The UNC-Duke game is tonight. That’s cute. It’s a great rivalry, no doubt, but it’s certainly not the first. Or the best.

THAT’S RIGHT I SAID IT!!! Deal with it.

The Original College Basketball Rivalry started in 1901 (116 years ago!) between Purdue University and Indiana University. From the very first game, tensions ran high. So much so that after Purdue won the very first meeting between the two teams, a second game that was supposed to be played a few weeks later was canceled – “declared off, and the season ended at Indiana.”

So yeah, Duke and UNC packs a punch, it’s big time because of the shiny lights, top players, best coaches, highest ratings, and so on and so forth. But in terms of rivalry – what it means to the fans, to the schools, to the players – Purdue vs. IU is unmatched. We’re talking Rocky vs. Drago. Allies vs. Axis. Cain vs. Abel. Jacob vs. Esau. Tupac vs. Biggie. Crypts vs. Bloods. Sharks vs. Jets. DiCaprio vs. Damon (like in The Departed…great movie, by the way), Danger Zone vs. Dante’s Peak, Team FOD vs Team DZ. Callahan vs. TOC.

It’s the realest.

So, to honor the occasion, YHC wondered what to do. I thought about IU. I thought about Purdue. What is the first thing I think of when I think of these two schools? Purdue, well that’s easy. BOILERS! For IU? Something evil, something sinister, something dangerous and cruel…a BEAST!

WARM UP

Run to the Bank for Good mornings, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Arm Circles, etc.

THE THANG – The B.O.I.L.E.R. Beast

Run to the parking deck and circle up for instruction. We’re doing a beast, stopping at each end of the garage while winding up (or down) the garage.

B – Burpees

O – Off-set Merkins (6 each hand)

I – Imperial Walkers (left/right is one rep)

L – Lunges (left/right is one rep)

E – E2K…a really lame ab exercise (stands for elbow to knee)

R – Rosalitas

Short on time (that flew by), brisk jog back to the church

MARY

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STANDING COT

  • Count-o-rama: 20 Studs
  • Name-o-rama: Still 20 – 5 RESPECTs, 14 meh, 1 hate
  • Announcements – The Mule sign-up is live! The Pre-blast will give you a good idea of what to expect
  • Prayers: none spoken

YHC took us out.

NMS

  • WWCD
  • I’m so proud of my boy Shutty. He woke up at 5:31 and decided he’d missed the workout.
  • He laid in bed another 2 minutes, then slowly realized he would likely only miss a couple minutes of the warm up. He shot outta bed, grabbed some clothes, and sped to B.O.
  • This EXACT thing has happened to me. Multiple times. Variations of this has also happened.
  • Like when I wake up at 5:45, lay in bed for 2 minutes, then think, “eff it, I’m going. It’s my thing, they’ll understand”.
  • They always understand.
  • That doesn’t mean the mumble-chatter isn’t brutal. Just that they understand why F3 is important to me. And that’s very cool.
  • Pet Sounds, an IU grad, wore a collared shirt to B.O. this morning.
  • It had the years of IU’s 5 National Championships embroidered on the sleeve.
  • It’s a strong move. One that most Hoosiers will throw at Boilermakers.
  • I promptly reminded him that I was barely 7 months old the last time they won the National Championship.
  • He mercifully let it die there (Purdue has never won a NCAA Tournament – though we did win the National Championship a couple times waaaaay before the NCAA was formed. So that’s something, I guess.)
  • For the record, a Hoosier is a redneck. A Boilermaker is an engineer, or someone who used to build the actual trains back in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
  • Technically, anyone born in Indiana is a considered a Hoosier.
  • It’s endearing, sorta.
  • Smokey BEASTED through this morning. Such a cool thing to see. I ran him ragged. He told me not to wait up for him and I said, “sorry bro, you’re doing this”.
  • And you know what? He did it.
  • much RESPECT!
  • We hit about 2.5 miles today, with some nice manufactured elevation change, and plenty of other exercises thrown in.
  • I also noticed some of our other brothers are getting faster and stronger. I’m telling you, I think this F3 thing is pretty good for your health.
  • Yo, we need to get some more exercises in the Exicon that start with “E”. E2K just isn’t gunna cut it.
  • Catch the Purdue @ IU game tonight on ESPN at 7:00PM.
  • You might wanna watch it on mute though. Dickie V has the call.
  • **Unpopular opinion alert: Dickie V is washed. Time to hang it up.
  • Boiler Up! Hammer Down!

Hoosier by birth, Boilermaker by the grace of God

Callahan

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