With so many bowl games, the NFL playoffs, the holidays, the economy and other items tugging at your interest, I've decided to do you all a favor. Break down how the outcome of all these post season college games impacts the Ducks. But first, some critical questions.
1-Do you consider "Family Guy" & "The Simpsons" to be cartoons or sitcoms?
2-Do you think the NFL should change it's current Sudden Death system for the playoffs?
The highest the Ducks have ever finished in the final AP poll is 2nd after winning the Fiesta Bowl 7 years ago. When they took out Texas in the 2000 Holiday Bowl they landed at #7. The other's worth mentioning are following the loss to Penn State in the Rose Bowl after the 94 season they ended 11th and 13th after losing to Oklahoma in the 05 Holiday Bowl. I'm thinking this team has a legit shot at becoming the 3rd ever to make the top 10. Oregon began the post season 15th. No question they'll jump #14 Georgia Tech who got smoked by LSU, Oklahoma State at 13(duh) and number 12 Cincinnati who lost big in the Orange Bowl. TCU was 11th and won their bowl game, Ohio State at 10 lost but played a great Texas team touch and Boise State, the #9 lost but just by a point. Texas Tech at 8 and 6th ranked Penn State got creamed so I'm thinking at the low end they move up 4 spots to 11, and perhaps to 10 if the Boise State loss sends them farther down the polls. Either way, with all that's gone down in 2008 including the morons booing the home team during wins, it's been a season of terrific accomplishment for Bellotti and his program.
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Regarding the cartoons, quite simply they are a merger of the family-based situational comedy and cartoons, and they are NOT the first to do so.
Family Guy and the Simpsons take the faily-based sitcom format established by All in The Family, Mama's Famiy, Happy Days, and Married...with Children. The first show to animate this format was Wait Til' Your Father Gets Home in the arly 70s, which had Tom Bosley voicing the dad character, though much could be said for The Flintstones also following this format, based almost entirely on The Honeymooners.
Simpsons took that Wait Til Your Father Gets Home mold and gave it a Married...with Children raunchy spin, and Family Guy and American Dad have both expanded on that.
So they're not sitcoms, and they're not cartoons. They are a mesh of the two, family-based sitcom cartoons.
P.S. Old episodes of "Wait Til' Your Father gets Home" occasionally still run late night on the Boomerang Network if you get it if you want to see the original mold that established teh Simpsons-style of modern day family-based sitcom cartoons.
1. cartoons
2. yes for regular season too . play at least 1 whole 15 minute OT period to get your winner .
ducks could finish top 10 easy this year . so thats 2 pac-10 teams in there with arguably 1 being the best in the nation . *duck fan looks for their foam #1 finger*
I'm okay with the NFL playoff system as it is. However, if they did alter it I've always felt perhaps the best way would be to allow each team one possession. For example, after Darren Sproles scored for the Chargers last weekend then have San Diego kick off to the Colts and Indy would get its shot to move down field for a score.
Go Chargers by the way. 2-0 all-time playoff record at Pittsburgh.
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