Plans. Everybody has them, as Mike Tyson once said, until they start getting punched in the face. Well, “everybody” except maybe Noble, Chris, Kevin, and Mailman. And sometimes plans are overrated. For this installment, the…
After many weeks of mostly pessimism over the fate of college football in 2020, the dark clouds seems to be quickly parting, and now at least a somewhat normal season seems to be the most…
Always a welcome guest on any Obligatory property, Penn State’s resident professor of “Booze and Culture” Dr. Kirk French, who was recently honored as one of six University-wide recipients of the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching (despite his…
The things we do for breadsticks… In this installment of the podcast, a full episode’s worth of the sort of absurdity that could only emerge from our uniquely absurd times, Kevin Horne recounts his brush…
The live experience of college football sets it apart from most other sports. There are few other settings where you can experience something as thrilling as the Penn State White Out. With some extra time…
For many Penn State fans, one of the highlights of the entire quarantine came last week when NBC Sports replayed the 1987 Fiesta Bowl, Penn State’s dramatic upset victory over to Miami to claim its…
Before launching our upcoming multi-episode look back at great Penn State football from the past, the guys take a customary spin through all manner of nonsensical, non sequitur distractions and digressions. After an extended detour…
In a time when the sports world has been turned completely upside down, the NFL Draft continues on undeterred (even though it will be on Zoom), and several Nittany Lions will look to hear their…
Derek Shuman is a Penn State senior who has been the viceroy (i.e. Editor-in-Chief) of Penn State Barstool for most of his college career, a time period that has seen the account’s social media following grow to…
What better time to stir the pot than during a global quarantine? With all four of the Obligatory cast back together again, the guys take on some sacred accepted “truths” of the Penn State community…