You know how sometimes you see a good idea, like those damn velcro ball-and-ball-catching-hand-thing sets that exploded about 15 years back, and you think Aw HELL why didn't I think of that? Stupid! I coulda been rich!
Well, I've been sorta letting my brain stew over what would be a good shorthand nickname for Auburn's 2008 season, which, speaking realistically, now sees 7-5 as the wildest dream best-case scenario, 6-6 as a surprising relative success, and 5-7 as its far-and-away most probable outcome. At Rocky Top Talk, they refer to their 5-6 2005 season as the Season of Which We Do Not Speak. MGoBlog coined the now widely-used phrase "Year of Infinite Pain" to describe Michigan's 2005 season. After having it good for quite some time--2003, viscerally disappointing as it was, was still a damn sight better than seasons like these--Auburn fans are now enduring our own Season of Which we Do Not Speak/Year of Infinite Pain, and we need a name for it.
And aw HELL, it coulda shoulda been The Season of Constant Sorrow. Too bad those clever so-and-sos at RTT went and thought of it first:
Speaking as someone who still busts out his OBWAT? soundtrack every once in a while, that's good stuff, and a nice reminder that as awful as things are for us Auburn folk, at least we are--as the Pigskin Pathos's tagline says--united in misery with the team portrayed above. But it doesn't change the fact that Auburn fans need a nickname for this horrible season.
The JCCW's nominees:
1. Season of DEATH and/or 2008(=DEATH), a la this still-wonderful fanpost at TrackEm.
2. the Season of Gnashed Teeth
3. with a nod to RTT and *cough* a certain popular series of books for young adults, the Season Which Must Not be Named
4. the Year of Fail (possibly Year of FAIL, if you prefer the all-caps emphasis, which would certainly be deserved)
5. the Omega Season, since the apocalyptic overtones feel appropriate
Leave your choice and/or other suggestions in the comments. Left to my own devices, the JCCW will begin putting either 1, 4, or possibly 5 into use later this week, but feedback would be appreciated.
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The Little Season That Couldn't
Winesburg, Alabama
The season of bad halftime speeches. We must be serving a buffet at halftime for the players. For some reason we should bypass halftime altogether and play the game with no breaks. We loose too much momentum at halftime. War Eagle.
Hard Time Killin' Floor Season
Long Gone Lonesome Season
http://www.last.fm/music/Hank+Williams/_/Long+Gone+Lonesome+Blues
The Season That Should Not Be
http://www.last.fm/music/Metallica/_/The+Thing+That+Should+Not+Be
The Season of Race-Car Ya-Yas
http://www.last.fm/music/Cake/_/Race+Car+Ya-Yas
Lonesome Johnny Season
http://www.last.fm/music/Cracker/_/Lonesome+Johnny+Blues
The Spread Evil Season
What season?
I'm a fan of Season of Gnashed Teeth, what with the obvious jokes about Alabamians having teeth to gnash. However, Year of Fail is particularly appropriate, given the epic fail on the picture asking for tickets taken for the JCCW earlier this year.
The Season I Started to Hate You
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Dead+Milkmen/_/I+Started+to+Hate+You
The Season of Bitter Emptyness
i mean emptiness
The Season of Lost Minds
The Season of Utter Failure
2000 Franklin 8
or
The Year of All You Can Drink Jager Bombs at Halftime
or
The First Half National Championship Season
The Season of Dread-Spread
.....It's coming out tomorrow, my nomination: The 2008 F. O. R. D. Season. (Found On Roadside Dead, Fix Or Repair Daily)
The Season of Unintended Consequences.
The Season of Country Crock Spread.
Now 100% offense free
War Feeble: The Tony Franklin Story...or how i stopped worrying and learned to hate the spread.
I would nominate "the Late Unpleasantness" but thats what I use for the Late Unpleasantness that occurred 1861-65.
So howzabout about The Year Of Spreading Dangerously?
How about the "Duck! Rabbit! Duck! Season"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3jfppdGLY
Guess what uniform Daffy is wearing?
A friend of mine thought it was funny that the offense was called the Spread Eagle considering what defenses were doing to it. I know there's something to be found there, I'm just drawing a blank.
System of a Down(er)
Spread Too Thin 2008.
God AUful
The Season of Spread & Sputter
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