𝗕𝗬𝗨 𝗨𝗡𝗪𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗬 "𝗣𝗢𝗞𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗥" 𝗔𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧'𝗦 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗦

 

Well, monkey see, monkey do!

As if another 2023 college football team would be dumb enough to, as they say; poke the bear after Colorado State gave Coach Prime's Colorado Buffaloes added incentive to spank their bottoms, the BYU Cougars have done the same just before their game tonight against Arkansas.

We predict no teams will poke the bear in 2024.

Brigham Young University players lined up in front of a map of the United States filled with blank state outlines and were asked to pick out the state of Arkansas on the map.

Most could not.  A couple picked Mississippi or Missouri.

6'5" punter Ryan Rehkow did find Arkansas, but on the third try, while another player said "who cares?"

Freshman Isaiah Glasker joined in the fun with "Is it a state?"

What's ironic is that Arkansas has figuratively been "on the map" of college football in a much more prominent way than BYU and for much, much longer.

President Nixon at the "Game of the Century," in Fayetteville, AR

Most football fans in the U.S. of a "certain age" vividly remember the classic tussles between Darrell Royal's Texas and Frank Broyle's Arkansas, including the game declared by then President Richard Nixon "The Game of the Century" in '69.

Now, to be fair to BYU, a school affiliated with the Mormon religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints did donate 40,000 lbs of food stuffs to a Fayetteville, Arkansas food band sponsored by the St. James Missionary Baptist Church.

Perusing a BYU message board last week looking for info on the BYU-Arkansas game, I got quite an unexpected education, learning about a Mormon practice obviously prevalent on the BYU campus.

It's called "soaking," a loophole many Mormons apparently use to get around their church's "no sex before marriage" rule.

Essentially, a man inserts his penis into a woman's vagina, but doesn't thrust, remaining still.

Others may jump on the bed, a practice known as "jump humping," designed to create motion.

Even at the age of 75, I'm still learning.

Let's see if teams learn to stop poking the bear.

Gametime is 6:30 PM C.T.