We Were Pulling for You, Leathernecks

By on Aug 30, 2008 with Comments 0

Oh, So Close!

Those feisty Leathernecks almost made our day. As the college football season commenced yesterday, we celebrated by watching some mediocre football pretty much across the board. Such is to be expected on the first big weekend of the season.

The thing that excited us most? For four quarters, the possibility of the Western Illinois Leathernecks taking down Arkansas was oh-so-real. Then, with 1:49 left Casey Dick put the Razorbacks up 28-24 and solidified a 1-0 start to their 2008 season.

Why so much interest in WIU? No, it wasn’t just because we tend to enjoy the occasional upset of a D1 “power” by a championship subdivision institution (although we certainly do). Instead, we were extremely excited about the prospect of Bobby Petrino falling flat on his face in his big opener. You see, we don’t like him very much.

Few things would make our non-partisan college football fan experience more pleasurable this season than seeing Petrino fail miserably and get dumped like he’s so indiscriminately done to others.

For at least one weekend, the potential of sweet revenge was tantalizingly close. We were pulling for you, Leathernecks. We were pulling for you…

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About the Author: Cecilio's Scribe is the founder of The Legend of Cecilio Guante and a generally pessimistic fan of the Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rangers. A fine NYC-based gentlemen who hones his marketing skills as his primary trade by day. Husband, chef, father of a newborn and after-hours blogger by night. Proud alum of the mighty Big Red of Cornell. University. Hot sauce devotee. Staunch protester of the continued wussifcation of American sports. Sometimes I rhyme slow, sometimes I rhyme quick.

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