Quick Links

We’ve got a couple of quick links for you this morning to help get ready for the college football weekend.

First, Penn State has a problem with poo, and I’m not talking about Anthony Morelli’s passing under pressure. The Centre Daily Times has reported “The handful of comfort stations in the parking lots are, quite literally, full and overflowing with human waste creating untold potential health and safety problems for PSU football patrons and, ultimately, the general public.” Apparently folks from State College are more fanciful than people where I live- I had no idea Port-o-Potties are really called “comfort stations”. If that’s the case, what’s a chili dog, a “dis-comforter”? Discuss amongst yourselves.

The article pointed out that the State College Health Department estimated that 100,000 people over a 10-hour period would require 957 portable toilets. The university said that there are 378 portable toilets around the stadium with plans to have 100 more available this weekend for the Ohio State game. Draw from that whatever conclusions you wish about Ohio State. Either way, that’s a shortage of 479 “comfort stations”. I don’t usually side with governmental estimates, but when it comes to poo, I’m going with the Health Department.

Second link for you today is Rizzo Sports Weekly blog of the “Toughest Places to Play a Night Game in College Football”. #1 is LSU’s Tiger Stadium, # 2 Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, # 3 Rutgers’ Stadium, # 4 Virginia Tech’s Lane Stadium, # 5 Camp Randall at Wisconsin. Lucky for college football fans, Lane Stadium will be featured tonight and Beaver Stadium Saturday night. Enjoy.