Chandler Jones' Quarterback Feast

Earlier this offseason, Chandler Jones unveiled his goal for the year:

"I have a goal that's pretty bizarre but people don't believe it, but I'm gonna do it. 30 sacks. People say, 'shoot for the stars and if you fall short, you'll land on the moon.' So 30 sacks is my goal."

Well, Chan, hope you still have your appetite.
Dinner is served.

Week 1 Menu:
Appetizer: Josh Harris Honey Horseradish Dip with Hummus



Entree: Tanner Price Pulled Pork


Dessert: Deep Fried Demon Deacons


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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #2

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year. 

It's been a long road from the Pinstripe Bowl to mini-camp. But by now, as we reach number two on the 20 reasons to be excited for Syracuse Football, you should be ready. Ready to run through a brick wall, ready to down three straight bologna sandwiches, ready to wear your visor and scream at Bud Poliquin and ready to laugh at Greg Schiano.

And of course, you should be ready for cheerleaders.

#2 - Cheerleaders

Now Syracuse may not have, say, UCLA song girls,

Meh, 6's across the board.

Syracuse may not have SEC Southern Belles (not sure you can really call LSU types the belles),

I see very little cheering going on.

But you don't see Otto complaining.

Why gosh! What a silly thing they're doing with their legs!

Time to go for the full creep, college football fans. Check out the cheerleaders.

Despite being completely replaced by stadium sound systems and all sorts of video boards encouraging cheering, the cheerleader still lives - even if simply for the pleasure of the viewing male audience. So creep on, my friends, it's just about college football season! Pin It Now!

20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #4

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year.

The 12th man is a phrase we see tossed around a lot these days. Pretty much every team has some sort of slogan decreeing its fans as the extra advantage at their home stadium.

The 12th man, not 12th sorority sister stumbling up from Lucy's trying to sift through her keys to get in her house and looking only mildly interested.

Yes that's right, we're talking about a pet peeve: the key jingling of the student section.

#4 - Annoying SU traditions that will never die.

This one's pretty simple. For some reason, students take out their freshman lanyards, with perhaps one dorm key on it, and jingle it on 3rd down.

Multiple keys??? Must be deafening!

Sure, it's a "key down."
No, it does not have any effect.

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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #6

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year.

You've been yearning for months now. You've wanted to clench its bun and go to town.

Geez. Get your minds out the gutter.

#6 - The Dome Dogs

Nothing better than a Saturday afternoon, or this upcoming year a Thursday Friday or Saturday afternoon or night, with a Dome Dog in one hand, and a souvenir soda mixed with some smuggled Jack Daniels in the other.

Don't let the wrinkled bun fool you, despite its appearance it's a tasty snack.

So this season, look forward to peeling back the tin foil and enjoying a Hoffman. And remember, if it doesn't look appetizing, it actually is. And it's not the Minnesota Dome Dog (DON'T CLICK THIS IF YOU ONLY LIKE GOOD CLEAN FUN), so be proud of that.

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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #8

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year.


There's so much good to say about Doug Marrone. He's had a rough couple weeks with some player incidents. But the man who came exceptionally prepared for his interview with Darryl Gross and the Round Table has kept impressing since. He's taken a methodical approach to not only improve the team, but to re-instill the tradition of Syracuse football and win back the community. It was easy to get excited about the bigger names during that hiring frenzy now 2 years past, but it would have been hard to find a more committed and passionate coach.

#8 - Doug Marrone, HCDM, Dougles, General de La Revolucion Anaranjada, Teach me How to Dougie, the Ambassador, the Balogna Brigadier.

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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #12

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year.

Tombe Kose.

Sounds like comatose.

As in the state of those that he will light up this year.

Sure Tombe has some brainiac ahead of him on the depth chart

But take Adam Harris's story and throw it out the window. Better yet, take Adam Harris's Cornell jersey, put it in a paper bag, mix it up, light it on fire and put it on the doorstep of this guy's house.

Cornell University President David J. Skorton

Why you ask?

Settle down, I'll tell you:

#12 – Tombe Kose's amazing story

Wait, where are the jokes? Where is the bashing of Bud Poliquin?

Sorry, Tombe Kose's story is too amazing. He and his family escaped the violence in Sudan, lived at a refugee camp in Kenya, then moved to San Diego before finding his way to Syracuse.

It's truly an amazing testament that he has come this far, and we're truly excited to see what he can do in his time this year. Maybe even more so, we're looking forward to more of his amazing photographs.

 I told you, my shoulders really can't fit in this suit

Can you hear me now?

And here's to more basement stairs photo shoots. 

Telling the NCAA to shut up.

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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #15

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year.

By now you've been introduced to “Dave Rahme's Dungeon of Doom and Hungover, Sunburned Gloom." How could these videos become more awkward, more uncomfortable?

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Bud Poliquin and Nolan Weidner.

Sometimes in tandem, sometimes solo, always odd.

#15 – THE POST-STANDARD VIDEO MONTAGES

At Syracuse, I studied Newspaper Journalism. As many realized that the “paper” portion of the industry was dying, newspapers adapted by asking their reporters to become more tech-saavy.

Twitter and blog posts weren't enough. Slideshows with ridiculous music...not gonna cut it.

Reporters were asked for post-game musings, and Bud and Nolan deliver.

Instead of continuing my ramblings, I've decided to let the poorly formatted pictures tell most of the story.

While Bud rambles on and on, Nolan seems to have come to grips with the fact that this is the least favorite part of his job.

Might as well look interested.

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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #16

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year.

Nancy Cantor, also known as “Chancy Nancy” or "Turn Left and Cough" (check sidebar pic), once deemed Newhouse III's architecture as a shining beacon of freedom of speech to the world with undulating waves that welcomed the city to nuzzle in symmetrically.

I have a feeling, despite my over exaggerated paraphrasing, that the only thing being nuzzled was a glass of Schnapps by Nancy.

Anyways, Newhouse has given Syracuse more than a nook to squeeze next to, it's produced a terrific amount of sportscasters and ESPN workers, hence

#16 – SYRACUSE ALUMS CALLING GAMES

$3 pitchers of Miller Lite? Hiiiiyooooo!

Forget about Doug Gottleib for a second. Think about how lucky Syracuse is to have alumni swimming around ESPN. Usually we're given a lot of terrific coverage. They've been kind enough to grace us with the bandwidth to huddle around our computers and watch grainy footage of the Orange dismantling Akron.

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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #18

As we move closer to the 2011 Syracuse football season, Lots of Pulp will be counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited for the new year.

The Charleston Chew. Born in 1922 as a “flavored nougat covered in chocolate flavor coating” the popular candy bar has developed past just chocolate. It now is available in vanilla and strawberry as well. Were you aware there was once a banana flavor? Neither was I. Ah, wikipedia, please feed me more – I don't know enough.

Before we get there, I present the 18^th reason to be excited for football season.

#18 – Van Chew Jokes and Storylines

- Well, Van “Charleston” Chew crosses one right off the list. So let's learn some more about his favorite candy.

“Mini Charleston Chews" are a bite-sized, similarly-shaped version of the candy bar, introduced in 1998. The original packaging for Charleston Chews was a grey box that had the brand name in small red font at the bottom of the box. Freezing them results in a whole new experience with them shattering with ease when chewed.”

Ouch.

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20 Reasons to be Excited for Syracuse Football - #20

Who doesn't love some lists? Lists are as American as apple pie and Rambo.

So, leading into the start of the season on September 1, we're counting down the top 20 reasons to be excited football's back ... besides the obvious, like, you know, it's football.

#20 - THIGHS

What better place to start than the thing that makes Syracuse unique.
We'll begin with Doug Marrone – one of the greatest men in the history of mankind, and even more specifically, his legs.

ZZ Top be damned – Dougie's got legs
and he knows how to use them.

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Marinovich Destiny - Who will be next?

By now, you've seen and heard from the man who's making a push to be the next Old Spice guy -

Look at this QB. Now look again. He's a pile of bones and dust.

His efforts are so heroic that we began thinking of other Syracuse sportsmen who've donned the best facial hair. Since the world did not exist before the internet and old pictures are hard to come by via Google, we looked at the recent past, and have made suggestions for our current Orangemen:
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Meet the Writers: Patrick

I don't believe in tweeting (Brian will handle that) and I'm not about to let you peruse my facebook with the rest of the creepers.

Your trusty writer after
the Georgetown game

What I will do, though, is what I do best. Bitch, moan and make outrageously exaggerated comments about Syracuse sports, like “Doug Marrone is the greatest humanitarian in all the world, and his sharts bring about significantly more good than Bono.”

As I look at my clock for the first time while I write this, it's 4:44. I may have not grown up in Syracuse, but since I stepped foot on the hill, everything in my life suddenly has a significance to the greatest university in the troposphere, Syracuse.

Unlike Brian, I won't bore you with qualifications. Sure, I've written in the past. But I also saw a monkey working an iPad ten times better than I can and a woman expressing herself artistically with a marker placed in an unusual spot in a club in Thailand, better than I could ever creatively express myself.

I mean, check out that sentence. Chew on that Newhouse.

Alright enough of that crap, on to my passion for everything Orange related.

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