2023 Week 6
October 10, 2023
Now was that a great game at the Cotton Bowel or what?
Texas kicked a field goal to break a tie with 77 seconds left, then Oklahoma scored to take the lead with 15 seconds left. I hadn't seen so much scoring in such a short period of time since my junior prom. Unfortunately for the guys from Austin, their last ditch Hail Mary pass was knocked to the turf and the Sooners ran off with the win.
The dumbest play of the day, which I'm sure you've heard about, occurred in Miami when the Hurricanes ran the ball rather than taking a knee to run out the clock. Of course they fumbled and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets drove the field to score the winning touchdown in the closing seconds. That's got to be the most idiotic decision made in Coral Gables since Joe Montana's brother Tony showed up at a gunfight armed only with his little friend Tattoo.
Georgia retained its #1 ranking with a dominating 51-13 win over Kentucky. I'm guessing Ashley Jugg isn't inspiring the Wildcat athletes the way she did when she was younger.
Other powerhouse programs had a good day as well. Ohio State shook off a rough first half to pull away from the Maryland Twerps, winning 37-17. Alabama held off the Texas Aggies, 26-20. It's impressive to win in State College Station.
Southern Cal faced quite the challenge in a non-conference game against Arizona. The Trojans got into a back and forth battle, finally winning in a two-pointer shootout, 43-41.
LSU had a very difficult game up in Columbia Missouri but prevailed 49-39. Missouri looked to be in position to win but LSU took a 42-39 lead with 3 minutes to go. Mizzou had one more chance with under a minute to go, but LSU's CB Major Burns intercepted a pass and took it in for the final margin.
I haven't seen such fine tiger on tiger action since those two Vegas bengals faced off after dispatching Siegfried and Roy.
The game sealing pick six meant LSU, after trailing most of the game, ended up winning by 10 and, surprisingly, covered the 9 point spread. And some of the gambling obsessed guys up here, after a few beers and a lot of bets, get pretty wound up. Unfortunately Paul Hornung, hearing that Major Burns had been responsible for his lost bet, took it out on a recent arrival up here, actor Larry Linville. Poor Larry likely won't be hanging out here much anymore.
Now I rarely focus on the NFL but I've been hearing about these pro players getting involved with women who hang out in skyboxes and watch the game. I guess the latest one is former Georgia star and current Philadelphia Eagle D'Andre Swift and some girl named Kelcee.
This is a tradition that goes way back. Michigan great Tom Harmon even married an actress.
Columbia's Sid Luckman was pretty popular with the ladies as a pro in Chicago but faced scandal when he got involved with one of Al Capone's gals. Sid managed to avoid the old cement shoes treatment when he gave Al the scoop on the use of the T formation and Al won on his 100-1 Bears -60 bet in the NFL championship game when Chicago beat Washington 73-0.
One of the most famous football player celeb relationships involved Stanford star Ernie Nevers and a noted Hollywood actress. Ernie wasn't just a great player, he joined the Marines in World War II and his actress girlfriend Mary Jane sent him off to battle with some of her undergarments as reminders of their hot and heavy romance. While fighting in the South Pacific Ernie disappeared just off an island. He was using a piece of wood to tread water while holding his supply bag. He managed to avoid drowning because he pulled out some thread and a needle and sewed several of Mary Jane's extra large brassieres shut. As he put the improvised air-filled device around his upper body he floated his way to shore.
After learning of this incident the US Department of War started providing all their men with life preservers to prevent drowning. In honor of Mary Jane's undergarments and Ernie's quick thinking the devices were named after Mary Jane's stage name, which is how the US military began referring to life preservers as "Mae Wests".
And now you know the rest of the story.