He Who Laughs . . .

Football is not a game. And it's certainly nothing to laugh about. Games are for sissys. Laughing is for losers. If there's no crying in baseball, there is definitely no laughing in football.
   That is what we learned from former Beaver and pupil of Coach Mike Riley, Derek Anderson. Actually he was caught smiling and was called on it. So in a pinch he had to demonstrate the total opposite of laughing.
   D.A. of the Arizona Cardinals had a bad game on Monday Night Football, losing 27-6 to the 49ers.
As NBC Sports tells it:

D.A. caught laughing for a
few seconds during loss.

Derek Anderson completed 16-of-35 passes for 196 yards and one interception against the 49ers in Week 12.
Anderson's accuracy was especially awful, and his post-game presser will be at the forefront of morning highlight shows. He was seen chuckling with OG Deuce Lutui on the sideline with the team down three touchdowns. A post-game reporter asked Anderson what was funny, and D.A. exploded into a profanity-laced tirade that he ended by storming off the stage.



Mike Riley came to Anderson's defense in this Oregonian blog saying "No no . . ." to the question of whether he was laughing about the game.

  It just follows that the Civil War is no laughing matter. The stakes are too high. The risk of losing is too costly.
   Since Sunday, you have not seen one upturn of the mouth corners from Mike Riley. Every comment from him has been nothing but "getting back up", "taking our best shot", "no good moping about it"; and my favorite, his players are going to "fight like crazy".   Anything funny about that?



Coach Riley definitely wasn't laughing when
WSU came to Reser's and smacked his team.



Not even a smile from the cheerleaders on that day.

    This Saturday, you can bet that not a single player on Oregon State's team will be laughing. They won't think it's one bit funny.
   In fact, we have seen a lot of people this year who thought playing Oregon wasn't funny.

We of course remember Coach Stoops last week.

This Vol stopped laughing in the second half.

No smiles from Trojanman.

Ducks wiped that smile off of Neuhoser's face.



Smileless in Seattle.

But as you may already know, there is one team who struggles to follow the no laugh rule.  Who are these offenders of the unhappy?



Oh no. Don't let the media catch
you doing that.



This man is out of control.



Before you know it, it spreads to the masses.



Total clowns.



Buffoonery in 3D.









Add some animal costumes and now it's a total sin fest.


And who is behind all of this jovial jocularity, this liberal laughing and gregarious grinnism?

Oh Coach Kelly . . . what have you done to us?

Watch out Beavers. Before Saturday is done, you're going to see blatant guffawing in your stands and bubble gum stuck underneath them.

   As for Derek Anderson, I just hate it when I have to come to a Beaver's defense. But "little brothers" that they are, I have no choice.
   Have you ever heard of gallows humor? Ever been in a situation that was so pathetically awful, it was hysterical?  Ever laugh at a funeral?
   Get off D.A.'s back for having a small light moment and being human.

--KB