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Of course, also fair credit should be given to Carolina. The cheese and wine crowd did their best to end up in the ACC cellar but Duke wouldn't let them!!

Yeah, North Carolina upset Duke. When's the last time that could be said about a football game? Well, we Tar Heel fans must take our small pleasures where we can find them. Lately, it's been slim pickings indeed.

Poor Dick Baddour, our Athletic Director. He was stood up by a basketball coach (Roy Williams) and a football coach (Frank Beamer), both of whom had verbally committed to move to UNC; saw both programs (temporarily, I am confident) implode in the last year; and then (this part I enjoyed) earlier this month his brother, Democratic State Representative Phil Baddour, was declared a re-election winner hours after the polls closed, only to see the outcome reversed when a tabulation error was caught, resulting in a 61-59 GOP taleover of the N.C. House.

The Tar Heels will be back. But I'm not so sure about the North Carolina Democratic Party.

Seriously, something has to be done about fans storming the field and tearing down goalposts. I have no problem whatever with the Ohio State Police using pepper spray. Ever observe a goalpost close-up? Those things are structures, thick metal pipes filled with concrete and set into deep concrete foundations. People have been killed by them in post-game celebrations (an Ivy League game, of all things, if I recall correctly).

An alternative solution would be to make them disposable -- build them out of pine 2x4s, and count on them being taken down after every home team win. Injuries would still be possible, but fatalities would likely be avoided.