I don’t have to explain how I feel about the history of this rivalry and also needless to say, it is very rough for me to watch that jug head out of town. Looking through the photos, it particularly stung seeing shots with that new section of the jug. I stood inches away when Jil Gordon painted on the score last year. You might call this the dong punch de resistance: Check out the kid holding a program. Inside there is a story this week that I wrote, particularly about the different paint jobs the jug has had over the years leading off with a mention of Jil’s work (including the photo below) on the new section last year. Now that thing is hundreds of miles away and they are doing lord-knows-what to it. Punch. Read on..(1964 team, Arena, Pomp, Mood, links and more…)