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Here's the latest video from Vinny '03:

Senior Day 2007

Here are some pictures from senior day against Miami. Videos and links to come Sunday:

Tuesday Links

-ESPN has Matt Ryan 6th in their Heisman Watch.
-Ryan is unranked in the CBSSports.com poll.
-Matt is tied for 6th in the nation's longest running weekly Heisman poll.
-Gene Menez of SI has Matty Ice 7th.
-Ryan was named ACC Offensive Back of the Week again.
-Here is the latest video from Vinny '03:

-And here is a good picture from Clemson of John and a special guest:
-Finally, BC winning the ACC CG in football would help but something happened over the weekend that went a long way towards validating the move to the ACC. Boston College, ACC Champions. Congratulations to the Men's Soccer Team, which has also received the #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Florida State Pictures

A Panorama of Alumni (with RFH 4 and RFH 5 on the left):

The students got the "Solid Gold" memo:

RFH2 and RFH6 in one of their many ABC appearances:

Aponavicius watching his 2nd Quarter FG attempt sail wide right:

RFH with Nick, the Heisman Trophy:

BC's offense in the huddle:

Thursday Links

-Check out this video for Thursday made by Vinny '03:

-If you haven't seen his video from the VT game, look here.
-The Sporting News has Matt Ryan as the #2 HT candidate.
-Ryan has gone from being projected as the third QB taken in April to being mentioned as the possible top pick. One of the biggest reasons for the jump according to people who know much more about football than we ever will? His "poor" performance last Thursday.
-The Florida Times-Union does a piece on BC's success with non-promotion.
-B-Rob says that Ryan's teammates want him to win the Heisman [apparently without using the H word]. Are BC's receivers the quickest or biggest or even best in the country? No, of course not. But these guys are not dogs and if Matty Ice is going to walk out of the Nokia Theater with some hardware it will be because of the receivers, not in spite of them.
-AC gets some well-deserved pub from his (and our) state paper.
-USA today still has Matt Ryan out in front.

If it's Sunday...it's Ryan For Heisman? and Weekend Links

-We were a little disappointed with the appearance by Tim Russert on NBC's Notre Dame pre-game show. Well, on this week's Meet The Press, Russert made up for it in spades and earned himself the position of honorary Bandwagon conductor. He mentioned Matt Ryan for the 2nd time this season, but this time he had props. Check out this video at the 48:00 mark. We promise the wait is worth it.
-Dick Weiss has played up the idea that Matt Ryan is the second coming in pieces for Fox Sports and for the NY Daily News.
-Mark Schlabach writes an excellent account of Thursday's game with the story of a crazy (or is it genius?) coach.
-The paper of record calls Matt Ryan a video game quarterback.
-The NY Post says that #12 needs to start working on a possible acceptance speech.
-He may still be down on BC but Stewart Mandel sounds like he wants on the RFH Bandwagon.
-Deadspin likes Ryan's chances but commits 2 pretty inexcusable typos.
-The News & Observer suggests that the ACC might wants to send a fruit basket to Matt Ryan.
-Pete Thamel mentions that the cops at Fenway were celebrating the heroics of Matty Ice.
-Steve Conroy says that Matt Ryan was already a HT candidate but that Thursday night gave him the required signature win.
-A nice piece on Ryan and Jags from someone who has been high on the QB since August.
-The Globe discusses where "Rattler" fits among other classic college football moments.
-CSTV has the HT as a two-horse race but puts the wrong thoroughbred alongside Matt Ryan.

"Never stop fighting 'til the fight is done..." FIXED

Welcome to the Ryan For Heisman Virginia Tech Mega-Post. We still cannot believe what happened. We were at game 7 of the NLCS last year for Endy Chavez's catch and we thought that we would never see anything as dramatic as that in person. It took almost exactly a year, but "Rattler" now reigns supreme. As for the game, people are either talking about how great a win it was or still knocking BC and saying that they played a mediocre game. First of all, people need to stop saying that Virginia Tech dominated for 55 minutes. That is simply not the case. Second, VT's 10 points were all made possible by questionable at best officiating. The TD was the result of an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to Scafe that was almost laughable. He put his finger to his lips and 3rd and long became first and ten at the 11. Then, the TD was clearly not a TD. They may have still scored but they obviously did not on that play. On the FG, the pass interference penalty setting it up was weak at best. Finally, the ESPN cameras did not do the game justice. Lane Stadium was a monsoon for all but 10 minutes, the five minutes around VT's touchdown and the last five minutes. Now the pictures. Click on the images to enlarge.

The Pledge of Allegience:BC warming up: AC, 4 hours before he got a case of the Phelans: Rich Gunnell (Note: these are the only 2 players that we took close-ups of before the game): Pledge, Part II: Monsoon/ESPN's crazy camera: BC won the opening coin toss and elected to give us a heart attack for 58 minutes: Sid Vicious kicks off to start the game: If we go by all 60 minutes, the runaway player of the game:

The fans in VT deserve a break after a long year. We're just glad it didn't come Thursday:

Ryan taking the snap:

BC celebrates:

The final score: Silva and B-Rob celebrate: Silva and Razzie go up high: By the numbers: RFH2:

RFH (wearing 5 layers that weighed 50 pounds by game's end:

A video of Enter Sandman:

For more pictures (and everything else you could possibly ask for), check out Eagle in Atlanta here, here, here and here.

Media Bonanza

On a day when BC is not playing, here are a bunch of links to media. Most of it is ESPN's stuff because they are the only ones who give it away for free:

VIDEO

-The ESPN game highlights.
-The wrap from the ESPN crew. Craig "pin the tail on the AP ballot" James jumps on the bandwagon.
-Lou Holtz and Mark May debate Ryan's HT standing.
-The GameDay crew discusses which fellow HT candidate can step up on Saturday (1:40 mark).

AUDIO

-WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog discuss Matt Ryan with Dick Weiss of the Daily News.
-Mike & Mike talk to Mel Kiper (16:37 mark).
-Kirk Herbstreit talks Matt Ryan with the infamous Shrutebag (1:25 mark, Insider). Cowherd says "he'll hold a clipboard somewhere" and Herbie jumps in and says he will be a stud and that he is the most NFL ready QB in college football.
-Todd Blackledge on The Mike Tirico Show with Tirico and Van Pelt (1:18, Insider).
-Screamin' A chats with Desmond Howard (a HT voter unfortunately) about Matt Ryan (9:35 in).

If you have any other links of note, add them to the comments section.

Bandwagon Wednesday (10/24)

First off, in the future, if my poor copy/paste skills lead to me referring to a fictional day of the week (Wesnesday)for 3 weeks straight, please give me a heads up. Second, part of team RFH will be venturing into the belly of the beast in Blacksburg tomorrow so there will be a maximum of 1 more post from now until Saturday at the earliest. Now, to the business at hand:

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The Bandwagon is so crowded that we needed to expand this week. Hopefully, this won't be the last time. We want that little Clydesdale to get his workout in. Luckily for him, the bye week led to just 2 new riders. Click on the "Bandwagon" label for explanations on why riders were added in previous weeks. Here are the 2 (3?)new guys for the week of October 24th:

1) The Rutgers Scarlet Knight: This one was open to fan vote and the Knight got alomost 50% of the vote, beating out Ray Rice and the holder who threw a TD pass last week against USF. Rutgers beat the Bulls and enabled BC to move into BCS position for tomorrow night's game against Virginia Tech. Now, with a win, BC, and by extension Matty Heisman, have the college football stage all to themselves for few days. The Clydesdale was lonely so the knight brought his horse along too.

2) Chris Fowler of College GameDay: After Erin Andrews held an interview with David Wright in which he said that there is no way that BC wins at Lane Stadium (side note: you would be hard pressed to find a bigger David Wright fan than us but for the next 24-48 hours, he's dead to us), Fowler said that "if there's one QB that can do it, it's Matt Ryan." This may sound like a run-of-the-mill quote but it was pretty important. BC was getting hit hard by Wright and Craig "Pin the tail on the AP ballot" James. Doug Flutie didn't want to sound like an outright homer so he stayed silent. Fowler got the last word and earned his 'Wagoneer's license. CF has also said that if BC wins tomorrow, they will soar up his AP ballot. We have a feeling that he represents the country as a whole.

Finally, Mel Kiper has been gushing over #12 lately and is very close to being named Conductor of the Ryan For Heisman Bandwagon.

Two Bonus Items

Here is the video of Matt Ryan on Jim Rome Is Burning:

And here is a Matty Ice wallpaper that I whipped up:For other wallpapers, look here.