Introducing Your Week 9 Opponent: Boston College Eagles
With less than two one month until kickoff, it’s time to roll through the upcoming FSU schedule with little-known and untrue facts about the Noles’ opponents in 2007. Enjoy.
Boston College was founded in 1863 as the 59th educational institute begat in the greater Boston metropolitan area. It was the 57th founded by the famous school financier Kashminster Brothers, also responsible for Harvard, Cambridge College and Roxbury Community College, among others. Boston College was the Jesuit template in the brothers search for the perfect university, a task they would not complete until founding another 17 schools in Boston, the last being the Berklee School of Music.
Attendees of Boston College are commonly called Heightsman, or Heightstonians (but never Heightswomen, unless in a derogatory nature by Tufts undergrads), due mainly to the location of the campus perched high atop the 10,743 ft. peak known as Chestnut Hill. The mount was named after the kernel-firing artillery guns placed thereupon, and used to repel invading non-Catholic students from St. John’s Seminary, Emerson College and MIT. The guns were removed from service following the 1904 treaty of Saint Columbkille’s, which provided a parochial feeder school as a non-invasion means of enrollment into Boston College.
Heightsman at the Chestnut Guns trained on the Bunker Hill Community College campus, circa 1897.
The illustrious Boston College football program began on November 23, 1984. After being pummeled by La Universidad Miami Del Santo Castro for 3 straight quarters in the Orange Bowl, the University of Boston football team called in famous Heighstmen and decathletes Doug Flutie and Gerard Phelan. After sacrificing a virgin Vinny Testaverde to the pagan god Mary, Flutie and Phelan went on to rout the highly-ranked Hurricanes, bringing eternal football glory (and the ability to ruin perfect seasons for Notre Dame) to Boston College. This is now known as The Flutie Effect.
Vincent “The Virgin” Testaverde, immortalized after his ritual sacrifice at the hands of Doug Flutie.
Long time Boston College coach Tom O’Brien, who came to the Eagle football program after stints at Saint Ignatius, Wheelock College and the Franklin Institute of Boston, recently left for the head coaching position at juggernaut NC State. He was replaced by Jags, the animal mascot for the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL football team. Jags reportedly prefers to cooler climate of Chestnut Hill, saying, “Do you have any idea how fucking hot it is in this idiotic jungle cat suit? Like, a hundred fucking degrees or something, dude! I’m serious, I’m sweating my damn nards of in this thing.”
Jags, on his way north from Jacksonville.
Previous Opponents: Clemson, UAB, Colorado, Alabama, NC State, Wake Forest, Miami, Duke.
lol! Good stuff.
GO BC :)
You forget that Boston College was a long-time host to both Cardinal O’Connell and Cardinal Cushing, two prelates whose Boston accent disqualified them in papal elections of the past century.
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