Mormon miracle in Las Vegas

Oh, sweet schadenfreude...

It looked like UCLA was going to pull a stunning comeback against BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl moments ago, as the Bruins -- whose kicker had previously hit field goals from 50 and 52 yards -- needed only a 28-yarder as time expired to win the game. But a BYU player got a hand on the ball and it fell just short of the goal post, giving the Cougars a dramatic 17-16 win (and changing the planned title of this post from "BYU cougs it" to the headline you see above). Somewhere, Mitt Romney is cheering.

Said ESPN announcer Brad Nessler, referring to UCLA defender Bruce Davis: "He played his guts out tonight, literally." Wow, that sounds painful. Though I suppose it's better than being literally on a roller coaster to hell...

Anyway, BYU's win means that 10 contestants in the Irish Trojan Bowl Pick 'em Contest are still perfect at 5-0. It also means that Becky and Alphadog finally got one right; they were 0-4 through the first four bowls, but they both picked BYU over fUCLA. Latest standings here and after the jump.

1. Andrew Long - 5
1. AnthonyH - 5
1. David K. - 5
1. DBrooks - 5
1. Gerry deSimas - 5
1. Hal Strickland - 5
1. Joey Kaufman - 5
1. John Chung - 5
1. Mark Gardner - 5
1. Timugen - 5
11. Anonymous Hoosier - 4
11. Colin Son (CT) - 4
11. Kate P. - 4
11. Marty West - 4
11. william arthur - 4
11. Anaconda - 4
11. Antonia Namnath - 4
11. Benjamin Sloniker - 4
11. Brian Dupuis (DUP) - 4
11. Buzz Lightyear - 4
11. chris healey - 4
11. Dan Dinunzio - 4
11. Jacque\' Wicker - 4
11. Jeff Freeze - 4
11. Jeremy K - 4
11. JLR - 4
11. Joanna Rubin - 4
11. Johanna Cummings - 4
11. Ken Stern - 4
11. Lane Buchan - 4
11. MT Swanson - 4
11. Pat Caplin - 4
11. Rachel L. - 4
11. Scientizzle - 4
11. Scott Fort - 4
11. Scott Robertson - 4
11. TS Kelso - 4
38. Greg Plank - 3
38. Nate Djordjevic - 3
38. Andy Matthews - 3
38. edward eylar - 3
38. Kevin Hauschulz - 3
38. Mike Dagen - 3
38. Rob Atherton - 3
38. Russ - 3
38. Sandy Underpants - 3
38. Steve C. - 3
38. thebeef - 3
38. Andrew H - 3
38. Bill Reising - 3
38. BK - 3
38. Brendan Loy - 3
38. C. Bassett - 3
38. Chris - 3
38. Christine P. - 3
38. Colin Pedicini - 3
38. Courtney Tawresey - 3
38. Dean Thor - 3
38. Derek Walden - 3
38. Jay Johnson - 3
38. Jeff Morrison - 3
38. Jeff V - 3
38. Jennifer Elam - 3
38. Joel Thrift - 3
38. Kay Torg - 3
38. Lisa Velte - 3
38. Matt Higgins - 3
38. Mike Wiser - 3
38. Randy S - 3
38. Rick Boeckler - 3
38. Sam W - 3
38. scott paine - 3
38. Sean Sullivan - 3
38. Seth - 3
38. Shireen Garcia - 3
38. Trisha Neudorff - 3
38. USC 2L - 3
38. Victoria Lopez - 3
38. Wobbly H - 3
80. Garry Moon - 2
80. Jeff Dickens - 2
80. Larry Caplin - 2
80. Mike Donahue - 2
80. Bill P - 2
80. Jordan Pinjuv - 2
80. Rob M - 2
87. Marge - 1
87. Sergio Lopez - 1
87. Alphadog - 1
87. Becky Loy - 1

Comments

[Sandy Underpants]

I do love Bruinsnation.com after a game like this one. Just when you thought watching the Bruins push a gauranteed victory into the jaws of defeat couldn't get any better... you log on to read the comments. I love the net.

[K.]

Sandy Underpants, the best is watching them decimate interim coach DeWayne Walker for missing all the brilliant decisions these bitter armchair coaches say they would have made had they been running the game. Nevermind that many of the mistakes on UCLA's part where firmly on the part of the players and not in any way on Walker's head.

With "fans" like these, why on earth would anyone want to coach for the Bruins anyway?

[Mad Max, Esquire]

I blame the power of that damn Mormon underwear...

http://www.thewebpen.net/blog/images/2007/08/mormon-underwear.jpg

This was my second trip to Temple Square, having been there quite some time ago with my family on one of our long road trips from Seattle to Texas. Somehow during that first trip I came into possession of the Book of Mormon and for some odd reason I was completely intent on reading the entire thing. I also remember my parents looking on perplexed from the front of the car. About 8 miles later and some 2- 3 pages into it I gave it up.