I would rather sit in a room for 3 hours and watch paint dry than watch ANY football game where one of the paticipants is our good friends from Oakland. -- Duquesne Dukes Basketball Forum

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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 10, 10:14:11pm
Author: kenOTR73
Subject: I would rather sit in a room for 3 hours and watch paint dry than watch ANY football game where one of the paticipants is our good friends from Oakland.
In reply to: El Duque 's message, "There are some closet Pitt football lovers on this board (clearly, I'm not in this category), so you have to be a little careful. On the other hand, it's good that an iconic movie such as "My Cousin Vinny" can inspire a nickname for a college football team." on Tuesday, August 10, 05:33:07pm

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I'd rather watch the grass grow in AJ Rooney Field. (NT) -- svenLing, Wednesday, August 11, 06:54:27am
- It wasn't that long ago (Gattusso was the coach here) that I would have bet that DU could beat Pitt in football. Before anyone laughs, there have been numerous upsets in which FCS teams have knocked off BCS programs. I could have easily envisioned Leigh Bodden making a pick in an open field and breaking a 0-0 game open. PS, one of the all time great upsets in college football was 7-0 DU over ESP on a rain-soaked field in the 1930s. Elmer Layden was the coach, Bilgy would remember better. He had season's tickets. (NT) -- El Duque, Wednesday, August 11, 07:50:50am
  - C'mon ED. No way could we have beaten any 1A team. We were barely competitive with weak Patriot League teams. Villanova or Richmond would have smashed us, let alone a mid level 1A team like Pitt. DU was a major in the 1930's, not now. (NT) -- duq81, Wednesday, August 11, 03:07:19pm
    - At that time, Pitt, Rutgers and Temple, to name a few, hand their hands full with 1AAs. No way to prove it either way, now, but I won't budge off this one. Pitt stunk in those days. -- El Duque, Wednesday, August 11, 03:13:26pm
      - Pitt has never come close to losing to a 1AA, and let's be honest, the Dukes at their best weren't close to the level of teams like Villanova and UMass. There is a huge gap between 1AA scholarship, and non scholarship programs, let alone 1A. When the Dukes were at their peak, Pitt was going to bowl games under Walt Harris. (NT) -- duq81, Wednesday, August 11, 05:15:42pm
        Furman was close iirc. I agree tho, we never would have had a shot at Pitt (or even a team like Temple). (NT) -- Rogabee, Wednesday, August 11, 11:44:52pm
        Not now. A couple years ago, you, me and nine of our best friends could have beaten Temple and given Pitt a game, IMHO. (NT) -- El Duque, Thursday, August 12, 04:29:12pm

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