Somehow I Don't Think Nike Will Be Sponsoring This One

by Sean Keeley on Feb 11, 2009 10:00 AM EST Comment 12 comments

I have to admit, I didn't know about this one. I'd say it sounds silly except that...it doesn't:

Under Dick MacPherson and Paul Pasqualoni, the Orange men had a tradition following each season of burning their practice cleats/shoes. It was a symbolic act of cleansing themselves from the season. That tradition was vacated under Greg Robinson, but will return under Marrone. In fact, Marrone said he may re-start the tradition before the start of spring practice as a means of putting the past in the rear-view mirror.

The fact that Greggers couldn't possibly understand the meaning of a mental exercise like this makes me want them to do it even more. It's almost perfect. But why stop at cleats? Throw some helmets in there. And those practice towels. And the water bottles. And Lavar Lobdell. Get Marinovich to break into Manley, grab whatever he can carry and burn that as well.

Burn it. Burn it all.

Doug Marrone is a man of simple tastes. He likes dynamite. And gunpowder.

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Man, you are on a roll this morning.

Isn’t it only 7am on the Left Coast?

I’m in New York and haven’t even gotten around to my one podunk meaningless blog post a
day.

You are a true Champion..
…unless of course you work a morning shift job in the media and
its already your lunch…

The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.

by StrawHatGuy on Feb 11, 2009 10:09 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

The beauty of SbN

I can write stories the night before and schedule them to post later.

by Sean Keeley on Feb 11, 2009 12:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You can do that with blogger also

by Jameson_Fleming on Feb 11, 2009 1:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Computers can do that!?

by Zumone on Feb 11, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hey

I think this Internet thing may take off….

by ezcuse on Feb 11, 2009 1:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I say

Burn the orange uniforms we wore to start off the 2007 season, against Washington. I drove up to the Dome for that game, and I remember walking around the concourse pre-game, catching a glimpse of the field and a very fat Patrick Shadle warming up. He looked like a goddamned pumpkin. It’s bad enough that we got clobbered in that game, but we looked really bad doing it.

I pray that we never wear that again.

"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998

by kotite4ever on Feb 11, 2009 10:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

F' that

lets auction them off on steiner sports – because there is such a huge market for GRob era memorabilia.

by ryanwk628 on Feb 11, 2009 11:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

$250 for a game-worn G-Rob collared shirt!

That Josh Pace used to wipe his ass with once.

by voteprime on Feb 11, 2009 11:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I mean Josh Wright

Dammit, I love Josh Pace, and I feel bad that I sullied his good name by confusing him with Wright.

Please, Cuse nation, forgive me.

by voteprime on Feb 11, 2009 11:17 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Thin ice

You’s on it.

by Sean Keeley on Feb 11, 2009 12:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

the cuse should follow the san fran giants lead..

and burn ANYTHING with grobs image on it, any style uniform we wore under him, and possibly even that new stylish turf that the GOOD DOCTOR daryl gross bought. burn that turf!! nothing but failure after failure happened on that field.

oh, but we beat buffalo 3x.

by orngfan on Feb 11, 2009 3:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs