Don’t Read This
by ChrisJanuary 5th, 2006 1:08 am
I don’t usually follow college football very closely, but I have to say that the last two nights have been a treat. It’s an extraordinarily rare occasion that we see two terrifically competitive college bowl games played in prime time on consecutive evenings. This year’s Orange Bowl and Rose Bowl provided football junkies with enough juice to satisfy the crazed soul for at least a week or two.
Like a lot of people, I tuned into the Rose Bowl tonight for a last chance to watch Reggie Bush tear through a college defense. That’s all well and good, but the thing I came away from tonight’s game with is slack jawed awe at the talent of the Longhorn’s quarterback Vince Young. The guy is a six and half foot tall monster who can run a game, has an arm like a cannon, can throw an accurate pass with a defender or three wrapped around his knees and can put the ball down and run over a swarm of defenders and shake a few more. All that and he’s a Junior. Damn. If he’s even half as good as he played tonight, I suspect we’ll be hearing his name in close proximity to glowing accolades for a decade or so to come. If he winds up on the Redskins or Cowboys, I think that will serve as the final piece of evidence that the universe is conspiring against Philadelphia sports fans.
