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.
lvlax 1 day 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 1 day ago
we know who Taylor watches
beb01 1 day ago
Tiffany made a funny!
Ruth Brown 1 day ago
So, Steff is implying that Dez plays for the other team?
reedkomicks Premium Member 1 day ago
Tiffany looks good in black.
Wilkins068 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
It’s the other 13% who have the real school spirit!
snsurone76 1 day ago
We never did find out who was hogging the bathroom.
yoda1234 1 day ago
So, we’re not going to find out why the bathroom door was locked yesterday??
howtheduck 1 day 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 1 day ago
The Mules are noted for their kicking prowess.
David Wright Premium Member 1 day ago
I thought that to be a cheerleader, you had to have a tight “end”.
sbenton7684 1 day ago
Nice come-back Tiff…lol…
David Huie Green DecisionsMatterGoodAndBad 1 day ago
And the big ones.
illuminare 1 day ago
is steff insinuating that most females at football games are bi or lesbian?
Johnny Q Premium Member 1 day ago
Whose tight ends?
jrankin1959 1 day 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 1 day ago
Honesty from Tiff.
blunebottle 1 day 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 1 day ago
See – Tiff gets in a zinger now and then. Interesting how she is dressed. Is she running for President?
Rhetorical_Question 1 day ago
Wow! Moony Mules ! Sounds like an agricultural school?
nightflight 1 day 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 1 day ago
Boasts the ever-delusional, self-absorbed Stef.
californiamonty 1 day ago
Ah, that explains the player’s skin-tight knickerbockers.
jmworacle 1 day ago
Is Stef dropping hints of her true inclinations?
French Persons Premium Member 1 day ago
So who was in the bathroom?
Count Olaf Premium Member 1 day ago
And wide receivers… but you knew that was coming,..
tremaine53 1 day ago
I feel like I just walked into ‘Innuendos R Us’.
Frank Salem Premium Member 1 day ago
Was that an inuendo?
The Wolf In Your Midst 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
so again we see steph’s self absorption, sure that SHE is the one everyone watches.
Bernedoodle 1 day ago
As a former male cheerleader in college, holding up tight ends was one of the perks. Backfield in motion.
Mordock999 Premium Member 1 day 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 1 day ago
Stef, even Dez is better-looking than you are.
ctolson 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Watching cheerleaders and looking at tight ends aren’t mutually exclusive.
Aladar30 Premium Member 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
I only watch sports games to see all the accidents and foul ups. That, and the halftime shows.
Joe1962 1 day ago
That not a true statement.
prrdh 1 day ago
The tight ends of the tight ends, wide receivers, offensive linemen…
rshive 1 day ago
It’s the cheerleaders who watch the tight ends.
BJDucer 1 day 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 1 day ago
So who was in the bathroom?
Alfred 1 day 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 Premium Member 1 day 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 1 day ago
Pantsuit and scarf for a football game? Tif looks more like she’s dressed for a job interview.
Wubbie 1 day ago
Ox should be playing.
MuddyUSA Premium Member 1 day ago
Right on…….
Doug K 1 day ago
I thought football games were “venues” for marching bands.
Crash7 1 day ago
Same thing.
Claymore Premium Member 1 day 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 1 day ago
Good one Tiff
patrickab7 1 day ago
HA HA! Double entendre! -Phil Ken Sebben
BJShipley1 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Which tight ends, the cheerleaders or the football players?
Miles VanDelay 1 day ago
Stephanie appears to be wearing a bathrobe to the game. Maybe she ended one too many Arabian Layouts on her head.
kauri44 1 day 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 1 day ago
I had to look twice. I thought Steph had a zero on her sweater that followed the curve of her cleavage!
tutibug5 1 day ago
easter egg – trav & tay
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 1 day 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 24 hours ago
Get over yourself Stef.
Caldonia about 24 hours 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 23 hours 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 23 hours ago
So who, if anyone, was in the bathroom?
zbart778. about 23 hours ago
Taylor does
wantcomicsnow2 about 23 hours 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 23 hours 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 22 hours 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 22 hours ago
Yeah, I wouldn’t be watching the cheerleaders unless they were the male cheerleaders. Tight end. YES!
AndrewSihler about 21 hours ago
Football uniforms are pretty flattering, with those big shoulder pads and the tight butts.
Miles VanDelay about 19 hours 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 13 hours ago
I watch the tight ends!
rionmorrison69 37 minutes ago
The Az Cardinal’s cheerleaders are the ONLY reason to attend their games-sigh!