between the breastbone and the backbone...
Clemson and Northwestern are astronomical units apart in regards to overall player talent and public perception (read: "publicity"). What makes them so very similar is that subjective, somewhat overlooked item called "heart." Prior to the Pinstripe Bowl, NU was a prohibitive underdog against the No. 20-something Pitt Pansies and the Purple T-E-A-M threw-out all the pre-game B.S. & garbage retoric eminating from those "talking heads" and simply played their game to the best of their collective field play abilities. Their resolve to finish the job at hand showed on the final scoreboard. Clemson faced an equally daunting challenge in what many a collage football pigskin pundit decribed as a virtual walk-over contest against Big, Bad Abalama. Tonight, Dabo Swinney and his troops, likewise, ignored those thoughtless ramblings and beat the prevailing short-sighted opinions of those experts with shear guts and true grit to capture the "W" flag against the Abalama Crimson Be-Hinds - like the 'Cats did to the Pitt Pansies.
Congrats to Clemson HC Dabo Swinney & his Bengals and to NU's HC Pat Fitz for making the 2016-2017 bowl season memorable beyond the all the predictions of the so-called "experts." I will hit the hay tonight with a deep satisfaction that David has slain Goliath twice in the current bowl season.
Clemson and Northwestern are astronomical units apart in regards to overall player talent and public perception (read: "publicity"). What makes them so very similar is that subjective, somewhat overlooked item called "heart." Prior to the Pinstripe Bowl, NU was a prohibitive underdog against the No. 20-something Pitt Pansies and the Purple T-E-A-M threw-out all the pre-game B.S. & garbage retoric eminating from those "talking heads" and simply played their game to the best of their collective field play abilities. Their resolve to finish the job at hand showed on the final scoreboard. Clemson faced an equally daunting challenge in what many a collage football pigskin pundit decribed as a virtual walk-over contest against Big, Bad Abalama. Tonight, Dabo Swinney and his troops, likewise, ignored those thoughtless ramblings and beat the prevailing short-sighted opinions of those experts with shear guts and true grit to capture the "W" flag against the Abalama Crimson Be-Hinds - like the 'Cats did to the Pitt Pansies.
Congrats to Clemson HC Dabo Swinney & his Bengals and to NU's HC Pat Fitz for making the 2016-2017 bowl season memorable beyond the all the predictions of the so-called "experts." I will hit the hay tonight with a deep satisfaction that David has slain Goliath twice in the current bowl season.
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