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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 1h

The kids are all right

Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 5h

ME: "Girls, I'm going to a college campus today. Would you like me to see if they have a stuffed animal of the mascot for your collection?

KIDS: "lets see the mascot"

(shows them the Penn State Nittany Lion)

GIRLS: (visibly recoiling) absolutely not. Please do not bring that to our house.

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WLAT Harris @pantherrants.bsky.social · 5h

Steelers fans don’t realize that Acrisure doesn’t happen without Pitt.

Alan Saunders tried to explain that to them.

Not to mention the Steelers literally rent the field themselves as well. It’s not their stadium.

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WLAT Harris @pantherrants.bsky.social · 14h

Our favorite Woman Respecter has chimed in on the Acrisure Field Debate

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 19h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 19h

We Stan #H2P

Wolfy Wonder Woman @rockcandy87.bsky.social · 22h

Happy 114th Birthday to the University of Pittsburgh Varsity Marching Band

From 8 members in 1911 to *gestures broadly*

Earliest known photo of the University of Pittsburgh Varsity Marching Band from the 1912-1913 season.

Photograph of the 2025–2026 University of Pittsburgh Varsity Marching Band during their pregame concert outside of Acrisure Stadium in the Gate A Amphitheater before the Pitt-Duquesne game on August 30, 2025

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 19h

And then he goes on unhinged rants in the Rose Bowl about how players should be paid or have any agency.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 21h

Herbstreit did a fine job calling the biggest CFB game of the week for years but doing Thursday night NFL, Gameday Saturday morning, and a Saturday night CFB game (sometimes in a different city!) is pretty clearly too much and the work suffers for it

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 22h

Kirk Herbstreit admits he ‘quite often’ wakes up and doesn’t know what city he’s in

Kirk Herbstreit has a schedule that would break most people. He works Thursday Night Football for Amazon, hosts College GameDay on Saturday mornings, and calls the biggest college football game of the week on Saturday afternoon or night for ESPN. It’s a grind that has him crisscrossing the country every week, and it’s taking a Read more... The post Kirk Herbstreit admits he ‘quite often’ wakes up and doesn’t know what city he’s in appeared first on Awful Announcing.

dlvr.it

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 1d

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Super Bowl Champion Basketball Fan, NEVER of the Sixers @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 1d

Only one woman on this list is exactly why we need more #WomenInSTEM. #ally

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

If you need a go-to Wikipedia page this is a great one

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

List of inventors killed by their own invention - Wikipedia

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Souf Oaklin fo’ Life!!! @soufoaklin.bsky.social · 2d

A means to an end.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1d

He was such a horrific governor that the SPANISH imprisoned him in San Domingo! postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/c...

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of analysis that gives this site the juice (complimentary)

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

NFL commentators love bringing up Drake London’s college basketball career and like it’s cool that he gave it a shot but he played a total of six minutes in two games for USC and didn’t score

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Pitt Mike @pittmike37.bsky.social · 1d

PSU fans: we want Coach Cignetti!

*monkeys paw curls*

PSU AD: Now introducing Head Coach Frank Cignetti!

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 1d

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2d

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 2d

They are never beating the cult allegations

Matt Fortuna @mattfortuna.bsky.social · 2d

For more on Drew Allar’s injury, Jay Paterno is available for comment:

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 2d

And then you have the WPIAL playoffs in November. None of this is new to any of the parties involved with keeping up the field.

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 2d

Also Pitt and the Steelers have been sharing that stadium since 2001. It ALWAYS looks like this starting in October. This problem is neither novel nor impossible to address.

Wolfy Wonder Woman @rockcandy87.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoying the breathtaking number of yinzers who share the same 2 brain cells blaming Pitt for Acrisure sod conditions instead of saying “hey maybe the Rooney’s are cheap AF”. I wasn’t aware constructive criticism of the family is considered to be high treason punishable by death.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2d

Look at this sick shit

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Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 2d

imagine shutting down the bar with this guy

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 2d

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Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 2d

Really enjoying my decision to read exclusively horror books this month. Also helps that the audiobook narrations are excellent. Really adds to the reading experience.

Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a pretty straight line you can draw from Nixon being aggrieved about being a bad football player and the butt of the joke to Watergate.

Kevin @kevyinz.bsky.social · 2d

Nixon was such a bad football player that students would cheer when he went in to the game because he only went in during blowouts.

RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 2d

Whittier alumni helped bring the team back after they announced its elimination.

The most famous Poets football player was a so-so back-up who was good at motivation:

Future President Richard Nixon; he’d turned down Harvard to stay local and help his sick father run his store.

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