Rawr | 1.30.2015

1.30.15 Vol. 5 No. 18

rawr ‘The game is afoot’

Game day grub page 4

Real stats to know

Test your football knowledge

page 6 page 9

Danlin Li | Rawr

horoscopes The Argonaut

2

Your work in

Rawr illustration photography mixed media paintings sculptures short fiction poetry non-fiction Rawr is an alternative weekly publication covering art, culture, campus life and entertainment.

We are accepting all forms of art and creativity to be featured inside the publication or on the cover.

Email: arg-arts@uidaho. edu

1.30.15

Aquarius 1/20-2/18 The Super Bowl isn’t all about scoring touchdowns and watching Katy Perry dance in front of thousands of people. Don’t be afraid to place bets and cheer for the best Super Bowl commercial.

Pisces 2/19-3/20

Cancer 6/22-7/22

The semester has barely begun and you’re already halfway through your second jar of Nutella. You’re doing this college thing right.

You don’t want to break your best friend’s dishes again if your team loses the Super Bowl this year. Try using plastic cups and paper plates to be on the safe side.

Aries 3/21-4/19 Throw a dollar or two into your roommates’ Super Bowl betting pool and you might be able to get a few items off the McDonald’s Dollar Menu.

Taurus 4/20-5/20 After eating Christmas cookies for two months straight, it is a good idea to get your exercise in. Find a random friend from class and toss a football on the Theophilus Tower lawn.

Gemini 5/21-6/21 It’s time to show the world your personal superpower. Eat a whole basket of spicy hot wings without drinking anything to cool your mouth down while watching the Super Bowl.

Leo 7/23-8/22 There is only one way to celebrate a Super Bowl victory, and you are the master at leading conga lines through the University of Idaho campus. Don’t let the haters hold you back.

Virgo 8/23-9/22 You’ve watched every Super Bowl for the past 15 years, and every year the team you are cheering for loses. It’s time to break your losing streak by taking one for the team. Binge watch “The Office” instead.

Libra 9/23-10/22 It’s time to start new Super Bowl traditions. Chug a glass of Sunny D for every

Emily Vaartstra | Rawr

touchdown, pass the chips and salsa on every foul and give up your slice of pizza to your friend every time your team throws an interception.

Scorpio 10/23-11/21 You aren’t one to be superstitious over a football game, but don’t even think about touching the guacamole if you want your team to win the Super Bowl this year.

Sagittarius 11/22-12/21 Stress cooking is what makes your house the place to be when the Super Bowl comes around. Don’t forget to put the pigs in a blanket and your famous potato salad on the menu.

Capricorn 12/22-1/19 Be nice to your mom on Super Bowl Sunday. When she calls after every fourth down she isn’t trying to annoy you — she just really wishes you were home to scream at the referees with her.

The real reason people watch football Commercials to look for in the 2015 Super Bowl

their significant other something from their stores.

Skittles

Doritos

The Skittles Super Bowl commercial teaser is nothing short of ambiguous. The ad will take place in a town populated by people who each have one regular arm and one muscular arm. The hashtag at the end of the teaser reads, “#SettleIt.” It never states what is being settled. This oddly intriguing teaser could make for a memorable commercial.

Once again, Doritos is holding its “Crash the Super Bowl” commercial contest, where people go online in the weeks leading up to the game to vote on 10 separate commercials, two of which will be aired. In typical Doritos fashion, the entries are humorous and sure to leave an impression on ad lovers. You can vote for your favorite at magicbulletmedia.com/MNR/crashthesuperbowl/finalists.html.

Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game, others watch it for the halftime show, but everyone pays attention to the commercials. This is Rawr’s guide to what ads to watch for during the 2015 Super Bowl.

Victoria’s Secret

Lyndsie Kiebert

Although known for showcasing scantily clad women, Victoria’s Secret’s teaser video for this year’s Super Bowl ad features well-known lingerie models in fully padded football uniforms.

According to syracuse.com, the commercial’s message is directed to men, reminding them not to “drop the ball” this coming Valentine’s Day, suggesting they give

Wix.com

Apparently, Brett Favre doesn’t only advertise comfortable jeans. He and four other NFL legends will appear in Wix’s Super Bowl ad, which promotes the hashtag “#ItsThatEasy.” According to Business Insider, Wix hopes to emphasize how easy it is to create your own website using their program, while also creating laughs by having former NFL stars act as small business owners.

Rawr

Anheuser-Busch The Anheuser-Busch brewing company once again has all beer advertising rights during the Super Bowl. They plan to bring back the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales, as well as Bud Light’s “Up For Whatever” campaign, which began last year. According to Ad Age, one commercial is set to feature a life-size game of Pac-Man. If that’s not a reason to watch the Super Bowl, what is?

Lyndsie Kiebert can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

The Imitation Game

Rawr

3

Benedict Cumberbatch impresses in WWII drama

showed the more graphic Actor Benedict Cumberside of the war, “The Imitabatch is on fire right now. tion Game” plays war themes From reinventing the much more subtly. legendary villain Khan in “Star The characters in the film Trek: Into Darkness” to stararen’t soldiers, so they don’t ring as Julian Assange in the experience the worst controversial biopic of the war, but the film “The Fifth Estate,” not never loses sight of to mention his recent the looming threat the casting in Marvel’s characters face. As the “Doctor Strange,” the film progresses, viewers guy doesn’t quit. want them to succeed But of all these in their mission. talked about roles, the Bradley The majority of the one he’ll be rememBurgess film focuses on Turing bered for in 20 years is Rawr and the true effort “The Imitation Game,” he went through to help his a true story and one of 2014’s country. Cumberbatch is nothbest films. ing short of breathtaking in The film is set in World the role, portraying every line War II, and the Nazis are ustruthfully as he sinks into the ing a device called Enigma to misunderstood character. scramble communications.

Turing had a secret he British forces, led by MI6 the hid from the public, which I British equivalent of the FBI, won’t ruin here, and the film are attempting to break the could’ve easily mistreated the code, a seemingly impossible hot button topics they address. task as the code resets every Fortunately, the filmmakers did 24 hours, leaving the world’s tread carefully and avoid cliché best mathematicians with bilwhile being truthful to history lions of possible solutions. and Turing’s story.

Cumberbatch plays Alan “The Imitation Game” is a Turing, a brilliant but socially masterful film that appeals inept professor who joins MI6 to both moviegoers, history to crack the code. With the buffs and underdogs. It’s a true help of fellow mathematicians, testament to Turing, as well including Keira Knightley’s as anyone who has felt like an character, Joan Clark, Turing outsider. If a film can leave an constructs a machine designed audience inspired and impactto calculate Enigma’s possibilied like this one does, it’s doing ties and crack the code. something right.

With a true story not Bradley Burgess everyone is familiar with, the can be reached at film’s storyline is quite comarg-arts@uidaho.edu pelling. Unlike “Fury,” which

New delicious recipes at uiargonaut.com/crumbs

crumbs

Jordan Hollingshead | Crumbs

A Crumbs Recipe Card

Meatball Subs Jordan Holingshead crumbs

Looking for something other than chips, dip and chili for your Super Bowl experience? This meatball sub recipe tastes great and doesn’t break the bank and will leave party guests wanting more.

3.

4.

5.

Ingredients

6.

• • • • • • • • •

1 lb ground beef 1 egg 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning 1/4 cup bread crumbs Salt and pepper Spaghetti sauce 8 oz shredded mozzarella Hoagie rolls

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

Directions 1.

2.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit Cover baking sheet with aluminum foil

12.

Lay hoagies on a baking sheet Cook for five minutes until crunchy Combine ground beef, egg, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, bread crumbs and salt and pepper in a medium sized bowl Mix together with hands until evenly distributed Roll into one inch balls and place evenly across baking sheet Cook for 10 minutes, turn and cook for 10 – 15 minutes until cooked through Place four meatballs into each hoagie roll Cover with spaghetti sauce and mozzarella Bake for five minutes, until cheese is melted Serve warm Jordan Hollingshead can be reached at crumbs@uidaho.edu

4

The Argonaut

Are you 12 worthy?

Are you a true Patriots fan?

1. Including this coming Super Bowl, how many Super Bowl appearances do the Seattle Seahawks have?

A) 2 B) 4 C) 3 D) 5

1. When was the last year the Patriots won the Super Bowl?

A) 2006 B) 2005 C) 2004 D) 2003 2. How many touchdown passes has Tom Brady thrown in his NFL career?

A) 392 B) 342 C) 536 D) 516

2. Who was the starting Quarterback the year before Russell Wilson started?

A) Matt Hasselbeck B) Tarvaris Jackson C) Jon Kitna D) Seneca Wallace 3. What is the name of the Seattle Seahawk’s pet hawk?

A) Taima B) Soko C) Nele D) Tala 4. Who was the head coach before Pete Carrol?

A) Mike Holmgren B) Dennis Erikson C) Jim Mora D) Bill Parcells

1.30.15

Illustrations by Jordan Hollingshead | Rawr

vs.

3. By how many points have the Patriots won each Super Bowl championship?

A) 3 B) 6 C) 7 D) 10 4. What is the name of the Patriots mascot?

A) Philip B) Richard C) Sam D) Pat

5. True or False: Seattle created the Idea of having the crowd as the 12th person.

A) True B) False

5. Who is the Patriots true rivalry?

A) New York Giants B) New York Jets C) Philadelphia Eagles D) Seattle Seahawks

6. What round of the draft did the Seahawks draft Russell Wilson?

A) 1st B) 2nd C) 3rd D) 4th

6. Where is the Patriot’s stadium located?

A) Nashua, New Hampshire B) Hartford, Connecticut C) Foxborough, Massachusetts D) Trenton, New Jersey

8. What Super Bowl was the first Super Bowl the Seahawks won?

A) XL B) XLVIII C) XIV D) XIV

7. What is the name of the Patriots stadium?

A) Gillette Stadium B) Fenway Park C) Harvard Stadium D) MetLife Stadium 8. Tom Brady and his wife are one of the richest celebrity couples — who is his wife?

A) Carrie Underwood B) Kate Upton C) Alessandra Ambrosio D) Gisele Bundchen

Answers: 1) B 2) A 3) A 4) D 5) B 6) C 7) A 8) D

7. Who owns the Seattle Seahawks?

A) Robert Kraft B) Dan Rooney C) Jed York D) Paul Allen

Answers: 1) C 2) B 3)A 4) C 5) B 6) C 7) D 8) B

Rawr

5

Football for dummies The nitty gritty of football if you do it in a pick-up game, The Super Bowl, like Christmas your friends will laugh at you. and Easter, comes just once a year.

Here is where it gets tricky.

This means some Americans can Despite the stereotype of stupid comfortably ignore football for football players, there is a lot of about 50 weeks every year, and they only ever need to think about math involved in the game. A touchdown is when a team gets it right now. the ball into the other team’s As someone who falls into end zone. When a team scores this category, I sometimes find a touchdown, it counts as myself confused when it six points. comes time to actually Then, once a team watch the game. This has procured the elusive means I need some sort touchdown, they are given of guide, like “Football another chance to score. for Dummies.”

They either choose to kick My younger siblings the ball through the huge will vouch for my qualifications as a dummy, Cy Whitling fork looking thing for one r Raw point or they try to put the and I am the first to ball back in the end zone acknowledge my lack of again, for two points. understanding of football. I think Remember what I said about this makes me the perfect candithe math? Sometimes teams date to explain football to other pretend to kick the ball and dummies, like myself. then they actually take it into First off, football is a team the end zone to get two points sport, with two teams per game. instead of one. When this hapThe Super Bowl is the big finale pens, yell loudly. game for the NFL every year.

There are also safeties and field Apparently, NFL stands for the Nagoals, but this space is too small tional Football League, but don’t call it by its full name. All the cool to discuss them in all their mystic intricacy. Also, I don’t really unkids call it the NFL. Like most sports, the teams try derstand them and don’t want to lead anyone astray. to get more points than the other All in all, football is a pretty team. I would say, “like all sports,” cool sport. There’s lots of big but for some reason golf just had dudes, funny ads and confusto go mess things up. ing halftime shows. If you get To get the points the players confused watching the game and have to get the ball to other end can’t keep track of what’s happenof the field, into their opponent’s ing, just watch your friends out “end zone.” They can do this the corner of your eye and yell by throwing the ball forward whenever they do. That always or running with it. For some works for me. reason though, a player can’t run Cy Whitling forward with the ball and then can be reached at throw it further forward to anarg-arts@uidaho.edu other player. That is cheating, and

Danlin li | Rawr

Rawr

SPEAK

‘Souper Bowl’ Sunday

Jan.

30

pg 6-7

Claire Whitley rawr

Super Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving when it comes to the amount food Americans consume.

The average American will consume 1,200 calories on game day, but with the help of campus dietician Marissa Rudley, University of Idaho students can create healthier “Souper Bowl” choices.

At her Vandalizing the Kitchen cooking class Jan. 21, Rudley demonstrated three healthy recipes to make for the big game.

Rudley prepared turkey chili, red lentil soup and whole-grain cornbread. Both legume based foods have more than 10 grams of protein per serving or bowl and cost less than $5 per person.

While preparing the meals, each taking approximately 30 minutes, Rudley slowed down to give pointers and tricks for some knife techniques.

She first showed the class how to dice onions, reminding everyone to keep their fingers out of the way. She

OUT

Who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl?

also passed out free bags of lentils, each with a recipe card from the WaPea & Lentil Commission.

“You get lentils, and you get lentils!”

Rudley said. “Everybody gets lentils!”

One thing Rudley said she wanted to remind everyone is that the lentil soup is completely vegetarian. The turkey chili can be made vegetarian, but is traditionally prepared as an omnivore’s dish.

“I used to think ‘chili must mean bean in some other language,’” Rudley said, “But it doesn’t. It’s just chili.”

Overall, Rudley said she thought the class went well and is looking forward to teaching the next one. Even though Rudley said she was intimidated by the thought of cooking two soups in only one hour, she had been looking forward to teaching the class.

The next Vandalizing the Kitchen class is from 4 – 5 p.m., Feb. 18 in the Student Recreation Center. The focus is dessert, especially anything fruit oriented.

Claire Whitley can be reached at crumbs@uidaho.edu

Who’s playing in the Super Bowl again?

The Mariners? I think I want them to win.

Tom Kirby

All I have to say is never forget what happened last time the Patriots played in the Super Bowl in Arizona.

Paul Russo

Not Seahawks … hopefully not Seahawks.

Claire Whitley | Crumbs

A Crumbs Recipe Card

A Crumbs Recipe Card

Fancy Chili

Simple corn bread

You can always swap beef for turkey or wild game like elk. This versatile dish can be made for a quick week night dinner with many pantry staples.

Yield: Four servings

Ingredients • • • • • • • • •

1 tablespoon olive oil 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup chopped green onion 1/2 pound lean ground beef or poultry 2 tablespoons hot chili powder 1 28-ounce can fire-roasted dice tomatoes 1 15-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 medium red bell pepper, cored, seeded and diced 4 carrots, peeled and grated

Directions 1.

In large saucepan, heat the oil over medium heat

2.

Add the garlic and green onions and cook for about one minute

3.

Add ground beef and cook until browned, about five minutes

4.

Stir in the chili powder until fully combined. Add the tomatoes, beans, bell pepper and carrots

5.

Bring the mixture to boil, and reduce the heat to low

6.

Cover and simmer chili for 15 minutes

*Recipe courtesy of Marissa Rudley

This simple corn bread recipe uses creamed corn for added sweetness and flavor. Add shredded cheese, jalapeno peppers or any other mix-ins to this gluten-free side dish.

Yield: 10 servings

Ingredients • • • • • • • • •

2 cups yellow cornmeal – whole grain 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon honey 1 cup buttermilk 2 eggs 3/4 can creamed corn 1 tablespoon canola oil

Directions

1.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit

2.

In small bowl, combine cornmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda.

3.

Stir with a whisk to combineIn large bowl, combine the honey, buttermilk, eggs, creamed corn and canola oil

4.

Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients and stir with a whisk until combined. If batter is too thick to pour, add additional buttermilk

5.

Pour the batter into a greased 8x8 inch baking dish. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the cornbread is golden brown *Recipe courtesy of Marissa Rudley

Garrett Senefsky

Probably the Seahawks. Again.

Alex Rodriguez

As someone who won’t watch any of it, I am impartial.

Caleb Ehly

The Argonaut

8

Money talks

1.30.15

Best Super Bowl commercials in the past four years

Wonderful Pistachios - 2013 This nut company has had big stars showcase their product, including the Harlem Globetrotters and the Winklevoss twins. But for Super Bradley Bowl 2013, they got pop Burgess artist PSY to crack his Rawr pistachios, Gangnam Style. Now that’s an endorsement.

Go Daddy - 2013 Go Daddy’s controversial commercial had the most frequently employed extra in Hollywood, whose credits include “The Social Network” and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” get lucky with supermodel Bar Rafaeli on one of the most watched programs in history. Whether or not you agree with the campaign, you have to admit it was memorable.

Bud Light – 2014 Bud Light is the perfect beer for whatever happens, so why not show a guy going from drinking Bud Light in a bar, to playing against Arnold Schwarzeneggar at ping pong, to meeting Don Cheadle with a goat in an elevator, to partying with One Republic? With a commercial like that, you can’t go wrong.

Jaguar – 2014 All the best British villains, including Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong, showed up to promote the latest Jaguar model. In recent commercials, Nicholas Hoult turns up to showcase the car. It was a clever way to show sometimes, it pays to be bad.

M&Ms – 2013 This ad featuring “Glee” star Naya Rivera was such a hit, it is still rebroadcasted to this day. M&Ms will do anything for love — except be eaten.

Claire Whitley | Rawr

Volkswagen – 2011

Wonderful Pistachios - 2014

Doritos – 2014

Featuring a child dressed as Darth Vader, this Super Bowl ad was so endearing it became the most shared ad of all time. Even more amazing was the fact that the child in the commercial had never seen “Star Wars.”

Last year, Stephen Colbert got in on the cracking action, claiming his image alone was enough to sell the product.

Thirty seconds later, he returned to compensate for his last commercial by over branding the pistachios. Even America makes mistakes.

This commercial won Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” contest, and it’s easy to see why. With a time machine running solely on Doritos and one gullible man, it’s just plain funny.

Bradley Burgess can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

Rawr

9

Aly Soto | Rawr

The stats that matter It isn’t just about the big game We have once again entered the season of chicken wings, beer commercials, bandwagon fans and outlandish teamthemed costumes. Make sure the couch is broken in, because the Super Bowl is here.

For those of us who don’t really follow football, this is always a challenging time of year. We have to pick a team to support and then latch onto them with a fervor usually reserved for issues of religion and federal fiscal policy.

Historically among my friends who don’t follow football, about 65 percent pick whichever team is locally popular. They feel this is a safe

treacherous waters, trying to allegiance to have, as they will choose a team to root for, conbe surrounded by likeminded sider this completely people to either celbiased and creative, ebrate or mourn with. unscientific data.

Another 30 percent According to the of my friends pick Internet, the active whichever team is not roster of the Seattle popular among their Seahawks weighs in at friends. I can only prea grand total of 13,038 dict this is due to some Cy pounds, more than 6.5 undiscovered genetic Whitling tons. That’s roughly trait, which when it Rawr the combined weight is found will probof one bull bison, one ably be christened the polar bear, one moose, one “ornery gene.” These people large salt water crocodile, one love cheering against the rest medium hippo and one adolesof their community and will cent Rhino. go to great lengths to provoke The active roster of the other fans.

New England Patriots weighs The remaining 5 percent of in at 13,219 pounds. That’s basipeople are still trying to figure cally the equivalent of all the out how to get their “smart” animals listed above, plus three TVs to work, and are negligible medium wolverines. for the purposes of this article.

Some would argue the SuAs you navigate these

per Bowl might be more interesting if we threw all of those animals in the arena or simply put on Planet Earth instead, but the real takeaway is that the Patriots weigh just a little more than the Seahawks.

In fact, if you look at the average weight of each player, the Patriots come in at 249.9 pounds each, while the Seahawks average only 246 pounds each. This would imply there is more room on the Seahawks bandwagon, but one only needs to check Facebook to see that is completely false.

On the viewer’s side, the Internet tells me 111.5 million people watched the Super Bowl last year. Since the average American weighs 196 pounds, that means about 22 billion pounds of partially digested Cheetos, wings, beer, fat,

bone and muscle slapped their collective rear ends down on the couch to catch the game.

The outcome of the big game aside, that statistic makes me pity the couches of America.

So pick a team, pick a couch, pick some snacks and beverages. This is America, there will be cute animals and cute children and beer and probably a crummy halftime show, maybe even a heartwarming story or two. There will probably be something offensive and something surprising and something frustrating, but through all of it just remember this spectacle comes only once a year. So be happy, the Super Bowl is here.

Cy Whitling can be reached at arg-arts@uidaho.edu

The Argonaut

10

1.30.15

Friday Fiction

Bringing family together Kelly P. Vickers rawr

Tucker would have hated this match-up.

Seattle versus New England.

‘Are you kidding me,’ he would have said. Coast to coast. So predictable and cliché. But nevertheless, he would have purchased my plane ticket out of San Diego, California, just so I would be forced to fly my miserable carcass home to Lennox, South Dakota, for this one day a year.

We didn’t even get together at Christmas — my family was too dysfunctional for that. But for Tucker, football was his religion and the Super Bowl was the holiest day of the year. Even though the rest of us barely knew the difference between a Hail Mary pass and a blitz, we couldn’t help but succumb to Tucker’s adamant demand that every year we all be home on Super Bowl Sunday and pretend to be a happy family for one day. We could go back to hating each other’s guts afterwards, he would say. And for Tuck, we did it every year.

As I stepped up to the magenta door of my parent’s sunflower yellow house, I forced myself to breathe and quiet the voice in my head who kept repeating how I shouldn’t have come. I reached up to knock on the door, purposefully avoiding the door knocker in the shape of a lamb with John 3:16 etched in the cross that oddly appeared to be stabbing the lamb in the back. Tuck made fun of it all the time. My mother insisted the lamb was just sitting in front of the cross, but really, neither of us could believe someone even made door knockers like that in the first place.

I heard shuffling footsteps on the other side of the door before it slowly opened.

“Uh, Gramps. Hi. I didn’t know you would be here,” I said.

“More like being held prisoner here. It’s good to see you Talli. Come on inside.”

Twelve years ago, Gramps was the only one who kept a cool head after my mother and father found out Tucker and his girlfriend, Kim, had gone to Sioux Falls to get an abortion.

My father was furious, not only that his 17-year-old son had premarital sex, but that they chose to not keep the baby, which was a sin against God and everything they believed in. My father was kicked off the church board and asked to resign as the worship pastor.

His music teaching position at Augustana College was under review, but they decided it would be unjust to punish him for his son’s actions.

My parents kicked Tucker out of the house, and Gramps took him in. I found myself at Gramps’ house more than at my parents, even though I was still a freshman in high school at the time.

Even after all of that, Tucker still managed to walk uninvited into our parent’s house on Super Bowl Sunday every year, until it became something my parents finally accepted as the day we could set aside all the tension and make it our family day. It was all an act, but it became so normal we almost all believed we were a family for eight hours a year.

“The doc says I need a caretaker now, and so your mom moved my things here before I could say, ‘Dear God, put me in a nursing home.’ Teresa!

Talli’s here!” Gramps called into the house.

My mother timidly stepped out of the kitchen in one of her Sunday dresses. “Hello, Tallia.”

“I brought potato salad,” I said, and handed her the plastic container of store-bought potato salad.

“Thank you, that was very generous. Your father is already in the family room with the game on. You are a little late.”

“My flight landed later than

Genie Tran | Rawr

I expected,” I told her.

That was a lie. I had stopped by the cemetery before convincing myself to come over.

I crossed the threshold to the family room and saw the thinning back of my father’s hair before I noticed the game on the flat-screen.

“I see you got rid of that clunky box of a TV,” I said before sitting down on the couch, leaving a space between us. Not that I could have sat next to him anyways. In the middle of the couch rested a green and white football jersey with the number 9 printed on the chest. Tuck’s old high school jersey. “What the hell is that doing here?”

“I don’t appreciate your language,” my father said.

“Oh God, Dad. Are you really going to do this? Today?”

I grabbed the jersey and stood to walk away.

“Put that back right now!” he yelled.

“Why, Dad? What’s the purpose of having it there? Does it make you feel less guilty? Like you can make up for the years you rejected him and tore our family apart? He’s gone, Dad. You can’t fix it anymore.” I continued walking away.

“I do feel guilty,” he said with a trembling voice. I stopped. “Ever since he died I’ve torn myself up wishing I could call him — wishing I would have let him stay all those years ago. I wish this would have never happened.

But it did and I don’t have him.

And I don’t even really have

my daughter,” He stared at me, then pointed at the jersey. “But that, that is all I have left and you can at least give me that.”

I stood there for a minute.

Methodically, I walked back to the couch and placed the jersey between us. My mother and Gramps, who had migrated to the family room at the noise, both made sobbing sounds behind me. The announcers from the game were getting excited over an interception.

We both stared at the screen, but I wasn’t really watching it.

Tuck would have been sitting at the edge of the couch making a huge fuss over the play.

While one of the teams was on fourth down, I reached over and grabbed my father’s hand, resting them on Tuck’s jersey.

“You still have me, Dad.”

Rawr

y a id s

11

12th man

Fr ctoid Fa

Definition: To show a 30 second commercial during last year’s Super Bowl would have cost you $4 million.

Ravens player Jacoby Jones performed the longest scoring play in Super Bowl history in 2012. The play was 108 yards.

Charles Haley is the player with the most Super Bowl championships. He won two when he played for San Francisco and three when he played for Dallas.

Quarterback Joe Montana played in 4 Super Bowl games and holds the record for fewest interceptions with a total 122 passing attempts and 0 interceptions.

Bill Belichick has the most Super Bowl appearances as a coach with a total of nine.

This Super Bowl Tom Brady will pass John Elway to break the tie of most Super Bowl starts as quarterback.

The 12th man was created and trademarked at Texas A&M in 1922. The idea is that you are only allowed to have 11 players on the field and the “12th man” is the fans.

RtD e O h W of K

E E W

From wtffacts.com

The Colossally Amazing Adventures of Norbert (and Friends) by Samantha Brownell Since the Rawr section is having a football theme this week, we decided to join in on the fun.

Yay! Football!

Now, “i” will pass to my team member “Pi.” Ready, Norbert?

Pi is ready, Sammy!

...And this is why we don’t play sports.

Ugh...Norbert down...room spinning... bleh~

Rawr

12

1.30.15

S.P.L. Sound, Production & Lighting Want to take your concert, dance, banquet, film, meeting, or special event to the next level?

We can provide the equipment and experience to make it a success.

Contact us at spl@uidaho.edu or (208) 885-6947.

Idaho Commons: 885 . 2667 info@uidaho.edu

Student Union: 885 . 4636 www.sub.uidaho.edu