Siouxphan27

UND 24 Weber 10

Marlan Haakenson?

Nice to see a white guy win this award for once. All heil the roughriders!

Eleventy-two

I figured the logo for Roughriders would either be a condom, a cowboy from New Mexico, an exact replica of the Grand Forks high school logo, or a woman with a front butt wearing "Ridas" mom jeans manufactured by Lee. Decisions, decisions....

I wonder if I can borrow the etch a sketch the Alerus used to produce the video feed for last week's football game..

Sweet, this Braille touchscreen is already paying dividends!

I noticed it instructs anyone voting for Sundogs or roughriders to wait until November to cast their vote.

holy crap.... some people will do anything to further their nickname choice... even cite a RHHIT quote. lol for the record, Ron His Horse doesn't speak for me; and i'm offended. so there's that.

it's certainly not a cut and dried, black and white issue.

Hey I've started working out again! LOL LOL

maybe they're assuming because of the bajillion posts on siouxsports.com, where peeps are pumping up teddy as the reason to go with roughriders? (or maybe they've just looked at your avatar)

or, don't bother since 50 posts later, you have produced zero evidence backing your original claims.

and to think the bisons lost to Montana... Man they must suck

UND 34 ISU 24 Same story offensively as last week, except we end a few more drives with touchdowns, and zero balls thrown into quintuple coverage. Defense lets a few big pass plays get by them. Besides a kick in the head, what did I win for picking the closest to correct score last week?

I think you're totally underestimating Sparkle Power! Let's all get behind Sundogs. gfhockey and I will volunteer to be the two sundog mascots, each of us wearing rainbow colored bodysuits.

nice post Eric. I don't dispute any of the connections Roosevelt had to North Dakota. That isn't and never has been my point. None of his time spent in the state changes the fact his Roughriders were never here. The muster in and muster out rolls I've seen show Jesse Langdon as the only one calling north Dakota home. He was the son of the head Vet at NDSU. What a great connection, eh? I was hoping there would be a nickname choice that we didn't have to "wax philosophical" over to make the connection to our state. I've seen people post in recent days (not you) about how their ancestors were "roughriders". that just makes me laugh. They were homesteaders, pioneers, settlers yes, but roughriders, no. When you mention the flags; nearly every battalion fought under the Great Seal of the United States, so they had similar flags. Later, North Dakota decided to copy the Seal with a few minor changes as its state flag. I respect the opinion of everyone who likes the name roughriders. it just so happens your opinions are wrong. carry on!

that's fine. You're entitled. My opinion is the committee blew it, and we're left grasping at straws to make connections between these name choices and our university.

I don't believe i'm on record supporting Abe Vigoda as the new UND Nickname. I believe I put that on here during a discussion awhile back about the name North Dakota Nokotas with Abe Vigoda as part of the mascot. Catchy. But, if Abe led a bunch of badass cowboys from New Mexico into war in Cuba that i'm unaware of, I guess he would qualify as a nickname choice. as I've said several times, if everyone is in love with Teddy Roosevelt to the point we would rather honor him than honor something homegrown about our state, then choose a nickname that links teddy to north Dakota. to me, the name roughriders screams of the old north Dakota nice attitude. UND roughriders motto: "We're too shy/modest to pump up our own heritage, so we stole yours instead. Bully!" Or, my second motto choice: There's an award. so there you have it, Casper.

Was he on his death bed? No, it was a regular bed. -Seinfeld

I have no idea. That's more of a question for the roughrider supporters who insist on revisionist history of the state of north Dakota, and attempt to include teddy roosevelt's roughriders as part of our heritage.

Lol lol lol. Yes, and you forgot the part about as he lay dying, his last words were. "In 2015 when the nickname vote occurs at UND because our country has been overrun by political correctness, be sure to vote for roughriders even though they were a group of men from the desert southwest and had nothing to do with North Dakota." -and then he breathed his last... well done Cratter, well done. Lol

I couldn't have been more pumped up listening to the game, how UND gutted out this win despite injuries, big mistakes, missed opportunities, and gifts given to Portland State. I get a chance to read these comments with the bickering and it's sort of depressing.... in the immortal words of Mike Tice... "calm down, calm down" .... and, "enjoy the season!" After hearing about how great Portland State was against the run, I was shocked with how well we moved the ball. And the defense played spectacularly with the exception of the first play from scrimmage. This team is young and improving. Some of the mistakes made Saturday are, in the words of Christian Ponder, "easily correctable." (last Viking reference I promise) hopefully the banged up can get back to full health quickly, and if so, the Sky's the limit for this group. 4-1 baby!!!!!!! see you on Saturday!!!!

this is exactly what I was going to post until I read all the other replies and saw you had already said it. does this guy have any family around looking after him? his bizarre antics definitely sound like dementia to me. or maybe it's just the ndsu degree talking.

whew! Well then it all makes sense! Lol