In-VINCE-Ible
467 Heisman Voters believed that Reggie Bush was the Heisman Trophy winner. Vince Young disagreed. ESPN believed the 2005 USC Trojans were arguably the best college football team ever. Vince Young disagreed. And then Vince Young backed it all up.
January 4, 2006, Rose Bowl, #2 University of Texas vs. #1 USC Trojans…
This game was touted as “One of the Greatest Matchups Ever”. But here’s the problem. About 90% of the media who were saying this, didn’t give Texas a chance to begin with. Heck, ESPN was already declaring the 2005 USC Trojan as the greatest college football team of all-time. That's a little premature. And on top of that, most people figured that USC would blow out Texas. The line was set at 7 for USC, but too many people believed that was too low. I guess a lot of bookies made a lot of money last night.
There are 2 sports writers that I would like to point out specifically. One I would like to degrade, the other commend.
The first is Skip Bayless. That no good, no talent, annoying, poor excuse for a sports writer was once again 100% wrong with his sport opinion. Skip Bayless' article, that was featured in the Page 2 on espn.com yesterday, can now be thrown away. He said that USC would blow Texas out. Good one guy. He said that Texas had no chance. Good one, chump. Here’s one for you, Skip-a-roo, UT, the Longhorns, the team you believed had no chance, took it to the Trojans of USC. Please, you are a disgrace. You cry like a 2 year old girl and whine like and 80 year old lady. So please, quit what you’re doing and go to the local levels of reporting on high school teams.
As for my commendation, that goes to Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated. He, unlike Bayless, wrote some insightful articles heading to the Rose Bowl. One article talked about how the game would be decided by the two team’s offensive and defensive lines, which was dead on. Then in an excellent article which Mandel wrote about how Texas would win the game, how they really had a chance. He did his research. He knew what he was saying. Excellent article, like usual. Keep up the great work.
10 Things I think I like I like when I like thinking….
1- I know its 2006, but this is technically considered part of the 2005 season, but was there a more spectacular performance by a single athlete than Vince Young in ANY sporting event in 2005? Don’t try to tell me A-Rods 3 HR, 10 RBI night. That was a regular season game. Don’t tell me Reggie Bush when he complies over 500 all purpose yards against Fresno State. That, too, was a regular season game. And don’t say Kobe’s 62 points in just 3 quarters about a month ago. Again, that was a regular season game. You can say Deion Branch or T.O.’s performance in the Super Bowl this past year, but that doesn’t even compare to what Vince did. VY was 30-40 on passing with 267 passing yards. But he also rushed for 200 yards with 3 TDs. He had a 200/200 game. Absolutely incredible. His entire team had 556 total yards, and he had 467 pf them. Vince-Credible
2- Texas Defense. Stuffed the Trojans twice on 4th down, and the most important and crucial one came 4th and 2 on Texas’ 45 yard line with 2:09 left in the game.
3- The Texas Cheerleaders
4- The USC Cheerleaders
5- Vince Young smiling before the 3rd and 5 during the final drive of the game.
6- How unstoppable VY was during the whole game. It seemed like VY was in slow motion, but the USC defense couldn’t stop him.
7- The amount of Burnt Orange in the stands at the Rose Bowl, where it was unofficially a USC home game.
8- It was nice NOT seeing Nick Lachey.
9- Vince Young carry this UT team, and then make the final rush on 4th and 5 for the game winning TD
10- University of Texas crowned National Champions
Will Vince Young stay in Austin, or become pro? That’s the next questions. Before the game, VY was stating that he was going to come back for his senior season. He would be the Heisman favorite, but after this game, how high will his stock rise? He outplayed Heisman winner Reggie Bush, but Bush is still expected to go #1. He outplayed Matt Leinart (no disrespect to Leinart who had a heck of a game), but I’m sure teams would still choose Leinart over Young. He has played extremely well in 3 National Championship games, and lost only 1. So maybe he would fall down to the 3rd pick. We shall see what Young decides to do. And whatever he does, I wish him the best of luck.
Congratulations to Mack Brown and Vince Young and co. for winning the National Championship. I was very happy to see them come out on top. Especially after ESPN prematurely proclimated the USC Trojans as the greatest college football team of all time.
Hook ‘em Horns.
January 4, 2006, Rose Bowl, #2 University of Texas vs. #1 USC Trojans…
This game was touted as “One of the Greatest Matchups Ever”. But here’s the problem. About 90% of the media who were saying this, didn’t give Texas a chance to begin with. Heck, ESPN was already declaring the 2005 USC Trojan as the greatest college football team of all-time. That's a little premature. And on top of that, most people figured that USC would blow out Texas. The line was set at 7 for USC, but too many people believed that was too low. I guess a lot of bookies made a lot of money last night.
There are 2 sports writers that I would like to point out specifically. One I would like to degrade, the other commend.
The first is Skip Bayless. That no good, no talent, annoying, poor excuse for a sports writer was once again 100% wrong with his sport opinion. Skip Bayless' article, that was featured in the Page 2 on espn.com yesterday, can now be thrown away. He said that USC would blow Texas out. Good one guy. He said that Texas had no chance. Good one, chump. Here’s one for you, Skip-a-roo, UT, the Longhorns, the team you believed had no chance, took it to the Trojans of USC. Please, you are a disgrace. You cry like a 2 year old girl and whine like and 80 year old lady. So please, quit what you’re doing and go to the local levels of reporting on high school teams.
As for my commendation, that goes to Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated. He, unlike Bayless, wrote some insightful articles heading to the Rose Bowl. One article talked about how the game would be decided by the two team’s offensive and defensive lines, which was dead on. Then in an excellent article which Mandel wrote about how Texas would win the game, how they really had a chance. He did his research. He knew what he was saying. Excellent article, like usual. Keep up the great work.
10 Things I think I like I like when I like thinking….
1- I know its 2006, but this is technically considered part of the 2005 season, but was there a more spectacular performance by a single athlete than Vince Young in ANY sporting event in 2005? Don’t try to tell me A-Rods 3 HR, 10 RBI night. That was a regular season game. Don’t tell me Reggie Bush when he complies over 500 all purpose yards against Fresno State. That, too, was a regular season game. And don’t say Kobe’s 62 points in just 3 quarters about a month ago. Again, that was a regular season game. You can say Deion Branch or T.O.’s performance in the Super Bowl this past year, but that doesn’t even compare to what Vince did. VY was 30-40 on passing with 267 passing yards. But he also rushed for 200 yards with 3 TDs. He had a 200/200 game. Absolutely incredible. His entire team had 556 total yards, and he had 467 pf them. Vince-Credible
2- Texas Defense. Stuffed the Trojans twice on 4th down, and the most important and crucial one came 4th and 2 on Texas’ 45 yard line with 2:09 left in the game.
3- The Texas Cheerleaders
4- The USC Cheerleaders
5- Vince Young smiling before the 3rd and 5 during the final drive of the game.
6- How unstoppable VY was during the whole game. It seemed like VY was in slow motion, but the USC defense couldn’t stop him.
7- The amount of Burnt Orange in the stands at the Rose Bowl, where it was unofficially a USC home game.
8- It was nice NOT seeing Nick Lachey.
9- Vince Young carry this UT team, and then make the final rush on 4th and 5 for the game winning TD
10- University of Texas crowned National Champions
Will Vince Young stay in Austin, or become pro? That’s the next questions. Before the game, VY was stating that he was going to come back for his senior season. He would be the Heisman favorite, but after this game, how high will his stock rise? He outplayed Heisman winner Reggie Bush, but Bush is still expected to go #1. He outplayed Matt Leinart (no disrespect to Leinart who had a heck of a game), but I’m sure teams would still choose Leinart over Young. He has played extremely well in 3 National Championship games, and lost only 1. So maybe he would fall down to the 3rd pick. We shall see what Young decides to do. And whatever he does, I wish him the best of luck.
Congratulations to Mack Brown and Vince Young and co. for winning the National Championship. I was very happy to see them come out on top. Especially after ESPN prematurely proclimated the USC Trojans as the greatest college football team of all time.
Hook ‘em Horns.
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