Editor's Note: The Optimist and The Pessimist made their debut a few years back when I operated the old Dartmouth football web site for Rivals. The company's grand plan to do something not all that different from Green Alert didn't survive, but The Optimist and The Pessimist feature has. Back for a return engagement, they take a look back at Week One of the 2006 campaign and ahead to Week Two.
The Pessimist wins the coin flip and defers.
The Optimist is feeling pretty good about Dartmouth taking a 7-6 lead into halftime of Saturday's opener at Colgate and being within a touchdown against the perennial Patriot League powerhouse until midway through the fourth quarter.
The Pessimist would like to remind his alter ego that Colgate won the game, 28-7.
The Optimist chooses to point out that in the first half Dartmouth had six first downs to Colgate's five and -- apart from Jordan Scott's 65-yard run on the first play from scrimmage -- outgained the Raiders, 121-119 in total yards.
Trying to stifle a smirk, The Pessimist suggests that not including Scott's long run is a little like saying the Red Sox had a good year against the Yankees -- as long as you don't include those five games in August.
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