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Rein on Bull’s Parade

Displaying a surprising amount of awareness of sports movie tropes, in today’s strip TB casts the generally unpleasant Linda in the “classic” Wet Blanket Girlfriend role.

She plays the role well too, waiting through Bull’s truly unrealistic expectations (national attention, ESPN) to play her passive-aggressive “rein in the chariot” line only after he spouts something entirely realistic. New helmets and uniforms arrive with new coaches at all but the most tradition-rich college football programs. Really though, Bull’s found an escape pod out of Westview, don’t screw this up for him Linda.

What you mean “we” kemosabe?

While more or less the same conversation as yesterday’s strip (including the DUI AD’s awkward use of “we”), in today’s strip we learn two things.

1. Bull went to college (surprising)

and

2. Bull’s college friends hated him enough that he suspects they are pranking him (not surprising)

As a bonus, in panel 2 Bull does a Ziggy impression that rivals that of the blobfish.

Batiuk to back champions?

In today’s strip, Texas Lieutenant Governor-elect Dan Patrick reveals the real reason he’s graced Westview High with his presence… he wants to offer Bull the head football coaching position at Dallas Ugandan Intellectuals because their first choice did not accept the job.

More importantly, today we learn that DUI’s mascot is the “Fighting Consensus Builders” which may or may not be intended as a joke. It’s hard to tell.
Really, if you are going to name a fictional university so awkwardly just to shoehorn it into a backronym for DUI, at least complete the joke by making their mascot the “Offenders”.

These aren’t the maladroits you’re looking for

In today’s strip, we learn that Dominican University of Ignatius’ athletic director isn’t here to offer Boomhauer a football scholarship (because that’s not what athletic directors do). Bull makes up for his embarrassingly idiotic assumption be being a complete schmuck to not-Durwood.

DUI was the admiral at Manila Bay

So, in today’s strip, Bull believes that Dayton Unitarian Institute is interested in his never-before-named-or-shown Senior quarterback. Naturally, this explains why yesterday Bull was hoping there wouldn’t be any kids around when the DUI AD paid him a visit.

In any event, Bull apparently only coaches sports for the free clothing.

And to all our veteran readers, and those veterans who don’t read this blog too, thank you for your service and have a wonderful Veterans Day.