Tale of the Tape: Wake vs SU

[K Otto XLIV]

Welcome to this week’s Tale of the Tape where the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons take on the Syracuse University Orange. Let’s get started.



Born on date
Wake: 1834 vs SU: 1879
Otto’s Edge: Wake… the school was originally named the Wake Forest Manual Labor Institute because students and staff were required to spend half of each day doing manual labor on the plantation. Kind of like today’s football players not getting paid for doing work.

Edumacation
Wake: 27th vs SU: 58th
Otto’s Edge: Wake… I am sure that kids try to graduate early to get out of that manual labor.

Maybe the student’s dislike of labor led to the name of…

Mascot
Wake: the Demon Deacon vs SU: Otto the Orange
Otto’s Edge: SU… Otto is warm and fuzzy

You get the opposite feeling from…

The E at the end of Grob
Wake: -e vs SU: eeeeee!
Otto’s Edge: Wake… Grobe brought them to new heights while GRob made people jump from heights

Sticking with football history…

1st year of football
Wake: 1888 vs SU: 1889
Otto’s Edge: Push… basically the same thing

What isn’t the same…

All time Ws
Wake: 432 vs SU: 706
Otto’s Edge: SU… by a big margin

Head to Head
Wake: 1 Win vs SU: 3 Wins
Otto’s Edge: SU… who has won the last 3 games

Bowls
Wake: 6-4 vs SU: 15-9-1
Otto’s Edge: SU… beating Wake is key to getting to our 16th W

National Champs
Wake: 0 vs SU: 1
Otto’s Edge: SU… like Wake would have one

Surprisingly they do have...

Conference Titles
Wake: 2 vs SU: 4
Ottos’ Edge: SU… how did that happen?

Conference
Wake: ACC vs SU: ACC
Otto’s Edge: Push… wait Wake is in the ACC?

Let the hate flow through you
Wake: UNC, NC State, Duke vs SU: what’s a rival?
Otto’s Edge: Wake… not fair that they have 3 and we have none. They have played their Tobacco Road rivals:

UNC 106 times (but not yearly anymore)
NC State 106 times
Duke 94 times

Another Carolina rivalry…

Let’s put the women and children to bed and go looking for dinner
Wake: Carolina BBQ vs SU: Dino BBQ
Otto’s Edge: SU… better question is Lexington or Eastern?

That difference is in location, as in...

GPS
Wake: Winston-Salem vs SU: Syracuse
Otto’s Edge: SU… Winston was named after a revolutionary war hero. When the town got married to Salem it decided to use a hyphenated name.

While we are on battle fields...

No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around
Wake: BB&T Field vs SU: Dome
Otto’s Edge: SU… they only fit 31500 which makes the Dome look gigantic

They don’t need a lot of seats because of their...

Students
Wake: 4800 vs SU: 15000
Otto’s Edge: SU… they are the smallest P5 school

Students wear the…

School Colors
Wake: Old Gold and Black vs SU: Orange
Otto’s Edge: SU… due to an orange out

On the subject of colorful…

TV Father
Wake: Carroll O’Connor vs SU: Jerry Stiller
Otto’s Edge: Wake... my dad would want to keep it all in the family. Although my mom would want the King to chose the man from Queens.

All in the Family was known for the show starting with a song which brings us to...

This is my fight song
Wake: O Here’s to Wake Forest vs SU: Down the Field
Otto’s Edge: SU… that sounds like a drinking toast

Someone famous for a drink…

Golf
Wake: Arnold Palmer, Darren Clarke, Webb Simpson, Curtis Strange, Lanny Wadkins
SU: Boeheim former coach
Otto’s Edge: Wake… we would not win 10 -in holes

Boeheim was more success at basketball…

NBA Jam
Wake: Muggsy Bogues vs SU: Derrick Coleman
Otto’s Edge: SU… He’s on Fire!

Which came from…

Controversial Basketball Announcer
Wake: Billy Packer vs SU: Marv Albert
Otto’s Edge: SU… I always hated Packer glad he is gone

Because now we have better sounding...

Final Fours
Wake: One vs SU: Five
Otto’s Edge: SU… Packer was on their 1962 FF team

While we are on the subject of a finale…

Sopranos connection
Wake: David Chase vs SU: our team lost in the newspaper
Otto’s Edge: Wake… well he created the show

When will he make a movie? Which brings us to...

Football movie
Wake: Brian’s Song about Brian Piccolo vs SU: The Express
Otto’s Edge: Push… both were sad stories

Staying with football...

Football Coach
Wake: Clawson vs SU: Shafer
Otto’s Edge: Push… no one wins when you hire a MAC coach

More with coaches...

Head Coach Alumnus
Wake: John Mackovic vs SU: HCRE
Otto’s Edge: Wake… he also coached at Wake briefly

While both of those guys played football they were not the school’s...

Best Player
Wake: Ricky Proehl vs SU: Jim Brown
Otto’s Edge: SU… I think

Best QB
Wake: Norm Snead vs SU: McNabb
Otto’s Edge: SU… Snead was a 4x Pro Bowler and is the last QB to win a game with a passing rating of 0.0

McNabb also played basketball…

Multisport Guy
Wake: Rusty LaRue vs SU: Vic Hanson
Otto’s Edge: Wake… he made the Bulls great

Speaking of bull, as in BS…

Politics
Wake: Jesse Helms vs SU: Joe Biden
Otto’s Edge: SU… VP beats Senator No?

Another important position in society is…

Doctor
Wake: Dr Jerry Punch vs SU: TGD
Otto’s Edge: Wake… punch became a doc there

TGD loved attention which is the opposite of…

BBall Player
Wake: Tim Duncan vs SU: Melo
Otto’s Edge: Wake… he deserves more attention

Sticking with Duncan…

Donut preference
Wake: Krispy Kreme HQ in W-S vs SU: Dunkin
Otto’s Edge: SU… America runs on Dunkin

Also HQ’d in Winston-Salem...

Industry
Wake: RJ Reynolds vs SU: Carrier
Otto’s Edge: Wake… well Carrier did move to Carolina

Cigarettes can be addicting just like fantasy sports…

Guy you want on your fantasy team
Wake: Michael Campanaro vs SU: Ryan Nassib
Otto’s Edge: Wake… sadly we don’t have anyone to really choose

Footballer
Wake: Michael Parkhurst vs SU: Alex Bono
Otto’s Edge: SU… rather have him in a “keeper” league

And finally the category of the year...

Sports Family
Wake: Chris and Cliff Paul vs SU: Scoop and Dion
Otto’s Edge: Wake… their fake family has two guys looking to make the assist while we only have one



And there you have it folks. SU will beat Wake 20-14. Remember the numbers never lie and stats are for winners. Until next time!

 

[ImperialOrange]

As long as Jim Brown is mentioned we will always win at least one column vs any team.

Sidenote, when conversing with my UM friend buddy about team history they have us beat in most catagories. The trump card is always Jim Brown who's onthe field greatness cannot be argued. My other go to is the late, great John Mackey as in "yeah your guy was pretty good but if he was that great he'd have an award named after him like Mackey". Fun times and hope we soon get some new names to add to that list.

 

[orangefog]

As long as Jim Brown is mentioned we will always win at least one column vs any team.

Sidenote, when conversing with my UM friend buddy about team history they have us beat in most catagories. The trump card is always Jim Brown who's onthe field greatness cannot be argued. My other go to is the late, great John Mackey as in "yeah your guy was pretty good but if he was that great he'd have an award named after him like Mackey". Fun times and hope we soon get some new names to add to that list.

Assuming UM means Michigan, all he has to say is, "Our IPF has brick..." and then just walk away.

 

[orangenauburn]

Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza for the win

King of Queens was just a late paycheck for him

 

[orangefog]

Jerry Stiller as Frank Costanza for the win

King of Queens was just a late paycheck for him

Wow Archie Bunker vs Frank Constanza? That is a push in my book, but what an epic battle.

 

[ImperialOrange]

Assuming UM means Michigan, all he has to say is, "Our IPF has brick..." and then just walk away.

He doesn't even have to go there. UM has a stout tradition for sure that beats ours in most every category thus I simply come back to the 2 that I can win.

 

[Jimmy F]

Fun considering it is ridiculously biased based on personal preference. 1 out of 100 people would consider any kind of Yank BBQ better than Carolina. Colors really? Carrier Dome lol.

 

[orange79]

Fun considering it is ridiculously biased based on personal preference. 1 out of 100 people would consider any kind of Yank BBQ better than Carolina. Colors really? Carrier Dome lol.

Someone obviously hasn't been around here too long...

 

[zjscuse]

 

[HtownOrange]

Fun considering it is ridiculously biased based on personal preference. 1 out of 100 people would consider any kind of Yank BBQ better than Carolina. Colors really? Carrier Dome lol.

The thread is a fun thread with our heavily Orange biases. King Otto could manage to find a way to have our Orange beating the Yankees and we don't field a baseball team. This thread is not meant to be taken seriously while poking fun at the mouthpieces that really stretch to pretend they understand both teams when they may have spent 10 minutes looking at basic stats regarding each team before coming up with their "in depth analysis". Kick back, relax and enjoy the ride.

P.S. On the BBQ issue, you are most certainly correct to note that NY is a Johnny come lately to the food genre; however, give us some credit, our BBQers have sampled everything and brought the best of each world to NY, try to find that in Carolina, Memphis, KC, Texas, et al.