Thread for Hippos to mock Penn State

[phattymatty]

dicks...more than half price off tickets for the psu game at fedex.

http://www.groupon.com/baltimore/

[SD]

Aaron Maybin worst player in the NFL?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Ha, nice.  Great hair, too.

[QB Eagles]

That style was last popular when the Bills were.

[SD]

There's nothing better than stomping Michigan

[MDS]

There's nothing better than stomping Michigan

theres is...its called not being a terrible big 10 team

[rjs246]

Temple.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

They stomped Akron yesterday!

[Munson]

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101101/SPORTS/101031013/Delaware-players-make-football-impact

[obligatory CF Delaware hate]No wonder PSU sucks now[/obligatory CF Delaware hate]

[Munson]

Justin Brown with the TD grab

Apparently Joe Pa's first TD pass in ohio? I find that incredibly hard to believe

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

McGloin is getting really excited about this game.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Not enoguh beer in the world!!!b!b!!

[MDS]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/columns/heyl/s_708535.html

MA MA MA MA pennsyltucky MA MA MA MA

[ice grillin you]

Fans play race card, spoil day at PSU
By Eric Heyl
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, November 14, 2010


It didn't take long for Happy Valley to turn miserable for Linda and Bobby Baker.

The Greensburg couple attended the Penn State-Michigan football game Oct. 30 and displayed colors that got them harassed by unruly fans of the home team.

It wasn't just the fact that the Bakers were sporting the blue and maize of the Michigan Wolverines that upset some Nittany Lions supporters. It was the fact that Linda Baker is white and Bobby Baker is black.

"We were prepared for the usual high-spirited fun that goes along with being fans of the opposing team," Linda Baker said. "We weren't prepared for the verbal assaults that were rude, degrading and demeaning."

Linda Baker, 45, an Irwin native, met her husband while both served in the Marines. They moved back to the area in May from Ohio to help care for Linda Baker's ailing parents.

The couple spent $500 on two tickets on the 40-yard line they found online. That's a lot of money to spend on a football game, but Bobby Baker, 44, grew up a huge Wolverines fan in Michigan so he and Linda decided to splurge.

In retrospect, the decision was a costly mistake.

They sat in a section with many older alumni, several of whom conducted themselves as though they were attempting to relive their drunken frat boy days. The Bakers were cursed at, and Linda Baker said the man directly behind her kept hitting her in the back of the head with a pom-pom.

That annoying situation deteriorated further when Bobby Baker left to find a restroom and his wife was subjected to berating racial epithets.

"I was called a (N-word) lover, a Michigan (N-word)-loving (expletive)," Baker said. "Someone asked, 'Since when do they allow (N-word)-lovers in our stadium?' "

Bobby Baker, meanwhile, got into a verbal altercation with a white fan who attempted to block his entrance into the restroom.

The climate was so hostile that the Bakers ended up leaving the game early, enduring more racially tinged taunts and insults as they exited the stadium.

To its credit, Penn State reached out to the Bakers after Linda Baker wrote university officials a letter describing the experience.

Baker said she received conciliatory phone calls Friday from Penn State broadcaster Steve Jones and from Joe Paterno's administrative assistant, who promised the legendary football coach soon will be in touch.

"We wanted to get back to (the Bakers) as quickly as possible to make sure they knew we were aware of the situation," Penn State associate athletic director Greg Myford said. "There's a small city here on Saturdays, so regrettably there are going to be occasional incidents -- not just at Beaver Stadium, but at lots of stadiums."

For Linda Baker, the incident represents more than just a ruined football game.

"My husband and I were Marines who lived all over the country and all over the world without experiencing anything like this," she said. "It deeply saddens me that when I experienced blatant discrimination for the first time, it happened right here."

Is she still angry?

"I'm embarrassed," she said. "I'm embarrassed that people from my home state are still so ignorant."

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

No way!  A group of drunken racists at a college football game in the middle of nowhere?  SHOCK. ING.