feeling blue

not unlike penn state's octogenarian leader, i am feeling a little battered and bruised heading into this weekend's tilt with temple. my spirit and enthusiasm have been broken and my palette full of the taste of disappointment and underachievement. with no chance to salvage any sort of meaningful definition to the season until bowl season, the nits will have to lace 'em up and play with a business like approach, so as to avoid late december at the alamo or even sunny detroit.

for the longest time i had rationalized that psu would be better off when old joe packed it in and rode off into the sunset, but after last weekend's unmitigated disaster (see the 4th & 1 that resulted in a loss of 5 yards), i am not so sure. best case scenario, no injuries (coaching staff included, unless it is jaypa) and nothing embarrassing (i.e. letting temple score more than 3 points or faltering in the red zone...even once).

somehow this is a new low for me. back in 2003/04 the losing seemed like an anomaly that would eventually straighten itself out, but now all the hallmarks of those lean years are cropping up again, plain as day, and it is the winning season of '05-06 that seems like the anomaly.

it has long been said that 'a leopard can't change it's spots' or in my case that a lion can't get the gd blue and white out of his system, and that being said, i'll be rooting hard for the nits and thinking good thoughts about their prospects for turning the ship around. that is the blessing and the curse of being a college football fan. dear old state overwhelm the owls in talent and eventually on the scoreboard. nits 31, owls 6.

go state...beat the owls