The Snowball And The Hot Place

I gave UK as much chance to win the football against UT yesterday as the proverbial snowball in the hot place, but somehow the snowball survived. It wasn’t pretty and as usual I was fuming angry all during the game at the horrific play calling by the coaches. I know, I know they sort of had their hands tied, but couldn’t they let a quarterback who has been playing football for many years throw a short pass up field a few times?

Don’t get me wrong about the win. I am ecstatic that UK won. The streak has been 25 years too long so this win is so satisfying on many fronts. First and foremost beating anything with the color orange as a school color is very satisfying. I kept seeing the face of Mr. Dooley on camera yesterday with that gray jacket on. It didn’t look so bad until the camera showed a full torso of him wearing those ugly orange pants and it was like, ugh why did you put such ugly things on for your pants. The person or persons that choose that color were insane at the best. The people that choose to keep it their school color are even worse because they see ugly splattered all over the place and do nothing about it.

Yeah the win is doubly satisfying because now we won’t have to listen to it a million times over and over like broken records reloading to punish you. This time it is their turn and it will be even worse for them because they are the team, coach and administration that let it happen. They have to live with that for the rest of their lives and I am so happy for them! I do feel bad for the coach, because he seems to be a decent sort of guy so I don’t hate him, because as coach he had to wear that color. I wish him well in his future assistant coach job(s) at another institution, because this will surely be his last year at UT. I bet he has had to hire extra security for their safety. I can only imagine the death threats he may have already received, because as the announcers said during the Bama and Auburn game there would be repercussions from that loss.

Now back to the game…what really happened to secure the win? I mean really!? UK is horrible and there is no way an offense so bad the coaches wouldn’t even attempt a forward pass could beat any division 1 team. The defense played their hearts out, but even that had many holes in it all game long, but UT couldn’t take advantage of it. Their quarterback is so slow he moves in slow motion. I kept wondering why our guys couldn’t splatter the guy all over the field.

The last 1:47 was terrifying to watch, because that is the point where the clock was stopped to attend to a downed referee. Isn’t that the place during the game when UK usually has something bad happen to them?  Certainly, the clock was their enemy at that point of the game! UK desperately needed the clock to run really fast, but there it was stopped giving UT time to settle down a bit and call a good play, but even more importantly to them gave them more time.

I just knew fate had just intervened once again to deny UK the win, but somehow it didn’t. Time stood still for an eternity and I was screaming at the referrer’s to start the clock, but they wouldn’t for the longest time.  Finally, play resumed with a pass to the sideline and we all know the usual ending to that story all to well don’t we, however;  from out of nowhere Danny Trevathan almost intercepted a pass to a receiver, but he didn’t.  I knew then fate was torturing us for the dramatic letdown and our 26 years of hope was going to crash to the ground by one fateful play.  There was no doubt we were going to lose, but I had to watch anyway.  I just knew the next pass was going for a touchdown or close enough for an easy field goal to tie the game. We surely didn’t want another extra period for another quirky meltdown.  Then the fateful play unfolds as I held my breath while the ball sailed right down the middle of the field.  Sure enough fate intervened and some how some way the pass was picked off allowing UK to run out the clock securing the win.

All I can say is the snowball must have had a special coat on it yesterday, because the fire was hot and orange in color.  Now the UT administrators need more than a snowball to put out that fire.

Yes indeed, that win is sweet for the color BLUE!  Can I breathe now?

BigBlueRules Top 25 Week 7

1 Alabama
2 LSU
3 Oklahoma
4 Oklahoma St
5 Wisconsin
6 Clemson
7 Boise St
8 Stanford
9 Arkansas
10 Oregon
11 Kansas St
12 Va Tech
13 Nebraska
14 South Carolina
15 West Virginia
16 Michigan St
17 Michigan
18 Houston
19 Auburn
20 Texas A&M
21 Penn St
22 Georgia Tech
23 Ill
24 Washington
25 Texas

I still think things can change, but we all know the 2 best teams in the Nation are from the SEC West