Author: Fury Toad
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Tomorrow We Avenge an Unfortunate Loss
Some of the following is fact and some of it is fabricated entirely… welcome to sports writing in 2017. Tomorrow our beloved Frogs travel into the belly of the beast (pun intended) for their 70th test against our old Southwest Conference rival, the Arkansas Razorbacks. Winning in Fayetteville is no small undertaking. Some claim that…
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Jackson State Has A Football Team and We’re Playing Them
When I realized that the first full week of college football was upon us, I was happier than when the Senator offered to send me to Plum Island for a weeks’ vacation once a year. Tradition demands that fans fight through the interminable dross of Tier 1 college football teams matched against lower division squads. …
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Still Alive: Athletes Category
The Athletes: Jim Brown (80) – Perhaps the greatest running back to have ever lived. The most dominant at the very least. Brown led the league in rushing 8 times in 9 seasons. He’s one of the Dirty Dozen! I saw Jim Brown in person at the Doak Walker award banquet a few years back…
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Still Alive: Heroes Category
2016 sucked real bad and can go kick rocks. My mother lost her house in Baton Rouge (but luckily had flood insurance), both my dogs were diagnosed with cancer and these weren’t close to the most tragic Fury Toad family events. Again, I can’t understate how glad I am that 2016 is behind us. Much…
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Big 12 Roast via “The Night Before Christmas”
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Twelve, Some schools would feel great, but others, not well. The Longhorns rode high after that opening win. All those fair weather fans wore their burnt orange again. Soon it would end with Chuck sent on his way. Because none of those recruits could actually…
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Fury Toad’s Guide to Baylor Apologists
My standard advice for those contemplating a trip to Waco ranges from “be prepared to burn your clothes afterward” to “make sure you have plenty of bleach on hand”, but today I thought I’d offer some advice to those brave souls willing to travel to the armpit of America in support of our beloved Frogs…
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Fury Toad Live Blogs the WVU Game
Pregame: Turpin is warming up proving once and for all that legs CAN bend like that. Q1 – 15:00 Twelve ounces of frosty deliciousness have me primed for this… Q1 – 15:00 Gray fumbles the kickoff return and we’re in trouble already. Q1 – 13:59 Not exactly how we drew it up. Mountaineers score and…
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Fury Toad Live Blogs the KU Game
Pregame: Taj Williams looks EXACTLY like Detroit Lions great WR Herman Moore. Look this up. Q1-13:19 [Rubs eyes] 2nd 1st down for KU… picking up where we left off last week. Q1-12:36 How many times have we seen Denzel Johnson make that play? Q1-11:52 Moments after cracking my first beer, Nick Orr intercepts. KU QB…
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Fury Toad’s Conference Preview: Oklahoma
The Sooners last season: Overall 11 Wins – 2 Losses (8-1, 1st in the Conference). OU was good last year, damn good in fact. Conference leading defense – CHECK. Sent talent to the NFL for the umpteenth year – CHECK. Ranked non-Conference win on the road – CHECK. Indeed, Oklahoma had much of which…
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Fury Toad’s Iron Skillet Preview
SMU Last Season: 2 Wins & 10 Losses (Awful, just awful) – If TCU football over the last 10 years is Tarzan, then SMU is a shipwrecked child raised in the jungle by a colony of Tree Sloths who went to prep school in Baltimore and like to buy fake Chinese Molly off the…