Gridiron Gang

gridiron, the gridiron is actually the marks on the middle of the pitch/field that make up the grid looking appearance of an american football field, these signify each yard, every yard in the game of the gods is like a mile, that is why ball control is esential, every yard is key,. ok so you may hear in gridiron movies like from 'varsity blues'
- 'the next forty minutes are the next forty years of your life. essentially that is true because if you dont play ball in college your last high school game couldbe the last time you ever put on the helmet,- unlike soccer where the fans are equally as zealous, you could join any club to play of a weekend, but with gridiron it is an incredibly complex game that needs rehearsal (like ballet) it needs management in the form of coaches and it needs a fuck load of equipment, there are no games on the weekend, its just high school - college - nfl, if you dont play in any of those you can only play flag football on the weekend, which is like touch football for rugby league but the gridiron equivallent-

the game is incredibly complex and has many levels of play, so a quarterback and the receivers have to know over four hundred pages of playbook by heart, and when a play comes off its like the heavens have opened and god has shown us the way, where as both codes of rugby essentially just have a line of men, and you keep passing it backwards untill you break that line or maybe do a little kick or something, and you may say well they are all pussies - wearing helmets and pads and stuff, it is because they are giants, i have stood behind a couple of cavalier players in line at the dining hall, and they make josh perry look like danni devito, and i feel like a mouse standing next to them, plus when they hit/tackle each other on the field, take a look, unlike league they don't brace for impact , they throw there bodies at each other, even sometimes headfirst, so there might be more padding but i call it battle armour, and it lets them attack each other with reckless abandon, plus they are giants, because they dont need the fittness to defend for a full eighty minutes like a rugby player,

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=262450221&confId=80that is the link for the sad story of our first loss of the season, last year we were 7-5, but this year looks like a rebuilding year

Steve Irwin
what the hell happened to steve irwin i just heard, a sting ray got him! un freaking believable, a barb of a sting punctured his heart, it is sad, 'crikey' has been silenced forever





this is school spirit! every 100 yards the emblem is painted on the road, all throughout charlottesville










this is half the john paul jones arena, the new basketball stadium that is the best in the country, it puts the sydney entertainment center to shame, i don't even want to mention the tin shack you call the newcastle entertainment center. john paul jones himself is UVa alumni and felt he needed some recognition so he ponied up the cash to build this fine facility and have his name forever immortalised, we also watch the away games of the cavaliers football team, notice the runner! everyone runs at this school , i go outside at 3am and people are running!




this is the triple whopper!! this isn't a one time offer, ths is permantley on the menu, i took the challenge yesterday with a chocolate shake and fries, i call it the 'heart attack special' . i failed the challenge , but only by a few mouthfulls , notice how there is no cheese between the slices of meat, by the end it was just meat on meat with no bun, i probably had two or three mouthfulls to go, but the shake and fries filled me up.















i thought i put a photo up of nic cage, so you can spend some time worshipping him, and his cannon of work.

















movie and world news section:
i have a new section at the bottom of the webpage, it has al the news and gossip about movies, one of the articles has photos from the new transformers movie on locationhttp://www.myextralife.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8915that is the exact link- you can see the big truck optimus prime!! he wasmy favourite, but when i was a kid my friend had the toy, it was huge, i only had some crappy little ones, and a g.i joe, i missed out on rock em sock em robots and stretch armstrong too, and his arms stretch out to forever!

-the right side of the road, it has been only this past week that i have felt comfortable crossing roads without an eight tonne SUV nearly hitting me, it took two months for the shift in my brain to accept that the yanks drive on the other side of the road, i'm sure when im back down under i'll have the same problem for a couple of weeks, i like driving on the right side of the road, i think novellty not pragmatism is the lure, the benefit of either being one of the motorists knowledge of their own nations laws and consistency.

quotes from homer goes to college episode: (conan is credited with writing this episode, the man is a god, sadly it was the last episode he wrote)

Homer: 'I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.'
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Guy: Homer, sign this application, and you're a shoe-in.
Homer: Hahaha, haha, that dog has somebody's ham. Now this I gotta see!
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Homer: My first day of college. I wish my father was alive to see this.
Abe: Hey!
Homer: How long have you been back there?
Abe: Three days!
Homer: That explains the smell
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Homer: Marge, someone squeezed all the life out of these kids. And unless movies and TV have lied to me, it's a crusty, bitter old Dean!
Dean: Hi there! Hello, I'm Dean Peterson, but you can call me Bobby. I just want you to know if you ever feel stressed out from studying or whatever, I'm always up for some hackey sack. Or, hey! If you just want to come by and jam, I used to be the bass player for the Pretenders. Homer: Boy, I can't wait to take some of the starch out of that stuffed shirt.
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Marge: Homer, we have a perfectly good bookcase.
Homer: Yeah, but this is what they're doing on campus. Besides, it isn't costing us: I swiped the cinderblocks from a construction site.
[At the site, a worker walks forlorn up to his boss]
Worker: Sir, six cinderblocks are missing.
Boss: There'll be no hospital, then. I'll tell the children.

(i'm going to hide under my big usa jacket when the exams are on)

---'everything i l know i learned from family guy' - i saw that on a guys t-shirt