{"id":573884231,"date":"2012-12-08T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884231"},"modified":"2012-12-11T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T10:02:31","slug":"sad-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/12\/08\/sad-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stayed up too late last night &#8212; this morning, really &#8212; and slept in. Made brunch. <\/p>\n<p>Watched some quality DII football, where a quarterback who broke 5,000 yards in a single season. Old Dominion&#8217;s Taylor Heinicke broke a record held by the great Steve McNair. Remember McNair? Before his NFL career you heard about him almost every week at tiny Alcorn State. You&#8217;ve never heard of this Heinicke guy. But he puts up the yards.<\/p>\n<p>It all ended for him, though. <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.odusports.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/recaps\/120812aaa.html\">Old Dominion fell to Georgia Southern<\/a>, with the last three drives of his sophomore season ending with a fumble, a failed fourth down and an interception.<\/p>\n<p>And then the Army Navy game. I always cheer for Navy, the Department of the Navy has always been good to me. As the game progressed I began to think maybe I&#8217;d like Army to win. <\/p>\n<p>Just this once. Maybe everyone should know beating their rival at least once during their career. Three generations of Army players now haven&#8217;t had this experience. So it would be a good thing for the Black Knights to drive down this field, overcome some ridiculous play calling that should have already meant a tie ballgame, and punch it in in the final seconds to take home the glory.<\/p>\n<p>And then the fumble happened, and then Trent Steelman had a complete meltdown.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bH3UTWX3QbE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You have to feel bad for that guy, a leader among men. He had it. They had it. All of that hard work and then a bizarre fumble on a routine play they&#8217;ve done hundreds of times. Heartbreaking. But when a three-star and a sergeant major are trying to comfort you &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Tough stuff. Hate that that is the last moment of real college football for the year, but it is fitting, too.<\/p>\n<p>She couldn&#8217;t watch:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec12\/dec07.jpg\" alt=\"Allie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stayed up too late last night &#8212; this morning, really &#8212; and slept in. Made brunch. Watched some quality DII football, where a quarterback who broke 5,000 yards in a single season. Old Dominion&#8217;s Taylor Heinicke broke a record held by the great Steve McNair. Remember McNair? Before his NFL career you heard about him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,28,10,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-iphone","category-photo","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884233,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884231\/revisions\/573884233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}