Of all the moves that get football fans excited, it's that triangle move, the hurdle that nearly makes our pants fall off.
High school football fans went nutso at the highlight reel of Sam McGuffie when he hurdled some high school kid who's probably a flag football stand out at some Texas college right now. That highlight turned him into a YouTube sensation and earned him a scholarship at the University of Michigan.
This weekend, Knowshon Moreno turned in a run far more impressive... but apparently not impressive enough for ESPN's liking.
Mark Richt called this run against Central Michigan one of the most amazing moves he'd ever seen, but he didn't get a second look at it on ESPN that night. No big deal, right? Wrong. Georgia fans are incensed that world wide leader in sports highlights would pass over the Dawgs.
Georgia fans were going crazy on messages boards all Saturday night and Sunday, but what surprises me most is that Richt was all kinds of worked up about this as well. From Chip Towers of the AJC:
Was he surprised they didn’t show it?
Richt: “Yeah. They missed the boat or didn’t do their homework or whatever. I don’t know how they couldn’t have noticed that as thorough as it seems like that are most of the time. But it’s going to make our highlights for a long time.”
Then Brett Jensen of “TotalUGA.com,” a website that covers Georgia athletics for ESPN, piped in.
Jensen: “I spoke to some people up in Connecticut about that today. They said Fox, who had control of the game, didn’t put that in that highlight in the highlight package they sent up to the satellite.”
Richt: “You’re kidding me? [Starts laughing] Oh, so you throw Fox under the bus? I threw you under the bus and now you throw Fox under the bus. That’s the way it works.”
Awesome run and all, but doesn't Mark Richt have some bigger worries right now, like making sure Moreno can create any highlights against the South Carolina defense.
When you blowout a MAC school at home, chances are you're going to have to take a backseat when it comes to college football's weekly highlights. Maybe Dawgs fans are just a little upset about all the Tim Tebow ESPN love lately. I suppose that's allowed.
Richt: ESPN ‘didn’t do their homework’ [AJC]
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