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In a New York Times piece this morning, Penn State’s interim head coach Tom Bradley acknowledges: Many of the Lions wanted to skip their trip to Dallas on January 2, when Penn State’s scheduled to play Houston in the TicketCity Bowl at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. The reason, so they say: A spot in Tom Starr’s not-struggling-swear 2-year-old bowl game is reserved for the seventh-best team in the Big Ten, and Penn State’s record is far better than that. Says Bradley, the players “had concerns,” let’s say, and looked to bail. But, no: “The team has come around to realize that the Cougars are a formidable opponent.”
Speaking of: A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that Penn State and Houston will be greeted at Fair Park by none other than the Westboro Baptist Church, which is scheduled to bring its cavalcade of crazy to a bowl game that can always use a brighter spotlight. You can probably figure out why The Most Hated Family in America is out to get the Lions: “Penn State is like all of the universities in doomed USA: full of proud, fornicating, brutish sinners, bowing down to college sports. That’s why Jerry Sandusky had full reign to rape little boys, under the noses of the likes of your hero Joe Paterno and his bosses.” As for the Cougars? “Houston, meanwhile elected a dyke for Mayor.” The day’s shaping up to be a double-header: Occupy Dallas is prepping a counter-protest.
Seems Fred Phelps’s clan is sticking around for a few days too: The only other item on their to-do list is picket the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on January 6. And what’s their beef with Kansas State and Arkansas?
Your destruction is imminent! Instead of humbling yourself before your God, you worship your football. If you gave even a fraction of the time, money, or interest in serving God that you give to the players on the field, this country wouldn’t be in the mess it is in. We are coming in warning to this foolish evil generation.
Which reminds me: God also hates Jason Garrett’s play-calling. Picket that.
