http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress The Purest Form of College Football Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:49:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I sat on a cramped Macalester locker room bench Saturday, sweating through smeared eye black and staring down at my cleats before taking the field, I began to register that this would be my last season opener I ever played in. My mind began to race back to everything ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2011/09/how-i-got-to-be-this-way/ Seeing as I've finished all my finals of junior year, it's officially time to start making jokes about being old and whatnot. Specifically, my favorite is to throw out "I'm getting to old for this sh**", and although I've been doing it since freshman year, it will finally be somewhat ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2011/05/senior-citizen/ Typically I have a difficult time deciding whether my lack of consistent posts is a byproduct of age-induced world weariness, an inhuman daily schedule or a general lack of interesting occurrences in my life. I'm tempted to blame a combination of the three, but I saw someone get pegged in ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2011/02/strepped-for-time/ I quite literally did nothing of value over winter break. Perhaps that's somewhat of a hyperbole, but from the day I finished finals in December to my first class of 2011, I most certainly contributed nothing to society. I'm sure that can be said for most of the time I've spent ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2011/01/back-in-the-saddle/ I've been pretty silent in this space recently, and I suppose it's because I don't know exactly what to say. Usually this time of year I write an end-of-season wrap up post, then move on to my offseason blogging activities of fart jokes and taunting Mel Kiper. This year, however, I've ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2010/12/the-show-goes-on/ Enjoying my first chance this season to watch college football day games, although I admit it's strange to not be playing. # Watching Percy Harvin's knee get explosioned might be the worst sight of the day. My knee hurt just watching it. # No better time for a meltdown, in my opinion. ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2010/11/the-d3-experience-twitter-updates-2010-11-20/ I figured this title would still be necessary after such a long in-season sabbatical from the blog. Coaches, parents, and various other admirers of my magnificence have given me endless grief for consistently avoiding my writing. I'd say it was mainly because as an English major, I've spent so much ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2010/10/so-im-still-alive/ I should preface this post with a little history lesson. Monmouth College is excellent at football. For the last two seasons they've railroaded the conference, and they were predicted to win it once again this year by a country mile. Throughout the past years Monmouth has featured several All-Americans on their ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2010/09/so-we-beat-monmouth/ Last Saturday had been on my calendar for quite some time. Since the departure of Max Hawsey, our team's entire focus has been on getting things going under our new head coach, Jeff Pedersen. We had developed our scone-eating abilities to near-inhuman levels, but after weeks of competing against ourselves in ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2010/09/staying-classy/ On August 12, I reported for camp, moved into my dorm room, and went to a nice little team BBQ. On August 13, I was unceremoniously hurled into a swirling vortex of football madness among with my Grinnell Football brethren. Camp comes up on you fast. I spent my entire summer ... http://www.thed3experience.com/Blog/wordpress/2010/08/lets-go-camping/