The Morning Memory: Life (And Todd Gurley) Come At You Fast
We’ve all been there. You feel like you’re sitting on top of the world. Everything’s going your way. Then, all of a sudden the skies go from clear to dark and foreboding and the whole world begins kicking you in the shins. Or, you know, somewhere else painful. Such was the experience of the Clemson […]
We’ve all been there. You feel like you’re sitting on top of the world. Everything’s going your way. Then, all of a sudden the skies go from clear to dark and foreboding and the whole world begins kicking you in the shins. Or, you know, somewhere else painful.
Such was the experience of the Clemson Tigers on August 30, 2014. The Country Gentlemen were on the road opening the season against Georgia and had staked themselves to a 21-14 lead in the second quarter. Then, they kicked it to Todd Gurley. It was a bad idea. A very, very bad idea.
The only thing more terrifying than trying to tackle #3 in the hole was trying to corral him in open space, and letting him take a running start at your kickofff team was second only to getting involved in a land war in Asia among classic blunders.
Gurley crossed the goal line to score the first six of thirty-one unanswered points that day, as #12 Georgia cruised to a 45-21 victory over #16 Clemson. Gurley added 198 yards and three touchdowns rushing to install himself as the early leader for the 2014 Heisman Trophy, which he would have won in a just world. Not that we’re still bitter. Because in fact we’re still volcanically, permanently bitter.
But we’ll always have Clemson’s kickoff team looking like a peewee team trying to tackle a fully grown wildebeest. And that’s a great way to start the week. Until later…
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
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