2012 Week 13
December 5, 2012
Well, the conference title games are over and we're now ready for the most exciting time of the year, bowel season. For some of us bowel season is a year-round thing, but let's not get into that.
Alabama beat Georgia in an exciting SEC title game and will now face Notre Dame in the BS national title game in Miami. There were lots of trick plays in the contest, Georgia ran a fake punt to a slot receiver and I swear I saw Nick Satan's head spin 720 degrees.
Louisville nipped Rutgers in the Big East title game. Stanford upended UCLA for the Pac 8 championship and a trip to the Rose Bowel. There they'll meet Wisconsin, who destroyed the Cornholio in the Big 10 title game. I haven't seen a jowly guy with bad hair mow down Nebraskans like that since Charlie Starkweather.
Florida State nipped Georgia Tech to win the ACC championship and a trip to the Orange Bowel to play MAC champion Northern Illinois. And the Yukon Huskies lost out to Cincinnati and thus Canadian teams are still winless against the AFC Central.
It wasn't just conference title games. The Pac-8 featured a runner-up game and Oregon State destroyed new member Nichols State. The Big Eight and Southwest Conference had some crossover games, with Kansas City State beating Texas and Oklahoma knocking off TCU.
One of the more exciting games was another crossover. Baylor held off Oklahoma State 41-34. They clinched the game when Baylor runner back Lache Seastrunk, son of famed Martian Otis Seastrunk, went 76 yards for a touchdown.
What was impressive was that Seastrunk injured his hamstring halfway through the run, then ran, mostly on one leg, all the way to the end zone, then limped off the field. It was quite an effort.
This wasn't the first time an injured player finished a play. Years ago the University of Illinois was playing its cross-state rival, the University of Chicago. Due to injuries, the Illini moved one of their linemen, a guy named Harold, to halfback.
Late in the game, with Illinois down 14-10, they handed the ball off to Harold. He broke into the secondary and was racing for the end zone when he got clotheslined by a Chicago safety who had snuck in a machete (the Big Ten was a pretty dirty league back then). The clothesline was so bad that Harold actually got decapitated.
In spite of his head being chopped off, Harold still ran to the end zone for the game-winning touchdown on a legendary carry, then passed away.
That's how ginger-haired running back Harold "Red" Grange, ole '77, became known as "The Galloping Ghost".
And now you know the rest of the story.
Be sure to check back next week for Beeno's Bowel Preview. Stuff will proceed slowly at first and there will be some stinkers, then, on New Year's Day, everything will come flowing out at once and things will smell like a rose.
See Beeno's 2012 Bowel Preview