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NC State makes the news: Chelsea Clinton at NC State
It will be neat to see more of NC in the press in the coming weeks, especially after Penn. votes. I saw my frist tv ad a few days ago, one for Obama.
One other thing, who the hell came up with the dumb idea of “Hillblazers.” I know I am not everyone that sees it, but when I first saw it, I saw “Hill” and “bl” which equaled hillbilly. Good job brain shortcuts.
Football.
Today has not been a very good day for my teams so far. I was hoping Kentucky would beat Florida. I assumed ECU would beat NC State. I was worried about Appalachian; rightfully so, apparently. My lovely alma mater lost at home today, 38-35. It was the first home loss since 2002, my freshman year. Thirty games in a row. It was the longest streak in college football.
You can read about some of it here: Go ASU
It was an ok game. ASU was losing big in the first half, but our defense stepped up and was able to hold them under control for most of the second half. We drove down the field late in the game, scored, forced them to punt after a three and out, and we got the ball back with 1:25 left in the game, down by three points. The punt return was called back because of a penalty. If it wasn’t for the penalty, we would have been about thirty yards from scoring, but because of it, we got the ball on our own 35. We moved the ball pretty well for not having any timeouts left, but an inability to get out of bounds and not getting a first down forced us into one last play, 4th and 11, with the clock running with about 12 seconds left in the game. Edwards, our QB, tried to pass it, then took off running and was forced out of bounds within feet of picking up the first down. The clock had 1.1 seconds left. We turned the ball over on downs.
It was a heart breaker. So close to being able to kick a field goal and tie the game, but if you look at it that way, then I can also look at two passes during the game that were dropped that would have resulted in touchdowns, instead of field goals.
I guess all I can say is “oh well”. We had to lose sometime, right? It was a lot of fun though, being over at a friends house watching it on his satellite, eating Bojangles.
Here is a game recap: ESPN
