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116 thoughts on “Beat Navy”

  1. You damn straight it helps.

    LGOP’s – The world’s most lethal fighting force.

    Go Army – Beat Navy!!

  5. Go Navy, BEAT ARMY!

    Years ago, I was the CO of a Navy activity in Bad Aibling, Germany.

    One day, just before the Army-Navy game, the Army base commander happened to mention that the commander of INSCOM, Keith Alexander, was going to be having an all officer call.

    “Oh, sir, can I come to that?”

    Well, of course, I broke out my “BEAT ARMY” sweatshirt in preparation for the event.

    The day arrived. When I walked into the all hands club, I first met the base commander and CSM waiting for the general. I thought the colonel was going to bust an artery he was laughing so hard. The CSM wasn’t far behind.

    I traipsed into the room where all the Army officers were waiting, chest puffed out, strutting around to make sure everyone saw it.

    You could have heard a pin drop. Not…one…reaction.

    It was great.

    Anyway, the General Alexander showed up and he reacted with his usual good humor. He even had us take a picture together after the all officer call.

    Not one Army officer, other than the colonel and the general, ever said a word to me about it.

    The sad ending to this story was that Army beat Navy that year. In fact, it’s the last time that happened. The general even inscribed the photo thanking me for the win. Grrr.

    I haven’t worn that sweatshirt since.

    1. Time to get out of the cedar chest! Go ahead. Just for old times. What’s an old shirt gonna do, anyway? Go for it!

    2. Great story, Stang! I had a good laugh.

      Quick story….an old platoon Sgt. (SFC) I had in 67-68 a few thousand miles from here once commented about the Navy and “them damn little anchors they wear!” He continued, “I heard one time that they use them to pick “whore dvors” (hor d’oeuvres) when they go to all them fancy parties in those damn white suits.”

      A little narrow-minded for sure but a helluva good soldier.

      1. “I heard one time that they use them to pick “whore dvors” (hor d’oeuvres) when they go to all them fancy parties in those damn white suits.”

        Hmmm. I wonder who told him?

        😉

      3. By the way, I tried to get the same base commander to make a bet with me.

        If Army won, I would “escort” a mule down the main drag.

        If Navy won, he would do the same, but with a goat.

        He didn’t bite. Too bad, he would have won. No matter, it still would have been great.

  6. HA HA HA, 14 Strait years.

    Navy Midshipmen

    First meeting
    November 29, 1890

    Latest meeting
    December 10, 2016

    Next meeting
    TBA

    Statistics

    Meetings total
    118

    All-time record
    Navy leads 60–49–7

    Longest win streak
    Navy, 14 (2002–present)

    Current win streak
    Navy, 14 (2002–present)

  7. “You don’t want to make excuses,” Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo said Tuesday, “but it’s not the most ideal situation.” Oh yes it is. Navy (9-3) played last week, whacked by Temple. It ended Navy’s hopes of going to a major bowl and it cost them a quarterback and a slot back, neither of whom will play in tomorrow’s game. (Rubs hands together and laughs like mad scientist.) Navy’s starting QB has a slew of experience. He has watched every game’s start from the bench, both this year and last. Despite this unfortunate turn of events (bwahahahahaha), Navy remains favored to beat Army for the 15th (ouch) straight time. Army is no slouch this year. Its defense is ranked 14th in all of college football. Weather for Baltimore tomorrow is clear, blue skies and around 40 degrees. Kickoff is 3 p.m. GO ARMY. BEAT NAVY.

      1. First, I’m sorry that you have DirecTV. I switched to DISH after 10 years of DirecTV and never regretted it. Second, I checked DirecTV programming for you. It’s on Channel 47 WIYE at 3. I thought the game was in Baltimore. It’s in Landover, MD–the Redskin’s home, not the Ravens.

        1. 2/17 I gave up on sat. TV years ago. It got so bad that if a storm was 5 miles away my reception would go out.
          Maybe they have better equipment now.
          GO ARMY!!!!

          1. Dammit. I hate DirecTV. I knew damn well the game is to be played in Baltimore, but when I looked the game up on DireTV’s website, it listed Landsown as the site of the game. Wrong! It is Baltimore, the Ravens’ stadium.

  12. Even though my son is a serving Infantry officer(O-2 promotable) with 1-5 CAV, my Dad was a Y2c in the PTO in WWII. We always rooted for Navy. Soo… GO NAVY BEAT ARMY!!

    1. That sucks. It’s two against one, every year. Army vs. Navy/Marines. I suppose the Coast Guard is on Navy’s side, too. That’s three against one. We’ll have to toss in the other wet people, I suppose, the Merchant Marines. Now it’s four against one. The problem I see is that GO ARMY! BEAT NAVY/MARINES/COAST GUARD/MERCHANT MARINES doesn’t sound quite right. But there it is.

          1. USAF can go undefeated, be ranked in the top 5, go to the national championship game, win big…and the zoomers-to-be still won’t matter when it comes to this game.

  14. Very cool video, but Navy’s “May the Fourteenth Be With You” last year was pretty damn funny.

    https://youtu.be/svU2317XiPw

    Got a cousin in the Navy, two more in the Army. It’s really a question of which of them I feel like fucking with. I think I’m gonna root for Navy this year. Either way, as long as they make a real game of it, I’m happy.

  16. “I think I’m gonna root for Navy this year.”

    Think again, pal. I will give you until game time (3pm EST) tomorrow to reconsider. If you stay pat on Navy, I cannot be held responsible for the consequences.

  17. The refreshments menu will include the following:

    Pie: apple, pumpkin, pecan, and French Silk with the little chocolate scroll thingies
    Popcorn – hot, fresh from the popper, butter and your choice of popcorn salt flavors
    Make your own sandwiches, but stay out of my fridge: cold cuts, cheeses of various sorts, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, other condiments, sandwich bread, ciabatta bread and other bakery products
    Beverages: hot cider w/lemon or cinnamon, hot tea, hot coffee, hot cocoa
    If you want beer, bring your own and leave it outside in the cold
    Apples, oranges, cheeses of various sorts, crackers, summer sausage, chex mix, corn and potato chips

    If you’re nice and pick up after yourselves, I might include pizzas. No promises.

  18. With a father, brother, and son who are or have been in the Army, and another brother and a nephew who are or have been in the Navy, it’s not a contest.

    GO ARMY, sink navy.

  19. At some point all streaks must end, this might be the best chance Army has to get it done. Don’t squander good fortune and take it to ’em…

      2. Good Idea! “Representing the USS Gabby Giffords, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Harvey Milk are Navy’s starting backfield….”

        1. I was thinking of Lexington, Yorktown, Ranger, Enterprise, Farragut, Nimitz, Langley, Leyte, Coral Sea, Missouri, Arizona, Texas, Washington, West Virgnia, and my personal favorite, Old Ironsides – USS Constitution.

          Real ships with REAL names.

  21. Before there were World Wars I and II and before there was a Spanish-American War, there was an Army/Navy football game. Months before that first game, Wyoming and Idaho became states, and Utah, New Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona were years away from joining them. One can guess that there were Civil War Veterans in attendance for that first contest. They would have been in their early 50s at the time, 29 November 1890. The game was played on The Plain. Half of Navy’s travel expense were paid by the 272 man Corps of Cadets. Each cadet contributed .52 cents, believe it or not.

    It’s the Army/Navy game. There is nothing remotely likely it. GO ARMY. BEAT NAVY.

    1. That’s because at rock bottom it’s all one team, the finest military on the planet!

    2. Big Time Like to these two comments. John Feinstein at Sports Illustrated wrote a great book about the Army Navy game titled “A Civil War”. Well written and I would recommend it, not that that counts for much.

      For the record; while I know a few Military Academy graduates I am NOT a graduate of that institution, and since my work is associated with things nuclear I also know a whole bunch of Naval Academy grads. 🙂 My wife cringes when I start telling ring knocker jokes.

      1. My son, who is a ROTC grad(Rutgers) says that the ringknockers in his command take the game “waaaay too serious”. The EM’s not so much.

        1. A high school friend of mine graduated from the USMA and he’d tell you he wasn’t a ringknocker, he always said those who did knock their rings around drove him nuts.

  22. Freaking GO ARMY!!!!

    There are three football games that I really care about:

    Army-Navy, Grizzlies v Bobcats, and Cougars v Huskies. So far this year Im 0 for 2. Hopefully the Corps o’ Cadets will make at least make it one win!

    My boss’ boss’ is a graduate of Canoe U. I have had to buy that SOB a lunch waaaaay too many times of the last few years; my small revenge is bringing him deep fried calamari. For a naval academy graduate and nuclear submariner he does have somewhat of a sense of humor.

    Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂 Finally some snow here in the eastern Washington desert.

    2. “So far this year Im 0 for 2. Hopefully the Corps o’ Cadets will make at least make it one win!”

      I sincerely hope you can deal with the disappointment of 0 and 3.

      *grin*

  27. With all due respect, now that I am hunkered down in my home bunker, with enough supplies to last till the next game, I can safely say that if Army wins the only possible explanation is that Navy felt the need to give Army a break.

    “Go Navy!”, I shout as I close and dog down the hatch.

  30. I’m army on a navy base. Some of my green brothers sneaked to the roof of the galley and unfurled a nice big “go army, beat navy” banner on the side. Port side, starboard side, I don’t know the difference. One of the sides.

    1. Excellent! A pic would be nice but I get that it could prove troublesome, what with this place being a designated hate site or something.

      1. Heh, yeah. I’m on my phone in the officers club. I’m sure Jonn could send my email address your way and I’ll send it out.

        1. No, no. You’re good. Congratulations. Enjoy it! An update on how the AD navy is taking it would be greatly appreciated. Anyone crying? Burning cookies? What?

  32. Navy is supposed to win. The guys in Vegas have them on top and, as pointed out a couple of times here, Navy has won the last 14 meetings. Navy is 9-3 and has been good teams this year. I guess you could say that it’s in the bag for Navy. Maybe I won’t watch. I don’t want to see Army beaten bloody by those Navy brutes. So, yeah, it will take a lot of luck for Army just to be competitive. No way Army wins. None. (And I wrote all of that with a straight face.)

  33. God, please don’t let Navy play those “To get to you, they have to go through us” commercials during the game. News flash. They went through them and got to us already. Or does Navy mean, agsin?

  34. And the fat guy fumbles! Army recovers, drives down field and bulls into the endzone. Pt after good. ARMY 7 Navy 0.

  35. After an exchange of turnovers, Army forces Navy to punt. The punter shanks it. Army drives down the half field it was gifted and bulls into the endzone. Pt after good.
    ARMY 14 Navy 0.

    1. At the half, ARMY 14 Navy 0.

      Great Spirit commercials! Best so far is cadets in hospital playing midshipman. Patient says he blacked out, was at Normandy looking for Ryan. Visitor points out that “Saving Private Ryan” is an Army movie and asks, “Did you have a vision of us baking cookies on a ship?” Patient says, “No, why?” and visitor says, “cause if this was combat, that’s what we’d be doing.”

      Army had damn well better win this game after that one.

  38. Just heard Mabus being interviewed at halftime on the radio. He was talking about the players from Navy and said, “they have to be great athletes, they have to be great students, they have to be good at military (pause) stuff…”

    Way to bring it home Ray.

    Go Army, beat Navy!

    1. He also starred in a Navy Sp[irit commercial playing Battleship with a baby. It so sucked. Figures he’d want to be in the commercial. He looks like he might have been around for the first Army/Navy game…in 1890. Plus, the Navy says, in the commercial it is not surprising that Navy beats Army for the 15th straight year. Now, the Navy had better win after that!

      Another turnover but, this time, the QB for Navy was not allowed to try to pass down field. The fat guy picked up a 1st down and the next thing you know, QB is in the end zone. He still very much sucks. ARMY 14 Navy 7.

  39. ARMY recovers fumble and it’s ruled navy ball b/c some candyass in a booth somewhere said the ARMY player’s toe was out of bounds when he recovered it. ONLY way to tell would be to have a camera along the sideline. Was there one? No! ARMY stopped navy but the middies got a FG out of it.

    ARMY 14 Navy 10.

    2. That reminds me of one of my favorite college football cheers, “LET’S LYNCH THE REF…”.

  40. Army sucks. Two or three missed tackles on the same play and they give NAVY the lead.Gaaaaaaaaaaadddamit.

    1. Some guy came running on the field carrying a banner after a play and the CBS annnouncers (either Gary or Vern) made a comment that the guy was a “streaker”. Looked to me the guy had clothes on, so was a bit thrown off when he was identified as a “Streaker”. ?

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    2. The important thing, as far as I’m concerned, is that it was a pretty good game. Besides, Navy had it for 14 years.

      1. Me? Heck, no. Just hap-hap-happy. I have been watching Army/Navy since forever and the last decade + have been very, very painful to be a fan of the Black Knights.

  46. Congratulations to ARMY fans everywhere! To the navy: best of luck next year. And, hey, remember, it’s just a game. And as with every game, someone has to lose. God this feels good!

    1. Booo. Crappy comment. Gotta be a Navy fan.

      Don’t make me have to turn the LGOPs loose on you.

      Or even worse the Francis video.

      1. I messed up before I hit “post”.

        I am Green Thumb.

        I was Army.

        And #72 ain’t gonna be passin’ tape anytime soon….

  49. So, things have calmed down a little, but Damn, it’s been a good six weeks.

    First da Cubs, then Trump, and now the Army win.

    My Spec4 son calls and says Way to Go, Dad. His brother, the retired CSCS(SS) calls to whine and snivel a little. I tell him, tough titties, take two salt pills and drive on, so start preheating the oven as I’m expecting about six dozen chocolate chip cookies by the end of next week.

    And so: (with all due respect to Katrina and the Waves)

    I’m walking on sunshine (Wow)
    I’m walking on sunshine (Wow)
    I’m walking on sunshine (Wow)

    And don’t it feel good!!

    1. Maybe Gen. Mattis should sit him down and “explain” some things to ‘The Donald’. Knife hand optional.

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