Miami’s turnover chain has become the most famous prop in college football, a sideline grail that the Hurricanes break out whenever they get a defensive takeaway.
Wisconsin mocked Miami’s turnover chain throughout an Orange Bowl win, including head coach Paul Chryst
The Badgers won, and they had fun doing it.
In an Orange Bowl win against Miami on Saturday, Wisconsin players made a habit of mocking the Hurricanes’ prized new tradition — by ripping invisible chains straight off each other’s necks. They did it twice during the game, here ...
... and here:
Later in the night, Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst pretty clearly mouthed: “Turnover chain my f***ing ass” as he covered his mouth on the last word of that sentence:
And as the clock wound down, another invisible chain got snapped:
And:
Sheesh.
This is all fun and good, in my opinion.
The turnover chain is excellent. Miami didn’t need to wait long to whip it out on Saturday, doing so after a first-quarter fumble recovery:
It was probably Miami’s best moment of the night.
The whole fun of college football traditions is that they can get turned on teams when things go badly. The turnover chain is easy to mock, in the same way that it’s easy to make fun of Texas by coopting the “hook ‘em” hand sign and inverting it in a Horns Down. Traditions are good, and making fun of them is also good, in this context.
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