My comment:

I can't wait for Bud's column on this tomorrow

If we are playing Bud Bingo… these are phrases that I what I want on my card somewhere (BTW, this pre-supposes that “Fannies” is not an option or is the equivalent of the middle square)"

“Making sausage”

“can buy a lot of”

“Geppetto” and/or “Pinocchio”

“all those Cam Newtons”

“Carmelo Anthony”

“middle infielders and lefty specialists making $5 million”

Just a hunch.

 

Bud's actual phrasing:

"hoo-ha"

"You’d pretty much have to go back to the days of Cleopatra to find something quite as opulent as those digs"

"signed on with a kind of devil" and "Not one sporting horns and a pitchfork"
"arms-race castle his nickel helped to erect"
"nurse their boo-boos"
"printing-and-publishing pooh-bah"

"stomped off with piggybank under arm"

 

Tally:

Bud wins.  I was expecting him to go broader--more of an all-sports-money-influence column, but he stuck to college.  He also decided to go with the Dr. Seuss vocabulary.  Didn't see that coming.  Also, the castle and Cleopatra were unanticipated.

Bud 1, Ezcuse 0