Trash-talking has not been a big part of the Stanford athletic experience for, oh, about 100 years now. Of course, that's largely because the best option is usually That's all right, that's OK, you're gonna work for us someday.
But it's the 21st century, and new Coach Jim Harbaugh made national headlines a few times last year by popping off, and now players are following his lead. The Cardinal visits Notre Dame on Saturday. Right tackle Chris Marinelli talked his way onto the Irish message boards with comments published Thursday on CardinalReport.com.
"We'll be ready, we've seen a lot of tape and it is a good challenge for us," said Marinelli, a 6-foot-7, 297-pound fourth-year junior. "But on the same token it's going to go bad for them at one point and we are going to gash the (expletive) out of them, I promise you that. So keep bringing it, keep bringing it. They have one sack all year on 200 blitzes."
Had enough? Marinelli didn't.
- On the hallowed ground where he played sparingly as a freshman in 2006: "I hate it, playing up there. The field, excuse my language, the field sucks. The stadium sucks. I think the area sucks."
- On growing up in the Boston area: "I grew up with a bunch of Irish and Italian Catholic people back home. And all the Irish Catholic people, all they talk about is Notre Dame this, Notre Dame that. And they've never even been there, ya know. So I hate those guys, I hate that school."
- And the easiest one to clip and save: "We are going out there to mash them up and that's all there is to it."
Thanks to John Ryan
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