Football Fiends!
Let’s face it, it’s late (246am Pacific time) and I’m buzzed ( I have amazing friends) and I need to get my Heisman prediction in NOW:

Winner: Mark Ingram, Alabama

Second place: Toby Gerhart, Stanford

-Your Gridiron Goddess

Hello Football Fiends,
It’s late and it’s been a hard day of football –hell, it’s been a hard season of football for this Trojan — but I cannot let this pass by.

In an interview posted on Rivals.com, former Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis makes some very inflammatory accusations about USC Coach Pete Carroll’s personal life.

Let us not forget, Weis has famously controlled all media access to his family and his special needs daughter. He’s declared them off limits. So why the fuck is he going on a national forum to tell stories about Carroll’s personal business? It’s not even about whether it is TRUE or not. It’s Carroll’s business, not Weis’s. It has nothing to do with Pete’s ability to do the job he was hired for. It is a non-issue to anyone outside of PC’s own family.

And as to WHY Notre Dame might have a problem with Weis swearing, let alone carrying on an alleged affair — well is he really that fucking stupid? He was employed by a Catholic University with very high standards. Did he really think he wouldn’t be held to a higher standard of behavior than coaches like Carroll or Nick Saban or Les Miles or Jeff Tedford or any number of FBS coaches at non-denominational universities?!

And REALLY, if Carroll were doing what Weis has alleged he is doing, BELIEVE ME PEOPLE WOULD KNOW. Not that it is any of our business.

Ridiculous.

Link to Fan House Story in case Rivals (wisley IMO) edits their version of things.

-Your Gridiron Goddess, who prefers not to think about this 4 loss season right now, thanks.

Hey football fiends–

I’m still here. Just taking a handful of days off. Be back on Friday with something.

-Your Gridiron Goddess

(Thanks to Trojan Wire for the image!)

In 1979, the Trojan Marching Band played on the Fleetwood Mac recording of Tusk. Football Fiends, thanks to the wonders of You Tube I bring you the USC Trojan Marching Band after beating Cal:

And some more scrumpdiliciousness U-C-L-A Sucks goodness– See it doesn’t matter whom or where we are playing. The answer to the Trojan Marching band playing Tusk is ALWAYS U-C-L-A SUCKS. In fact, whenever, wherever, however, I hear Tusk, the answer is always U-C-L-A SUCKS

Here’s the rally in Lincoln, NE in 2007 before the Cornhuskers game, U-C-L-A Still Sucks:

And here’s the TMB and Song Girls in Arkansas Stadium, still U-C-L-A SUCKS

It doesn’t matter. NO ONE IS AS GOOD A VICTORY FOR THE TROJANS AS UCLA.

Remember, U-C-L-A SUCKS!

-Your Gridiron Goddess

Trojan faithful learn the lyrics to this spoof on the UCLA fight song practically before we learn FIGHT ON!

Westwood High
lyrics by the USC Marching Band

High up in the hills of Westwood
Sprawled offensive to the eye
Lies a Cal extension campus
Known as Westwood High. (high, high, high)
Home of all the Bruin bearcubs
UGLY is its name,
The student body’s vile,
The football team’s a pile,
And the campus is a shame.

U clap, clap, clap
G clap, clap, clap
L clap, clap, clap
Y clap, clap, clap

U – G – L – Y

EAT MY SHORTS!

Football Fiends,

It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the news that the adorable 4 year old bulldog mascot for the University of Georgia UGA VII has died today. His handsome wrinkley face has been a fixture at the school for more than a year. He died early Thursday of heart-related causes in Savannah, Georgia, according to its owner, Frank “Sonny” Seiler.

My heart goes out, once again, to the Bulldog Nation on this very sad day. My dear sweet Sally Bananas passed away in September, so I know how it feels.  He will be buried in a vault at Sanford Stadium with Ugas I-VI.  I am heartbroken, y’all.

UGA’s I thru VI will be in heaven to welcome UGA VII with open paws.

-Your Gridiron Goddess

Football Fiends,

In some circles, I’ve been called a Bandwagon Fan. This post is in answer to those charges. (Which were obviously made by people who do not know me very well, nor have they spent much time reading my posts.)

I am not just a sports blogger, or a football blogger, I am primarily a USC Blogger. I’ve been a huge fan of the University of Southern California since I was a kid. I grew up in a family with many ties to Notre Dame  and choosing USC as a kid was a way to be ornery and annoy my older relatives. Choosing USC as my college had everything to do with falling in love with the campus and the Dean’s Scholarship I was awarded.  Let’s just guesstimate my fandom started around 1978.

That’s not a bandwagon fan folks. A bandwagon fan is well, any of the number of unwashed, uneducated masses that have adopted USC as their own simply due to our recent success. And trust me I don’t want to see them in my cardinal and gold any more than you do.

By definition a Bandwagon fan is someone who adopts a popular point of view for the primary purpose of recognition and/or acceptance by others. USC has more than its share of bandwagon fans. I am happy to announce that their particular bandwagon is departing now every hour on the hour from Downtown LA. They are bound for Palo Alto. Congratulations Stanford, you can have ‘em!

True USC fans are THRILLED to see the bandwagon fans jump off our cart. Bandwagon fans are the most annoying thing in sports.

So while my non-USC Pac-10 brethren laugh at USC’s humilation at the hands of Stanford, the one thing we have in common is our glee at waving “Buh-Bye Now” to the legions of Bandwagon USC fans. Try not to twist your ankle as you jump off our bandwagon in favor of the latest flavor of the week. Fickle fans we do not need.

I write about USC because it is a school that I love to a ridiculous degree.

I am, and remain always, Extremely Proud to be a USC Trojan. Even if we never win another football game again. Which, you know, will not be the case.

-Your Gridiron Goddess

Will Ferrell and Pete Carroll host a night of comedy to benefit A Better LA.