Six Days

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Six days.  Less than a week.

Now, who best to post about for day six?  Hmmmmm . . . hmmmmmmmmmmmm . . .

Oh yes.  Jerome Bettis.  

Jerome 'The Bus' Bettis.  Leaps Michigan Men(tm) in a single bound.  Responsible for a spectacular career highlight reel:

Some of which came from a rather famous 1990s Sugar Bowl.  Florida, coached by Steve O. Spurrier, was ranked #3 in the country.  Now, back in the pre BCS days, this meant Florida could still win the national championship, provided 1) the teams ahead of them lost and 2) they beat lowly, #18 Notre Dame.  Most Florida fans thought #2 was a foregone conclusion.  They were passing along the joke of the week in the French Quarter:

Q: What's the difference between Notre Dame and Cheerios?

A: Cheerios belong in a bowl.  HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA I'm so funny!

Holtz's team took the field with a very . . . interesting game plan: drop nine men into pass coverage and dare Spurrier and his quarterback, Shane Matthews, to throw on him.  It was a dare for Spurrier to lose his focus on the original game plan.  Now, how easy is it to distract Spurrier?

Very.

Spurrier, a former Heisman winner at quarterback, decided to prove his teams could throw the football against anyone, and any defense.  And throw they did, marching into the red zone over and over again.  Alas, it's very hard to throw for touchdowns in the red zone when nine defensive backs are swarming all over the place.  So Spurrier settled for field goals five times.  Meanwhile, the Irish running game kept hammering at his defense, over and over and over again.  Until finally, in the fourth quarter, the dam burst, courtesy of Mr. Bettis:

Start at the 3:55 mark

Three consecutive touchdowns to not just defeat, but embarrass, one of the nation's top teams.  With a little salt in the wound thrown in at the end: 

One chomp per Bettis touchdown. 

And with that, the pure countdown portion of these postings ends.  Tomorrow, there will still be countdown material.  But much more importantly, tomorrow is the start of Game Week.  Which brings with it Temple material.  

I hope you all appreciate how hard it is to find material on Temple.  

See you tomorrow, and Go Irish.