Yesterday ESPN ran a piece about the best plays in Super Bowl history. I'm glad that I have some expert evidence to back up what I thought for the past year: James Harrison's interception and touchdown was the greatest play in Super Bowl history, maybe in NFL history.
The Cardinals should have scored three on that possession, perhaps seven, for a halftime tie or lead. Harrison, a linebacker, reads Warner, picks off his pass, gets terrific blocking, and breaks some tackles to outrun several faster Cardinals players and score as time expires. The Steelers won by four, and probably would have lost if he didn't pick off the ball AND score 100 yards down the field.
Cardinals WR, best player, and last opponent to stop Harrison on the play, Larry Fitzgerald, later said, "If we could have one play back, I think most of us would take that one back."
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Sunday Sports Summary
The craziest sports days leave Sportscenter anchors breathless at the top of the broadcast. Saturday was one of those days.
It started with (alma mater alert!) UNC's hoops game at Kentucky. This season I will cheer against Kentucky, and not only so the Heels can pass them in the "Race to 2,000 Wins", which is important because college basketball will be canceled forever when one team reaches that mark. I will root against them because John Calipari is an ass who will probably ruin their program someday.
UNC thought the game ended after about three minutes, when the Wildcats scored 28 points to the two points UNC mustered. For the rest of the game they played catch-up, and made the final look respectable. But without a 100% John Wall, it was bound to get closer.
The McDonald's Mastercard College Football Championship Saturday, Race to the Citi BCS National Championship presented by Dr. Pepper followed basketball. Florida's Tim Tebow, the greatest person in the history of the Earth, lost to Alabama, and will be bronzed alive a la Han Solo and placed outside of The Swamp, bowl game be damned.
Most people who tuned in to the Big 12 Championship presented by Every Company in the S&P 500 rooted for Nebraska, first for parity's sake and then for pity's sake. The Blackshirts (so-called because they almost never wear black shirts [go figure]) only put nine players on the field for offense, or so it seemed as they gained 106 yards for the whole game.
(Both teams combined to gain 308 in the game. Alabama, facing the nation's top defense in many catagories, gained 274 yards in the first half.)
The Huskers managed to turn those yards into 12 points, and if they hadn't donated 55 yards on penalties to the Texas scholarship fund and the football team, the BCS polling computers would have exploded. We could have seen a non-BCS school, TCU, play for it all. It's a damn shame that five teams won all of their games, and only two get the chance to win the national championship. Shame on college football.
Speaking of national championships (alma mater alert!), the Tar Heel ladies soccer team won title number 20, more than every women's team in every Division I sport at every college ever. The field hockey team also won a natty, making the Heels the defending champions in three team sports.
It started with (alma mater alert!) UNC's hoops game at Kentucky. This season I will cheer against Kentucky, and not only so the Heels can pass them in the "Race to 2,000 Wins", which is important because college basketball will be canceled forever when one team reaches that mark. I will root against them because John Calipari is an ass who will probably ruin their program someday.
UNC thought the game ended after about three minutes, when the Wildcats scored 28 points to the two points UNC mustered. For the rest of the game they played catch-up, and made the final look respectable. But without a 100% John Wall, it was bound to get closer.
The McDonald's Mastercard College Football Championship Saturday, Race to the Citi BCS National Championship presented by Dr. Pepper followed basketball. Florida's Tim Tebow, the greatest person in the history of the Earth, lost to Alabama, and will be bronzed alive a la Han Solo and placed outside of The Swamp, bowl game be damned.
Most people who tuned in to the Big 12 Championship presented by Every Company in the S&P 500 rooted for Nebraska, first for parity's sake and then for pity's sake. The Blackshirts (so-called because they almost never wear black shirts [go figure]) only put nine players on the field for offense, or so it seemed as they gained 106 yards for the whole game.
(Both teams combined to gain 308 in the game. Alabama, facing the nation's top defense in many catagories, gained 274 yards in the first half.)
The Huskers managed to turn those yards into 12 points, and if they hadn't donated 55 yards on penalties to the Texas scholarship fund and the football team, the BCS polling computers would have exploded. We could have seen a non-BCS school, TCU, play for it all. It's a damn shame that five teams won all of their games, and only two get the chance to win the national championship. Shame on college football.
Speaking of national championships (alma mater alert!), the Tar Heel ladies soccer team won title number 20, more than every women's team in every Division I sport at every college ever. The field hockey team also won a natty, making the Heels the defending champions in three team sports.
Monday, September 28, 2009
This Post Is About College Football
Fair warning. You know what you're getting into JoP faithful.
Now, about Boise State. This is so radical, so important in the history of college football, and especially the BCS, that this next statement warrants its own paragraph.
Boise State can win the national championship.
Believe it. First they must win all of their games. They can do it. At the moment only three of their remaining opponents have winning records. But that Boise State could go 13-0 in the WAC is not the story.
This week the Broncos are ranked #5 in both polls that play a factor in the BCS, which determines who plays for the national championship. Number 5 is neither #1 nor #2. But ahead of them are 3 SEC teams. Alabama and LSU play each other this season. Whichever team wins could play Florida for the SEC championship, provided the Gators remain unscathed in their division.
This means that AT LEAST 2 teams ahead of Boise State MUST lose later this season. All they would need is for the third SEC team, or Texas, to lose once this season, at any time, to move into that #2 spot in the polls. This is how college football polling has always worked. You keep winning and you move up. No one ever passes you.
If it happens this year, it will be an all-time injustice. If Texas and the SEC champion are unbeaten, well that sucks too, but less badly. This season I'm rooting for Boise State, the ultimate underdogs.
Now, about Boise State. This is so radical, so important in the history of college football, and especially the BCS, that this next statement warrants its own paragraph.
Boise State can win the national championship.
Believe it. First they must win all of their games. They can do it. At the moment only three of their remaining opponents have winning records. But that Boise State could go 13-0 in the WAC is not the story.
This week the Broncos are ranked #5 in both polls that play a factor in the BCS, which determines who plays for the national championship. Number 5 is neither #1 nor #2. But ahead of them are 3 SEC teams. Alabama and LSU play each other this season. Whichever team wins could play Florida for the SEC championship, provided the Gators remain unscathed in their division.
This means that AT LEAST 2 teams ahead of Boise State MUST lose later this season. All they would need is for the third SEC team, or Texas, to lose once this season, at any time, to move into that #2 spot in the polls. This is how college football polling has always worked. You keep winning and you move up. No one ever passes you.
If it happens this year, it will be an all-time injustice. If Texas and the SEC champion are unbeaten, well that sucks too, but less badly. This season I'm rooting for Boise State, the ultimate underdogs.
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