This is the promotional banner hanging outside the Illini-affiliated bar around the corner from my house. I don't think much more needs to be said, really.
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What's important here
Is that this is not a 10 year old banner that has been hanging for a long time. The Miller Lite logo is the current one (as opposed to their Y2K model).
And no bar would have advertised $5/beer ten years ago.
Of course, this is not as good as the “Northwestern Football – Home of the 1949 Rose Bowl Champions” sign, but it’s still Zook-tastic.
"Bama Hawkeye, you know, the Iowa blogger who actually uses reason and analysis." - Hawkeye State
Off Tackle Empire
Heh.
Last year’s banner said “Illini Football: We’re Going to Be Good Again!”
No foolin’.
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 16, 2010 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions
How long did it take for someone to vandalize that sign and add a question mark?
"Illini Football: We’re Going to Be Good Again?"
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Eh, I think it pretty much went ignored.
You know, just like Illini Football.
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 16, 2010 12:57 PM CDT up reply actions
This.
Illini fans pop their heads out of the ground on the first week of football season, watch the team lose and then go back into their burrows knowing it’s 9 more weeks of winter until basketball.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 18, 2010 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions
i'd like to get that photo on my BlackBerry for when my buddy from Bloomington, IL calls, it can replace his caller ID photo of Deon Thomas
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
Solid Find Bucketochicken
Is this the Schoolyard that you found it in front of? I used to live next door, and that looks like the windows facing Southport.
They took the bar, the whole fucking bar!
by recoveringfratguy on Aug 16, 2010 11:54 AM CDT reply actions
Which means
you live like two blocks from your job…I hate you.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 18, 2010 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Three and a half.
"All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 18, 2010 6:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, well never mind then.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 18, 2010 6:54 PM CDT up reply actions
The VaginaBear of promotional banners
I sense a lot of sadness in your neighborhood.
"we're the only team in the state, as far as I know."
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 16, 2010 6:27 PM CDT reply actions
Who suffered a worse fate - the sponsor or the program?
“MPC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 7, 2008, three days after their common stock was delisted from the NYSE Alternext U.S. exchange (formerly the American Stock Exchange). On December 31, 2008, MPC notified the Idaho Department of Labor that its efforts to reorganize had failed and the company would cease operations.”
Well, Illinois's football team reportedly still exists.
So I would place their fate as slightly better than the aforementioned company.
"Among the safe ways to pursue truth is the putting of experience ahead of any reasoning, we being sure that any fallacy must reside in the latter at least covertly." -- Galileo Galilei
by EastLosRandy on Aug 16, 2010 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions
since i had to know who chef illiniWeak beat, the interwebs has
In case Lou Temper missed it….
Game summary
The Illini then rattled off 35 unanswered points, including a flea-flicker pass from wide receiver Brandon Lloyd to Kittner for 30 yards and a halftime score of 42-7. Kittner threw a school record 24th touchdown pass on a one-yard reception to Jameel Cook. The Illini broke 22 Illinois and Micronpc.com Bowl records that night and scored the second-most points in collegiate bowl history.
that’s pretty amazing for one Kurt Kitner, or no?
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
It still amazes me
How Illinois, who should have all the inherent advantages of Ohio State and/or Michigan have been so underwhelmingly mediocre (or worse) since Red Grange left school. If you look at the structural advantages Illinois has/had, it should be one of the all-time winningest Big Ten teams. It is of course, not.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
they're a "basketball school" the last time i checked, assembly hall was still a shit hole....
glad i’m not handicapped or use a cane (no offense intended) and want to go to an illini basketball game, good luck with the 3 elevators inside that place.
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
What HoyaGoon is getting at, though
is that they have a)history/tradition, b)a populous state and c)resources. Go back through many of the best players for Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana and Purdue over the decades. A huge number of them come from Illinois, that Illinois has failed to keep them in-state is just the beginning of their problems.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 18, 2010 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Hell, just look at last year's offense
Bulaga, Dace, Morse, and Moeaki. That’s half one more than half of the offense.
/Brian Cook'd
"I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score." - Dan Gable
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 23, 2010 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Chuck Long got away from CheifIlliniWeak, no?
Moeaki?
Hell, even badger coach slipped by Illini recruiting gurus.
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
Chuck Long is a product of Wheaton North
DuPage Valley represent!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 23, 2010 4:48 PM CDT up reply actions
If the world made sense, the Big Ten pecking order would be more like
Ohio State/Penn State/Michigan/Illinois
Michigan State/Wisconsin/Iowa/Minnesota
Purdue/Indiana/Northwestern
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here"
by ReadingRambler on Aug 22, 2010 8:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Honestly, if it made sense
Iowa would be on the bottom with jNW…thank God the world is crazy.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 23, 2010 4:49 PM CDT up reply actions
I was thinking the same thing...
but didn’t want to type it.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 23, 2010 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Whatever.
It only adds to the “Fuck you, we’re Iowa” mentality. It’s what makes the Hawkeyes special. Embrace it.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 24, 2010 12:30 AM CDT up reply actions
I love how their two BCS Bowl Appearances
pale in comparison to that win in the Blockbuster/Carquest/MicronPC/MicronPC.com/Visit Florida Tangerine/Mazda Tangerine/Champs Sports Bowl.
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