Living with Fantastic Plays

If you have been following college football this year you have seen two plays that will live on in the lore of college football as fantastic plays. On the one hand Michigan State and Georgia Tech will relish every replay of those plays for at least the next twelve months, if not forever. Then again Michigan and Florida State fans would just as soon they disappear from the face of the earth. Good luck with that.

  The first, which I believe has been christened “Gift Six” was a fairly amazing play that ended the Michigan vs Michigan State game. In case you missed it, and as I mentioned earlier if you have been following college football this year I think that’s unlikely, but here it is Gift Six. Michigan was up 23-21 State had no timeouts left and with ten seconds left in the game. All Michigan had to do was run off those seconds. They elected to punt, that didn’t work out for them. The kid who returned the ball for the touchdown was injured. Jim Harbaugh, Michigan’s head coach, looked like he bitten into a lemon and some of the Michigan fans looked befuddled, while State fans were going wild.

  You know watching it live was one of those, oh my God moments. You watched it, and you saw it, and if you were a State fan it was unbelievable, because face it, up until that moment you knew you had just lost the game. If on the other hand, you were a Michigan fan you could not believe it, because you had the game won, it was over, all they had to do was punt.

  The second of these little ditties was at the end of the Florida State vs Georgia Tech game. The game was tied at 16 there and there were six seconds left. Florida State lined up to kick a 56 yard field goal. That seems daunting until you realize they have the best kicker in the country and he had NEVER missed a fourth quarter kick. Again in case you missed it here is the “Miracle on Techwood.” Well, needless to say the kick was blocked, a Tech player picked it up and apparently with many of his teammates yelling for him to get down he took off running.

  In an interview he says he looked up at the jumbotron and saw that there were only two players in front of him. The holder got blocked and he juked the kicker and he scored. Yup, if you are an FSU fan that one really sucked. They had won 28 straight ACC games and were in play for a playoff spot – well that’s most likely gone. To make every Georgia Tech fan’s day the Tech athletic department put together a video montage with Brandon Gaudin, “The Voice of the Jackets” calling the play and they repeated the play from every available angle. For Tech fans it’s pure bliss, for FSU fans it’s something else.

  I reckon there is no real moral to this story except that misery loves company. One of those plays will win an ESPY and FSU and Michigan fans will have to relive them for the next year. If its any consolation it gets easier to watch as time passes, but not much. You can be sure that when the Alabama vs Auburn game is aired this year the first highlight will be the “Kick Six” play, which for obvious reasons, I will not include.

  Enjoy the bye week y’all.

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