would have just put this under a generic bowl thread but alas there ain't one... and this monstrosity is worthy of comment
2018 Cheez It Bowl
10-7 TCU over Cal in OT.
9 Interceptions.------- That's enough for this game to be remembered for how horrible it was but you'd be missing so much. Here are 2 quickies --
so it's late in a tie game and I am determined to stay awake. This woke me up and I thought it was funny enough to keep me awake
but it wasn't enough
Woke up to TCU kicking the winning FG. Sat up and rewound it on a hunch that although I missed exactly zero points there had to be some comedy in there.
It turns out that after TCU got in range to win it at the buzzer in regulation with a 45 yard-ish FG Cal called a timeout to freeze the kicker. Patterson yanked the kicker he had out on the field, that kid threw off his hemlet on the bench, the next kid ran towards the field and then Patterson changed back to the first kid --- who promptly went out and pulled it left. Cal managed to freeze 2 kickers and a head coach with that TO.
Cal had the ball first in OT and of course threw a pick which was almost housed for the win. This video cuts the tackle off but you're going to have to believe me that one of Cal's offensive linemen caught TCU's DB from behind …. no player wearing #71 should ever catch a guy wearing #1 from behind.
But some suit on the TCU sideline, evidently with the staff, ran onto the field and interfered with a ref leading to a 15 yard penalty that TCU fortunately was able to overcome and get into FG range and put this game out of its misery
I was hoping twitter would out the suit on the field during the runback but this is the closest I could find. I really want it to be the SID.
and of course the TCU kicker that Patterson inserted AND yanked during that single time out was the one that hit the winner.
This clunker was the first story on SportsCenter and trended very high on Twitter. The CheezIt social media people even got in on the action officially changing it to the 2018 Cheez (INT) Bowl. Now you can say you watched the worst football game ever televised without actually watching it.
Games like this and others where not all of the players show up, and still others where a good chunk of those that do dress out seem to quit, will eventually drive us to a 64 team play off where all the games matter.
2018 Cheez It Bowl
10-7 TCU over Cal in OT.
9 Interceptions.------- That's enough for this game to be remembered for how horrible it was but you'd be missing so much. Here are 2 quickies --
so it's late in a tie game and I am determined to stay awake. This woke me up and I thought it was funny enough to keep me awake
but it wasn't enough
Woke up to TCU kicking the winning FG. Sat up and rewound it on a hunch that although I missed exactly zero points there had to be some comedy in there.
It turns out that after TCU got in range to win it at the buzzer in regulation with a 45 yard-ish FG Cal called a timeout to freeze the kicker. Patterson yanked the kicker he had out on the field, that kid threw off his hemlet on the bench, the next kid ran towards the field and then Patterson changed back to the first kid --- who promptly went out and pulled it left. Cal managed to freeze 2 kickers and a head coach with that TO.
Cal had the ball first in OT and of course threw a pick which was almost housed for the win. This video cuts the tackle off but you're going to have to believe me that one of Cal's offensive linemen caught TCU's DB from behind …. no player wearing #71 should ever catch a guy wearing #1 from behind.
But some suit on the TCU sideline, evidently with the staff, ran onto the field and interfered with a ref leading to a 15 yard penalty that TCU fortunately was able to overcome and get into FG range and put this game out of its misery
I was hoping twitter would out the suit on the field during the runback but this is the closest I could find. I really want it to be the SID.
and of course the TCU kicker that Patterson inserted AND yanked during that single time out was the one that hit the winner.
This clunker was the first story on SportsCenter and trended very high on Twitter. The CheezIt social media people even got in on the action officially changing it to the 2018 Cheez (INT) Bowl. Now you can say you watched the worst football game ever televised without actually watching it.
Games like this and others where not all of the players show up, and still others where a good chunk of those that do dress out seem to quit, will eventually drive us to a 64 team play off where all the games matter.
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