I thought she might watch the Quarterback because he has more money than the Dimeback or the Nickelback. However, she may just want to make an Offensive Tackle on Kip and then play Wide Receiver. Of course, it may depend on whether or not Kip is also a Long Snapper.
“Remember how there were these completely rotten human beings, who worked so hard to ruin everything for everyone else, you couldn’t figure out why no one had killed them?” (Gahan Wilson, Nuts.)
In our school annual for the year I graduated, there was a photo of a basketball player, taken from the hoop, looking straight down into his arm pit while doing a layup. The caption of the photo was “Right Guard.”
This strip is kind of a historical marker for me: Last time I shared a base with B-52s was 1964, last time I was in a football stadium……..Ohio State, 1962.
The question IS WHO will cheer for Kip the loudest, Stef or Tiffany?
And IF Kip gets hurt and Tiffany is the first on scene to “comfort” him, will there be any REPERCUSSIONS from Stef when the Kipster goes into PERCUSSION Protocol? ;-)
It was just a matter of time before we saw some football-related stuff in this strip. IIRC, I may have even mentioned the possibility of a serious injury to the ladies’ favorite QB. Maybe it’s Stef who gets hurt…and that’s a double entendre in itself; sideline accident/collision vs breakup-induced heartbreak. Was the past “caring for Tiff in the Gulag” arc a foreshadowing? Will Stef continue to exhibit the lamentable modern young female behavior of entitlement and bolt in the face of adversity, should Kip be injured? Will Ox be a factor in all of this? Being this close to Halloween, I hereby posit that we are likely to see a somber strip to end the month: An ambulance will be seen leaving the stadium, and a character will remark about the scariness of the moment. The identities of those two roles have yet to be revealed. I like the idea of Tiff caring for Kip while Stef goes back home for the holidays. There’s enough fuel in this arc to get us to Valentine’s Day, with the usual Lu-Bern dialogue/DeGroot household antics fillers on Sundays, and perhaps a week or two away from this emerging football arc.
Nice to see that Tiffany genuinely loves football, unlike Stef who seems to use it just to get noticed. Maybe I’m wrong, but since Ox doesn’t seem to play in the team I think it’s likely that he and Tiffany will end up sitting next to each other. It would be nice to know why Ox isn’t in the team, Kip said he was very good at it.
Tif, the boys may like watching the “tight ends” of the cheerleaders, and, in the stands. But yours, while not being as tight as it might have been in high school, is still tight enough to attract attention.
87% of the females watch the cheerleaders? I’m curious to know where Stef found this stat? And if it’s true, why would 87% of the girls at the games want to watch other girls jump around in cheerleading outfits? Besides, I thought the girls enjoyed watching the football players run around in those form fitting uniforms….or especially when the linemen took their positions just before the snap of the football. . . .(Thanks for the correction, Lord Hearteater!)
Amazing how Tiff seems so rational and grown up compared to Steph the Ditz. It’s time for the college kids to graduate, get married and move this strip ahead. Big article in NYT or WaPost yesterday on how dangerous cheerleading is today.
Some comedian (Robin Williams?) once said that “Football combines the two worst things about American life: Violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
I gotta say, it looks like beb01 got it right: this week is just gag-a-day with no actual impact on anything. Combine that with last week’s arc, and it’s obvious that the strip is just treading water at this point. The last things that even looked like they had any import were Piro’s depression (and Luann’s absolutely idiotic idea on how to handle it) and Mrs. Horner collapsing, but how long ago were those? Just week after week of plate-spinning with no overarching story. How many times must we be reminded that Stef is awful (yet her roommates keep choosing to live with her) or that Tiff has a crush on Kip that isn’t going anywhere?
What will happen at the game?? Will there be an injury? Will Kip turn to Tiffany? I can’t stand the suspense! Oh wait…..I forgot….nothing’s going to happen, it’s Luann.
This strip has quite an interest in football. Two of the main characters are/were cheerleaders and three of the male characters are/were football players. Considering how small the cast is that’s quite a large proportion of characters focused on a sport (or cheering a sport).
Have they always had a mascot? Maybe the so-called U in the squashed heart logo is a mule shoe. But they shouldn’t have made it look like a squashed heart. It’s silly.
I was watching my friends/classmates on the field. The cheerleaders were only girls and they were bundled-up in thick sweaters and heavier material slacks. I’d rather watch the guys in their tight uniforms and amazing abilities. School was small enough you knew everybody or at least their family.
I think it would have been funny if something had happened to prevent Stefi from getting to the game, but instead of losing, as she was sure the team would if she weren’t there to cheer them on, the team scored a major victory. And the cheer squad got on quite nicely without the (air)head cheerleader around.
And later, when Stefi is apologizing to Kip for missing the game, he says: “Oh. You weren’t there? I hadn’t noticed.” :D :P
At a community college game, please ! Saw a game @ AT&T in late 2022, greatest show on earth ! If you’ve only ever watched that on TV you’ve got no idea of the intensity and volume level of the non stop entertainment that goes on during a game! Thunderstruck Indeed !
A web search says that Kiama, New South Wales, is a coastal country town 120 kilometres south of Sydney in the Illawarra. That’s quite a far flung conference Mooney is in.
I remember an old National Lampoon cover, MANY years back. It had artwork of a line of cheerleaders jumping in the air. They wore sweaters with a big T on them. One of the girls’ skirt had flipped up, and her panties had a big A on the rear. SO true…
lvlax about 1 month ago
Well, I’m sure 99% of the guys are watching the cute cheerleaders. Who wants to watch a Moony Jacka$$? ;)
So is Tiff now going to the game because of what Kip confessed to her?
mfought about 1 month ago
we know who Taylor watches
beb01 about 1 month ago
Tiffany made a funny!
Ruth Brown about 1 month ago
So, Steff is implying that Dez plays for the other team?
reedkomicks Premium Member about 1 month ago
Tiffany looks good in black.
Wilkins068 about 1 month ago
Dez’s shirt’s pretty cool. Looks like a B – 52 bomber with a circle around it. Long live th Buff!
Enter.Name.Here about 1 month ago
That’s because 87% of the females at games don’t truly care for football and are only their to participate with their boyfriends or husbands.
That’s probably not true but it was the only line I could think of. ;-)
snsurone76 about 1 month ago
It’s the other 13% who have the real school spirit!
snsurone76 about 1 month ago
We never did find out who was hogging the bathroom.
yoda1234 about 1 month ago
So, we’re not going to find out why the bathroom door was locked yesterday??
howtheduck about 1 month ago
I thought she might watch the Quarterback because he has more money than the Dimeback or the Nickelback. However, she may just want to make an Offensive Tackle on Kip and then play Wide Receiver. Of course, it may depend on whether or not Kip is also a Long Snapper.
Uncle Kenny about 1 month ago
The Mules are noted for their kicking prowess.
David Wright Premium Member about 1 month ago
I thought that to be a cheerleader, you had to have a tight “end”.
sbenton7684 about 1 month ago
Nice come-back Tiff…lol…
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 1 month ago
And the big ones.
illuminare about 1 month ago
is steff insinuating that most females at football games are bi or lesbian?
Johnny Q Premium Member about 1 month ago
Whose tight ends?
jrankin1959 about 1 month ago
“Remember how there were these completely rotten human beings, who worked so hard to ruin everything for everyone else, you couldn’t figure out why no one had killed them?” (Gahan Wilson, Nuts.)
blunebottle about 1 month ago
Honesty from Tiff.
blunebottle about 1 month ago
In our school annual for the year I graduated, there was a photo of a basketball player, taken from the hoop, looking straight down into his arm pit while doing a layup. The caption of the photo was “Right Guard.”
kenhense about 1 month ago
See – Tiff gets in a zinger now and then. Interesting how she is dressed. Is she running for President?
Rhetorical_Question about 1 month ago
Wow! Moony Mules ! Sounds like an agricultural school?
nightflight about 1 month ago
This strip is kind of a historical marker for me: Last time I shared a base with B-52s was 1964, last time I was in a football stadium……..Ohio State, 1962.
OneTime59 about 1 month ago
Boasts the ever-delusional, self-absorbed Stef.
californiamonty about 1 month ago
Ah, that explains the player’s skin-tight knickerbockers.
jmworacle about 1 month ago
Is Stef dropping hints of her true inclinations?
French Persons Premium Member about 1 month ago
So who was in the bathroom?
Count Olaf Premium Member about 1 month ago
And wide receivers… but you knew that was coming,..
tremaine53 about 1 month ago
I feel like I just walked into ‘Innuendos R Us’.
Frank Salem Premium Member about 1 month ago
Was that an inuendo?
The Wolf In Your Midst about 1 month ago
Ah, football. Where you watch large men in tight pants wrestle each other to the ground in a grassy field, because it’s manly.
robinafox about 1 month ago
I’ve never been to a football game, but surely the game and the cheerleader routines go on at different times. Why wouldn’t everyone watch both?
TSR1964 about 1 month ago
Who was in the bathroom? Yesterday, she was banging on the door and shouting thinking tiff was inside. What gives?
Wizard of Ahz-no relation about 1 month ago
so again we see steph’s self absorption, sure that SHE is the one everyone watches.
Bernedoodle about 1 month ago
As a former male cheerleader in college, holding up tight ends was one of the perks. Backfield in motion.
Mordock999 Premium Member about 1 month ago
So the stage is now set.
The question IS WHO will cheer for Kip the loudest, Stef or Tiffany?
And IF Kip gets hurt and Tiffany is the first on scene to “comfort” him, will there be any REPERCUSSIONS from Stef when the Kipster goes into PERCUSSION Protocol? ;-)
Ignatz Premium Member about 1 month ago
Stef, even Dez is better-looking than you are.
ctolson about 1 month ago
Yeah, why would a female want to watch some other chick shake her boobs and butt.? They’d rather check out the jockstrap package bulge.
Lord Hearteater about 1 month ago
It was just a matter of time before we saw some football-related stuff in this strip. IIRC, I may have even mentioned the possibility of a serious injury to the ladies’ favorite QB. Maybe it’s Stef who gets hurt…and that’s a double entendre in itself; sideline accident/collision vs breakup-induced heartbreak. Was the past “caring for Tiff in the Gulag” arc a foreshadowing? Will Stef continue to exhibit the lamentable modern young female behavior of entitlement and bolt in the face of adversity, should Kip be injured? Will Ox be a factor in all of this? Being this close to Halloween, I hereby posit that we are likely to see a somber strip to end the month: An ambulance will be seen leaving the stadium, and a character will remark about the scariness of the moment. The identities of those two roles have yet to be revealed. I like the idea of Tiff caring for Kip while Stef goes back home for the holidays. There’s enough fuel in this arc to get us to Valentine’s Day, with the usual Lu-Bern dialogue/DeGroot household antics fillers on Sundays, and perhaps a week or two away from this emerging football arc.
Namrepus about 1 month ago
Watching cheerleaders and looking at tight ends aren’t mutually exclusive.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 1 month ago
Nice to see that Tiffany genuinely loves football, unlike Stef who seems to use it just to get noticed. Maybe I’m wrong, but since Ox doesn’t seem to play in the team I think it’s likely that he and Tiffany will end up sitting next to each other. It would be nice to know why Ox isn’t in the team, Kip said he was very good at it.
WilliamVollmer about 1 month ago
Tif, the boys may like watching the “tight ends” of the cheerleaders, and, in the stands. But yours, while not being as tight as it might have been in high school, is still tight enough to attract attention.
Ellis97 about 1 month ago
I only watch sports games to see all the accidents and foul ups. That, and the halftime shows.
Joe1962 about 1 month ago
That not a true statement.
prrdh about 1 month ago
The tight ends of the tight ends, wide receivers, offensive linemen…
rshive about 1 month ago
It’s the cheerleaders who watch the tight ends.
BJDucer about 1 month ago
87% of the females watch the cheerleaders? I’m curious to know where Stef found this stat? And if it’s true, why would 87% of the girls at the games want to watch other girls jump around in cheerleading outfits? Besides, I thought the girls enjoyed watching the football players run around in those form fitting uniforms….or especially when the linemen took their positions just before the snap of the football. . . .(Thanks for the correction, Lord Hearteater!)
mindjob about 1 month ago
So who was in the bathroom?
Alfred about 1 month ago
The Mooney University MU symbol on Stef’s top looks like a wide open mouth. Appropriate for the person who’s wearing it.
Frank Farkel about 1 month ago
Amazing how Tiff seems so rational and grown up compared to Steph the Ditz. It’s time for the college kids to graduate, get married and move this strip ahead. Big article in NYT or WaPost yesterday on how dangerous cheerleading is today.
grocks about 1 month ago
Pantsuit and scarf for a football game? Tif looks more like she’s dressed for a job interview.
Wubbie about 1 month ago
Ox should be playing.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 1 month ago
Right on…….
Doug K about 1 month ago
I thought football games were “venues” for marching bands.
Crash7 about 1 month ago
Same thing.
Claymore Premium Member about 1 month ago
Some comedian (Robin Williams?) once said that “Football combines the two worst things about American life: Violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
rickmac1937 Premium Member about 1 month ago
Good one Tiff
patrickab7 about 1 month ago
HA HA! Double entendre! -Phil Ken Sebben
BJShipley1 about 1 month ago
I gotta say, it looks like beb01 got it right: this week is just gag-a-day with no actual impact on anything. Combine that with last week’s arc, and it’s obvious that the strip is just treading water at this point. The last things that even looked like they had any import were Piro’s depression (and Luann’s absolutely idiotic idea on how to handle it) and Mrs. Horner collapsing, but how long ago were those? Just week after week of plate-spinning with no overarching story. How many times must we be reminded that Stef is awful (yet her roommates keep choosing to live with her) or that Tiff has a crush on Kip that isn’t going anywhere?
comic reader 22 about 1 month ago
What will happen at the game?? Will there be an injury? Will Kip turn to Tiffany? I can’t stand the suspense! Oh wait…..I forgot….nothing’s going to happen, it’s Luann.
sheashea about 1 month ago
Which tight ends, the cheerleaders or the football players?
Miles VanDelay about 1 month ago
Stephanie appears to be wearing a bathrobe to the game. Maybe she ended one too many Arabian Layouts on her head.
kauri44 about 1 month ago
This strip has quite an interest in football. Two of the main characters are/were cheerleaders and three of the male characters are/were football players. Considering how small the cast is that’s quite a large proportion of characters focused on a sport (or cheering a sport).
FassEddie about 1 month ago
I had to look twice. I thought Steph had a zero on her sweater that followed the curve of her cleavage!
tutibug5 about 1 month ago
easter egg – trav & tay
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
Steff will tear her ACL trying to do an impossible stunt, and SHE’LL end up moving in with Les and Gunther
The Quiet One about 1 month ago
Get over yourself Stef.
Caldonia about 1 month ago
Have they always had a mascot? Maybe the so-called U in the squashed heart logo is a mule shoe. But they shouldn’t have made it look like a squashed heart. It’s silly.
Rose Madder Premium Member about 1 month ago
I was watching my friends/classmates on the field. The cheerleaders were only girls and they were bundled-up in thick sweaters and heavier material slacks. I’d rather watch the guys in their tight uniforms and amazing abilities. School was small enough you knew everybody or at least their family.
sperry532 about 1 month ago
So who, if anyone, was in the bathroom?
zbart778. about 1 month ago
Taylor does
NiteKat about 1 month ago
I think it would have been funny if something had happened to prevent Stefi from getting to the game, but instead of losing, as she was sure the team would if she weren’t there to cheer them on, the team scored a major victory. And the cheer squad got on quite nicely without the (air)head cheerleader around.
And later, when Stefi is apologizing to Kip for missing the game, he says: “Oh. You weren’t there? I hadn’t noticed.” :D :P
lnrokr55 about 1 month ago
At a community college game, please ! Saw a game @ AT&T in late 2022, greatest show on earth ! If you’ve only ever watched that on TV you’ve got no idea of the intensity and volume level of the non stop entertainment that goes on during a game! Thunderstruck Indeed !
billdaviswords about 1 month ago
So we never see Stef’s reaction to Tiff not being the bathroom?! Just as well… the fewer panels… or strips… or ARCS with Stef, the better.
Susan123 about 1 month ago
Yeah, I wouldn’t be watching the cheerleaders unless they were the male cheerleaders. Tight end. YES!
AndrewSihler about 1 month ago
Football uniforms are pretty flattering, with those big shoulder pads and the tight butts.
Miles VanDelay about 1 month ago
A web search says that Kiama, New South Wales, is a coastal country town 120 kilometres south of Sydney in the Illawarra. That’s quite a far flung conference Mooney is in.
CuylerDae about 1 month ago
I watch the tight ends!
rionmorrison69 about 1 month ago
The Az Cardinal’s cheerleaders are the ONLY reason to attend their games-sigh!
JRobinson Premium Member about 1 month ago
I remember an old National Lampoon cover, MANY years back. It had artwork of a line of cheerleaders jumping in the air. They wore sweaters with a big T on them. One of the girls’ skirt had flipped up, and her panties had a big A on the rear. SO true…