Friday POSBANG - Hoosier Daddy Edition
Back to more acceptable kick-off times, where I'm sure Indiana will be happier to be put out of their misery sooner.
This ain't gonna be no "Wangler to Carter" miracle, folks. It ain't gonna be that close.
No upset alert, urbz. Sorry buddy. Nice try.
No Larry Bird from the corner dashing our hopes for a championship. Go back home to French Lick.
Just a good ol' fashioned ass whoppin' is coming, served up courtesy of JJ and Friends.
Go Blue!!!
Oh, and lets bang...
October 13th, 2023 at 12:20 AM ^
Not to nit pick, but for the record, Larry Bird was Indiana State…Isaiah was Indiana.
October 13th, 2023 at 12:29 AM ^
Very true statement and I guess I wasn't thinking strictly the school, but more the state. Good catch though, I should have considered Zeke as an alternate, but I don't dislike him at all, let alone as much as I dislike Larry Bird.
October 13th, 2023 at 7:37 AM ^
Maybe I missed something, but how does one "dislike" Larry Bird? For his role in beating the Pistons on occasion? I get that, but jeez, man... !!
October 13th, 2023 at 7:48 AM ^
I hated Larry Bird simply because he was a Celtic. Good enough for me. I date back to the Red (not Nicole) Auerbach era, when they used to destroy my Knicks year after year.
October 13th, 2023 at 8:56 AM ^
This is why...
October 13th, 2023 at 9:11 AM ^
Same here, and being a Knicks fan is more than enough reason to dislike Isaiah Isaiah Thomas.
October 13th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
Not a fan of Nicole Auerbach either.
October 13th, 2023 at 8:52 AM ^
You can’t dislike Larry Bird.
The Celtics are what made the Pistons great.
Even Zeke will tell you the Celtics made the Pistons become Champions.
John Salley, 7 foot jumping Jack, said when he came into the league he was on a mission to block Larry’s shot. In his rookie year he had his chance and Larry knew he was coming. Larry simply said “too late” as his finger tips went by and Salley said it started years of him hearing “too late” after every swish.
October 13th, 2023 at 12:34 AM ^
Not to nit nit pick but Isiah was Indiana.
October 13th, 2023 at 1:28 AM ^
Not to nitpick but nitpick is one word.
Oh, wait. That IS nitpicking. Both Isiah and Isaiah would be disappointed in me.
October 13th, 2023 at 1:29 AM ^
For the record, Larry actually originally enrolled at IU to play for Bobby.
Let’s bang!
October 13th, 2023 at 5:48 AM ^
It's hard to even guess how many Detroit children Isiah saved with his Edison campaign of "just look up" so kids weren't getting electrocuted on the regular. Maybe 100,000 or more? Out of those 100,000 they probably have families so Isiah is maybe responsible for half a million people being alive today.
(107) Detroit Edison PSA with Isiah Thomas - YouTube
Meanwhile Larry Bird was advocating for Schmecky D's. One of the largest causes of obesity and early onset diabetes. Bird has multiple million deaths on his hands.
(107) Larry Bird vs. Michael Jordan McDonalds commercial - YouTube
October 13th, 2023 at 7:39 AM ^
Ohhh!!! So this is how one 'dislikes' Larry Bird. I get it, now...
POSBANG because I get it!!!
October 13th, 2023 at 10:09 AM ^
And yet the beef ad with Michael Cooper roasting him for eating his steaks well done can't be found.
October 13th, 2023 at 7:02 AM ^
Kent Benson was also Isiah's teammate at IU.
October 13th, 2023 at 12:29 AM ^
answer:
October 13th, 2023 at 9:01 AM ^
be awesome to see a v2 of that gif with his club hand
October 13th, 2023 at 6:59 AM ^
Mason Graham names his club "Hoosier Daddy"
for Saturday's game.
GO BLUE!
October 13th, 2023 at 1:14 AM ^
Sink the Bismarck !
Bloom town is mad live TBH, welcome these people to town.
October 13th, 2023 at 9:08 AM ^
Nice people - just like Nebraska and Minnesota. They will also suffer the same fate.
Go Blue!
October 13th, 2023 at 1:38 AM ^
I have a special fascination with Indiana. What's a Hoosier and what does it mean anyway?
October 13th, 2023 at 2:03 AM ^
Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it the Hoosier State, which of course in German means 'a whale's vagina'.
October 13th, 2023 at 2:46 AM ^
Your PhD means you must be correct and we will listen to your lecture on the history of Indiana, DrJaws.
October 13th, 2023 at 3:11 AM ^
you already listened to the whole thing. that was it in its glorious entirety.
also an Anchorman reference
October 13th, 2023 at 7:22 AM ^
I thought that was San Diego. Well 60% of the time...
October 13th, 2023 at 2:55 AM ^
From the USDA Forestry department (I was unaware that existed until this moment) a Hoosier is from unknown sources. The theories range from old french word for country side dwellers, or slang for a public nuisance, possibly a huge burly man, or even a polite greeting. It looks like the lore will always be greater than the reality.
"I. One story goes that a contractor named Sam Hoosier, on the Ohio Falls Canal in Louisville, preferred Indiana workers over any others because he believed them to be the most reliable and hardworking. The workers from Indiana became known as Hoosier's men and proudly carried the label home.
II. A similar story involves the National Road, which got it's start in Cumberland , Maryland, and slowly extended westward as the United States expanded (today, we know it only as U.S. 40). It truly was a "national" road, in that it was "mcadamized" (we'd call it an "asphalt" road today), quite an innovation for the nineteenth century. It was far ahead of it's time, easily providing the best transportation route of it's era. The road had reached Columbus, Ohio, just about the time that Indiana was in it's final stage as a territory.
"The laugh, and three cheers were given for Col. Humphrey; while the crest fallen Yankees quietly returned to their camp to wonder what kind of men the Hoosiers were anyhow.”
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VII. Before its use in America, hoosier was used in England to refer to someone who lived in the hills or mountains. It may also be related to the French word "osier", meaning someone from the countryside, or an uncultivated person. This term is still used in Eastern Canada.
VIII. In colonial America, the term cracker or hoosier were used to refer to white farmers who did not own slaves or large plantations. These farmers usually lived in the hills and were identified with subsistence farming and were poor and usually uneducated. Therefore, the terms had derogatory connotations. Linguistic maps of the southern states indicate that cracker was used more often in the coastal areas. Hoosier was predominant in the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. As Indiana was settled, this was where the settlers came from and by the early 1800s, hoosier was widely used to refer to the poor farmers or ignorant rustic people in general. The first newspaper usage of the term hoosier to refer to people from Indiana was in 1832. Though the nickname originally had a negative connotation, it was adopted and used with pride by the bearers of the name. By the American Civil War the nickname was firmly established.
Whatever the real story, people from Indiana now have a strong affinity to the name and throughout the state, many businesses and agencies have Hoosier in their name. It reflects "
October 13th, 2023 at 8:15 AM ^
Oh goodness, a dozen apocryphal choices, each more boring than the next and each foreshadowing Walt Bell.
October 13th, 2023 at 9:32 AM ^
All these years I thought there had been a booming hosiery industry in Indiana and somehow hosiery morphed into hoosiers. Not unlike the Steelers.
October 13th, 2023 at 7:42 AM ^
It's a question. What's that? Can I use it in a sentence? Sure...
Hey boy, HOOSIER DADDY???
October 13th, 2023 at 1:59 AM ^
Just landed in Salt Lake City.
Will be tailgating watching the M game until time to enter Rice-Eccles to watch my sons Utes smash the ever loving shit out of my Cal Bears. Will be wearing my Utes hoodie with my Cal hat.
Cal grad, Utah dad.
October 13th, 2023 at 6:21 AM ^
Have fun, Doc!
October 13th, 2023 at 2:12 AM ^
One day Indiana may beat us at home. Tomorrow is not that day.
October 13th, 2023 at 6:21 AM ^
No it is not. It is definitely not that day.
October 13th, 2023 at 7:52 AM ^
Like the last line from Gladiator: "some day I will see you again; but not yet, not yet."
October 13th, 2023 at 2:42 AM ^
We have players who wear penguins in their cumberbuns. Indiana is dead.
October 13th, 2023 at 7:46 AM ^
Well, uhh, the penguin had a herring in his cummerbund. But the spirit is there so I award you an upvote!
October 13th, 2023 at 10:18 AM ^
DOH!!
Thanks for the fix. I can still hear Ufer's call ringing in my ears. Yeah, the sentiment was there, not so much my ringing ears.
October 13th, 2023 at 7:53 AM ^
"The Crossroads of America"; meaning, there's no reason ever to stop there.
October 13th, 2023 at 9:35 AM ^
When driving from Chicago to Michigan, that tiny portion of Indiana through which you have to pass is known as the Devil's Corridor (my name for it). In the winter, you could have clear skies on either side of Indiana, but Indiana -- just in that spot -- will have blizzard conditions. There's something treacherous there, just not right.
October 13th, 2023 at 9:14 AM ^
So that's where it is. Cool.
October 13th, 2023 at 4:49 AM ^
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October 13th, 2023 at 5:48 AM ^
hold on to your cummerbunds ladies and germs, waves of rain and winds up to 38 mph tonight and tomorrow for those of us outside at football games. i am literally going to be wearing waders tonight on the sidelines, and tomorrow in the stands.
travel safely everybody, and go blue!
October 13th, 2023 at 6:36 AM ^
Just a reminder to always check your cumberbund for a hot herring.
October 13th, 2023 at 7:57 AM ^
Forecast now calls for intermittent rain, up to 1/4 inch, with winds 10-20 mph.
Yesterday, the prediction was for 1/2 inch of rain. By tomorrow they should be predicting drought conditions.
October 13th, 2023 at 6:22 AM ^
LOVE that toe meets leather at noon tomorrow!
Go Blue!
October 13th, 2023 at 6:37 AM ^
The game is at a perfect time for me sandwiched between two kids events. Soccer game in the morning and a high school marching band competition in the evening. Go Blue!!