Vegas Baby Vegas!
Here are ten things that I learned while in Vegas for my bachelor party.
10.) Steve Martin called and he wants his hair back.
9.) Contrary to popular belief, Vegas does not make the World's Largest Mozzarella Stick.
8.) Tuohy leads the parade within 5 minutes of his arrival.
7.) Jay's cell phone ring tone is the theme to Law and Order.
6.) If you pull the string on Kevin's back he will quickly run to the nearest blackjack table.
5.) In Vegas, The Pink Taco does not refer to the female anatomy, but rather a mexican restaurant.
4.) Junkin is not German nor is he Chinese. This point of contention caused mass confusion for the meathead in The Pink Taco.
3.) Potato skins eaten just before bed make a mean baked potato soup the next morning.
2.) The Hard Rock pool is off the chain.
1.) The tuck rule is always in effect.
I couldn't resist!
Sorry Law and Tuohy. Too good to resist.
I Hate Boston College.By: Kevin Braga
I grew up in Boston and I love Boston sports. I love the Celts, I love the Pats, I love the B’s, it is unhealthy how much I live and die with the Red Sox. But I hate Boston College with a passion. I was sitting in the upper deck of Alumni Stadium a couple weeks back and I couldn’t help but chuckle and smile as Notre Dame rallied from 18 points down to take a 25-24 lead. You could hear a pin drop, it was beautiful! As I sat there, I had to ask myself the question, why? Why do I hate BC? And this is what I came up with.
The problem with BC isn’t that they dominate any particular sport. For example, it is easy to hate the Yankees because of the great success they have had as a franchise. This simply isn’t true for BC. What is true is that Boston College fans, alumni, and students think they are much better than they are. Their football program thinks it’s Notre Dame, their basketball program thinks it’s Syracuse, and their students think they go to Harvard.
The BC football program is mediocre at best. I don’t want to hear how they always go to bowl games. Look at their schedule from last season. BC played UConn, Central Michigan, Navy, Temple and Rutgers. That is 5 automatic wins, and with them only needing six to qualify for a Bowl Game, I’m not impressed. And I don’t want to hear about how Big East teams do well in Bowl games. That is a bunch of garbage. While BC is going to the Motor City Bowl and beating up on Toledo and Virginia Tech is going to the San Francisco Bowl and blowing out Air Force, you have teams like Michigan and Florida playing each other in the Outback Bowl, so of course the Big East will have a favorable record. Since when does a Hail Mary and a left footed field goal make you a college football powerhouse? They don’t. And do not even get me started on that joke of a student section that you have. Just because you wear yellow superfan t-shirts, doesn’t mean that you school spirit. Ask anybody who has ever been to Big Ten, SEC, or Big 12 football game, and they will tell you how pathetic the Eagle student section is. I think the University of Michigan football team best summed up alumni stadium during the mid-nineties. After arriving in Chestnut Hill, the Wolverines took a tour of the campus, including a stop at alumni stadium and the players were very impressed, saying “that is a really nice practice facility.”
Basketball. Have you been to Conte Forum lately? What a dump. It’s a high school gym with better lighting, but high school games have better student turnouts. What school has trouble filling 8,000 seats!! C’mon. And only at BC could Malcolm Huckaby and Gerrod Abram be legends. A friend of mine who is also a BC alum, once referred to the “glory days” of big east basketball and talked about Bill Curley and Derrick Coleman in the same sentence. I mean, DC may have his issues now, but back in his days at the “Cuse” he was unstoppable and would be insulted if he knew he was being mentioned in the same sentence as Bill Curley. Even Providence has a more impressive basketball program than BC, which is evident every time BC plays PC at Conte Forum and 80% of the fans are rooting for the Friars.
Academics. I have two words for you. Safety School. Is it a requirement to be a legacy to go there, or is that just a coincidence that everyone seems to be a third generation Eagle. Why do BC students and Alumni come across with the “I’m smahta than you” attitude. Please, you went to BC! BC academics are just like Mary Ann’s on Beacon Street- everyone who goes to BC thinks it is great, and everybody else knows that there is nothing special about it.
I can only seem to give Boston College credit in two areas- Hockey and Females. The Hockey Program has had a very nice run, but again, compare the passion for the teams in the WCHA (North Dakota, Wisconsin, etc.), and all you can do is laugh. You simply can’t compare the tradition and spirit found at real college hockey programs to the upstart Eagles. The females on the other hand aren’t too shabby. I’d give BC the nod in that department over any other Boston school.
Anyway, back to athletics. I don’t think I’d mind BC if they just had a reality check. As Bill Parcells would say, “you are what you are.” And Boston College is an average academic school with a below average athletic department featuring a football team that is overrated year in and year out and a basketball team that drew 4,239 fans to watch them lose to Northeastern last season on their home court- ouch.
