The Season for Giving College Football Style

[cactuswatcher]

Our state's two major universities were playing for the "Territorial Cup" yesterday. I don't mind ASU, but I've always been a minor fan of UofA. Arizona clearly looked like the better team, yesterday. But Arizona St. was coming on strong at the end. ASU looked like they had a tie game in the bag, and a solid chance in overtime, when UofA had to punt late in the game. ASU's star dropped the punt and UofA had an easy field goal on the last play to win the game.

When that game ended we were switched over by the network to "The Nike Let's-Dress-Up-Like-Clowns Bowl" better known as the Border War between my Missouri Tigers and the Kansas Dumb Jayhawks Jayhawks. {Actually the uniforms weren't so bad compared to last year's Oregon-style ugly. With a support-our-troops theme, KU was in somewhat eye-popping red-white-and-blue, MU in tasteful, if bland, black-and-white. But somehow Nike thought MU would look great in 'camo' helmets - black-on-charcoal as if they were ashamed someone might figure out where they were from. Considering the razzing Nike's "designers" get every year, you'd think they'd fire those people and just sell uniforms teams want and stop paying teams big bucks to look like morons.} Anyway the game turned out much like the game before it. KU, the underdog, looked like it had the game in the bag with the lead and MU having to punt with about three minutes left. Sure enough after two incomplete passes, MU's defensive coordinator correctly guessed KU would run a quarterback draw out of the end zone. The quarterback never made it to the goal line and MU was down by one with KU having to kick the ball away. MU wasn't exactly having a bad day on offense. So they roared down the field, took a knee a couple times and coolly kicked a short field goal with no time left.

Sorry, KU. The tigers' awful defense couldn't save Mark Mangino this time.