FOOTBALL CHRISTMAS: GIFTS 61-70
70. Miller High Life. We really only drink this glorified mare’s urine in the fall, but some alchemy in the season combined with the whiff of nostalgia makes the otherwise substandard brew a choice beverage for any tailgate. Helps in humid sweatbox environments that little, if any alchohol is actually contained within.
The champagne of beers.
69. Breakfast with Gameday. Even Big and Rich couldn’t ruin this one for us.
68. The flea-flicker.
67. The reverse flea-flicker.
66. Fake punts: subtype: awesome
65. The reverse
64. The double reverse.
63. The double reverse pass to the qb (unless called against Michigan in bowl game.)
62. The hook ‘n ladder.
61. Fake punts: subtype: galling failures.
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Bullfrog says:
Galling failures rule, as does the champagne.
August 31st, 2006 at 4:49 pm
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Stranko Montana says:
I have never actually seen a double reverse and am not convinced one has ever been used. Typically the anouncers will dub an end around reverse as a double reverse… when one more hand off is actually required to make it a true double reverse. Pet Peave.
August 31st, 2006 at 4:50 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
That fucking play to Vernell Brown in the Outback Bowl was a double reverse, dammit.
August 31st, 2006 at 4:52 pm
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gozer says:
I haven’t been able to find it, but somewhere, there’s gotta be a youtube of the fake punt by Vandy against Bammer(I think) in ‘96- only time I’ve ever seen a fake punt where the punter took the ball and ran with it. Even better that it was out of his own end-zone (or close, anyway) and went for a TD.
August 31st, 2006 at 4:57 pm
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JD says:
This site is heaven. I don’t know how I’d get through a work day without it.
August 31st, 2006 at 4:59 pm
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Arse says:
Couldn’t find any clips of running it up the middle? I always like that play.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:00 pm
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Earl Schlobodowicz says:
You need a utube of the fake punt of SCar at UF in 2000 when we were down 21-0 and our punter took off for 30 yards or so to start the second quarter comeback. Perhaps the Lito touchdown return right before the half will come in your top 10.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:01 pm
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Matt says:
No love for the naked bootleg?
August 31st, 2006 at 5:06 pm
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The Stos says:
It might only be because Nate Vasher played for my team while I was in college, or it might be because his nickname was ESPN 3………but that clip always makes me goo my pants
August 31st, 2006 at 5:41 pm
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Ahab says:
Hmm, how come we didn’t see any of those screen pass/flea flicker plays at UF last year? Come on Urban. Don’t you know Gators love gunslingers?
August 31st, 2006 at 5:51 pm
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italiangator says:
Yeah, nobody does a double reverse for the very fact that by the time it develops, it’s screwed; not only is it too slow, the defense winds up being out of position which magically gets turned back to being…..anybody? That’s right! They’re in position! It’s a damn good thing that game meant nothing other than the cold blackness I felt in my heart, because if there was something real on the line, I’d be a bit pissed about it.
August 31st, 2006 at 5:57 pm
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BT says:
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. High Life is NOT urine-like, it is a fantastic American beer that any man should be damn proud to drink. Look to those folks in Missouri to bottle and sell piss … not us Wisconsinites. WE give you the High Life.
Also, Coors Light is the ultimate breakfast beer, as everyone knows. It has about a third the body of High Life Light.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:01 pm
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tbmd96 says:
“Stand Up and Be Strong” by Soul Asylum??? WTF? What is this, 1994?
August 31st, 2006 at 6:01 pm
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tbmd96 says:
Why can’t I post?
August 31st, 2006 at 6:02 pm
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Ank says:
You have pleased Godzillatron with your love for the ‘Horns. Godzillatron shall smile upon you and your family, protecting you from evil dawgs and tigers.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:08 pm
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CouchBurnin'Girl says:
What, no You Tube of the WVU fake punt against UGA in the Sugar Bowl?
Destined to be a classic…
August 31st, 2006 at 6:18 pm
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The Stos says:
Godzillatron replays will be better than wathing them on a 50 inch in your own livingroom.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:29 pm
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TexasGrad says:
yeah that vince play isn’t a reverse is it.
August 31st, 2006 at 6:39 pm
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Newspaper Hack says:
A pox on your house for the Oklahoma clip.
POX!
August 31st, 2006 at 9:16 pm
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milevin says:
Best use of YouTube. Ever. Reason #11 why this site is required reading.
August 31st, 2006 at 9:30 pm
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Geaux Irish says:
Arse, ask and you shall receive: Running up the middle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXomu6uWD_0
(Sorry Orson, too good to pass up.)
September 1st, 2006 at 12:23 am
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VolBrian says:
Another galling failure could be the limpwristed attempt of a fake punt by Britton Colquitt at UF last year. Doesn’t come close to that hit in the Texas clip though, that shit hurts just to watch!
September 1st, 2006 at 1:04 am
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Up with the White and Gold says:
“Flea Flicker off the screen”?
Those guys are idiots. It was just a screen with a lateral. It would have been a flea flicker if the recepter of the lateral then attempted a pass, but that would have been illeagal after a forward pass has already been made.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:26 am
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DAve says:
Say what you want about Verne Lundquist, but he renders moot semantical arguments about trick plays simply by referring to them as “dipsy doodles” – much easier than getting all technical.
September 1st, 2006 at 7:38 am
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Aerobab says:
Spurrier used to sport the sweater-vest too? Were those things “cool” back in ‘92 or something? Did the Ole’ Ball Coach eventually grow up, while THE McSweater-Vest remains 14 years in the past?
September 1st, 2006 at 9:45 am
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GutierrezForHeisman says:
We actually ran a true double reverse (three hand-offs) against Wisconsin a few years back wih David Terrell. I remember watching it and thinking, “What the hell are we doing?!” because it seemed to take forever before we actually turned upfield. Then it went for a big gain, so I was ok with it.
I haven’t seen it since, though I keep hoping Lloyd will bust it out again some day. It was a thing of beauty.
Go Blue!
September 1st, 2006 at 11:35 am