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IMMUNITY FAIL

This is the last thing we will write about the game on Saturday night: you think you'd be at least composed by now, but on Saturday night when Florida blitzed two and forced an early incompletion and three and out from John Parker Wilson, I shat on the altar of the press box.

I let out a "WOOOO!" A loud, redneck "WOOOO!" to my ears, but one that another writer described as "a bit ladylike, actually." This writer was a lady, so we take her opinion as an authoritative one.

Thereafter, after being semi-restrained and cautioned by the writers around us--we were over on the far right side of the pressbox, and thus missed getting garbage thrown at us by the majority of the press corps--we actually sat on our hands when typing wasn't necessary. We are not lying: we sat on our hands for most of the fourth quarter, and rocked back and forth at the worst moments.

This should get easier. When Louis Murphy sticks out his hands and the ball taps down like an F-14 making a pinpoint carrier landing into his hands, we shouldn't actually conjure up the word "sublimity." We shouldn't get teary. You should get teary over the things people normally get over, like puppies, and new babies, and the sun coming out after three months of rain and death and Adagio when they play it in movies, even though playing Barber over your film's tragic scene is a dick move but you cry anyway because it is designed to break your heart and be sad.

Shoulds keep failing us here. It was beautiful. In the moment we were the home-schooled kid lacking the basic social skills to keep from screaming out EUONYM and leaping up and down in an ill-fitting shirt. The 8 bit emotional motor in our head still can't handle the full glory of this game at its worst; at its best, it crashes the system, and no amount of press box cookies and grub can help that.

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Any chance we can get a scene involving a bikini clad SJPW teathered to Terrence Cody or is weird to cross Sex in the City and Star Wars references? You know, because slutty hipsters and sci fi dorks (together, like 95% of the country, with Ron Paul voters the other 5%) wouldn’t get the reference to the other.

by Claws on Dec 8, 2008 12:46 PM EST reply actions  

The Bama folk in my section were very nice and cordial. I tried to return the favor but likely seemed to them a troglodyte when Tebow hit that last TD (Riley Cooper really?).

I much prefer nice, relaxing blowouts than three hours of nervous tics and crunching my fingernails down to the bone while praying to the almighty football deities FOR ONE G*DDAMN THIRD DOWN STOP!!!!

Much easier on the 37-year old ticker, those 5 touchdown leads in the 2nd half.

I think we may have witnessed an epic clash. This game shall reside in the sanctuary of my DVR for many moons.

by DHC on Dec 8, 2008 12:46 PM EST reply actions  

My own experience was considerably more outspoken…from blown calls to poor execution, anything that didn’t net a first down or td was fair game and received the wrath of a liquored-up adrenalin junkie…

Fortunately I was alone and the creative expletives were fueled by a combustible mixture of beer (first quarter to first three minutes of the second) followed by a bottle of Chateau neuf de Pape (wtf? I don’t know! It was frickin’ there!) which lasted until halftime which successfully launched a foray into extremely large glasses of Tanqueray and tonic for the remainder of the game. The mixed alcohol/adrenalin combination assured Mrs. sb had a wonderful time corraling me for a Christmas party at 7pm. A great time was had by…me…until the next morning.

O.,…that F-14 landing into Murphy’s hands would be an “OK three wire”. Just sayin’…

by sb on Dec 8, 2008 12:54 PM EST reply actions  

You know, in places other than the US journalistic integrity doesn’t mean being a cold-hearted bitch. Fuck it Orson, I hope you screamed like a ninny in that press box.

by BurritoBrosShits on Dec 8, 2008 1:00 PM EST reply actions  

IT’S NOT FAIR! YOU CHEATED! I WANNA DO OVER! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Sincerely,

John

by SobbingJohn on Dec 8, 2008 1:04 PM EST reply actions  

I like the shout out to Sammy B — brother can compose.

As impressive as Florida’s win is, the fact remains Alabama did not beat a current Top 10 team this season. Florida’s best win is inferior to that of Texas (i.e., OU), and its only loss is inferior to that of Texas (Texas Tech away vs. Mississippi at home).

Just sayin’.

by allaha on Dec 8, 2008 1:07 PM EST reply actions  

@6 Texas failed to win its own conference. Florida won theirs. So carp all you want about fairness, but it was the Big 12’s own tiebreaker that did them in.

by Brian O'Blivion on Dec 8, 2008 1:14 PM EST reply actions  

Orson, congratulations to you and your team. Tim Tebow deserves at least a dozen gallons of hair gel for his absurdly outstanding performance. Yes, that hair gel barb is the mark of a sore loser, but it least it beats: ARP! ARP! JORTS! ARP! Seriously, though, here’s hoping Florida crushes Oklahoma and keeps the SEC in its rightful place, atop the BCS mountain. And allaha, I’ve seen NBA teams play better defense that what was displayed by the Big 12 this year, just sayin’.

by Mr. Shuler Goes to Washington on Dec 8, 2008 1:17 PM EST reply actions  

Nice reference to the most home-schooled spelling bee contestant ever. That whole thing still cracks me up. The best part is the judge’s deadpan “Uh, that’s correct.”

by Mätt on Dec 8, 2008 1:22 PM EST reply actions  

It may have been a faux pas in the press room but dammit that’s what makes this site great. Enough journalism to get into the press box with enough boosterism to almost get thrown out. 100+ to our kind host!

by OhioDawg on Dec 8, 2008 1:25 PM EST reply actions  

I have to completely agree with you orson. Bama is the evil empire, LSU are the Klingons and Barber’s
Adagio is the saddest most heart wrenching music ever written. My nerdness laid out for all to see.

by uwfgator on Dec 8, 2008 1:31 PM EST reply actions  

11

To me, the TRUE Evil Empire will always exist in Oxfart, Mississippi. I’d like to call the USChikins the same, but that would be laughable as they’re too incompetent to run a laundromat, much less an empire.

by yoyofutbawl on Dec 8, 2008 1:55 PM EST reply actions  

Nature Boy Dept:

Orson: That “WOOOO” should have been followed-up by a Nature Boy-type strut. Now that would have been cool….strutting up and down the press box aisle yelling…“Woooooooo”…

by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Dec 8, 2008 2:06 PM EST reply actions  

allaha, isn’t it odd that the reason why Texas said TT shouldn’t be considered in the three-way tie is that OU beat the holy hell out of them? The essential argument is that if only OU had beat TT by, let’s say, 5 points instead of 40, then the three-way tie would have been legitimate. Texas’s lone argument rests on the fact that OU is too goddamn good.

It’s also interesting that as soon as we start looking for a “good loss”, TT suddenly becomes worthy again.

So while the arguments are fun, you’ve got to see the flaws in all of them as well. But somehow I doubt that you ever thought about the actual reason why TT should have been discounted (other than the fact that historically they’re a redheaded stepchild). Just sayin’.

by italiangator on Dec 8, 2008 2:15 PM EST reply actions  

@ 3…

Sorry, but I think that was an “OK” underlined. Probably deserves more for the shit hot break, but I’m not an LSO.

by Pinto on Dec 8, 2008 3:12 PM EST reply actions  

As I know from a personal ringside-encounter with the Nature Boy during my senior year in high school, any heart-felt “WOOOO” must immediately be followed by one honking his nuts and asking “You want somma this, baby?”

by Mrs. Saban on Dec 8, 2008 3:27 PM EST reply actions  

Giving credit where credit is due:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KebWfNecMzg

by Mich-Placed Gator on Dec 8, 2008 3:36 PM EST reply actions  

OS: If you don’t get an unpressmanlike penalty in press box in Miami, I’m running your ass into the ground January 9.

Regards,
Coach Richt

by Grady on Dec 8, 2008 4:10 PM EST reply actions  

Pinto @ #15…yeah but an ‘“OK” underlined’ doesn’t quite convey the full level of achievement and I was trying to pack it all in there…LSO’ing sucks.

by sb on Dec 8, 2008 5:26 PM EST reply actions  

Wait wait wait… who’s this “I” person? We’ve never heard of them.

by The Other Dave on Dec 8, 2008 5:42 PM EST reply actions  

Don’t curse Star Wars like that… ass.

by pfingers on Dec 9, 2008 4:12 AM EST reply actions  

OS: Were you merely "relieving yourself "of the stress of your Tebowner? I, on the otherhand, will be finding some dive bar where I shall sing “with arms wide open.” I only hope there’s some semblance of a cross there upon which I can hang myself. …..and another cocktail

by bamagreg on Dec 9, 2008 4:14 AM EST reply actions  

@7 — You are right: the Big 12 tie breaker (and, of course, the loss to Tech) kept Texas out; however, following rules does not always yield the just result. Ask Billy Budd his thoughts on the subject.

@8 — You also are right: Big 12 defensive stats are unimpressive; however, it is difficult for the same conference to have both impressive offensive and impressive defensive stats. Please remind me how the SEC offensive stats are.

@14 — You are wrong: my argument has nothing to do with OU’s margin of victory over Tech; indeed, if OU had barely beaten Tech, it would not have received the human votes necessary to vault over Texas. . . . Also, it is comically incorrect to write “Texas’s lone argument rests on the fact that OU is too goddamn good.” For those with neurons, Texas’s main argument is that it beat OU. . . . Finally, I think it is unfortunate that Tech, ranked 7, is not going to a BCS Bowl. Nonetheless, the reason they were discounted is their awful SOS relative to OU and Texas, which affected how they were perceived by both the computers and human voters.

by allaha on Dec 9, 2008 7:40 AM EST reply actions  

@23 Billy Bud recommends you consult Pogo on the subject, because you have met the enemy, and he is us.

by Brian O'Blivion on Dec 9, 2008 10:55 AM EST reply actions  

@24 —

+1

by allaha on Dec 9, 2008 12:53 PM EST reply actions  

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