The Reasoning of FOOTBAW

Just because you're going to trust us with your health doesn't mean we have to make sense.
  
(5:11:17 PM) Gordo: holy crap. go bruins. [on UCLA leading Texas AT Texas at halftime]
(5:11:38 PM) RoPo: tellin you bro
(5:11:49 PM) RoPo: it's gonna be a good day for California
(5:12:30 PM) RoPo: California schools will go 4-0 today
(5:12:34 PM) RoPo: ;)
(5:12:42 PM) Gordo: ROSE BOWL
(5:12:45 PM) Gordo: THIS IS OUR YEAR
(5:12:55 PM) Gordo: i am going to throw around the R word as much as possible now
(5:12:59 PM) RoPo: no
(5:13:07 PM) Gordo: i've had such a superstition of never saying it the past 5 years, and it never worked
(5:13:12 PM) Gordo: why not just try the opposite
(5:13:18 PM) Gordo: if it works, i'll look like a genius
(5:13:26 PM) Gordo: if it doesn't, then i'll look like an asshole, but i'm already an asshole anyway
(5:13:39 PM) RoPo: alright, i see your logic

QED, son.