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Mount Union’s new helmets are the sexiest thing this side of the Mississippi

February 6, 2015 Mike 3 Comments

There’s sexy… and then there’s SEXY. These right here are SEXY. With all the hype surrounding the Browns new uniform changes, little ol Mount Union just stole all of their thunder by releasing these gems right here. Um. Whoa. I believe the correct emoji is

If Mount slowly morphs into the Midwest DIII version of Oregon I’m 100% fine with that. Oregon has that Nike money, Mount gets that Timken money. As the only consistent championship team in Northeast Ohio it’s well deserved.

Akron’s new helmets are also pretty fire

Mount helmet pic via @CoachGeoffDartt

College Football

Breathe if you hate Whitewater. It’s Mount Union vs. UWW (again)…and we’ve got you covered

December 13, 2014 Mike 2 Comments

If you’ve been following Bottlegate, you probably know that we have an affinity for the Mount Union football team. Yours truly went there for about 8 years (4 1/2). And EVERY year that I was there we played Wisconsin-Whitewater in the Stagg Bowl (’07-’11)

’05- Mount Union 35 Whitewater 28
’06- Mount Union 35 Whitewater 16
’07- Whitewater 31 Mount Union 21
’08- Mount Union 31 Whitewater 26
’09- Whitewater 38 Mount Union 28
’10- Whitewater 31 Mount Union 21
’11- Whitewater 13 Mount union 10
’13- Whitewater 52 Mount Union 14

And you know what? I’ve conditioned myself to hate that school. Hate everything about them really. Don’t like the name “Warhawks,” don’t like the state of Wisconsin, and especially don’t like that they have an enrollment of 12,500 and are playing in Division III.

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10 years in a row Mount has been in the championship game. A decade of dominance. That’s nothing short of incredible.

When you’re a student at Mount Union there’s kind of this attitude of “Ho hum Mount is in the Stagg Bowl again. Yawn…. So, when is everyone going to Chives?” But once you’ve been away from the school for awhile and get a little older you realize that’s a big fucking deal. It is unheard of to be that superior for that long.

I don’t care what other people tell you, Whitewater IS Mount Union’s rival. Two teams meeting 9 out of the past 10 years in the title game? Yep. Rivalry.

It’s healthy for a college football rivalry to have some hate sprinkled in. I don’t think there’s enough of that from either side here. So, Mount Union students and alumni, let’s hate Wisconsin Whitewater for the next week/month/year, OK?

We’ve decided to add a little spice to this game and came up with the “Breathe if you hate Whitewater” shirts. No, it’s not a novel idea (UNC-Duke, OSU-Michigan, Auburn-Alabama all have them) but what’s a rival/championship game without a little trash talking?

We’ve got T-shirts, hoodies, long sleeved shirts, crewnecks. Go check it out and get ready for Friday’s Stagg Bowl.

FYI- IF you’re going down to the Stagg Bowl, you HAVE TO buy them quickly and you’ll have to get premium or overnight shipping. There. You’ve been warned.

BUY HERE

What do you say we go get #12 on Friday?

#GoMountGo

Also again huge S/O to Zack from Center Field Smoke. He kills it for us time and time again. If you’re a Cleveland or Pittsburgh fan go check out his site, I’m positive you’ll find something you like.

College Football

Pierre Garcon and London Fletcher have a bet on the Mount Union-John Carroll game this weekend

December 5, 2014 Mike 1 Comment

In case you live under a rock or are oblivious to everything around you, John Carroll visits Mount Union this Saturday in a playoff game. It’ll be a rematch of the game earlier this season that Mount won 31-24 that ended on a controversial spike rule.

(we previewed that game here)

In the spirit of the game, a couple of former Mount Union greats in Pierre Garcon & Cecil Shorts and the best player to ever don a John Carroll jersey (Fletcher) decided to put a little friendly wager on the outcome.

Gotta admit, it’s pretty awesome when some of the best current and former players in the NFL still hold their Division III alma maters near and dear to their heart.

The shit talking begins. Pierre drops the most disrespectful “lol” of all time.

Gotta admit, London’s hashtag game is STRONG.

Yes! Give the money to Mount! Raffle it off for the chance to win a $500 bar tab at Chives. Or if Carroll wins it can go towards a tab at the Coventry bar of the winner’s choice. (sidenote: do people still go to Coventry? My friends used to live in University Heights and that was always a fun place to go on the weekends. Pretty hipster-y though. Threw up in McNulty’s once after doing a lot of Jack Daniels shots. Good times were had by all)

And there you have it. Loser has to don the winning team’s jersey. I really don’t want to see Pierre wearing a JCU jersey in the Redskins locker room but let’s be honest, the Redskins locker room can’t get any worse than it is right now (Hey-O!)

And in probably their best PR move in recent memory, the Redskins chimed in and decided to donate some memorabilia to the winning school. Odds that Dan Snyder approved this? Zero percent. If we’re being honest, whoever is running this account will probably get fired for offering to give away free stuff. Bastard.