![]() ![]() Alabama hiring a pass-first Washington State coach.Woo boy, this is a lot to sum up fast, but we’ll try. The h iring, f iring, and r evenge of Mike Price. They would have died from the scorching burns.) If anyone doubts how necessary it would have been at full strength, remember: App State beat Michigan, and almost no one was on Twitter to roast the Wolverines. Twitter was technically around in 2007, but was a little fawn on wobbly legs, audience-wise. Giant fireball during a live broadcast of a brutal SEC rivalry: a no-brainer pick. One other reason Twitter would have helped: The announcer, Keith Jackson, was working without easily accessible replay and missed the punch altogether.Īuburn’s old basketball arena burning down during the 1996 LSU game. It’s hard to tell, really, which is one reason I want Twitter around, because the replays would be endless, someone would photoshop Thanos’ head onto Hayes in a matter of seconds, and the jokes would stretch well into the next week. Ohio State coach Hayes ended his career at the 1978 Gator Bowl by punching a Clemson linebacker in the face, chest, or maybe the neck. Proposed: Twitter should have been around forever for college football. The little moments become big, the big moments become phenomenal, and a sport reliant on celebrating randomness feeds off Twitter like a fat bear off an open dumpster. I can’t track down every astonishing Tennessee crowd shot, but on Twitter, I can count on someone screencapping for me, so that I might appreciate strangers suffering sports pain. I wasn’t watching Iowa State-Oklahoma, but switched over in time. No one can watch all of them, but Twitter creates the illusion of a national heat map. This is especially true for college football, a sport in which 30 games can happen at once. Still: Nothing carries a live moment like it. Most importantly, I would have never had the opportunity to watch a Hawaii game whose only broadcast off the island is a fan Periscoping it from the stands. I would not know that for every conversation, there is an Ohio State fan wanting to know why we’re talking about Instant Pot recipes and not the Buckeyes. ![]() I would have missed the joyous amplification of the Kick Six. In the right moments, with the right people, Twitter for sports can be legitimately great.įor instance, without Twitter, I would never know that Lane Kiffin uses terrible bitmoji or that De’Anthony Thomas once saw a deer. ![]()
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