MISSISSIPPI SCHTATE
VERSUS
L . S . U.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
October 21, 2000
Miss. St. 38
LSU 45
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For Schtate BOG, click HERE.
According to Chris, Booty now officially, "has UPSIDE." Of course, Chris still thinks that Booty is a pinhead. Robin thinks that Booty learned a lot by watching Reauxhan during the Tennessee game -- then again, what do girls know about football. Overall, Booty did a great job and seems to be playing within himself. He's finally realized that he doesn't have to score 10 points every time he touches the ball. The ESPN commentators said that Booty had seen a sports psychologist. I wonder if this is the same guy(s) who helped the baseball team last Spring. Whoever the psychologist is, he has definitely eliminated one of the miracles needed for sainthood.
The last three home games have been the most enjoyable since the mid 80's. The fans are really into it and the stadium has an electricity to it.
Before I get to the pictures, I wanted to feature the two pumpkins that Chris carved for the game and Halloween. Before you ask, Chris carved the Bushwood pumpkin by hand and used a stencil for the LSU Beanie pumpkin.
Now, the pix:
Kappa Kappa Gamma was nice enough to hire a Cajun Band to play right next to our tailgating spot.
Here, Craig is informing his son that they are legally changing name to "Le"Brandon.
Our new official videographer busy at work getting us video versions of our BOG contestants.
Even Aunt Janie tailgated with us for a while.
Mom taking turns throwing with Caitlyn.
Robin carefully explains to us the "Quart of Blood" technique, i.e., how she can take out a quart of blood from a man's body with her bare hands. She is, after all, a TRAINED KICKBOXER. Of course, she's careful to WARN anyone before she kicks their ass. See last video/picture on page for explanation.
With the 8:00 pm start, we got some night tailgating in.
Booty avoided the rush all night and has finally learned to step into his throws. As much as all of us have bad-mouthed him the last year, he really should be commended for his last two starts.
Even though opposing cheerleaders cannot be consider for BOG, we can still show them here. The cheerleader shown above was Robin's favorite, given her lesbian tendencies and all.
Craig and Melissa taunt the Mississippi State fans by reminding them before the game that even if they win, they still have to go back to Starkville.
Pregame -- IN THE DARK !!!
Here come the Tigers.
Our view from the front row of Section 11, right above the Schtate fans.
It seemed like the officials didn't realize that they could call holding penalties on Schtate. Here, an LSU player is tackled from behind as he attempts to block a kick, yet nothing was called.
It seemed like we put a lot of pressure on Madken. While they scored a lot of points, it seemed that most of their points came on fluke plays, whereas our offense seemed to have long sustained drives. As I recall, Booty was not sacked all night. Plus, Toefield ran all over the nations #1 rush defense.
With time running out in regulation, Jackie "The Brain" Sherrill elected to just run the clock out instead of trying to put one into the endzone with less than 2 seconds to play.
The ever changing scoreboard. The scoreboard looked more like a pinball machine in the second half, but the final scoreboard was sweet.
At the end of the game, fans attempted to storm the field, however, the LSU cops came out to make sure nothing was damaged. There were guards at the goalpost, and, as the picture on the right shows, there were cops literally surrounding the "EYE" to make sure that it wasn't "surgically" removed as it looked like it had been after the Tennessee win.
Friend of yours Will? Here a Schtate fans shows all the class he can muster after the game. Of course, most of the Schtate fans were pretty cool, even in defeat. But a few were pretty obnoxious.
Dominick Davis Scores!!!
Our running game really showed up. We were able to sustain long drives by mixing up the run and the pass. By the end of the game, the Schtate defense had to be tired.
VIDEOS
Did LeBrandon score our first touchdown of the game? Click on the picture to see the ESPN2 video of the apparent fumble. Of course, this wasn't a fourth down play at the end of the game which guaranteed us victory (like MSU last year); however, who knows what would have happened had the official viewed this play as a fumble.
Here, Josh Reed scores on a great catch and run to complete the comeback. It was nice to finally see a Tiger team come back from a 14 point deficit in the fourth quarter. Dinardo's teams would have folded for sure. Click on picture to see video.
AND FINALLY, this guy gets the official Bushwood Asshole of the Year Award. This video takes a little time to download, but it is definitely worth the wait.
And finally, all week long we had to listen to that damn song, "Who let the dogs out, WHO .... WHO, WHO, WHO...WHO." Then, at the game, we had to listen to it every time Schtate did something. When they went up by 14 points, it got real bad. At the end of the game, when Schtate didn't score in O.T., Craig and I (while many others in our section joined in) started singing, "Who kicked the dogs' ass, WHO ... WHO, WHO, WHO ... WHO." Well, most of the Schtate fans just looked up and smiled, but this jerk decided that he was going to challenge everyone to a fight. He first went after Craig and I telling us to jump down. We went back and forth with him for a while, inviting him to come up, but then we just started laughing at him. At that point, he began to attack Robin and Melissa. Of course, Craig broke out the video camera at this point.
Click on either one of the two pictures above, or HERE, to view and listen to the video. Pay close attention to the background sound as Robin (urged on by Melissa as she was pretending to jump over the rail) tell the guy, "You want a piece of me ... Hey State Boy, you want a piece of me." Of course, then she WARNED him that she was a TRAINED kickboxer -- not just a regular kickboxer but a TRAINED kickboxer. This will definitely win funniest video of the year. You may have to turn up your volume.