Tomorrow at 1:00 pm the Sobos play Freeport. You can listen to the game via the internet by going to this page. The radio station WEKZ broadcasts over the net which is pretty neat. I saw this mentioned over at the Sobo Football website.

Well the South Beloit Sobos beat Freeport Aquin 34-16. The Sobos now head into the semifinals. The Sobos play Kewanee Wethersfield (11-1) this coming saturday.

Sobo support turns contagious and SoBos smother Aquin are two Beloit Daily News articles about my beloved South Beloit Sobos. That first one is particularly good for a daily news story. Here is a good bit from it:

With each post-season win, the bandwagon gains an extra car and the crowd grows larger and more boisterous. This patronage is glued on more than just the SoBo’s school bulletin board. And it goes farther than the efforts of any high school booster club.

It’s kind of neat that even people in on the wisconsin side are rallying for the Sobos. The next game is at the city park. So with the home field advantage the Sobos should plow through Wethersfield.

Here is a memo I have personally been expecting. I expected it because I’m paranoid. Because I can add one and two together and get three. Because I have recently trained two other people to do the Audit. Ladies and gentlemen the paper trail begins! I have taken the liberty of posting it right below in it’s all caps greatness:

FRONT DESK & AUDITORS

THERE WILL BE NO SMOKING BEHIND
THE FRONT DESK OR IN THE BACK
ROOM. THIS IS THE POLICY OF THIS
HOTEL AND EVERY EMPLOYEE NEEDS
TO ABIDE BY THIS POLICY. ANYONE
FOUND SMOKING BY ANY OF THE
MANAGER’S WILL BE WRITTEN UP!!

The only part missing is the THANK YOU and the managers name. I just love the all cap memos. These are the same people who do this shit in chat and e-mails. It’s annoying. Now I don’t want anyone to get the idea I’m making fun of the memo writer. I’m not. It’s just the subject of the memo I’m making fun of.

Everyone smokes back there. I’m the only one who gives the management the respect of doing it openly. Because I give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume they are intelligent people. I figure theses people are smart enough to know that I smoke. And that I don’t have to insult their intelligence by hiding the ashtray right before they come in for work.

So at least I don’t have to worry about insulting their collective intelligence anymore. Anyone who does this based on what a guest said and then they do not ask me about it has no intelligence. Of course the memo writer could say that they are just following orders. But then that excuse didn’t work for the Nazi’s and it doesn’t work here either.

I have a few Sobo links for you today. One is from the 19th and the other is from yesterdays edition of the Beloit Daily News. As always these are all courtesy of the great Sobo Football website.

First is Pride of SoBos sweeps Stateline is from the editorial section and it is another example of how the stateline area is behind the Sobos.

Second we have Band of Brothers which describes that bond of brotherhood one gets either in the military or high school football. Here is a good bit from this one:

The family tree has grown throughout the years in South Beloit. With just more than half the team being seniors. And after going through numerous good times and bad times each season, the SoBos are finally in full bloom.

Finally congratulations are in order to quarterback Jered Shipley who made the Illinois High School Football Coaches Association’s All State list. And not to sound like a lineman (I was) but congrats have to also go to the linemen (and the whole team) for this and everything they have done.

Porrasturvat – Stair Dismount is a little game I found that is a lot of fun. Lots of fun in a sick and demented kind of way. The below screenshots are all you need to see for a description of the game.

As you can see it’s a little different. But it is a detailed simulation of knocking some poor bastard down some stairs. You can download it from them or me if you can’t access their site. The 1.98mb file is located down below on my server.

[drain file 27 show]

Fired-up South Beloiters expect big crowd Saturday is the extremely long headline for a Beloit Daily News story that appeared in the paper and the web yesterday. This is another story telling about how the stateline area has caught Sobo fever. Here is a bit that I wanted to point out (there is a point) so I can comment on something after it:

SoBo fever has spread from the players and parents to the entire community. Business owners worked earlier in the week to hang “Go SoBos!” signs in windows and on business signs. Even the South Beloit City Council is getting into the spirit.

The council, which includes four South Beloit High School graduates, approved giving $5,000 to the school district to help pay for items needed for Saturday’s game. The money comes from the Hotel Tax Fund, which is set aside to help promote tourism in South Beloit.

Notice how they mention how “Business owners worked earlier in the week to hang “Go SoBos!” signs in windows and on business signs”? The hotel tax fund is mentioned as a source of money for the game saturday. Where am I going with this?

Well the hotel I work at is the source of this hotel tax fund. They even have a member of the Sobo Football team (Alan Klemett (Defensive Line Stats: Tackles: Total: 16 Solo: 9 Assist: 7) Go Alan!) working for them. Has the hotel put up any Go Sobos on the great sign? Not as of the time of this post. Do the management plan to put up something supporting the Sobos? Note a chance in hell.

But here is what you Sobo fans need to do. Complain to that hotel. I work for the shithole so I can’t tell you the brand and name. Not outright, I can be sneaky about it. And seeing how as of late I have been getting a lot of hits regarding Sobos as of late it is time to test my power.

Go to this page for hotel info such as address and phone numbers. Call them today (friday) and tell them it’s terrible they are not supporting the Sobos. Let’s change the way the world is. Even if the change is a small and possibly insignificant one.