U is for Unneccesary, Unsportsmanlike and Ultramarine Turf

(yip: starts with "U," means blue. I pulled it off)

Like orphans and sundresses, Boise State's secondary will hitchee.

Oh, they'll draw a flag. You'll get your first down. But you won't try that shit again, and by that shit we mean, 'advancing the ball.'

No. 1 - Jeron Johnson marking his territory against San Jose State on an overthrown ball to the sideline with a cheap shot to the back.



No. 2 and No. 3

First half of clip: Safety Ellis Powers with a two-steps late cheap-shot on Oregon QB Jeremiah Masoli, knocking him out of the game (they are announcing line-ups as the clip begins)
Second half of clip: Johnson again, getting tossed from the game for "targeting a defenseless player" no less on an overthrown ball. Indeed, the reciever leaps for the ball while Johnson is 2 steps away, and the receiver tracks the ball with his head as it passes out of reach - and then Johnson levels him.




These aren't penalties or even that cheap, but more of Johnson blowing up Right-Angle-State teams:

Utah... (at the first down mark - instinctual!)



Idaho...



and Wyoming.... And this is not actuallyJohnson, but a big Samoan. Terrific big-boy hit, and even better Bad Announcing.

R is for Rey'n'Erin

One part stalking sociopath wraith, one part chemise-sweatered kitten bait, together were 2008's Clearest-Metaphor Couple, their forbidden love a Karmic portrait of what SC would have done to Florida.

B is for Brad Butler, UVA left guard

It's at 1:26.



This play comes from the 2005 UVA-BC game, which (despite the ABC feed) was unseen by most of the nation since it was up against eventual National Champ Texas and Vince Young whipping Oklahoma 45-12.

Butler Index

35, 7, 2: Yards and points that Butler GAINED for UVA, and BC players ejected as a result of this play: 5 yards for offiside on BC on this play (personal fouls against Butler and Al Washington offset, with Washington ejected); 15 yards on linebacker Brian Toal on the next play , for going after Butler (Toal's penalty put UVA on the 23, from which they scored on the next play); 15 yards and an ejection of the 'victim', All-American defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka, for taking a swing at Butler later in the quarter.

28-17: Final score of game, won by BC. At least one post-game quote from a BC player attributed BC's late winning surge in the game to outrage over Butler's play.

Beyond that, Butler was suspended by UVA (though only begrudgingly by Al Groh, it seems) that week.

*Update*: I showed this clip to a few of my classmates who went to UVA. They said this play is Legendary in UVA - and probably BC - circles. They said this play brought a wave of scorn on the program.

And that it bumped up Butler's draft prospects by several rounds. Scouts, they said, suddenly started liking his "fiestiness."

Kiwanukawent on to win a Super Bowl ring with the Giants, as one the pass rushers who shut down Tom Brady.