Prepping for the Penguins

[Kemo]

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Is anyone else curious as to what Penguin meat tastes like?... I'm thinking this calls for covert operation into the Great Plains Zoo the night before the game to help spice up the tailgating menu

[rational thought]

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Is anyone else curious as to what Penguin meat tastes like?... I'm thinking this calls for covert operation into the Great Plains Zoo the night before the game to help spice up the tailgating menu

I've never tried it, but I'm sure it's only served at a black tie event.

[Jackfan2000]

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JUST IN on TV's Twitter. It sounds as though Craw is getting the nod. I have to admit I was hoping we could see TOB play once more but if Craw is ready, he deserves to get one more crack at it. Wish him the best of luck. He should do fine, just like he did earlier in the season.

[JackrabbitGuy]

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According to Gojacks.com the Youngstown State game will be on KDLT television on Saturday.

I had just gone through planning my week and noted that it would be nice to get out and do some hunting - checking on the Jacks game between hunting spots. Now I might have to reconsider and watch on television.

At this rate I won't have any pheasants until after the football season closes and I am fine with that. I can still sneak out and do some hunting in December.

[Chains]

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Is anyone else curious as to what Penguin meat tastes like?... I'm thinking this calls for covert operation into the Great Plains Zoo the night before the game to help spice up the tailgating menu

Tastes like chicken. I have no idea.

GBGBGJ

[bub94]

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Tastes like chicken. I have no idea.

GBGBGJ

Damn, you took my answer!!!!! Just put A1 on it. A1 makes everything taste good.

[guinzone]

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Hey guys, greetings from Youngstown.

You can go to our fan forum, ysupenguins.com, but you won't see a thread on the game Saturday. Most of us will be going, but we have come to the conclusion that we will not be making the playoffs unless the planets aline and we win the next 4 games.

The talk over there is actually about the final days of YSU Coach Jon Heacock. One more loss, and he is GONE!

We aren't a bad team, trust me on that, but we have played terrible at times this year.

Against MSU:
-We had two drives go to the MSU 5 and we failed to score.
-We had a FG blocked.
-We had 4 turnovers total.
-We had more offense than MSU.

Against SIU:
-We have very long drive to start the game after holding SIU to a 3 and out. We go to the SIU 25 and fail to convert on 3rd and 4th and 1.
-We go to the SIU, then our QB gets sacked, then throws an INT on the next play.
-We also had a FG not even get off the ground because it was a bad snap.
-We also had more offense than SIU.

However, we have played really well at times this year:
Against WIU:
-We stormed out a 31-0 halftime lead. [If we could play like that an entire game, we'd be tough to beat.]

My head says SDSU by 7, but my heart says YSU by 3. The thing that will hurt SDSU the most is the travel. That has got to be absolutely terrible to travel from SD to Youngstown, OH, even if they are flying.

This is a big game for your program. Winning in Youngstown is never an easy task.... Hope we have a halfway decent crowd for you guys to watch on TV...

I have been cheering for you guys all season long.. Thank you for beating pUNI!

[SDSU_TUBA]

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OK now I'm mad...

This is the only MVFC TV game of the week that will NOT be show live on one of the FOX College Sports channels... it will be on FCS Atlantic at 9:30 pm Saturday night. Obviously I don't get KDLT or Comcast SportsNet Chicago, but I do have the FOX College channels. I hope the MVFC is also mad at this and will rework or do something for next year and make FCS show them live. I'm blaming UND for this also, because FCS Atlantic is showing the UND-Cal Poly game at 4. The MVFC had their contract first, the UND contract just started a couple months ago. I don't want to hope the game is on channelsurfing.net The reason why I got the sports pack on cable was so I could watch the MVFC games, especially ours...

[zooropa]

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even if they are flying

Jacks fly charter---should take some of the ouch out.

[JimmyJack]

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The thing that will hurt SDSU the most is the travel. That has got to be absolutely terrible to travel from SD to Youngstown, OH, even if they are flying.

I was on the trip in 2007. The travel is a snap. Forty-five minutes on a bus to the Sioux Falls Regional Airport. Then two hours or so on a Northwest Airlines charter jet to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport. Short bus trip and you're in the hotel. It was really an easy trip.

The team took bus trips to Springfield, Missouri and Normal, Illinois this year. So a four-hour process to get to Youngstown is really nothing.

[Kemo]

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The thing that will hurt SDSU the most is the travel. That has got to be absolutely terrible to travel from SD to Youngstown, OH, even if they are flying.

Does Youngstown bus to all their road games, because from what I hear Penguins don't fly (Okay, I'll stop with the bad penguin jokes now, though YSU has one of my top 5 favorite mascots in college athletics).

[JimmyJack]

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Does Youngstown bus to all their road games, because from what I hear Penguins don't fly (Okay, I'll stop with the bad penguin jokes now, though YSU has one of my top 5 favorite mascots in college athletics).

I'll bet there's a good story about how YSU came to be called the Penguins...

and here it is:

http://www.ysusports.com/traditions/nickname.htm

[bub94]

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Short bus trip and you're in the hotel.

You rode the short bus!! :-)

[JackFan96]

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I'll bet there's a good story about how YSU came to be called the Penguins.

Ask and ye shall receive. This is from the YSU Web site:

Youngstown State University is the only Division I University in the country with a Penguin for a mascot and the nickname Penguins for their athletic teams.
Prior to 1933, Youngstown College had been referred to as "Y" College, YoCo, Wye Collegians and many times, simply the "Locals."
There are two accounts of how the nickname occurred, and interestingly enough they come from the same evening on Jan. 30, 1933.
The first account states that on a cold, freezing night at a men’s basketball game at West Liberty State, in West Liberty, W. Va., a spectator watching the members of the team stomp on the floor and swing their arms made them look like Penguins and without a nickname, the fans took a liking to the word.
But throughout the season prior to that contest, many of the members of the 1932-33 varsity men’s basketball team and their friends on campus spent idle moments in the cafeteria discussing suitable new names for our school sports combines, basketball, and fencing that year.
The names considered covered every conceivable spectrum of animals, birds, and things associated with the steel city, but none seemed to fit us. There was always someone who pointed out an inadequacy of some sort. The name we finally warmed up to, and finally unanimously accepted, came as a result of the trip to West Liberty State Teachers College for a basketball game there late in January 1933.
In West Virginia, the road to West Liberty that evening had been hit by a snowfall between one and two feet deep. The passengers in two of the cars found it necessary on several occasions to get out and help push their vehicles out of snow drifts or road area with snow ruts, difficult to drive through.
During the trip, Bennett Kunicki recalls, the discussion of a nickname for the school was the hot topic of conversation. In Kunicki’s car, the name Penguins came up and was well received by everyone in the car. Upon arrival at the West Liberty gym, the name was mentioned to the members of the team who thought it was perfect.
By the end of that school year, the nickname was unanimously accepted by the student body without the necessity of a formal polling vote. Plans were then made to introduce the new name during the 1933-34 basketball season.
The nickname Penguins was formally introduced to the school in the "Jambar" (Vol. IV, No. 3) at the beginning of the 1933-34 basketball season. Page three of that issue was set up to cover YSU’s first game to introduce the members of that season’s team and to give the schedule for the season. The date of the "Jambar" issue was Dec. 15, 1933. Within the next five or six weeks, Penguins became our newly accepted nickname both in the Jambar and on the sports pages of the then two local newspapers.
The name was introduced after the first game with Slippery Rock in the Dec. 15, 1933 issue of the "Jambar". The Youngstown Telegram first used the nickname in a headline on Dec. 29, 1933 while The Vindicator first acknowledged the nickname in its Jan. 27, 1934 edition.

[jackbusiness09]

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Is anyone else curious as to what Penguin meat tastes like?... I'm thinking this calls for covert operation into the Great Plains Zoo the night before the game to help spice up the tailgating menu

And here it is...

Press Release

Penguins could be the Sunday(Saturday) roast of choice if a plan to use the world penguin surplus goes ahead, Goliath Food Chiefs announced yesterday. Penguins, long considered to be inedible by even the most hardiest of sailors, have recently been discovered to taste a lot like veal, if cooked for long enough.

"The thing is," said Mr White, Goliath's head nutritionist, "is that by eating only one penguin a week you can make up your entire recommended weekly intake of penguin, which we have decided is . . . one penguin."

Mrs Sutton of Sidcup was one of the first lucky housewives to be offered penguin and she told us: "At first, I was wary of the seabird. We had tried Great Auk and found it a bit stringy. But once we had eaten it, we will be having penguin every week - goodbye chicken!"

Sure enough going 1-0 this week will allow us our weekly recommended intake