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Boise State, No. 9: They Still Have A Lot To Prove

SB Nation Trading Cards, Series II, No. 9: Boise State.

Boise State won the 2006 Fiesta Bowl, one of the most dramatic games in college football history. Do they have what it takes? On September 6, 2010, they beat Virginia Tech on national TV. Do they have what it takes? They started a grassroots political party. Do they have what it takes? They won a U.S. Senate seat. Do they have what it takes? They eventually won majority in the Senate. Do they have what it takes? They exercised their leverage to pass a law requiring NASA to develop a weapon capable of destroying the Moon. Do they have what it takes? NASA blew the Moon into fist-sized hunks of crystalline minerals. Do they have what it takes? Over time, said minerals caught Earth’s gravitational pull and turned into meteors that shot throughout the galaxy at a mile per second, destroying hundreds of thriving early-stage extraterrestrial lifeforms. Do they have what it takes? Well, the only ones who would think to ask this question are theoretical extraterrestrial beings unfamiliar with college football, and most of them are now dead.

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