10. Despite all that Rice bashing...they still have more bowl wins than NU, by a lot.
With five bowl wins in their history, the Owls put the Wildcats to shame in that category. They even beat the mighty Alabama Crimson Tide one time. This is just depressing to learn...even freaking Rice has a better past than NU. But then again...who cares.
9. Their motto is "Rice Fight! Never Die!"
When your goal in football is not to die, that might be a problem. I mean, no one wants to die, but normally that's assumed. Rice is putting it out there: "we really suck, if we get out of the game alive, we've succeeded! Hoot!" Hope we don't hurt their guys too badly. Honestly people, when the biggest concern anyone can think of is the weather, you know you're facing a bad team. I don't know about you but I am looking forward to another Dan Persa masterpiece with a little Evan Watkins thrown in for good measure. Arby Fields must be licking his lips at yet another opportunity to run for positive yards.
8. Sam McGuffie
Remember that name? He played against NU for Michigan in 2008 and is now the only interesting Owl. This video should get you fired up:
I hope he tries to jump over Quentin Davie. It won't end well.
7. Apparently this is a bitter rivalry
At least that's what NU would like you to believe. Easy on the rivalry talk guys. The teams have played each other a grand total of five times, with Rice winning four of the contests. That is (a) not enough match-ups to be considered a rivalry and (b) that means right now Rice owns our ass. That being said, it sucks to have a 1-4 record against Rice. So you should be FIRED UP for NU's chance to finally fight back against the oppressive Owls.
6. The revolution, ummm....game....will not be televised.
You might be wondering, why is this a reason to get fired up? No one wants to pay 10 dollars for shitty "Owl Vision." So the only free option is to listen to the dulcet tones of Dave Eanet on WIND or wgnradio.com. (You could also listen to WNUR, but they are a bunch of geeks who hate the athletes so why would you?*)
*That was dripping with sarcasm...or was it?
In any case, the chance to sit down and just listen to a football game is a rare opportunity in today's HD/3D/DD TV age.
So take advantage of it. Embrace it. GET FIRED UP FOR IT!!
5. Houston was recently named a "hotbed of sex" by Men's Health Magazine
If this doesn't get you fired up, I don't know what will.
On the downside, it's consistently been ranked one of the fattest cities in the United States.
So it's really just a bunch of fat people having sex.
Let's move on and be thankful I didn't provide a link in the previous sentence.
4. NU has a bunch of players from Houston and the weather is going to be hot!
Surely the first 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 time you've heard that.
3. It's the dreaded third game.
To say NU has struggled in third games during the Fitz era would be terrifyingly accurate. In 2006 we were treated to the abomination that was the Eastern Michigan game. It was the first game I'd ever attended and I deserve a fucking medal for sticking with the team after that abortion of a contest. And yes, they "won" in the same way United States "won" the war of 1812. (Too nerdy for you? I don't give an owl's shit, it's my blog.) In 2007, they lost to Duke and in 2009 they lost to Syracuse. Unforgivable defeats, both of them. I'm in a bad mood now so let's just mosey along to number two...
2. A win would be Coach Fitz's 30th as head coach!
It's nearly one a.m. and I'm tired. But that's cool, right?
1. Eight weeks until the Iowa game!
Go 'Cats!
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Tags: Dan Persa, Fat people, FIRED UP, northwestern wildcats football, Owls, pat fitzgerald, rice, Sex, Texas, The Lion King
Don't forget that there are also Canadians on the Rice squad. Yeah, Canadians. If that isn't enough to get you fired up to beat these guys, I don't know what is.
where in the hell did you find that owl dress pic? it's pretty cool if not a bit creepy....