Rutgers QB Gets Slap Happy With Teammate

Rutgers QB Mike Teel has had a quite a year already: His team is winless, he’s thrown one touchdown and six interceptions, and he’s tired of people misspelling his last name all the time. (“It’s T-E-E-L, not like the color. YES I KNOW IT’S A COLOR!”) Rutgers joined Notre Dame and the Japanese Imperial fleet in the ranks of “things that have been defeated by Navy” on Saturday, and no matter what you have to say, Mike Teel is simply not hearing it.↵
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↵Eat some of Ike’s cake, teammate Glen Lee!↵

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↵The baffling phenomena of football players attempting to hit each other in the face despite wearing hard protective headgear continues. It’s especially baffling here because Teel kind of sort of has to use his hand, what with being a quarterback and all, though at this point the difference between Teel with a broken throwing hand and what’s happened on the field thus far in 2008 might be negligible. Without Ray Rice to shoulder the offensive load and an inconsistent run game behind him, Teel’s stood as good a chance of carrying Rutgers forward as he did actually injuring Lee with that slap. That is to say, none whatsoever.↵↵(For the record, Teel will not be suspended for the incident. The fabulously named Jabu Lovelace is ready just in case Rutgers decides to make a change at QB, however.)↵

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