Video of the second coming of ESPN's College Gameday and game highlights

As an Oregon fan, which would I rather have?

*Imagine the latter is an Oregon national championship ring (of course).

Which would I rather have... a Heisman Trophy winner, or a national championship? Bob Rickert's blog in the Oregonian talks about how Dennis Dixon hasn't had a Heisman moment yet. Frankly, we need to beat ASU, win out this year, be in the Top 2 of the BCS (so we're in the national championship game), and let Boston College's Matt Ryan take home the Heisman Trophy (or possibly, anyone else). We don't need it.

Why? Because fans around the country remember championships, not Heisman winners. Besides Charles Woodson and Reggie Bush, who has two thumbs and thinks players who win the Heisman turn out to be duds in the NFL over the last decade? This guy blogging here.

I think it's much more important for Oregon to win a championship. After getting screwed by the BCS in 2001 and 2005, our time is NOW to crash the BCS party. With College Gameday here again, if we don't start by bringing our loud fans early in the morning, and then dismantling ASU, Dixon for Heisman or national championship won't be discussed for the Ducks anymore, if we don't win Saturday.

Aggressive "Yellow Out" campaign less than impressive (and Gameday photos)

Kind of what I thought would happen, really. Tell someone to do something, and the knee-jerk reaction is to do the opposite, or something completely off-the-wall. Granted, there was A LOT of yellow (including myself and Linda), but not nearly enough to make me go WOW!!!!

I think true Duck fans should already know what to wear... yellow. The campaign was a good idea, but what you throw on for Gameday should always be OREGON DUCKS no matter what the color may be. The freedom of fashion choice is a beautiful thing. That's all I'll say about that.

It was great to have College Gameday here, tough loss to Cal, but at least, we didn't slide too far in the rankings, and the Rose Bowl is still on the table. It'll take a couple of days to get that bitter taste of defeat out of my mouth, though, when the game was almost won.

On to the Team Tailgate photos -- early morning before College Gameday, Todd & Linda at the tailgate after CG, and the Oregon Marching Band played "Kashmir" and "Mighty Oregon", right in front of us! Video coming this week -- enjoy! :)

Oregon-Stanford game debacle at Magoo's, and Pac-10 TV coverage

First off, I've been to Magoo's Tavern in Salem many times to watch the Ducks play "non-televised" games, because they've been successful in finding the wild feed off of their big, ugly satellite dish in the past. Not last Saturday night, however. The game started at 7 p.m., and as of 7:45, they were still looking for it. Needless to say, many fans, including myself, left... disappointed. Did anyone else experience issues locating the Duck game on TV as well around Oregon? Did Magoo's finally ever get the feed?

Luckily, I got back my cover charge, but the game's just not the same, listening to it on the radio. OSN radio guy Jerry Allen fumbles around too much in describing the game. It's usually painful to listen to, and it takes me 30 seconds just to figure out what the play was. Watching the replay the next day just doesn't do it for me either... since the outcome had been long decided.

Which brings me to my next point, the Pac-10 prohibits more than one game to be shown on television, in the same time slot. So why in the world did the Pac-10 allow three games be scheduled at the same time, with the very first game starting at 3 p.m.? Couldn't the conference teams space out the starting time of the games, say beginning at 12:30, giving more teams the opportunity to be seen on TV? Conferences like the SEC and Big Ten are killing us in the race to televise games. That should be unacceptable to the Pac-10! If we got more games on TV, then maybe, I wouldn't have to worry about standing around in a crowded bar, wondering if a road game's available to watch live. I can just sit on my couch at home, and only concern myself with cheering on the Ducks.

At least ESPN's College GameDay is coming to Eugene this week. At least one thing's for sure... I'll be wearing something with "Oregon Ducks" on it.

One of the most stupid debates right now...

I get home from Sunriver today (an anniversary trip with my wife), and I can't believe this is actually an argument among fellow Duck fans: whether to wear yellow or green for next week's home game against Cal. Now, granted, the prospect of ESPN's College Gameday coming here has everyone around here in a tizzy, but all of this talk is just plain silly. Duck Sports News, based on information they've received, said that they want to see fans in yellow (which has nothing to do with the yellow T's they're selling, hmm?) Or, some have said, wear green(!), because Cal's going to wear yellow. Ugggghhhh! Who cares!

My take is this: wear whatever the hell you want, as long as you're covered (head to toe) in ANY Oregon Duck gear for ANY future Duck game. Duh!

We still have Stanford to play, so start looking now for your favorite sports bar with the "big ugly dish" to find Saturday's game live. And we'll worry about Gameday fashion next week.