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Western Kentucky players eat Popeyes with the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl trophy

The dream.

by Kevin Trahan
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2014 Bahamas Bowl results: Western Kentucky survives Central Michigan, hail mary
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Western Kentucky survived a 34-point comeback from Central Michigan that ended with the craziest Hail Mary you’ll ever see to win the best (and first) ever Popeyes Bahamas Bowl on Wednesday. So the Hilltoppers did what any of us would dream of doing — they ate Popeyes while claiming the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl trophy.

Popeyes has such a sports internet cult following that we had an entire post earlier today all about a new Popeyes secret flavor that was unveiled at the bowl game. WKU is living the dream.

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