Email one, 6:49 p.m. EDT: Hey, yo, I think you should put this video on your blog. It’s good.

Email two 7:38 p.m. EDT, from totally different guy: I am so embarrassed by this video as a USC alum.

Conflicting emails within a 49 minute span regarding the quality of an internet tribute video? Sold! ROLL THAT BITCHMAKER, STEVIE!!!

As someone who’s managed to do it, sounding bad with autotune is quite an accomplishment. Feel free to break your shoulders with repeated, hyperextended pats on the back for that feat. On the positive side, the song does contains the lyric “Stop Gang Violence In LA,” which truly does week of winforevertude.

The good doctor once did this better than we possibly could, but the piece is lost somewhere in the mists of the internet in the cached archives of Sunday Morning Quarterback.

The header on this video is “One of the worst offensive series ever in college football,” and if you limit the definition of “worst” to “a series where, while not turning the ball over for a change of possession or a score, the offense displays repeated, consistent, and diverse ways of stepping face first in front of the red boxing glove on an expanding arm time and time again,” then yes; we’re talking about what might legitimately be not one, but the worst series of offensive football every played.

Ladies and gentlemen: Nicholls State versus Northwestern State. Northwestern has the ball on the Nicholls State 47, and is down 33-14. Watch from between your fingers if you have to.

1st and 10: incomplete pass. The best drive for Northwestern State all drive, as it is merely an incompletion.

2nd and 10: Illegal procedure, NW State. Also, an oncoming pass rusher flies sideways into the qb’s knee after the play. (more…)

In honor of UGA’s outstanding financial status going into this season:

Men with cash on their heads never disappoint.

It’s an ingenious piece of marketing, yes (HT: Ted Miller): you type in your name, and you not only get a personalized video tour through the Sun Devils football offices, but also a phone call from Dennis Erickson telling you how important you are, and about the time he ran the Angry Post-Hole Digger drill with a one-armed woman in Saskatchewan for two hours straight once in a Comfort Inn. (“Had to burn the sheets afterwards that time!”)

It is all very well done, though we might suggest one modification, brilliant marketing people at Arizona State: a filter. These are all screencaps from various submissions, and are not photoshopped. (Holly, of course, contributed mightily.)

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