Warm Up The Bus

By: Greg | September 25th, 2007

masc When I was in high school, we had rather dominant sports teams. We’d go to watch the basketball team run up 40 and 50 point leads by halftime and then begin with the chant from the subject line, “Warm up the bus.” Through this taunt, we were jokingly suggesting that since the game was basically over already, the team ought to save themselves some time and allay the chance that their means of locomotion would break down in the bitter cold Jersey winters by giving the engine time to “warm up.”

If the season continues as such, the Dragao faithful can probably begin chanting this very same refrain right around Christmastime. Because if no one decides to show up and play against Quaresma & Co. (which sounds like a roofing company), you can probably warm up the proverbial bus on the season and find it under Jesualdo Claus’s lovely blue tannenbaum. Enough German, here’s the full recap of this past week’s results…

Naval 1 - 4 V.Guimarães
Leixões 1 - 1 Nacional
Braga 0 - 0 Benfica
Maritimo 2 - 0 Belenenses
Paços de Ferreira 0 - 2 Porto
U.d.Leiria 0 - 0 E.d.Amadora
Sporting 2 - 2 V.Setúbal
Boavista 0 - 0 Académica

Hero of the Week — Master Chief, Halo 3 — Surprised here? You shouldn’t be. I blog and therefore am clearly on the internet more than the average person which grants me instant “nerd” status. With a little deductive reasoning, you can figure out that there’s a high probability, being that I’m a “nerd”, that I play video games on a relatively regular basis. Since my in laws are coming up from Florida today, I need my virtual friends more than ever. Not to mention that they’re coming up for a month. A whole fucking month. If you aren’t married, you just have no idea what I’m talking about here. If you are, cut me some slack for the ubergeek video game reference. I’ll give you a deserving football hero of the week next jornada.

Goat of the Millennium — Roman Abramovich, Chelsea – …

Clean Sheets of the Week — Greg (After my wife reads that stuff above about her parents, there will be no sheet sullying for at least a whole week. Wait, who am I kidding? There’s no way she reads any of this… My wife uses the internet solely for social networking sites like Adult Friend Finder and eHarmony.), Quim (Benfica), Dani California (Braga), Marcos Aurelius (Maritimo), Fernando (U.d.Leiria), Nelson (E.d.Amadora), Nuno (Porto), Carlos (Boavista), Pedro Roma (Academica)

I’m going to try a sort of “reverse the curse” thing here and NOT post the table. Maybe this way Porto will forget just how well they’ve started (they’re all avid Offside readers) and begin dropping points. I’ll be back tomorrow with Carlsberg Cup Round 3 previews and any other excrement that may fall from the heavens onto my keyboard. Kisses ALL AROUND!