Less than 48 hours until that ungodly, indulgent disgusting spectacle

[taterguy]

The University of Nebraska Cornhuskers will be in my state playing a college football game.
Ick
Ick
Ick
Who wants to see that shit?

[evlbstrd]

1. It depends.

Who are they playing?

[taterguy]

2. Some school that Steely Dan wrote a song about back in the 70s

[evlbstrd]

3. Hang on,

I'm singing the song in my head...

edit:
William and Mary?

[taterguy]

4. William & Mary is in Virginia, I think

[Cabcere]

5. Yes, it is.

:hi: And I think I read somewhere that the song wasn't really about W&M, anyway. :shrug:

[Pool Hall Ace]

6. Say the title in your head.

'Deacon Blues' = Wake Forest :hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Urban legend, 'm afraid.

:D

[Pool Hall Ace]

16. Aww. I don't usually fall for those. :-(

[evlbstrd]

9. I was singing the wrong song.

I also didn't know Deacon Blues was about Wake Forest.
Did you know the Cornhuskers used to be called the Bug Eaters?

[Critters2]

10. That's what I call the beagle

because she eats bugs. I'm clever that way.

[evlbstrd]

11. My dogs do that, too.

It's especially fun to watch the pug.
I call my cat Boogerhead. Because he is.

[taterguy]

12. Did you know that Wake Forest used to be located in Wake Forest NC?

That's where the name comes from. Some giant corporation paid them big bucks to move their entire campus.

Really.

[evlbstrd]

13. Damn.

More stuff I didn't know. But I know it now.
And, yet, I don't feel any more useful.

[taterguy]

14. More useless trivia

See if you can guess who this liberal icon is? Right clicking and checking on the properties is cheating

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. I cheated, so I won't say

But wow, I'm surprised. He sure was a good looking kid.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Haha, I hope you don't mean "Deacon Blues."

"They call Alabama the Crimson Tide" is only a passing reference to the 'Tide, and the idea that "Deacon Blues" refers in content to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons is an urban legend. I don't know how Fagen/Becker got the name "Deacon Blues" (though Becker reportedly called it a "grandiose name" just like the "Crimson Tide"), but the song is nothing to do with football/college and everything to do with a daydreaming perennial loser wanting to make it as a backstreets musician, and is coated in shades of autobiography. The song is not "about" the University of Alabama or Wake Forest; it merely references the 'Tide and has a tenuous connection, at best, to the Demon Deacons.