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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (55068)	1/5/2006 12:37:12 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 57110

Remember, I'm in SoCal!!! Bastige! Yes. But question is, are you USC grad?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (55068)	1/6/2006 7:37:20 AM
From: Lost1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

Are USC fans dense or just bad hosts? Thursday, January 05, 2006 PASADENA, Calif. — When the University of Southern California got its butt fried in the Rose Bowl on Wednesday night, it had it coming. I've never had so much trouble getting free food out of people at a tailgate party as I had from these USC fans. Usually, when you go to a game at the University of Texas and you show up looking hungry, somebody shoves a sausage wrap in your mouth even if they've never seen you before. Not here. I practically had to get on the ground and roll around like a dog to get these people to give me a fajita. No kidding. These USC guys had cooked up some really good-looking meat, and they had it all cut up on a cutting board. "Nice-lookin' steak," I told them. No reaction. "Really nice lookin' steak," I said. Still, no reaction. Finally, when I asked, "What kind of cheese is that?" these cheapskates broke down and gave me a fajita. But one of them told me to keep my hands off the shrimp because they were running out. That's hospitality? It's not that all of these Trojan fans are a bunch of losers. I really like the way Jason Turner, 29, and his buddy, Robert Christopher Fisher, 37, show up for USC games. In the parking lot Wednesday morning, they put on full USC football uniforms. Turner comes to games as USC running back Reggie Bush, and Fisher, who also goes by Safari Earth, comes as quarterback Matt Leinart. You know how these Hollywood types are: always playing a role. "Leinart's here, and Bush is here," Safari Earth said. "We're ready. If they need us, we're ready to go." Imagine a guy letting people call him Safari Earth. If you called yourself Safari Earth in Texas, somebody would drag you behind a horse. My friend and UT football fan Scott Wilson had a question about attending a tailgate party in a football helmet, though. "Isn't it hard to drink a beer with a face guard on?" he asked Safari Earth. Actually, it can be done. As we stood there watching, Safari Earth drank a Corona longneck without taking off his helmet. And he wasn't even cheating by using a straw. Not that UT didn't have its own eclectic types running around loose. One bunch of Orange Bloods had put together a large doll that made fun of Leinart. The objet d'art, said Murphy Parks of Austin, who helped put it together, was named "The Princess Leinart." Seems these friends got together, bought a Princess Leia (of "Star Wars" fame) piñata, then wrote nasty stuff under the doll's dress. "We dressed her up and wrote on her to make her Princess Leinart," said Kirk Haney, one of the guys involved with the project. "I'm just project-managing the situation to make sure we're not breaking any laws," Parks said. Then there was the two-man stick-horse race being filmed outside the stadium for a TV show featuring actor Tom Arnold. I wish I knew the name of the show so I could be sure to miss it when it comes on. One of the stick-horse racers had on a USC shirt and a funny-looking wrestling mask, and the other guy had on a UT shirt and a plastic Bevo steer head hat. After the race, Arnold interviewed these two bozos. "What is your school motto?" Arnold asked the guy in the USC shirt. "Our chicks are hotter," he answered. So at least USC isn't one of those snooty intellectual schools, even though they play football sorta like Harvard. jkelso@statesman.com; 445-3606