Editor’s Note: Each Week During the Football Season Stand-Up Comedian and Co-Host of the Punch Drunk Sports Podcast, Jayson Thibault, picks games against the flips of a John F. Kennedy Half-Dollar. 

The Contestants

Jayson Thibault is a stand-up comedian and original member of the Punch Drunk Sports Podcast along with Air Shaffir and Sam Tripoli.  On Nov. 27, Thibault will be recording his new comedy album, “Covidiot” during his performance at The Market Lounge & Comedy Club in Valparaiso, Indiana.  FTB is without question THE No. 1 Penn State football site in Northwest Indiana, so far all our readers in the area (Brian) be sure to check him out! 

The JFK Half-Dollar Coin was first minted in 1964. This particular 50-cent piece we’re flipping has been in the cup holder of a 2015 Toyota Camry for some time and is a tad sticky. If it picks winners, we’re not going to wash it. If it doesn’t, we’re spending it.   

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Fox Analyst/Depressed Postgame Papa John’s Eater meme Urban Meyer recently said the annual mark-your-calendar extravaganza provides 10-point advantage for the good guys. To find out if that’s even close to true, we went all ‘Beautiful Mind’ and crunched some numbers.

Look, the Whiteout is incredible. 

To borrow a line from the Southern University Human Jukebox Marching Band, the Whiteout is “often imitated, never duplicated.” Blackouts, Maizeouts, Maroonouts…sorry, they just don’t hit the same. 

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We Dug Through the Vault and Dusted Off Some 2016 Western Michigan Tape Looking for More Clues To What Kirk Ciarrocca Might Bring to Penn State. Are You Ready for Some #MACtion?!?

Before we begin, let’s explain what the heck is going on in the GIF below the headline of this blog, because surely you’re startled, confused and probably a little uncomfortable.

The Year is 2013: Dr. Jason Seaver’s real-life son gives us the Song of the Summer, The Oxford Dictionary dubs ‘Selfie’ the Word of Year, and Penn State has last names on the back of its jerseys. Oh, and in tiny Kalamazoo, Michigan, an upstart coaching staff takes the Harlem Shake craze to the next level.

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 Soooo…What The Heck Is It?!?!? A Deep Dive Into The New Offensive Coordinator’s Trends and Tendencies During Minnesota’s Magical 2019 Season Provides Some Answers But Also More Questions

We are Pavlov’s Dog.

And Kirk Ciarrocca is our bell.

Thanks to the transformative hire of Joe Moorhead – and the sometimes-maddening Running-Up-The-Down-Escalator feel of internally-promoted Ricky Rahne’s tenure — we’ve been conditioned to salivate when an outsider is brought in to call plays.

Go ahead, waste a bit of your workday, and shuffle through the comment sections and message board ramblings when news broke of Ciarrocca’s hire as Penn State offensive coordinator in mid-December. Try and find a negative, or even room-temperature reaction. You can’t.

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Considering this is the third Welcome Letter we’ve penned since July, let’s hurry up and publish this one before there’s a grub infestation of the Beaver Stadium grass, leaving the field unsuitable for play, thus cancelling half the season. 

(Shudders) OK, only positive thoughts from here on.  

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