Pride and Tradition.
Pride. Looking around at the crowd in the 4th quarter of the last football game you could feel the pride of those in attendance. Everyone was fired up over the officiating and on the edge of their seats throughout the 4th quarter. Not many of the 60,000 or so in [...]
September 2010 Archive
What’s the big deal?
Concordia Game Photos 2010
What an absolutely beautiful fall day for football in Collegeville.
The outcome of the game wasn’t too bad either.
Photos provided by Johnnie Dad and Retired Old Rat.
Go Johnnies!
SJU Roasts Cobbers 40-28 in MIAC Opener
When the Cobbers roll into town the Johnnies are well aware that they are in for a hard hitting battle,as the Cobbers have left Clemens Stadium victorious two out of three times leading up to Saturday’s game. Saturdays game was a change of pace and a new look on many fronts as the Johnnies shook [...]
Get Up!
After attending many Johnnie games, home and away over previous seasons, I have to ask. Has the Nation that is Unrivaled become complacent? Have we come to expect the unexpected, are our standards so high that anything other than pure perfection is not acceptable?
Has John and the generations of Johnnie players spoiled this Nation to [...]
Confessions of a Johnnie Subway Alum
Our guest poster this week is no ordinary Johnnie Football parent. Clark Stanton and his wife Noel travel into Minneapolis on a weekly basis to share in the pageantry, tradition and of course tailgating in Collegeville and around the MIAC. Still fresh in my mind is the time “tmerton”, as he’s know in D3 chat circles, called [...]
Underwhelmed…
From a “glass half full” perspective, the trip to Eau Claire, Wisconsin last Saturday was full of enjoyable moments.
Getting to spend quality time in Dave Verkuilen’s (a/k/a Veek, Jr.) pickup truck for a few hours of enjoyable conversation is pretty hard to beat. Then I had the privilege of seeing his dad, Bob Verkuilen (a/k/a [...]
2010 Week 3: Concordia-Moorhead
The Johnnies open MIAC conference play this Saturday hosting the Concordia-Moorhead Cobbers at Clemens Stadium. The Cobbers have opened the season with a 1-1 record against Dickinson State and Valley City State. They’ve won two out of the last three games in Collegeville and always seem to give the Johnnies fits on both sides of the [...]
Memories
“We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
–Cesare Pavese, Poet
120 losses and 13 undefeated regular seasons in John Gagliardi’s 57 years coaching Johnnie football. This past weekend’s loss opened up a wound that had yet to heal from the 2002 OT loss at Eau Claire. No, the season is not over. No, the Johnnies [...]
Eau Claire Tailgate and Game Photos
The tailgating was great in Carson Park. The game, not so much.
Game photos from Johnnie Dad (Jeff Sowden).
Go Johnnies!
UWEaC
Plan, practice, orchestrate and strategize. All words that describe the weekly preparation of a Football Team as they ready themselves for each Saturday. And in the end you play the game to win, nothing less. However, I think that playing the game to win, with honor and dignity, far outweigh simply doing whatever it takes to win. The end does not justify the means!
