My goodness gracious. Ladies and gentiles--and Jews, eight pageviews from Israel today--what an extraordinary public occurrence in American college tackle football within the last hour. This is "rivarly week" in the sport, when semi-professional teams sponsored by universities play each other as they have each year for 100 years. One of the most intense of these rivalries is between Alabama University and the University of Auburn, also based in Alabama. These schools and their fanatics h-a-t-e each other--much more than I hate Islam. Alabama was the best team in America and Auburn the fourth best. Alabama overwhelmingly was favored to win the game. Alabama took a 28-21 lead with about 2 1/2 minutes left in the game. Auburn tied it with about 30 seconds left. In that short time Alabama then got in position to win the game with a kick. With one second left the Alabama kicker had to kick the football between the uprights from a distance of 56 yards or so. That's a long way for any kicker, especially one in college but it was worth the try. Pause, pause, pause, NOT! Bless his heart, Channing Beauregard III or whatever his name is, kicked it a yard short. And still on the field of play. At which point an Auburn player caught the ball. And ran 109 yards the other way for the game-winning touchdown. Astonishing. Congratulations to Auburn, heartfelt condolences to Alabama whose fanatics we urge not to go out and poison any trees as a result of this heartbreak (Really, that happened.). Here's the play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqIBNX0CXDc