Pitt Vs. Cincinnati: Panthers Might Just Be That Bad

Cincinnati got off to a great start on Thursday night, stopping Pitt and turning around and scoring on its first offensive play from scrimmage on a 58-yard George Winn touchdown run. The band, however, wasn’t so lucky. You see, the Bearcats band runs down the steps and onto the field before the game in a rather cool entrance. It’s cool, of course, until something goes wrong and a trumpet player bites it while falling down the last few steps, faceplanting onto the field.

Let’s all watch as the Cincinnati trumpeter doesn’t quite stick the dismount.

Pitt is not going to be great this year. It took Cincinnati only five minutes to score two touchdowns on the Panthers, who lost to a FCS team in Week 1, and Tino Sunseri’s not-getting-sacked issues have apparently not been resolved since last year. THREE SACKS ALREADY.

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Big East football broadcaster John Rooke took the picture below and shared this horrifying sight with the world via Twitter:

This towering hellbeast foretells the arrival of something sinister indeed. This seems like the portent of something far more odious than a mere football team; surely any number of low beasts will slouch toward Babylon the gridiron this evening, passing through the blood-stained claw of their dark lord on a mission of nefarious, unspeakable evil. Woe! Woe be upon us, for this is the hour of our demise!

Big East contender Cincinnati will play its first game this season when Pitt arrives at Nippert Stadium Thursday night. Pitt probably wishes it hadn’t played a game yet.

The Panthers suffered an embarrassing 31-17 loss to FCS’s Youngstown State in their opener, and will quickly look to move past that and into the Big East season.

Big East football rivals clash Thursday night as Cincy hosts Pitt at Nippert Stadium (8 pm Eastern ESPN).

Earlier this week several online sportsbooks opened this game with the Bearcats favored by three or 3.5 points, and the ‘over/under’ set at 49. Cincy has since been bumped to -4 at most college football betting shops, while the total has dropped a half-point, to 48.5.