Sunday, December 31, 2023
David Tepper should be arrested.
That is a battery under Florida law, a misdemeanor crime. Caught on tape. It's also a sucker-punch from behind and above on unsuspecting victim(s). And the cowardly sucker-puncher immediately retreats in guilt. Tepper should be arrested for battery.
Recent Assholes
It now becomes our disagreeable duty to conclude a happy, happy 2023 with a recent asshole, David Tepper, owner of the NFL Charlotte "Panthers." Today in Jacksonville, site of the Pussies 14th loss of this year, Temper, er Tepper, threw a drink from his luxury box onto a Jag-you-ares fan.
Temper Tepper!
What
An
ASSHOLE.
HAHA! HAIRY BONER (4-12) BEAT THE PIGEONS (11-5) 35-31 IN PHILLY! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
... the playoff-bound Eagles’ fourth loss this month — and second at home...
What does that mean for you, Pigeons, no more nationally televised Big Games?
The Eagles have played every bit like a team facing a potential
one-and-done in the postseason rather than one that could make a second
straight trip to the Super Bowl. :o :)
3 Former Aides: 2nd Term: End of Democracy in America
“What scares me as much as him and his retribution is the almost cult-like following he has…”
That’s the nettle. Democracy ended by democratic vote of the people.
That’s the nettle. Democracy ended by democratic vote of the people.
[Cassidy] Hutchinson, ex-aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, said voters needed to believe Trump when he said he would be a dictator on his first day back in the White House.
They do believe him. What he says is what they want. “The American people knew exactly what they were getting when they elected Donald Trump.”—Sen. Marco Rubio in 2016.
[Sarah] Matthews, meanwhile, said Trump had already signaled what his second administration would look like.
“We don’t need to speculate because we already saw it play out,” she said.
[Sarah] Matthews, meanwhile, said Trump had already signaled what his second administration would look like.
“We don’t need to speculate because we already saw it play out,” she said.
And hear it from his own mouth.
Sorry, sorry Arsenal. FT Fulman 2-1
Two in a row for the North London Librarians. Spitting the bit agayne.
A Magic Year
2023 was the best year of my life, which began in 1955, the greatest year in mankind’s existence, because, in descending order:
1) Ana Eduarda, my D-2
2) Eleven, my companion for life
3) My Big Brother
4) My brother-the-klansman stopped sending me Christmas cards (most mirthful Christmas present I got)
Half Ass U Players Boycotted
"Every situation is different. Ours was unique, something that's never happened in college football. ...I fully believe that if we would've come up short in the [ACC] championship game, it might've been a little different. It was hard choices for a lot of the young men that were on our team. We were hurt. ... it hurt when we were not selected."- Half Ass U coach Mike Norvell.
Georgia took the Orange Bowl seriously, but it was embarrassing for college football (Seth Emerson, The Athletic)
MIAMI — This was a debacle, and Kirby Smart knew it. ...
...
“People need to see what happened tonight and they need to fix this. It needs to be fixed.”
...it ended up becoming a joke of a game...
From The Bronx to Queens, Hamas Jesus for AOC
“Thousands of years later, right-wing forces are violently occupying Bethlehem as similar stories unfold for today’s Palestinians, so much so that the Christian community in Bethlehem has canceled this year’s Christmas Eve celebrations out of both safety and respect.”--Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Christmas Eve message.
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Good young man, Kris Jenkins
Michigan defensive lineman Kris Jenkins couldn't believe what he was seeing Friday night as the Buckeyes scored only three points against Missouri in what was a shocking 14-3 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic loss.
"I'm a hater, but that ain't the team we played against on 25th of November. It wasn't sad. But dang, man. You feel me? Does that make sense? Your rival, y'all hate each other, but you want them to play good. But that was tough to watch.
"We rivals and all that, but that man's [Marvin Harrison, Jr.] a beast. That man can play ball. So, I mean, if he ain't in...
"If they want to opt out, they should definitely be able to opt out. But yeah, honestly, you shouldn't [judge teams] for real because that definitely wasn't the team you've seen. You turn on the tape, like, all the regular season, and you didn't see that team."
Z 90 🦖86, End 3Q
🦖 lost that painful game to 🫘 last night, so this is the second of a back-to-back on the road for them. This is not to discount Z’s win if they hang on, which I believe they will. They had an even more painful game in 🫘 just the night before.
Poor Franklin’s Almanac
"Too many moving parts, staff and players, to have the type of success that we wanted to have today."
-Penn State coach James Franklin, referring to the combination of players opting out to prepare for the NFL draft and recent changes to his offensive and defensive coordinators.
Gaylord Pernell, Jr.
@gpernelljr
I’m glad FSU are not playing any of their impact players. If I was them I wouldn’t have accepted the invite. They got screwed out the playoffs. #OrangeBowl
6:09 PM · Dec 30, 2023
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cheyenne
@evilvillain1231
its ok FSU we can have our own playoff at Tom Brown park. stop being so desperate for the institutional recognition and just enjoy the true fun and friendship of football
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@gpernelljr
I’m glad FSU are not playing any of their impact players. If I was them I wouldn’t have accepted the invite. They got screwed out the playoffs. #OrangeBowl
6:09 PM · Dec 30, 2023
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cheyenne
@evilvillain1231
its ok FSU we can have our own playoff at Tom Brown park. stop being so desperate for the institutional recognition and just enjoy the true fun and friendship of football
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Tin Men
Brian Metcalf
@BMet44
Show the tiniest bit of heart, Florida State. Good God. #OrangeBowl
6:10 PM · Dec 30, 2023
@BMet44
Show the tiniest bit of heart, Florida State. Good God. #OrangeBowl
6:10 PM · Dec 30, 2023
No soul, too.
Okay, one more time. HT UGA 42 Half Ass U 3
You know what this is? Half Ass U giving a petulant middle finger to the ACC on their way out. Humiliating the conference in the Orange Bowl in their home state out of spite that they didn't make the CFP. What a half ass u.
Hello?
Nikola Jovic started? R.J. Hampton started?
These are our starters tonight:
JovicJimmy
Bam
Tyler
Hampton
Exposed, Humiliated
Dart leads No. 11 ¡Ole! Miss to 38-25 Peach Bowl rout of No. 10 Penn State's proud defense
...No. 11 Mississippi bullied No. 10 Penn State's proud defense 38-25...
¡Ole! Miss (11-2) gained 540 yards against Penn State (10-3), which led the nation with its average of 223 yards allowed.
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The Nittany Lions gave up more than their average of 223 yards allowed by the midpoint of the second quarter.
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¡Ole! Miss chanted “S-E-C! S-E-C!” as it celebrated the Southeastern Conference's win in the matchup against the Big Ten's Nittany Lions.
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[Drew] Allar threw an interception in the second quarter and lost a fumble when sacked in the fourth.
I know of no finer manager/coach in sport than Pep Guaurdiola
What do you say at half-time to your team, the best team in the world, when they are up only 1-0 against a domestic club doomed to relegation?
“(We were) uncomfortable the last three times we were here (at home)."
“The first [half] was silent. The body language of players didn’t communicate, talk, laugh, or shout.
“It was a little bit, ‘okay we have to play’.
“In football, you have to have something inside. At half-time for the first time I didn’t talk one word about tactics - I took a chair and said 'guys when you go out with a smile on your face and enjoy, we are going to win'.
This game is a DEBACLE for Franklin, PSU
It's now 38-17 deep in the 4Q and Franklin, as he does, is trying to get a garbage time TD to put some lipstick on the pig. Their QB play has been atrocious, their run defense pathetic, the coaching disastrous, and ¡Ole! Miss's last TD game as result of a blocked FG attempt. Against a SEC team, a highly-ranked team, Franklin and PSU go splat, agayne, in a Big Game. This is a humiliation.
A Lasching ¡Ole! Miss 31 PSU 17, 4:10 3Q
Yep, I’m calling it. Allar has thrown three passes in the 3Q, all inc. PSU will not come back.
84% Possession!
Goals by Rodri and Julian Álvarez in each half barely did justice to City's dominance as they enjoyed 84% possession in a routine win that at times resembled a training session.
Guess we didn’t struggle.
ALLAR'S BACK IN (?!)
Started the 2H. Threw incomplete on his only attempt of a 3-and-out. Don't know what James is thinking.
"Thiem advances after brush with deadly snake"-Espo
I didn't know what the fuck this was; didn't know who Thiem was. So I read. Thiem is a professional tennis player. He was playing in Austrayleeaa when a 20" snake slithered onto the court. Not just any snake but the Inland taipan.
"The venom of the inland taipan is by far the most toxic of any snake..." Fortunately for Thiem, the Inland taipan is shy and hardly ever bites.
Australia is a weird place.
Drew Allar Benched by James Franklin
Allar threw a 75-yard pass that set up a Paterno-Sandusky TD but then threw one of the worst INTs you will ever see, leading Brother James to pull him for Beau Pribula...who promptly threw a TD pass on his first attempt. From earlier in the game:
@MarkWogenrich
Penn State QB Drew Allar has attempted 8 passes, and Ole Miss has tipped 3 of them
12:45 PM · Dec 30, 2023·
HT ¡Ole! Miss (11) 20 PSU (10) 17.
Deez-Nutz don't have good success with QBs.
Knicks getting Raptors' O.G. Anunoby, deal RJ Barrett
Barrett, Immanuel Quickley and a 2024 second-round pick for Anunoby, Precious Achiuwa and guard Malachi Flynn. That is a shockingly good deal for 🍎. It is also surprising as these two franchises hate each other and are involved in litigation against one another.
HT at the City Ground and its Nottingham 0 Manchester Unitard 0.
Sheriffs could tolerate three points here.
2-0. City Go Second in the Table
We now sit two peepy points behind 'Pool on equal games and have a one-goal tiebreaker advantage.
Justice Holmes' Supreme Court Opinions. 12
Southern Pacific R. Co. v. United States, 189 U.S. 447 (1903)
Decided April 6, 1903
We revert to the industrialization cases after the detour to Cuba in The Paquette Habana case.
Another short opinion, six pages including syllabus, unanimous. Justices Brewer and Day did not participate in the decision.
Holmes has shown himself generally to be a friend of big business in his first year on the high court and to be deferential in extraordinary degree to the state courts, unwilling to project the authority of the United States that he fought and was thrice wounded for. He soured on the Civil War cause; that was part of the "experience" that he brought to the Supreme Court. He has been very slow, or reluctant, to grasp the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution as justifying or compelling federal action.
This is a simple case. It is a case in forfeiture brought to the Supreme Court under federal statute. Under an 1871 federal law the rights of appellant were made subordinate to those of the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. By an 1885 act Texas Pacific's grant was made forfeited to the general government of the United States. Southern Pacific argued that the forfeited grant should revert to it, not the United States. This simple-headed argument lost in both the circuit court and the circuit court of appeals.
The 1871 act granted Southern Pacific a charter to construct a railroad that would connect up with the Texas Pacific with purpose to get the Texas Pacific line to San Francisco,
"Provided, however, that this section shall in no way affect or impair the rights, present or prospective, of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, or any other railroad company." (italics in original; bold added).
Southern Pacific was not Atlantic and Pacific. Texas Pacific was an "other railroad".
In the first place, it is denied that the Texas Pacific is included under the words last quoted: "or any other railroad company." But we think it too plain for extended argument that it is included by those words. It was called into being, and was an "other railroad" at the moment when the proviso took effect. In fact, it was the only other railroad, so far as has been suggested to us, to which the words could apply. It received a grant for its main line, while that to the Southern Pacific was for a branch.
Yeah.
The conclusion is pure Holmes:
Without going into further reasons for our decision, we are of opinion that the decree appealed from was right. We deal only with the questions argued in this Court.
Decree affirmed.
I find this case to be too clear-cut to be revelatory of Holmes' judicial philosophy.
Friday, December 29, 2023
Look at this shit!
A 15-point lead after one, turned 18-5 and a tie with a 12-18 team in the fourth. I could not be a “Celtics” fan. I would hate them even if I had been born at center court of TD Garden.
The Army. Of Northern. Virginia.
They won a basketball game! Yeah, scored more points than the Nyets and everything. They zoom to 6-25 on the season.
Maine Secretary of State Bars Trumpie From Ballot
On the same grounds, Constitution 14 A sec 3 as the Colorado Supreme Court barred Trump in that state. I am on record as predicting, confidently, that SCOTUS will reverse the Colorado decision. The Maine case gives me pause. The Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, explained her decision:
1) "The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government.
2) And Maine election law required me to act in response. ...
3) we have a statute that makes me different from any other state that I have observed.
4) My obligation under Maine state law was to issue a decision very quickly.
5) I'm not permitted under Maine law to wait for the United States Supreme Court to intervene in this particular proceeding.
6)....Trump engaged in that insurrection and thereby, is not qualified to be on the ballot."
7)...her decision, Bellows recognized..."could soon be rendered a nullity" but "that possibility does not relieve me of my responsibility to act."
The Penn Law Review article authors argued that disqualification under 14 A sec 3 is self-executing, you don't have to file a court case. That's what Bellows did, she acted. So this case goes to SCOTUS in a very different procedural posture than the Colorado case. Here is an action by a state official, an action required by state law. That is not as easily reviewable by the federal courts as is an inferior court's decision.
In our federal system, the states are the foundation. The federal courts are reluctant to intervene in an election case. "It's up to the states", that's the strong tilt of election jurisprudence. See the gerrymandering cases, for example. In Michigan the state court permitted Trumpie to appear on the primary, not general election, ballot, holding that the political parties determine ballot access in their primaries. Same kind of deference.
What might leave Bellows hanging from the gallows is that she based her decision on the federal Constitution. If she had not cited the Constitution, if she had decided on the same facts, that Trumpie violated Maine law by inciting a riot elsewhere; or in his attempt to overturn an election he attempted a fraud on the voters of Maine; or that he intends to be a dictator, as he has stated he does; or even if she had said Trumpie’s actions “are just not the way Mainers behave", the decision would be worrisome for the federal courts, I think. But she based her decision on a provision of the federal Constitution, she interpreted the Constitution, applied federal Constitutional law rather than Maine state law, and that opens her up to review by the federal courts.
In other words, if she had kept it all state all the way down: compelled to act by state law; disqualified Trumpie for violation of Maine state law—she would not have run near the risk of federal judicial intervention. But dang, when you say the U.S. Constitution says something, then you make a federal case out of it.
Min Ppg FG 3pt Reb Ast Stl Blk
1. "Spurs", 5-25. Victor Wembanyama 2023 29.7 18.8 44% 28.5% 10.4 3.0 1.3 3.2
2. "Thunder", 20-9. Chet Holmgren 2023 29.9 17.5 53.4% 37.2% 7.8 2.5 0.8 2.7
18. "Heat", 19-12. Jaime Jaquez, Jr. 2023 29.3 13.8 51.4% 38.0% 4.0 2.6 1.0 0.3
I didn't realize OKC was so good! Even though Holmgren has been the superior difference maker I would have to give ROTY to Wemby on better numbers. But 3J would be third in a redraft and should be third in ROTY voting, a phenomenal leap from eighteen. By far the steal of the draft.
Comparing 3J to D-Wade in his first year:
5. "Heat", 42-40. Dwayne Wade 2003/04 34.9 16.2 46.5% 30.2% 4.0 4.5 1.4 0.6
D-Wade played more mins than any of this season's top three rookies. His ppg are a little higher than 3J's as a result, his shooting percentages not nearly as good for the same reason. His play-making number is clearly better.
😉
Dru
@dru_star
“2023 Redraft. Jaquez is 3rd or 4th. Wemby 1. I think Brandon Miller’s 2. Jaquez is 3. Cason Wallace is 4th. The Jaquez thing is unreal. It makes me so mad. I can’t believe [the Heat] did it again. They landed Bam 13th, Herro 14th & Jaquez 18th. I hate their guts.” -
@BillSimmons
After Rise in Murders During the Pandemic, a Sharp Decline in 2023
The country is on track for a record drop in homicides, and many other categories of crime are also in decline, according to the F.B.I.
Detroit is on track to record the fewest murders since the 1960s. In Philadelphia, where there were more murders in 2021 than in any year on record, the number of homicides this year has fallen more than 20 percent from last year. And in Los Angeles, the number of shooting victims this year is down more than 200 from two years ago.
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Homicides in U.S. set to drop by record numbers this year
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Why it matters: The findings appear to be at odds with Americans' perception of crime both in their communities and in the rest of the country.
- More than three-quarters (77%) of Americans believe crime has increased in the U.S. since last year, according to a Gallup survey of 1,009 adults released last month.
- A majority (55%) also said crime was rising in their local area.
I had no idea!
I remember this game. It was a sports dystopia. But I had no idea of this! The Sun Bowl is Pitt’s bowl. We went there in the ‘70’s to announce the “Major Change In Pitt Football”, we went there last year in the most beautifully-uni’d game ever against UCLA and we went there in 2008.
'I went to see 'YMCA' and a football game broke out': The story of the 2008 Sun Bowl
ASK LEGENDARY BROADCASTER Verne Lundquist about his enduring memory of one of the most infamous bowl games of all time, and steel yourself for the response.
"The Village People," Lundquist said with his trademark guffaw, without a split-second of hesitation or a hint of irony.
Lundquist was on the mic for the 2008 Sun Bowl, a 3-0 Oregon State win over Pitt that was the lowest-scoring bowl game since a 0-0 tie between TCU and Air Force in 1959.
…there was a mark recognized by the Guinness World Records set at halftime when the Village People electrified a crowd of 40,138, recording the largest performance of the "YMCA" dance.
After the game mercifully ended, Lundquist said the real fun began. That's when the 1970s-vintage band showed up in its 2008 form with six members consisting of the policeman, the Native American, the soldier/sailor, the construction worker, the cowboy and the one member simply described as the "leather man."
"It's the last game of the year for CBS," the 83-year-old Lundquist said, noting he called 11 or 12 Sun Bowl contests before he retired from calling college football games in 2016. "We have a big postgame party. [The Village People] were in the same hotel. And there were quite a few of us who got overserved. [😂] When they walked into our party, everybody went nuts. Particularly me. There's a picture that exists -- thank God it's not on the internet -- of me dancing with the Indian with the headdress on. We had our arms around [each other]. My wife [Nancy] had to witness all this."😂
…the strangest bowl game in history, when an Oregon State team that averaged 32.8 points and a Pitt team that averaged 29.3 combined to score three points.
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In the last game of his college career, Pitt All-American linebacker Scott McKillop remembers it fondly in his own way.
…”It's honestly like, 'I went to see 'YMCA' and a football game -- if you want to call it a football game -- broke out.'"
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…Two former NFL head coaches -- OSU's Mike Riley and Pitt's Dave Wannstedt -- were on the sidelines. Both teams were ranked, with Pitt at No. 18 and Oregon State at No. 24.
…the Beavers had one of the deepest rosters in program history. Seven OSU players would be selected in the 2009 NFL draft, second only to USC. Their scoring offense ranked third in the Pac-10. …
Pitt could score too. Future NFL All-Pro running back LeSean McCoy was the Big East Offensive Player of the Year and the highest scorer in the country (10.5 points per game) going into the contest. …
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For many players, the lead-up to the matchup was more memorable than the actual game. It turned into a time to let loose.
"I'll be honest, we went extremely hard," McKillop said.
Perhaps too hard. With UTEP students away for winter break, the players did their best to make sure local bars didn't suffer financially, and they paid for it the next day at practice. 😂
"People were throwing up on the sideline. It reeked like a bar," McKillop said. "[The coaches] were just like, 'What happened last night?' I'm like, 'I don't know. What didn't?' Wannstedt told us, 'Practice is canceled. Go sleep it off.' …
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"They had their punter, David Brytus, a talented guy," said longtime NFL punter Johnny Hekker, then a freshman for Oregon State. "He was like a black belt in karate.”…
Pitt kicker Conor Lee said that was just Brytus being Brytus.
"Dave was great, he had a huge leg," Lee said. "We always joked Dave was a man of many talents, but average at all of them. He's a punter, he's a frickin' UFC fighter…”…
…Even with multiple future NFL players on both offenses, the Sun Bowl quickly devolved into a punt-off between Hekker and Brytus.
"I mean, if you're a fan of punts, that was your game," Lundquist said.
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WHILE THE GAME was a snoozer, it was fun to stay until "YMCA." The big prize? A chance to destroy the world record for the largest communal dance to the 1978 hit…
"There was a bit of time there where the Sun Bowl had some decent halftime shows," said Nick Govea, an attorney in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who grew up in El Paso and went to the Sun Bowl with his family every year, including the historic 2008 edition. "Before she had blown up, Rihanna did the halftime show. Right after her, Los Lonely Boys. They were from West Texas and they were at the peak of their powers.
"But then they got Lee Greenwood to come sing 'God Bless the U.S.A,' and it just kind of nosedived after that. 😂 Then the Village People. I do remember it being hyped on the local news a lot."
In advance of the game, the local newspaper, the El Paso Times, even ran a graphicexplaining how to do the dance.
Govea said fans treated the second quarter more like halftime, grabbing snacks and drinks to be ready to be back in their seats for the big event.
…"There were dudes who had dressed up in the stands as the Village People who were stretching, getting ready for it."😂
"I remember being in the locker room hearing that and going, 'Oh man, I'm missing it!'" Hekker said. ..:
…Lundquist was up in the booth doing his part.
"Yes, of course," he said. "Everybody in America was doing it. Gary [Danielson] and I were up there in the booth [dancing]."😂
That's right. Among the other superlatives Lundquist has amassed during a legendary career, you can add another one to the list: a world-record holder.
"I'm proud to be a part of it," Lundquist said. "It's on my résumé."😂
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Bennett said the crowd was whipped into a frenzy. He coached in the press box instead of the field due to the wind and said it took forever to make his way back.
"We went to go back up there and we couldn't get across [the field]," Bennett said. "I think that the halftime lasted an hour, I swear to goodness. The whole stadium was dancing. It was crazy."
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ONCE THE FOOTBALL resumed, things got decidedly less exciting, with 12 punts coming after the break.
Govea said he and his family left midway through the third quarter amid the boredom. Lundquist and Danielson muddled through a "mind-numbing" and "lethargic" broadcast. "You fall into it," Lundquist said.
…Wannstedt reluctantly trotted out Lee for a 57-yard field goal attempt with 2:08 left, believing that was Pitt's best chance at scoring.
"If you look at my whole career, I didn't try one 50-yard field goal," said Lee, the brother of former NFL linebacker Sean Lee. "I would be like, 'Why won't he let me kick?' I would go back and look at his time as an NFL coach. He didn't let Olindo Mare kick 50-yard field goals his first year as the coach of the Miami Dolphins, so I was like OK, maybe it's not me, maybe it's him. ... I walked up to [Wannstedt] and was like 'Coach, we gotta kick this.'
"And I missed it."😂
The official Sun Bowl game story, as well as other articles recapping the game, reported that the kick was short, which really gets Lee steamed. It had enough length, he said. It just didn't go where he thought it would.
"It was the last kick of my career, so I think I remember it the best," Lee said. "I turn 40 next year. I have four kids. You think I would have moved on by now."😂
Pitt's best chance of scoring was gone without the wind. [Nicely done.]
The game has been memorialized over the past 15 years as the worst bowl game ever. Most participants choose to celebrate its general peculiarity.
"I remember it for it being kind of funny," Govea said. "Mostly to do with just kind of the weird happenstance of people being really pumped for the Village People."
"My wife still laughs about the Village People deal," Bennett said.
"It's all my mom was talking about," McKillop said. "I was like, 'Mom, you do realize we lost?' She said, 'I don't care. The halftime show was amazing.'"