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by YankeeJim | January 11, 2011 at 04:17 am
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To my friend Martin in St. Petersburg who picked the Ducks, I warned him that “ducks” don’t make a good symbol – duck and cover; here comes the ball – duck! He is a southerner now, and he waved off the Auburn Tigers.
I admit that I get Auburn Tigers confused with the Clemson Tigers. Tigers are everywhere. Clemson put a red paw on their helmets. Auburn University uses AU that sounds like hey you.
My Ohio State University Buckeyes sure seemed like they played better than Ducks and Tigers. What’s a buckeye? Falls from a tree. Looks like the eye of a deer.
Oh well. I watched the Monday night BCS playoff but I would have opted for watching a new Outsourced program instead.
I fell asleep on the seesaw and missed the final kick. Kicking is no way to end a game featuring Cam Newton is it?
http://auburntigers.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/aub-m-footbl-body.html
“Auburn Wins BCS Title With Last-Second Kick
Published January 11, 2011
Associated Press
Jan. 10: Auburn's Kodi Burns (18) and teammates celebrate after beating Oregon 22-19 in the BCS National Championship game in Glendale, Ariz.
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Auburn running back Michael Dyer never heard any whistle, so he just kept running -- past the tackler who thought he had him down and deep into Oregon territory.
Dyer broke stride, then took off on a once-in-a-lifetime run in the final minutes, setting up a field goal on the last play that led No. 1 Auburn over the No. 2 Ducks 22-19 in the BCS championship game Monday night.
The freshman running back upstaged Auburn's Heisman-winning quarterback Cam Newton with a 37-yard run, in which he appeared down but wasn't -- his knee never hit the ground -- as he rolled over Oregon defender Eddie Pleasant to put the Tigers in scoring position.
Three plays later, Dyer ran 16 yards to push the ball to the 1 and set up Wes Byrum's 19-yard field goal with no time left. It was his sixth career game-winning field goal -- the one that capped off a perfect, 14-0 season, brought the title back to Auburn for the first time since 1957 and left the Southeastern Conference on top for the fifth straight year.
"Fifty-three years, baby," coach Gene Chizik said to the cheering crowd. "This is for you. War Eagle!"
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/...ond-kick/#ixzz1Aj9D9A5t”
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at 04:30 on January 11th, 2011
Fumbling and kicking to a national BCS championship
at 16:06 on January 13th, 2011
Ducks is a funny nickname, I guess that's a west-coast thing, like naming UC Santa Cruz sports teams "Banana Slugs." Of course, I doubt UCSB plays anything more than intramural frisbee golf and maybe volleyball, but still.
However, it occurs to me that I'm not sure what to call Auburn. I referred to "Hold that Tiger" in an earlier reply to Jim, and after posting it, suddenly had the sinking feeling that they weren't the Tigers, but the Auburn War Eagles.
Are they both? Their helmets say "Tigers" in the front and "War Eagles" in the back or vice-versa. You can call Alabama the "Jumbos" but nobody knows what you're talking about short of historians and fans of uniform patches.
At any rate, it was a close game, although Auburn had better performances and time of possession by far. There's always next year!
at 04:42 on January 14th, 2011
Thank you catlips, now go find that box of sand.