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Happy Aaron Rodgers Day, Siouxsports! 12-12-12

He already plays OHL, so college is already out.

I've been watching a game-worn jersey of his. Might be a good investment. The kid is the real deal. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Worn-Autographed-Connor-McDavid-Jersey-/170953489305?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14%26meid%3D4073078046133963485%26pid%3D100015%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D170953489305%26

Caggiula....allllll alone.

Let's go North Dakota Redskins! It even fits with the potato culture of Grand Forks...Potato Bowl, etc.

Friday: Simpson Saturday: Rowney

I have a few embarrassing auto-spell moments myself. That feature is now disabled, thankfully.

I think you're having auto-spell issues there bud, ha.

It's a little early for PWR, but interestingly the 3 points didn't do much to help us in the rankings, but Denver did drop a fair amount.

Watch your language. By the way, I found the perfect YouTube video to describe your precious Bud Light Lime, but I don't dare to post it on here. It might offend some.

For clarity, I am not a Vikings fan. But, I tend to look at my favorite team and all other teams through non-biased glasses. There have been a lot of excuses for Ponder, but most are now seeing that he isn't the answer. First it was he need more games to get a feel for the NFL. Then it's not having good enough receivers. Then it's something else. Look at Luck in Indy. You're probably thinking that you can't compare Luck to Ponder...Luck came out of college with much more fanfare and promise than Ponder. But, Ponder was still the 12th overall pick of the 1st round. Luck's only notable receiver is the 150 year old Reggie Wayne. However, Luck still is still getting the ball downfield....WITHOUT the league's best running back. Also, Luck is only in his first year, whereas Ponder is in his second, that should be a huge leg up. You have to allow for mistakes with young QB's. You want them to try and see what plays they can make and which ones they can't. Not many will realize that Luck had 3 INT's, but that he had 4 TD's and won the game. Those INT's are part of the learning curve of a good young QB. Ponder isn't taking any chances downfield whatsoever, which means he shouldn't be throwing any INT's, yet he still threw 2 yesterday. If you don't have the guts to throw it down the field, but you're still turning the ball over, you're in trouble. You don't need great WR's to be a capable NFL QB. QB's make the WR's look good more often than not.

There's a little Jones (brother of Matt and Zach) and a little LaPoint. I'm not sure how old they are or how seriously they are into hockey, but knowing both the two older Jones brothers and the two older LaPoint brothers, chances are they are playing and may turn into something in the future.

If you missed the auctions today, or wanted to read a bit about them, here's "The Aftermath" blog post for some late-night reading: http://sioux-jersey.com/#/blog/4552031202/THE-AFTERMATH-November-2012-UND-Jersey-Auctions/4242985

I sent you a PM zqglmtv

I have 4 gamers and 1 game-issued Sioux jerseys, and all of them I paid a fraction of what these were going for to get 'em.

No kidding. I almost pulled the trigger, but then I thought maybe the first few were going to go slow and I had my eye on the Malone. I wasn't going to buy more than one jersey and figured I'd save my opportunity. Kickin' myself.

I bid on a few, prices are pretty crazy. I went up to 940 for a Brock Nelson at one point.

DirecTV is spendy, but you get what you pay for.

Since it's slow around here because of Thanksgiving, here's a little reading from a new Blog update at Sioux-Jersey.com http://sioux-jersey.com/#/blog/4552031202/Thanksgiving-Updates/4187248 Happy Thanksgiving everyone...time to whoop up on the politically incorrect Fightin' Irish this weekend!

No offense to you there Jfr, but this is a terrible move for the Big Ten. The only positive side to the expansion is the larger markets that the Big Ten will be exposed to. However, this is going to ultimately weaken the conference. Big Ten football is already weak, and you have two programs that will do little to improve upon it. The two markets that are being expanded to do have more population, but the talent levels of recruits coming out of those places is low for a national average. Not that it matters, because football is the big ticket item these days, but their basketball programs don't bring much either. Maryland has had some decent runs a few years back, but that really doesn't improve the conference. What the conference needed to do was expand in a way that would help make the conference relevant in football again. This move will certainly not do it.

Just for fun...a couple club hockey pics of the two new Big Ten 14 teams... In true Maryland fashion: Some modern styling for Rutgers:

Yeah, for the current jerseys, the black definitely is better, but the green is growing on me. The white and black jerseys are much better in person than in pics, but the green jerseys actually look pretty decent on TV, in my opinion. I still dislike all three.

I may be in the minority, but I'd prefer less black in the future. I think it'd be great to go back to our roots of just using white and kelly for our home and away jerseys...then have a different designed black alternate jersey. So many teams across all levels of hockey have done BFBS (or black for black's sake). Kelly green, on all levels of sports, is the most under-utilized color.

I didn't catch who the other one was, but Nathan Freeman was one of those two linesmen. Nathan has done a pretty darn good job over the years and does A LOT of Sioux games at the Ralph, so if you just noticed it now, it probably wasn't thanks to him.

Gemini released these pics about a week ago.