All Hail St. Johns, 24-6 victors over Mt. Union. Oh, and that was my cousin with the 100+ yard interception return for the touchdown. Nice one, Mike.
Congratulations to St. John's and to your cousin. My Alma Mater gave Mount Union kind of a game in the playoffs last year but that was about it. Great job St. John's.
I'm a Mount Union fan, so I wasn't that happy after the game. But St. John's just played better and did everything right. Congrats to Gagliardi and St. John's. Sykotyk
I guess they have to let another team win every once in a while I grew up on Div III ball (Ohio Northern) so I always root for MU to do well...they don't dissapoint.
The second the QB threw the ball, I was thinking, "That's trouble." Congrats to him and the rest of the Johnnie's. As a proud Allegheny grad, I'm happy to see Mount Union go down anytime I can.
Great game. I got an additional chuckle from seeing a St. John's fan in the stands with a "Tommies Suck" T-shirt on at the game. St. John's big traditional rival is St. Thomas University (in St. Paul), which several of my friends attended. Which brings up another interesting question of why so many of the MIAC schools have similarly retarded nicknames - the St. John's Johnnies, St. Thomas Tommies, St. Olaf Oles (pronounces O-lee, not o-lay), Gustavus Adolphus Gusties, Augsburg Augies. Seriously.
Re: Re: NCAA Div III Football Championship {R} Glad that I had a relative who could help out. As far as that pass goes, I could've sworn I heard the ESPN commentators say that Mike Zauhar is 5'10" tall... he's a shade over six feet according to people who've seen him more recently than I have. Wonder if Mt. Union thought he was shorter than he is. They also must've thought he was faster than he is, too, as he displayed the traditional family running-with-the-piano-on-your-back speed over the last 30 yards or so.( ). While he became the first in our family to get a Chris Berman "He. Could. Go. All. The. Way" this morning, you'd think Mt. Union would've put up a more spirited chase, what with winning streak getting closer to ending with each step taken toward the end zone. Strangely enough... all those schools had those names way before they were in the same conference. And you left out the Carelton Carls, incidently. In the late 80's my wife and I taught at Gustavus, which is a school dedicated to credentialing the academically challenged offspring of financially gifted parents. We started cheering for St. Johns about halfway through the first football game I saw.
It's called having a nickname before marketing. If you're reporting for the St. Thomas University men's football team and you want to talk about them in the article, just saying the Tommies works. Or Johnnies, or Oles, or Gusties... And then the name becomes official, and they never see the need for finding another name. Sykotyk