New Orleans Title Game Diary: Scene Three

By Spencer Hall
The must-have souvenir of the day: your very own Tressel Sweatervest tee:
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The classiest t-shirt in college football: The Tressel-T.
Flag football as done by Heisman winners isn’t what you expect to see when you’re in the French Quarter two days before the BCS game, but Allstate said it would be, and it was so. Mike Rozier, Eddie George, Tim Brown, Ty Detmer, Danny Wuerffel, Charles Rogers, Tony Dorsett, and Charlie Ward all strapped on belts and flags, stretched thoroughly, and played an entire four quarter game of flag football without pulling a single ligament or muscle.
Observations:
Ty Detmer looks like someone’s church group youth leader thrown onto the field in relief duty during a backyard game. Seeing him in person makes his substantial accomplishments as a football player all the more impressive, since he’s an extremely normal looking guy physically. He still throws a beautiful ball.
Eddie George is still wildly popular with Ohio State fans, as in Miley Cyrus screaming fans popular: George, in addition to looking like he could turn a brick wall into powder, signed autographs for twenty minutes or so before finally ducking through a crowd of worshipful Buckeyes.
Nebraska legend Mike Rozier did not wear his swanky fedora on the field, the only real disappointment in the event because that is one swanky hat, sir.
The dialogue between Ohio State fans and LSU fans is heating up as the weather cools off into the night, a byproduct of both increasing tensions and increased beverage consumption. A sample of the banter:
Ohio State Fan: Way to back into the national championship game, man.
LSU Fan: At least we didn’t need to bribe a ref to get a national title.
Ohio State Fan: Dream on. That was pass interference and you know it.
LSU Fan: Say hi to Maurice Clarett for me.
College football fans have long, long memories. They get downright elephantine when national championships are on the line.
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