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The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread
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I wasn't sure where to put this one but said I'd fire it in here as even those who don't watch college ball may be interested:
"A Football Life: The 2006 Rose Bowl" airs in the early hours of Friday night our time and should be a cracking watch. Some notes from the documentary, taken from Sporting News:
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2014-12-31/2006-rose-bowl-vince-young-matt-leinart-pete-carroll-a-football-life-nfl-networkOne day after Oregon and Florida State square off in the Rose Bowl, NFL Network will air its first-ever college-centric episode of “A Football Life,” focused on the 2006 Rose Bowl.
It’s at the front of the line for the greatest college sporting events ever, but NFL Network still unearths a lot of great nuggets with interviews from those in and around the game, including Matt Leinart, Vince Young, Snoop Dogg, Matthew McConaughey and more. Here are eight of our favorite nuggets, but there are still plenty of other reasons to watch on Jan. 2 at 9 p.m. ET.
1. Time passing makes people candid about a lot of things. In particular, two USC players — LenDale White and Steve Smith — are clear that they second-guessed Pete Carroll’s decision to take Reggie Bush off the field for a critical fourth-and-1. A Trojans conversion would’ve never given Young the chance for his game-winning drive in Pasadena. Smith: “That kind of baffled me a little bit.” White, who failed to convert, said he put that play on coaching, believing that keeping Bush on the field would've taken another defender out of the box.
2. What was Vince Young’s message to Texas in the huddle before that winning drive? Former Texas offensive lineman Kasey Studdard didn’t mince words with the colorful message: “Let your nuts hang, bitches. Let’s go.”
3. Leinart, Young, Jeff Fisher and Ken Whisenhunt are remarkably open about the failure of both QBs to meet their NFL expectations. Specifically, Fisher on Young: “Other things in the offseason were more important to Vince than football and it appeared to be the case at times during the year. There was a sense of entitlement. A sense of ‘I can do what I want because I’ll show up on Sundays.’ I sensed a lack of maturity. He was quick to blame other people for things that didn’t go right.”
4. While it’s not the first time he said it, this is likely new information to many: Young says he would’ve stayed at Texas, following his epic performance in the 2006 Rose Bowl, had he known the Houston Texans wouldn’t draft him No. 1 overall. Young was born in Houston.
5. Leinart and White took very different paths after the stunning loss. White was hanging with a despondent Snoop Dogg. Leinart says he went to Carl’s Jr. for a double western bacon cheeseburger and a shake. “I’ll never forget that’s what I got and I went home and I slept and that was it,” Leinart said.
6. Matt Leinart’s Napoleon Dynamite impersonation is impeccable and also puts an excellent time stamp on this whole thing. Watch for it after the second commercial break.
7. What was the scene like, when Texas led at halftime, in the Longhorns locker room? Tight end David Thomas describes a surreal interaction: “I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around and it’s Roger Clemens, McConaughey and Lance Armstrong. They were all right there saying, ‘Hey, you got this thing. Go win it.’” So yeah, no pressure.
8. Everything about Vince Young’s selection by the Titans sounds like a mess. Norm Chow wanted Leinart. Team owner Bud Adams wanted Vince Young, but mostly out of animosity toward the Texans. Former Titans GM Floyd Reese: “If he could pull one over on Houston by getting Vince Young, then he was going to have a yuck about it.”
Also, if anyone wants to watch the full game (and it is well worth doing so, especially if you're lucky enough to still be on holidays) then here you go:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaeUeJe_uk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nApYoEaPpE
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