Late night open thread

The Eighth Wonder of the World, THE Saturday Night Scoreboard Show! Who's ready to make fun of losing teams? Mr. Stay Puft?

Georgia 41
Tennessee 0
Butch Jones arriving at work tomorrow

Louisville 55
Murray State 10
Anyone else wonder why all the stadium food vendor jackets today said FBI on the back?

Michigan State 17
Iowa 10
Quite a few Iowa seniors went to East Lansing hoping for revenge for their devastating 2015 Big Ten title game loss to Sparty. They'll get nothing and like it

James Madison 20

Delaware 10

James Madison, first in war, first in peace, first in the CAA

Lafayette 10

Holy Cross 7

Lafayette now leads the Patriot League at 1-4 overall.

Stanford 34

Arizona State 24

Bryce Love ran for 301 yards and 3 TD's for The Cardinal and the ESPN headline said he "helped" in the win. No, he was a TRUE Mr. Helper, right Sam?


Western Michigan 55

Ball State 3

They were dodging Amtrak's on the way over to Waldo's Tavern early in the third quarter tonight in Kalamazoo

Georgia Tech 33

North Carolina 7

This will be rectified come basketball season, and how

Troy 24

LSU 21

We held up the entire show tonight to see if LSU would finish flying the plane into the hill. BLAMO! Somehow this is Les Miles' fault

The Jersey City Desk Game of the Week®

Juniata 42

McDaniel College 41

Talking about a little of that can do attitude Mike Damone spoke of in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Juniata's toes are still tapping after they decided they just didn't want to play a second overtime and went for two in the first OT, got power up, and beat the Terrors. Seriously, McDaniel's nickname is Terrors, that's awesome. Juniata players may now loot and pillage the greater Huntingdon, Pennsylvania area for the next 24 hours

Also tonight, a quick note of condolence to Purdue fans who lost Joe Tiller, their all-time winningest coach yesterday. He was the one to haul the B1G offenses forward into the 2000's, and a good man. 

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Rutgers Football Gameday!

OK, we know. We all now what today is and who is coming to town tonight. Urban Meyer and the Columbus Eleven arrive and everything we know, read or feel tells us the Buckeyes should have little trouble with Rutgers tonight in Piscataway.

Or does it?

Harken back a couple years ago when Michigan State came into RU for a Saturday night game, ranked #4 in the country and they barely escaped (and were helped with the spiked 4th down pass). Rutgers came up with a magnificent effort, a loud crowd and a belief that once the game got to the 4th quarter they COULD win it. How does that scenario come back around tonight? Let's look.

MSU came into that game with a decimated O-line and lost #1 RB Madre London on the first drive. Ohio State comes in healthy up front (So key) but with some vulnerabilities shown by Oklahoma. It wasn't that the Sooners had superior talent, they had a better scheme. How about it Chris Ash, here's your chance to gameplan a masterpiece. Gotta have it. The Scarlet Knights do have a talent deficiency tonight, its gotta be a great gameplan.

That night against MSU, Rutgers was on attack all night long on defense. They didn't seem to worry if the Spartans hit a big play. They kept coming and you could feel the defense build off of the confidence the coaches had in them. J.T. Barrett is the key and he can do a lot of things well, RU needs to keep him uncomfortable by doing things Rutgers doesn't normally do. Look, if you get buried 55-7 you do, the Bucks are are going to try to run up any score to get back in the playoff discussion. RU has to try something different OSU hasn't seen.

Let's use Michigan State in another way, how they beat OSU in Columbus a couple years back. Low scoring, ball control. MSU always plays OSU tough because they stop the run. In the 2013 Big Ten title game and in Columbus Sparty stuffed the OSU running game and made them pass. They contained the run in a 17-16 loss to Brutus last year. See they key? Running game. 100 yards allowed on the ground is the number the Scarlet Knight defense must keep in mind.

We'd say a couple years back MSU was looking past Rutgers to Michigan (the famed botched punt game) but OSU next week plays Maryland, not a top tier opponent so probably not advantage RU.

Our biggest worry is the Rutgers offense laying an egg. No, an egg. 13 points vs EMU makes nobody confident. Johnny said last week vs Nebraska that RU needed a defensive score to help them keep it close, they got that. Tonight we think they'll need a defensive score, a special teams score and maybe a blocked kick, the holy trinity.

So, yeah, it doesn't look good and right now all RU fans have to go on is faith and hope one day it turns around. A giant upset would help, especially tonight at home. As positive as Johnny tries to be with the RU football program in his Fearless Forecasts, tonight, well, let's just say no golf cart pizza for Urban:

Ohio State 42
Rutgers 16

Late night open thread

Just pass out the pistols, LOL

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with PETER FRAMPTON!

OK, here's what we're gonna do. Open all your windows. All of them. It' a beautiful cool evening. Now, go make your favorite drink or get your smoking kit out of hiding.

We'll wait while you attitude adjust.

Now, turn your speakers up to 11 on your system and sit on a blanket in the middle of your living room and like magic, it's an instant outdoor concert with Peter Frampton, coming on stage to 'Show Me the Way'

No puking in the Dodge Dart on the way home. Johnny's gonna need one of these ironclad Wayne Campbell no hurl guarantees.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with TORI AMOS!

We have found a witch, may we burn her? Hey, Johnny, before he started shaving his head had red hair, he can make witch jokes. Yes, redheads are a talented lot, look about you. All through history redheads have been some of the greatest artists, leaders and sportsball players.

Except Andy Dalton.

Tori Amos batting second tonight with 'Cornflake Girl'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with INXS!

Always good to hear INXS. A good band who made a pretty good noise for quite a while. When you look through their whole catalog there's some really good music. Tonight we'll send you into this good night with an early breakout hit, 'Don't Change'

Late night open thread

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
 -- Henry David Thoreau

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

If you've never heard of the The Disparity and Inclusion Advisory board get in line

If you can find that line. Veteran Jersey Journal reporter Earl Morgan had some difficulty finding out, well, anything about the mysterious board and when it meets and what it's doing. Now, Jersey City Councilwoman Joyce Watterman chairs the The Disparity and Inclusion Advisory board but she told Morgan she couldn't discuss the board with anyone but the Labor Committee chairman.

Sure, sure. Of course she couldn't tell Morgan anything about the group, nobody in the administration can. Meetings are kept secret if they're even held at all (who knows). Morgan does know who is on the board, that's not such a mystery, more of an ethical hand grenade:

If that wasn't bad enough, several other members of board are inclusion office employees. How can the board provide oversight if some board members' paychecks could be imperiled should they voice or dissent from their bosses' point of view?

It's a great question Earl, please do tell us if anyone, Watterman, Fulop, Morrill or even the Labor Committee Chairman ever deigns respond.

It's your tax money Jersey City, but Joyce Watterman sure doesn't seem to view it as such.

Late night open thread

Guess who is 60 today? Seriously guess. Female rock and roll singer, huge voice, maybe the biggest (Remember, Johnny says Patsy Cline and kd lang have the BEST voices, not the biggest, let's not confuse the two). Aretha's is big and carries that gospel with it but it's not quite operatic. It's not pure rock and roll.

How about Johnny has always had a serious crush on her, taken by Neil Geraldo or not...

A Jersey City Desk Happy Happy Birthday to a true phenomenon, Pat Benatar. Thank you for killing all those Nazis that one time.

Midnight angel won't you say you will.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

MASSIVE BREAKING NEWS: Mayor Fulop overheard two top department chairs trying to rig a city bid, did nothing

Boy howdy has Politico broken a story this morning. We'll be brief but concise; If Mayor Steve Fulop overheard information from his COS and JCDO chair rig a city bid and did nothing he needs to resign or action must be taken to run him out. We cannot have a wannabe crime boss as mayor running our city. This is beyond the pale, to hear someone wishing to commit a crime on your administration's behalf and you sit on your ass and do nothing?

Politician Steve Fulop did nothing. He must resign.