Anticipatory Exhilaration
Oh hey Penn State sitting at 3 and 0! How many other teams can say they’ve got a road win against a Big Ten team plus a road win against an SEC team by mid-September? I have to admit that I got myself in trouble...
Football
Two Freshman Steps Forward
Saturday evening found me sitting across the dinner table from a depressed nine year old. His favorite meal and an enjoyable Penn State win couldn't even cheer up this pint-sized Notre Dame fan. Which leads me to two interesting questions: One, how in the world...
Game by Game
Well, how’s that for an electric start to the season! “Unbelievable and magical,” I believe, are the words the emotional Gus Johnson used. “Crazy… lots of ups, lots of downs,” is what Sean Clifford had to say. If this contest is foreshadowing for the rest...
The Grand Finale
If you were in need of some Holiday cheer, look no further than that 56-21 blizzard the Fighting Illini of Illinois ran into on Saturday. Penn State saved its best performance for last. No need to drag this on, Nittany Nation. No bowl game was...
Enough is Enough
Wow, Penn State! Eight touchdowns and a 56-21 win over Illinois is the way you put an exclamation point on this strange season. This really has been quite a season. Were we watching the same team that lost a close game to Indiana? Or got...
Seeing Double
File this game under weird and unusual, like everything else that’s taken place since mid-March of this year. If Senior Day was forced to be played in a no-fan climate (including their own families) then the least we can do is give them double their...
Lion's Pride
No less than three people reminded me of the change in game time this past Saturday. I had been a bit, ah, forgetful about the Rutgers game and I was worried about missing this one. In my defense, it’s kind of weird watching Penn State...
To Our Seniors
Win, lose, or draw I had planned on saving this one until after the game on Saturday, but the more I thought about it, the clearer it became that no matter the outcome this weekend, this group already etched its legacy in stone. Yeah, yeah,...
The 900 Club
Well folks, in a year where nothing is certain, one thing we know for sure is that Rutgers is still the same old Rutgers, despite the media’s vain attempts at trying to prove otherwise. If there were ever a day that the Penn State hate-driven...