Professional Tailgating: Dr. No

The OTWT Tailgating crew went to its first baseball playoff game on Wednesday night and boy did we strike gold as Doc Halladay threw a no-hitter. Here are some of the sites of the night.

Former Phillie Scott Rolen signs some autographs

Doc Halladay goes to work

The Magic Stub

 

I was there tonight and this proofs it. Halladay is a monster. More on it tomorrow.
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Is this really a Pioneer?

As a graduate of William Paterson University, its always good to back to old campus. The family made the trip up there last weekend. While there have been a lot of improvements and there has also been one large negative change.

How can a university with a Pioneer as its mascot have a bear parading around at football games. Billy the Bear is the pioneers mascots, yes he is a bear dressed up like a pioneer, complete with raccoon skin hat. As a Pioneer, its hard to see a bear being our mascot. Our mascot should look like the West Virginia Mountaineer and not like a fucking stuffed animals and I'm not the only one that feels like that. On facebook a person has started a group to let people know how much they hate it.

This must not continue, Billy the Bear needs to be hunted down and eliminated. He is an embarrassment.
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Professional Tailgating: Division III Style

So instead of going to Rutgers Tulane game this weekend, the OTWT Tailgating Crew head home, William Paterson University for their homecoming game against Western Connecticut. The Pioneers won the game 35-0 win. It was good to be home, but a lot different then being at the big state U for a game.

Not as many tailgaters as at Rutgers

 The stands look more like a high school game then a college game

 I think that they were the only camera crew on site

Inches from being a hero

When Jason Avent got both hands on Kevin Kolb's hail mary pass at the end of the game , all I kept thinking was wow he is going to be a hero. But when Avent could not come down with it, I knew the hate would come.
I'm not going to hate on Kolb, but I am going to say this, young qb takes time and Kolb needs that time. Troy Aikman was talking about Kolb not seeing the field correctly today and he was right because Vick has been getting all of the reps and action. If Vick is to be gone for sometime then all Eagles fans are going to have to support Kolb or this is going to get bad. As for Mc5, it was weird seeing him redskins colors but in the end his performance was not one to go nuts about.
At 2-2 the season is not over and we have to remember that. So let's get down off the bridges and get on board for the rest of the season.
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In honor of the Mike Vick Era starting with the Birds

So the Mike Vick era is on for the Birds and in honor, we take a ride back in the way back machine to the Mike Vick experience, its an amazing ride.



The Birds are a video game

So the Mike Vick era is officially underway and boy is it exciting. Sure there are going to be those negatives plays, which there are going to a ton, but the video game type plays are quickly going to make fans forgot them. The offense is now a video game. Speed, speed, and more speed. DJ and Maclin might be the fastest pair of the receivers in the league.

After what has happened over the past three weeks its a miracle that the Birds sit on top of the NFC East and next week Mc5 returns to the Linc, in which should be an emotional game.
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Professional Tailgating: Now that is a walk

North Carolina brought half a team to Rutgers and was able to walk out with a win. The OTWT tailgating crew had some issues that forced them to move to a different area.

A lot of North Carolina fans tailgating in the area of the RAC

 People get ready for the Scarlet Walk

The Scarlet Walk

The Knight and his horse get ready to enter the stadium

Now this RV shows where your team colors are

The Philly Daily News Best Work

So Mike Vick is the leader of the Eagles and the Philly Daily News tells everyone with this epic headline. Its classic on so many levels and as a newspaper guy all you can say is congrats on a great front page headline.
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Please make it stop

Over the last couple of years, sports and pop cultural have become more and more intertwined.
Today was no different, when I was watching the Porto game on ESPN3 at the half the PA at the stadium was playing "California Gurls" by Katy Perry. This is a soccer game not a dance club, but why should I be surprised any more.
A couple of months ago, I ranted about girls and their cell phones at baseball games, but if stadiums are going to do this then I guess its fair game to all. So I guess a sporting event is not a sporting event, even games in the Portuguese Super League.
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Coming to a NBA city near you

The NBA season is about six weeks way, but John Wall fever is starting to get a hold of everyone. The OTWT Maryland bureau send this photo earlier today from a Foot Locker. I know he has talent but this shirt is terrible and no one should ever wear it.
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Professional Tailgating: There goes a piece of my tailgating soul

Sometimes it's time to move on, but moving on can hurt. After weeks of waiting it finally happened, the tailgating car, a 2002 vw golf, was traded in as part of a deal for a new car for the family.

The car was getting up there in miles and in memories. It has seen its fair share of sporting events, most of them documented on this site. It went to Rutgers for the famous Louisville game and saw a bunch of years of season tickets. Its been to countless baseball games, Eagles games, and seen friendlies involving Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United and two USMNT games.

Its helped me lug my golf clubs to a variety of courses around the state including Blue Heron Pines, Echo Lake, and the Architects Club. It also assisted with a trip to North Carolina to play a variety of different courses that had hosted USGA events.

I'm sure the new tailgating car, a honda accord, will produce the same type of memories but its always hard saying good bye to your first love and that is exactly what I had to do :(
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The Covers Story: NFL Opening Weekend

Everyone has a shot of making it to Dallas for the Super Bowl before Week 1. After one week that has changed, here is how newspapers around the country covered the fun of opening weekend.

It would have made a great epic movie

Wow, where do you start with the Eagles. They lost, 27-20 to the Packers, and that is the most important thing. But after one game there are still more questions then answered.

Is Kolb the right guy? Don't know because he left the game with an injury and was terrible before leaving.

Will they be able to run the ball? Don't know Weaver is done for the year.

What is Mike Vick's roll on this team? It might be a gimmick player or it could be starting quarterback.

Is the defense any good? Bradley got hurt again and while they look good, I don't know if part of that was from the Packers shutting down a little.

The one thing we did learn is that both Brandon Graham and Nate Allen held their own on defense and look like they are going to players on defense. Allen will go down in Eagles history of the Donovan McNabb player.

This game reminded me of the NFC Title game of a couple of years ago against the Cardinals, fall behind earlier and then fight to come back and just come up short. So I guess there is one good thing, we get to do it all over again next Sunday against the Lions.
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Monster Saturday = Monster Waist Line

The biggest day of the college football can mean one thing eating too much. Georgia/South Carolina, Ohio State/Miami, Florida State/Oklahoma and Alabama/Penn State are great games to watch and eat with.
With all of these games a lot of food is sure to follow. Doritos, cookies, pizza rolls, buffalo tenders and other assorted junk. All of them found the bottom of my tummy.
So the day is ending and boy is my stomach full. Thank god their is one day on the schedule like this, if there was another I would have to get a couple of pairs of bigger pants.
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Why does everyone care about a 7 million pound signing?

Raul Meireless to Liverpool, Rafel van der Vaart to Spurs, Asamoah Gyan to Sunderland, Kenwyne Jones to Stoke City, and Bebe to Manchester United. What do all of these transfer have in common, all of them were for around the same amount of money, approximately 7 million pounds. What is the difference between them: None of them have had the amount of ink written about them then Bebe's move to Manchester United.

I know it comes as kind of a reach for United to spend that type of money on an unproven player. This is what soccernet said about the player in his bio: "When Manchester United announced that they had signed the Portuguese striker for £7.4 million in August 2010, there was confusion aplenty around the football world. Relatively unknown even in his own homeland, Bebe was plucked from obscurity by Sir Alex Ferguson - who admitted that he had never even seen the striker play before agreeing to sign him."

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Professional Tailgating: Not the best of starts

So Rutgers kicked off the season on Thursday night against Norfolk State and it was not the best start, but its only the first game. Here are some of the sites.

Like the red paint in the endzone, looks almost like Ohio State  

After a year of complaining by everyone the cannon is finally visible

Rutgers takes the field for the first time this season

Its good to back at a college football game.

First game of the season, its good to be back. Go RU.
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Wow Front Page of New York Times

So a team announces that its best pitcher is going in for Tommy John surgery and it shows up on the front page of the New York Times, welcome to the world of Strasburg mania. When I saw this I saw shocked and still am. This is one of the biggest stories in the world, all I can say is Wow.