26Dcns1Mxg

Drought / Burn Ban / Brazos County

Dust, Dust, Dust

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Dust Bowl 1934: and Red Dog Guitars

MooPig's New "Things DOG" Division
retrieved by Pat Darnell

johnmcnair says: "Here I took an old clip of Shane doing an improvise of some Blind Willie type stuff, I really liked this clip, This song of his just had to be made into visual art. I tried to remaster and bring up the volume so you can enjoy as it was low in my program and the balance was uneven, its not perfect as my movie program is limited...I guess next I need a music program????
"I take special pride in the wind noise...made it myself by combining a couple of different wav.s together and made it all gnarly and howling like.....when the guy was walking in the sand, they were actually talking about farming and stuff...I totally made it into something way different, I wanted to make it all dramatic and spooky...I Hope I did??? I cut it up and added scary wind!.....it fit. perfect...what'cha think????"
O and the house scene at the end too! anyways just goggle "Red Dog Guitars!" "

MooPig to Sponsor 2009-10 Dust Bowl: Jack Rabbits vs. Farmers

by Pat Darnell

Did you know there was a Jack Rabbit Round up back in the '30's, before Roosevelt's New Deal?

Predators that usually thin out the jack rabbit population had been neutralized by the condition of the prairie in middle USA. It was the famed Dust Bowl. I saw footage on the History channel last night that in my mind resembled any "scariest" scene from any horror film, ever.

The rabbits were dashing in all directions, frenzied and fraught. Jack Rabbits apparently "do well in dry, drought periods. Hot and dry are no problem" for the bunny with huge ears and hind legs, with ridiculous speed. A Jack Rabbit also has the ability to change direction at full speed. What that does is lets Jack out maneuver a coyote, as the predator has to stop to turn as fast as its rabbit prey.

So the Jack Rabbit population reached improbable numbers and farmer\ranchers had to do something about it. What little grass and vegetation that survived was being taken away from their cattle. Jack's were also having litters of four to eight rabbits each every month. It was a fecund time for the Jack of all Rabbits, that is for sure.

Farmers gathered up to stage a roundup. Collectives of farmers herded the Jack Rabbits into rabbit proof pens. Some reported 30,000 at once were herded to their death pens. I think this rates as a holocaust for the Lepus Leporidae... no?

This is the old -- IF "Hulk Hogan wrestled so his son wouldn't have to wrestle" -- argument... but wrestling took a back seat to other entertainments in Hulk Hogan's lifetime;

THEN ...so instead, his son went driving after drinking, and is guilty of manslaughter. Same thing. [wipe that silly look off your face]

I am guessing the Easter bunny didn't visit children in the aftermath of mass killing of Jack Rabbits by frustrated middle American farmers. The Easter ascent has not been the same for lepus since 1930's. In fact, I am also reminding those who have read till this point -- nothing at all was done about middle rural America, and dissemination of American prairie into tiny specks of dust, until an enormous cloud of dust, Dust Blizzard, settled on Chicago, and then later all over New York City.

Only then did largesses send photographers to the Dust Bowl and images became prevalent in Newspapers. So that then Roosevelt could tout his New Deal: "...we take your tax money and centralize it over here for the world's royalty's, and send it back to you in truck loads of meat."

Be sure to tune in Next Year 2010, for the MooPig Sponsored Dust Bowl in Lubbock.

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Well, OK, some may say, "But you know, Obama is not a hunter." Right. And neither is John McCain. And isn't that a breath of fresh air! I, for one, am pretty damn tired of all this Elmer Fudd stuff coming from our politicians.
It all started with George W. Bush. I don't remember Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton trotting out into a field for a shotgun photo-op.
The funny thing here is that George W. Bush is not a real hunter. He's just a beltway frat boy who borrowed a shotgun in order to strike a redneck rural pose.
Karl Rove figured most National Rifle Association members would not care, and that many would not know the difference, never mind all those pictures that showed George W. Bush to be a walking gun safety violation.