That's a good number.
What's most impressive for TigerBlog is that Princeton had seven second-team selections, with three first-team picks and four honorable mention. That's the kind of team this was. It was a team with depth and balance and spirit, and it could be any number of players each week who could step up and be the one TB nominated for Ivy Player of the Week.
He was happy to see Jeremiah Tyler was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection. That's the kind of season he had. It's possible that Tyler will be one of two finalists for the Bushnell Cup when that is announced next week.
If he had to pick one place to quibble with the selections, he would have liked to have seen running Collin Eaddy be a first-team pick. Eaddy ran for 799 yards and led the Ivy League with 12 touchdowns and was named second team.
On the other hand, a tweet from Princeton running backs coach Jamel Mutunga about Eaddy did elicit a comment from a Princeton football alum, a certain Dean Cain:
Lead the #IvyLeague
in scoring. Second team....... not to shabby. Back to work!! @presidenteaddy
#SAVAGES
pic.twitter.com/a8XqjBCyQv
—
Jamel Mutunga (@CoachMutunga) November
26, 2019
The other person whom TB would have loved to see get some recognition was Ryan Quigley, a senior running back who ran for 481 yards and six touchdowns. TB was hoping Quigley would have been honorable mention at least.
This was TB's first season back as the football contact, and he loved it. The team was fun to watch, and the players and coaches were great to work with. He got to see this group from a much different perspective, and his main takeaway was that they just loved to play, and loved to play together.
Maybe that's why he wanted to see Quigley rewarded, because he played with such obvious joy.
And that's it for today.
As you know, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. If you've been reading TB since the beginning, you might remember that he says the same thing each Thanksgiving, so he'll again share that with you:
As holidays go, you can't do much better than Thanksgiving. It's got it all, really: a huge meal (with turkey, no less), football, family, history (dates back to 1621), start of a four-day weekend for most people, leftovers. It's even a secular holiday, so every American can dive right in, regardless of religion.
The Lions and the Cowboys, obviously, always play at home on Thanksgiving, and the NFL has now added a third game (maybe a little too much). Beyond watching football, how many out there have played their own Thanksgiving football games, all of which, by the way, are named "the Turkey Bowl?"
The holiday may lag behind Christmas in terms of great Hollywood movies, and "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" is no match for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" or "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown." Still, there are some great moments in movies and TV shows around Thanksgiving.
Rocky and Adrian had their first date on Thanksgiving – "To you it's Thanksgiving; to me it's Thursday," Rocky said romantically – as did Meadow and Jackie Jr. on "The Sopranos" (it didn't quite work out as well as it did for Rocky and Adrian). "Everybody Loves Raymond" had two pretty good Thanksgiving episodes, the one where Marie makes a low-fat dinner and the one where Debra makes fish instead of turkey. As an aside, TigerBlog's Aunt Regina once made Cornish game hens instead of turkey, so he knows how they all felt. And of course, there was the Thanksgiving episode of "Cheers," which has the big food fight at the end.
The Woody Allen movie "Hannah and Her Sisters" starts and ends on two different Thanksgivings. "Miracle on 34th Street" is a Christmas movie, but it does start with the Thanksgiving parade in New York City.
And of course, there is the best of all Thanksgiving movies: "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." It'll make you laugh a lot and cry a little, and it ends on Thanksgiving.
TB wishes everyone a great holiday and hopes that maybe you take a few minutes to think about what you really are thankful for these days.
Happy Thanksgiving, Tigers.
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