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GO ARMY !!!!!

Craig, while I applaud your spirit ... your sad devotion is ... misplaced.

We are SO going to crush you. Again.

Go NAVY!! Crush the donkey boys!!

On then and never rest!
'til sets high that Navy crest!
Carry on Blue and Gold,
both in thought and action bold
For a Navy victory!

When is the game

Kick off is 3 pm Eastern Time. They're playing in Baltimore this year. Convenient for the Mids, but it will be a loooooong, joyless busride home for the kaydets I don't remember the conversion to JST at this time ... We left Camp Foster 33 years ago this month. Yikes.

Craig -- Will you keep my seat warm? I may be a little late getting to the game today ... North Alabama Electrical Cooperative just told us they will be shutting off our power (um, ALL of Skyline) to do a critical component replacement that is scheduled to last into game time.

Good news: the power is back on! Just in time for our upcoming cooooooooooold: 20 tonight; 24 Sunday; 14 Sunday night/wind chill 2-12. John can feel like he's almost AT the game.

Go ahead and sing first, Craig.

Well played, Army!
'87 sez ....

BEAT ARMY!!

FYI ... here are the words to our respective Alma Maters:

West Point

Hail, Alma Mater dear,
To us be ever near,
Help us thy motto bear
Through all the years.
Let duty be well performed,
Honor be e'er untarned,
Country be ever armed,
West Point, by thee.

Guide us, thy sons, aright,
Teach us by day, by night,
To keep thine honor bright,
For thee to fight.
When we depart from thee,
Serving on land or sea,
May we still loyal be,
West Point, to thee.

And when our work is done,
Our course on earth is run,
May it be said, 'Well Done;
Be Thou At Peace.'
E'er may that line of gray
Increase from day to day,
Live, serve, and die, we pray,
West Point, for thee.


Okay, whatever. That is just ...forgettable.

Here's Navy's: (My class' version, not the current woke/dei crap version). It happens to be the most utterly coolest alma mater EVUR:

Now college MEN From sea to sea
May sing of colors true.
But who has better right than we
To hoist a symbol hue?
For sailor MEN In battle fair
Since fighting days of old
Have proved the Sailors' right to wear
The NAVY BLUE and GOLD.


Four years together by the Bay
Whеre Severn joins thе tide
Then by the Service called away
We're scattered far and wide
But still when two or three shall meet
And old tales be retold
From low to highest in the Fleet
We'll pledge the Blue and Gold!

I may be a Marine (By the grace of God),
But my blood runs Blue and Gold.

Beat ARMY!!!

So. Navy prevailed!

Yeah, they snuck that one by us... 1 point...

While it may not be the greatest college football you'll see, it still was a classic slugfest (The CBS commentator called it "trench warfare") and the greatest rivalry in college sports.

Are there any other rivalries where the stadium goes silent in respect for both sides to sing their alma maters?

And while we're still on the subject... About the Heisman Trophy runner up ...I'm not sure who these punks are, but Im pretty sure that being Vanderbilt's star QB in 2025 will be the pinnacle of his otherwise mundane and unimpactful life. Unlike a true star like Blake Horvath who's star college football experience will be but a footnote in an otherwise illustrious Naval career serving his country. Horvath is at USNA studying Naval Weapons systems, advanced math, chemistry, electrical engineering and other critical subjects and preparing himself to be a leader capable of taking others into Harm's Way effectively. Or my classmate, David Robinson, who led a dysfunctional NBA team to a championship, got into the Hall of Fame and has since founded a successful private Christian school in South Texas among other community building projects. What are Pavia and Mendoza studying -- leisure management? Will they ever serve anyone but themselves? Doubtful. If the Heisman is to mean anything (to me, it doesn't), it should look at the whole person, not just how well they played a game. This kid pretty well illustrates why I have no interest in collegiate sports other than the Army Navy game.

ARMY won 41-16 over UConn in the 27 December Fenway Bowl. The Black Knights end their 2025 season with a 7-6 winning record.

NAVY's 10-2 winning season, including the 13 December win over ARMY, brings the Midshipmen to the Liberty Bowl v. Cincinnati on Friday 2 January. Looking forward to the game!

Army beat UConn.... Is that impressive? I know nothing of UConn ... they don't exactly pop up in conversations about college football powerhouses....

It reminds me of the words we Midshipman sang to the Army fight song:

Weeeeeeeeeeee don't play Notre Dame .....

Weeeeeeeeeee don't play Tulay ay ay ane ...

Weeeeeeeeeee just play Holy Cross ....

'Cause that's the fearless Army Way!


Go Navy! Beat Cincy!

At least big league baseball admits that their farm teams are commercial enterprises. Pro football and basketball teams use colleges as their supply pipeline, and pretend they're "amateurs". The whole game of charades is based on a big lie!
Jerry