Posted on 12/13/2020 6:46:36 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
As college football limped toward the finish of its fraught 2020 regular season, it was fitting its final full-slate Saturday was saved by a guy throwing a shoe.
And for a team with a leading Heisman Trophy contender in quarterback Kyle Trask, it was ironic the season's biggest throw came from cornerback Marco Wilson.
It all was a perfect example of the universe's cyclical nature: the defending champs (what's left of them, anyway) pulling off the season's most stunning win.
Little has made sense in this wild spin around the sun we call 2020, and so it was that LSU's dramatic upset of Florida on Saturday served as the ideal conclusion: a perplexing, thrilling, delightfully ridiculous game capped by the most hilariously irresponsible penalty since Elijah Moore lifted his leg in the end zone in last season's Egg Bowl.
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Good man!!!!
What happened post-WW2? Television.
In other Florida Gator news, Johnson (on the basketball team) collapsed during the game. Speculation that he might have post Covid myocarditis.
He is in critical but stable condition.
They continued on with the game but everyone was shook.
I had high hopes when he came on but you're right, a big disappointment.
It was ridiculous to continue the game. Prayers up for Keyontae.
Yes, hockey does have an extensive farm system that runs junior leagues in all the countries that play regularly hockey. It is weird how they have a tenuous relationship with the NCAA- the most promising players actually skip college altogether and go through the junior hockey system. The NCAA attacts players that need more development and also want a backup plan.
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Last night, USC won one of its most spectacular victories over UCLA since the teams began playing each other in 1929. Down by 12 points at the start of the fourth quarter, the Trojans scored the final go-ahead touchdown with 16 seconds remaining. Still, the game wasn’t decided until the final play, when the Bruin quarterback threw a Hallelujah pass, which the Trojan defenders batted down in the end zone.
Budestined to go down in the annals of UF football history ad the great 2020 LS Shoe loss.
Last night,the announcers of the Alabama/Arkansas game mentioned that Alabama was running an NFL offense.(or something close to that)
Iowa had a football kicker from Down Under.
He needs a refresher on American rules football...
It actually was a pretty good punt.
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LSU has a slogan for 2020: “At least we don’t have a “shoe throwing moron” on our squad.
He was looking for the guys in white cowboy hats to signal...
I can still hear LSU coach saying “GO TIGERS” what a game and it is always a great game when Florida Gators lose.
You are right that college football was more popular pre-World War II, but the fact is there were professional football leagues clear back into at least the 1920s. The actual fact of the matter is that gridiron football at any level did not even become widely popular until World War I, so it actually took a relatively short period of time between 1918 and 1945 for the game to develop.
And the shoe-throwing moron is a part of the reason why.Kids learn this stuff while playing video games. Taunting and posturing are built in.
People have forgotten that Harbaugh is the a-hole that unleashed Crapernick on the country.
Politics aside, Kapernick was a one trick poney QB. He excelled in college as a zone read QB that preferred to run and only pass enough to keep the Defense honest. Once the defense stopped his running and forced him to become a pocket passer he would either panic and scramble or try to pass using a long throwing motion that was obstructed by the pass rushers more often than not. So, eventually, he got benched. Simultaneously, he came out as a woke civil rights champion victimized for his activism and blacklisted by the NFL even though does anyone truly believe that the desire to win would not overcome the “blacklist” accusation if any coach truly believed he could be a viable NFL quarterback?
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