The first (and probably last) time
There’s a very good chance that football will never again be discussed on Nuinca.com
It’s not that I don’t <3 me some SEC football GO GAMECOCKS! but games don’t sit on top of my mind very often – and really, how much could I say about USC football?
So pay attention to this, it’s historical!
Our quarterback, Stephen Garcia, was tackled by a ref this Saturday against LSU. I don’t mean the ref got in the way, or that Garcia ran into the ref, or the ref got confused and was crying and couldn’t see and mistook Garcia for his mother, I mean tackled.
Garcia was running with the football, passed near a ref, the ref braced himself, lowered his shoulder, hoisted up and hit Garcia, stopping him dead in his tracks. It was actually a really good hit. The ref had no pads and no momentum, and still stopped a man 30 years his junior.
But seriously, WTF. The league isn’t going to take action against the ref, and the ref is claiming self-defense (like he’s a judo master or something).
My fairness barometer for USC football is Steve Spurrier. If Spurrier calls bullshit, I call bullshit, But suprisingly enough, Spurrier didn’t fault the ref. Probably because Mike Davis later scored on that drive anyway.