MERLIN: Wow.

OZY MCCOOL: Damn.

T-BONE MCMANX: Hot danm.

KORRIOTH: Now there is a man with honor!!!

MERLIN: Balls, even.

LSIK&T: Thought you'd like that.

MERLIN: Awwww, you're just trying to get your star ratings up!

LSIK&T: Am not!!!

MERLIN: Are too!!!

KORRIOTH, OZY, T-BONE:

MERLIN: This is the video Fanusi Khiyal pointed Rotties to, isn't it? You gonna give him a hat tip?

LSIK&T: Partially. I saw it two days ago; I just haven't had time to blog it.

OZY MCCOOL: You're just not gonna give him an even break at all, are you?

LSIK&T: You want I should give him no credit?

KORRIOTH: What-ever.

Anyway, it's a damned good video. I'd love to see the cops try to arrest the guy - and a horde of Reno citizens stand between them and him.

Okay, on to football. My Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets begin their four-game odyssey known as "district play" - honestly, a five-team district in a 13-school city? - tonight when they take on the Eastern Hills Highlanders. Heights won last year's contest, 49-36, so the over/under on this one will be...say, 4000.

Tomorrow morning, Ohio's other state-run university, the Ohio U. Bobcats, go to New York to play Turner Gill's UBuffalo Bulls. The Bobcats are on the other end of the football evolutionary scale from their Buckeye cousins, so the Bulls actually have a chance to win this game, even though Vegas has them at +4. Progress for the Bull program means that they beat the 'Cats, but we'll see.

Shortly thereafter, Texas Christian's Horned Frogs will take the field up in Laramie, Wyoming against the U-Wy Cowboys. TCU won last year's game in Ft. Worth - my memory of it's a little hazy, as I was busy courting La Reina Espátula™ at the time. TCU should win, though.

Saturday evening comes what will likely be the top-ranked LSU Tigers' greatest test this year, as Urban Meyer and the ninth-ranked Florida Gators come calling. Vegas has LSU as a seven-point favorite at home, meaning that, as usual, it'll come down to a field goal.

In between, though, comes Saturday's marquee matchup in the state of Texas, as the 10th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners take on the 19th-ranked TU Shortd...uh, Shorthorns in what really oughta be called the Prison Bowl:

Oklahoma has had 13 players and two recruits arrested since Bob Stoops' 1999 hiring, seven in the last two years. Of the 17 Texas player arrests since Mr. Brown's 1998 arrival, eight have occurred since the January 2006 national title-game victory.

The beloved SpatulaGoddess (aka Beff the Imperial Serving Wench™) has once again done her homework and caught Mack Brown on a recruiting trip.

Oh, well. At least they're back to calling it the Red River Shootout™.

Monday evening, the Dallas Cowboys will in all likelihood make it 5-0 as they take on the hapless Beefalo Bills up in New York. Turner Gill can possibly get some offensive coaching tips from Cowboys offensive coordinator Jason Garrett.

We're back Tuesday with the recap. In the meantime...has Notre Dame won a game yet...?