The Sun Belt Goes A-Rod…Huh?

by user LastRow

With so much variety to choose from it is understandable how this Sun Belt conference epic would go unnoticed. It’s not like on every given Saturday in the month of October we have the rarity of watching LSU-Florida, Tennessee-Georgia, Texas-Oklahoma, or even a rare treat of Oregon-California…Who even knew the West Coast existed? Some even had the rare pleasure of watching the Detroit Tigers advance to the American Championship Series. Now there’s something that goes hand in hand with the month of October, just as Halloween does…No, and not the Tigers facing the A’s in the Championship Series. It’s the one, the only A-Whad disappearing act. Go Yankess!!

Just as any good sports fan would do on a Saturday, I flipped between each of those games, (that is only after I got finished watching a Notre Dame bore fest victory). All these games had their own taste to them, although I still have the taste of one game in my mouth…Not really too sure if it’s a good taste or a bad one? During my flipping episode on Saturday night, I stumbled across the Florida International-North Texas game, on CSS Network. God, it’s great to live in South FLA, but by no means an epic! It was more along the lines of me wanting to gouge my eyes out with a rusty nail so I didn’t have to watch this anymore. So why did I? I wanted to see how long this sorry ass game would last & college football at its most pathetic state.

For the most part, an overtime game in college football reaching that state it’s because the two teams have played their asses off, not due to futility…Which was definitely not the case in the UNT-FIU game! This game, to best describe it in the football sense, was like watching Joe Theismann getting his leg snapped over and over again to the tune of seven agonizing times! You know those pee-wee basketball games that end up 5-4 in overtime…Yeah, we’re talking on that kind of level here folks. Sad thing is, this is Division I college football (or that’s how they would like to officially tag this). Speaking of that 5-4 score, ironically the halftime score of this barn burner was 5-0, North Texas…Why that’s more production than A-Whad did. Looking at it from a different perspective, so he really did “SUCK”! Although to be honest, between his play & this North Texas-Florida International football game…It’s to close to call on who gets “THE KING OF SUCK”?

Let’s quickly move ahead, so no regurgitation might commence here. FIU, outscored the Mean Green Machine 16-11in the second half to push this once just a sad & sorry Sun Belt Conference game, into college football lore. Surprisingly enough, since college football began playing overtime stanzas, North Texas never participated in one…Now we see why. One question I’m still asking myself…How does a game that reaches seven extra periods, count’em, seven overtime periods without having a single freaking touchdown being scored by either team? Were these teams coached by A-Whad or what? How does this happen…Play seven overtime periods and go from a 16-16 tie at the end of regulation to a final score of 25-22? Did I mention the fact NO FREAKING TOUCHDOWNS WERE SCORED IN SEVEN OVERTIMES BY BOTH SCHOOLS!

In one of the overtimes, (who knows which one…It’s all blurred together) North Texas Coach Darryl Dicky decided to kick a field goal on second down…Following with the theme of this game, of course it was no good. Hey genius, nobody kicks a field goal on second down in America! You’re not in Canada, and coaching in the CFL…Not even that can be as bad as this game was! However, the CFL would be an upgrade from North Texas…Would it not? I just wonder if UNT’s Homecoming crowd felt the same way watching in person as I did on my ass scratching myself? Did I mention the fact NO FREAKING TOUCHDOWNS WHERE SCORED IN SEVEN OVERTIMES BY BOTH SCHOOLS! And Yankees fans thought they had it bad!

So now this classic futility game on how not to play football will go along side the other two seven-overtime games which involved Arkansas -- against Mississippi in 2001 and Kentucky in 2003. In those cases the final scores in both resembled more along the lines of basketball scores, rather than one of a pee-wee variety. However, what’s more painful to watch, a peewee basketball game, a Division I college football with seven overtimes & no touchdowns, or seeing A-Whad & the Yankees do their annual disappearing act in October? No question it’s the “Instant Classic” which will be appearing later this week on ESPN Classic. Although, I am a really big fan of magic tricks & disappearing acts…And well the Yankees & that clown can do it no better year in & year out.

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