1st January
Well yesterday was the first day of the year, for me it is usually a very relaxing day, just watch TV and eat something.When I was little I hated this day because there was nothing on the TV only football and some movies.
Then I grew up and I started liking football (it is my second favorite sport just after baseball). Also I start liking college football, after the New Year I passed in Knoxville I am a Vols fan.
So I started liking every year more and more the 1 of January, so yesterday I had a nice day watching football and luckly I saw what some people consider the best game in history, it was a great game, it keep me awake until late night when the game was over.
Here is a small overview of the game:
The Broncos culminated an unrivaled string of gusto-laden, do-or-die trick plays with one of the oldest in the book, the Statue of Liberty. And when Ian Johnson grabbed Jared Zabransky's behind-the-back handoff, scooted around the left side and scored two titanic points to beat lordly Oklahoma 43-42 in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, magic bloomed in the desert.
"It doesn't even seem real to me," Boise State offensive tackle Andrew Woodruff said, perplexedly rubbing his burr-headed scalp on the field while the Broncos fans roared in the stands.
Reality was further challenged when Johnson followed his winning run with an on-field wedding proposal to his flabbergasted cheerleader girlfriend. But, please, one blockbuster story at a time.
The big picture: The Valley of the Stun was the stage as an indomitable bunch of dreamers in orange pants landed the mightiest populist blow of college football's modern era. They were Hickory High in helmets, George Mason in cleats. They knocked off a gridiron giant one decade to the day after the burial of Pokey Allen, the beloved Boise coach who brought the program up to Division I-A status just 11 years ago.
The doors to the sport's throne room seem thrown open as never before.
Check the plaque at the lady's feet on Liberty Island this morning and see if the familiar sonnet has been changed. See if it now reads, "Give me your non-BCS teams tired of being disrespected, your poor of football budget, your huddled masses of mid-major strivers yearning to play in the grandest bowl games." And see if Lady Liberty is wearing a Boise State jersey today.
The Broncos entered their first Bowl Championship Series game undefeated but unloved in some elitist quarters. The Western Athletic Conference champions were made a steep underdog to the twice-beaten Sooners, and were suspected by some of fraudulence. They carried not just their own quest for nationwide credibility into this game, but the hopes and dreams of every alleged mid-major team that had been snubbed by a system of the rich, for the rich and by the rich.
FULL STORY HERE
Also here you can see the last play of the game (one of the best ones I have seen in my life)
In other news tomorrow I go back to Belgium, so my next post will be from the other side of the world, from the city I call home for the last 1 year and a half, Brussels.
posted by pedroadrian @ 4:05 PM
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