With my two favorite teams in the Rose Bowl, there was nothing to cheer for but a good game. And despite the fact that Texas had six more points on the board than they technically scored...what a game. Vince Young? Is a killer robot. A hot killer robot.
The taped intros have a habit of being eye-clawingly annoying, but Will Ferrell responding to some line of Matthew McConaughey's with "I can't heeeear you! I've got a HEISMAN IN MY EAR!!" brought the house down.
Sportscaster highlights:
*"We'regonnaplayfootballYIPPEE!!"
*[While looking at Leinart's stats] "That should be enough to put him in to the yearbook."
*The mis(?)pronunciation of Tom Brady as "Tom Bratty"
*"That ol' missed extra point's gonna lay there on the scoreboard all night long!"
*The frequent use of the phrase "times out".
*The hilarious Quidditch monologue after Bush's airborne touchdown. ("I don't see his broomstick! He's got the Snitch in the end zone!!" No, seriously, a professional ABC announcer let that one fly.)
*Reporter: "Tell us what this means to the great state of Texas."
Mack Brown: "Well, they're all here."
Best line of the night: "This is the biggest day in Texas history since the Battle of San Jacinto".
And juuuust as we were going to bed? We caught wind of this. Happy New Year, y'all.
I almost peed my pants when they called him Tom Bratty. Seriously. It was the highlight of my life. That, or what Bill Simmons wrote this morning in response to Matt Leinart's bad case of the Sore Loser Bird Flu directly after the game.
Posted by: vince young is pretty at January 5, 2006 11:37 PMWho can blame Leinart for sulking? He'll be the second or third pick in the first round of the draft, which means he'll go to the Texans or some other godawful team, with a first-year head coach and no O-line. Did you see how many times David Carr got his (pretty) ass knocked down this year? If this were my last chance to be on a winning football team for ten years, and I were about to be the poster child for Concussion Monthly, I'd be pouting too.
Posted by: Holly at January 6, 2006 01:53 AMYes, but funny, no one saw Reggie Bush or Vince Young sulking, although they're in the exact same position and are going to the Texans, Titans, or Saints. I'm just saying, at least Bush had some class about losing. Leinart just came off as petulant.
Posted by: j at January 6, 2006 01:09 PMVince Young? Won the game. Reggie Bush? Won the Heisman. Leinart? Still has to take his ballroom dance final, and will probably get drafted last of the three. I'm not saying he's a paragon of etiquette, just that I think he was justifiably cranky. (Also, there's the part where, technically, they should've won.)
Posted by: Holly at January 6, 2006 01:17 PMHe has no one to blame but himself for staying a ridiculous extra year to take ballroom fucking dancing, which is so ridiculous that I can't even find another adjective to describe it even though I already used that word once in this sentence.
Additionally, Leinart also won the Heisman, is going to make unholy amounts of money just like Bush and Young in the NFL, and has two national championships under his belt, so it just looks petty of him to complain.
We're just going to have to disagree on this. It happens so rarely for us to have differing opinions that when it does happen, it makes me feel strangely empty and decidedly clown-like.
That is all.
Posted by: Joan at January 6, 2006 04:59 PMThe upshot is that there's one shiny man-candy quarterback for each of us, with no need to argue over one or the other.
Posted by: Holly at January 6, 2006 05:02 PMI HADN'T THOUGHT OF IT LIKE THAT.
Excellent.
Posted by: vince young may not have won the heisman, but neither did peyton manning, and that ended up working at January 6, 2006 06:46 PMI jumped up and down on my huge bed at the beach when I saw my future husband is hosting the Oscars. Seriously? Large, formal party. Somewheres. I'll be the one in a wedding dress.
Posted by: Cara at January 7, 2006 11:05 PMHeather really says what I was trying to say with regards to Leinart. It's nice to know the coaches managed to raise three talented guys with manners you can take home to Mama.
Posted by: Holly at January 9, 2006 06:48 PM