While we’ve spent October following the Life of Les (he’s appeared in all but one strip this month), the Fighting Scapegoats have somehow made it to the championship game. Is Coach Bushka ready to take his team to the top? Of course not. Making it to the championship just means extra “game prep” for Bull. It’s the worst! See, this being the Funkiverse, every silver lining has a cloud; like when Hollywood wants to make a movie out of your book. In fact, maybe Les’ negativity has begun to spread to his fellow Westview faculty…let’s call it “Les-fluenza.”
Son of Stuck Funky 
Look at Bull in panel six. That’s a FW character living the dream all right. The lesson here of course is the same as it ever is: why even bother?
And special thanks to TB for including Dickface in this strip for no reason whatsoever. Look at him, standing there all smug and annoying, looking down his nose at his inferior and far less intelligent peers. God I hate him so much.
Championship game??? Westview? I would assume that’d be pretty big news in town, but unfortunately WE spent the last few weeks hearing all about Les’ new f*cking book. Thanks again, BatBrain.
Yeah, Bull, Bill Walsh was such a freakin’ idiot scripting the first 25 plays, Glad God didn’t let that BS get by Him. BatHack is truly the dumbest writer going.
Bull in the pre-season: “My football players are terrible! I hate my life!”
Bull in the post-season: “We’re somehow in the championship, which means more work for me! I hate my life!”
Championship game, eh? Wow; that hurry-up offense Bull pilfered from DUI really did the trick!
Got to love how Batiuk skips right over all the victories on the road to a championship and shifts gears just in time to show the misery before a fall.
And seriously, if this is a coach’s attitude going into a championship game, he should just forfeit the game and immediately resign.
Lesfluenza–perfect name!
Look, Batiuk, while I sincerely appreciate how you’ve been trying to tone Les down from ‘smug Mary Sue’ to ‘generic straight man’ this week, it’s not going to work if you keep plastering that rage-inducing smirk on his puss.
Great. A championship season missed so we can watch Smirkzilla beam with glee over being a douchebag while not standing there staring at us in horror when confronted with situations where he can’t BS or browbeat people into letting him have his own way.
Ignoring the whole “where the hell did this come from?” questions because people have already addressed that, I’ll just point out the absurdity of Batiuk regularly portraying Bull as a befuddled, idiot coach when he’s somehow been able to take two teams in two different sports, one female and one male, to their respective championship games. In any other place, Bull would be the toast of the town, certainly more significant and celebrated than the douche who wrote a book about his dead wife.
As an aside, referring back to my post from this past week, notice how Les finds time in his busy schedule to go wander over to Bull’s office, interrupting the coach’s serious work in order to have a useless conversation with him.
What coach would be depressed about going to the championship game? Especially when said coach have one of the worst coaching records in Ohio history? These “teachers” and their contempt for their students is enraging.
So one win is all it takes to get to the Championship game in Westview? Somebody tell the mascot to suit up!
Maybe so many parents from other schools kept their kids out of football that only Westview and Big Walnut Tech are the only teams left in the league. IIRC, the last time this happened (because of budget concerns), BWT had an ineligible player, and Westview won the title, which apparently got retconned away when Les and/or Funky came up with a trick play for Westview to win its “first” title one or two time jumps later.
Sorry… had to read todays strip twice to realize Bull did say “championship”.
WTF?
Jim: [consoling Bart] What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny”? “Make yourself at home”? “Marry my daughter”? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new Westview. You know… morons.
Bull’s head must be adrift from its moorings. It was Bull that spent a good week or two doing nothing but stone cold disrespecting the entire football team, cracking stupid joke after stupid joke at the team’s collective expense. In Bull’s fevered eyes, they were the lowest of the low, incompetent boobs that might be literally slaughtered en masse on the gridiron. Now they somehow made the championship game?!? This is too much. He’s so addled that he thinks he needs some supersonic game plan for the hallowed championship tilt. Time after time, I have heard coaches say, when faced with an important game that “We’ll play our game. It got us here and should be good enough for victory today”. Actually, today probably just completes the circle for Battic – the team is worthless, the coach is beyond worthless therefore men’s high school athletics is equally worthless. As for the championship game, since there are no fruits of Les’ magical seed playing, so my guess is: Morse Science 138, Westview -16.