Michael Hurlbut
This is always one of my favorite weeks when it comes to WCC basketball. No it’s not because we get to play one of the weakest teams in the conference. It’s not even because the away game is so close.
Why the excitement? Because LMU has the best cheerleaders in the league to heckle. They dress, uh, scantily. They dance, uh, suggestively. They look, well, bad. It gives me a new appreciation for our cheerleaders, that’s for sure. Those LMU girls are definitely not ladies I would take home to meet Mom and Pops.
Congrats to the Pepperdine rugby team on its 33-0 shellacking of the Occidental Tigers this past weekend. There was quite an impressive crowd out there and it was honestly hysterical that everyone was going nuts because nobody knew what the score was until everything was over and done with. Those are some devoted fans who can sit through an entire game and not know the score. Best of luck to you guys in the future.
Speaking of games that nobody knows about, the club lacrosse team hits the field this weekend against hated rivals USC at 2 p.m. up at the track. I would definitely check these games out if you like a game where players can beat the tar out of each other with metal sticks and get away with it.
Are the Patriots really in the Super Bowl? What’s the spread for the game by the way? Rams over the Pats by 60? I’m predicting Marshall Faulk to run for about 200 yards and three touchdowns and Kurt “Chunky Soup” Warner will throw for a cool 400 and probably hit up Isaac Bruce with a couple TD’s. Drew Bledsoe will probably start and then get knocked out of the game so that the limping Tom Brady can make a failed attempt at a comeback. Who am I kidding? I’m a 49er fan …
I realized today in class as I was daydreaming about the Super Bowl that I miss the Budweiser lizards. The “True” commercials just aren’t cutting it for me as much as Frank and Louie and the ever-popular Ferret. And has Bud Bowl gone completely down the drain now? Not that I’m saying I want it back, it was just so comforting for me come Super Bowl Sunday when I was younger to watch the little Budweiser bottles go running across the screen with footballs glued to their labels.
I really hope everyone brings out their couches from the residence halls on lower dorm road to the baseball games that start on Friday. I honestly don’t think that RLO would fine a single one of us if we took them all out on the sidewalk to heckle Nevada. That is one of the greater traditions of Pepperdine athletics, right up there with screaming “OLAY, OLAY, OLAY” every time we drain threes in the basketball games.
What I want to know is when are we going to start going to the golf matches to yell “Noonan!” as opposing players line up their putts? “What an incredible Cinderella story, this unknown … ”
January 31, 2002