Sounds like somebody needs to make bacon outta this hog...
Posted on 04/18/2008 1:48:32 PM PDT by bamahead
Talk about getting off on the wrong foot. A Plant High School (Tampa, Fla.) tight end broke the Florida Gators’ 2006 BCS National Championship trophy over the weekend at a NIKE football camp.
I kid you not.
Orson Charles, who is being recruited by Arkansas and at least 10 other schools including Florida, bumped into the “handcrafted Waterford crystal trophy” outside of UF coach Urban Meyer’s office this weekend. The poor guy declined to talk about breaking the Gators’ crown jewel to a local TV crew, as did his head coach, according to a report.
The trophy has a reported value of $35,000.
Don’t worry, the trophy was insured and the Gators actually own two of the beauties. Florida officials have a replacement crystal ball on the way.
Maybe the 6-foot-3 blue-chipper was just preparing for his days of damaging the Gators program as a Razorback. Gotta start somewhere. Orson just went for the throat right from the start, didn’t he?
From a Seminole fan:
That’s the silliest thing I’ve seen in a while...it doesn’t change the humiliating outcome of the game.
This kid was on my nephew’s basketball team over in Tampa. They say Orson is a “really nice, gentle giant” kind of kid, but on the hoops team he basically tackles (literally) at least one player on the other team.
I say sign him up!
Oh man. That guy will never let that down. That’s like breaking the Stanley Cup.
Oh, c'mon. Lighten up. Dropping and breaking your BCS Championship trophy is priceless. And Every Buckeye/Big 10 fan on the planet probably felt the same way.
We were also thinking "There's some of that SEC 'speed'."
The story I heard was that it was a potential recruit that stumbled in Urban's office and knocked over the BCS Thrphy and broke into a bunch of pieces.
“Oh man. That guy will never let that down. That’s like breaking the Stanley Cup.”
Sort of...but at least the Stanley Cup is handed around and meant to be handled. That’s not true about a solid crystal football.
Of course, I would be tempted to toss the thing to the tour guide myself. “GO LONG!” Especially if their attitude is, “Ah, no prob, we have insurance.”
Anyone want to bet on how long a random UF student would be paying off this mistake if he’d made it, instead of a unsigned, prized recruit?
Sounds like somebody needs to make bacon outta this hog...
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