The real pain begins. The good news is you only have to remember it for the rest of your life, which probably isn’t as long as you think it will be..

Number three: No no no no no no no. The kid’ll just throw the ball through the back of the endzone, right? Or get out of bounds in time? I mean, he’ll have to, right? There’s no way he’ll kill this comeback by just putting us out there on the grill sizzling in the clock? Not when we’ve been number one for an hour and a half? Nah, he’ll….

Time is the fire in which we all burn, Jeff Tedford. Of all of these, this is the one that would make us wake up screaming at night as a coach. You’ll see why when you see numbers two and one, but when the disaster is entirely manmade, you can’t even plea to the gods to intervene.

Numbers two and one to come. They’ll hurt.