Well, the 2007 College Football Blogger Award voting is underway and Boiled Sports was once again snubbed. After not winning "Best New Blog" last year (when we admittedly weren't even aware of such awards), we've continued our Susan Lucci-esque streak of always being a bridesmaid and never.....well... okay, we're not even nominated for anything, so I guess we're ushers and not bridesmaids. Or something. Either way, we don't look good in dresses. (Except for Tim, of course.)What I kind of love about this is that over the years the three of us here and many of our friends have often bitched about Purdue not ever getting national respect from the media. Sometimes we're justified and sometimes we're just being whiners. But I think it's funny that the same kind of thing happens with a Purdue-related blog -- just like the sports programs at our alma mater, we're not significant enough to matter.
That's okay, though, because we have the, like, four of you who read this thing regularly to keep happy. And that's enough for us.
Seriously, though, there is this thing called the College Football Blogger Awards and it's run (loosely, anyway) but the gents at Every Day Should Be Saturday, mgoblog, Dawg Sports, Burnt Orange Nation, and Rocky Top Talk. They're all pretty awesome college football blogs. If, you know, you're into that sort of thing. The links to each one will show you the nominees for each award category. Would it have been easier to have everything in one place? Sure it would have. Do bloggers do anything the easy way? Usually not.
If nothing else, checking out the nominees should nab you another daily/weekly/whatever must-read because there are so many awesome sites out there. However, I'm of course sort of partial to our Big Ten brethren and so I encourage you to especially check them out. Several were nominated for "Best Big Ten Blog" (imagine that) and they are as follows:
Black Heart Gold Pants
Black Shoe Diaries
Eleven Warriors
Lake the Posts
The M Zone
My personal favorites out of that smaller sample are LTP and BHGP. Anyone who can consistently be stoked about NW football deserves a meaningless online award of some kind... and the guys at BHGP are dryly funny enough to consistenty confuse those less-intelligent among us into thinking they're dirty, dirty whores.
I think we could have competed in the Best Ongoing Feature category for either BSWRG or SBF, but none of you jackasses nominated us so I blame you.
So go vote for someone. Or don't.
15 comments:
I didn't even know these awards existed until about two weeks ago.
Since the awards are pretty arbitrary, I'm going to go ahead and do. I award us "Most-Improved Second-Year Blog".
Congratulations.
Well-said. I'm going to "go ahead and do," too.
Since this is the only Blog I read on a regular basis...."You will always be a hall of famer in my book", Coach Boone from Remember the Titans
Too many blogs with white males enraged about this or that in college sports. I'll stick to this one because of SBF (remember TGISF!) and the drug blogs. Er, I mean, pharmaceutical blogs...
It doesn't help that I have my own blog about stupid stuff in Utah to worry about. The only awards handed out for those go to Mormons.
Paul - you do? when did this happen? And why weren't we notified? A blog about the happenings in Utah sounds funny even if that's not its intention.
Do tell.
J, I actually have no clue what happened there...that's the last time I huff paint and blog.
38, thanks...Those are big words coming from Denzel Washington.
Paul-
"has anyone checked the thermostat in this place?"
(fanning self...)
"Is it me or is it Mormon here?"
Can I get some help over at Wizard of Odds. I'm in a comment battle trying to defend the honor of Tiller and Purdue. Dealing with some real morons.
http://thewizardofodds.blogspot.com/2008/02/stoops-tiller-stand-out-on-day-of-bs.html
BHGP sucks.
Matt -- Dude, why do you subject yourself to commenter battles?
I do admire your gumption, though... not long ago, we were all young and verile enough to fight for the honor of the Old Gold and Black. Now we have come to grips with the rest of the world's view of us.... deluded and out-of-date as it may sometimes be.
I'm swinging over to check it out, though...
As for BHGP, I thought they were just gay.
Trying to educate the ignorant is a lost cause, but I can't help myself.
ok, i went over there matt, Arbitrarily scrolled 3/4ths down because that's usually where these things get good, and this was the first thing I read:
"I'm afraid it is you who is the ball licker."
I x'ed out of that thing like someone put porn on my work computer...it's not getting better than that so I'm sorry I cannot read the rest of the posts.
Boiled, I nominated you for "Best General Blog Named After A School Most Notably Known For Great Mustaches" but it looks like my efforts yielded no fruit.
You are a daily read, however.
Sweet! That's two wins just in this comment thread! Suck on that, Blogger awards!
Not sure how long I've been stopping by to read but I also truly enjoy the comentary (and the SBF). Keep up the good work.
Dowd - where is that quote from? I first thought Fletch, but that isn't it.
J - I've had it for a year or so, but haven't really promoted it at all. I just let people stumble onto it. Since it is even more low budget than Boiled Sports (you know - since I don't pay for it), I don't bother plugging it at all. And yes, it consists mostly of dumb things from Utah. Should be a link on my name...
I don't know where it's from...one of my friends suggest I use it while in SLC; I chose not to.
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