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Sep

29

In Nashville, all is right with football world

By Matt Wilson | Filed Under Miscellaneous 

Happy days are here again football-wise. Vanderbilt’s 4-0 and College GameDay is coming to West End. The Vanderbilt program certainly deserves the publicity it’s getting for competing with all the football factories in the SEC.

But I like what Bobby Johnson said on Sunday. He reminded his players (and all Vandy fans would do well to remember this, too) that the game against Auburn is the actual event, not the fact that ESPN’s talking heads will be here.

• Sports Illustrated’s Peter King has plenty of good things to say about the Titans in his Monday Morning Quarterback column today. Among other things, he says that quarterback Kerry Collins is potentially at the heart of one of the best stories in the NFL this season, as a veteran, seen-it-all quarterback leading his team to an undefeated record.YouTube Preview Image

• My favorite play in Sunday’s Titans game was fullback Ahmard Hall absolutely crushing Vikings safety Eric Frampton while Chris Johnson sprinted into the end zone. Frampton certainly didn’t come alive on that one. (Yeah, that was bad.)

• I couldn’t help but chuckle at a portion of the commentary written by my Nashville Post.com colleague E. Thomas Wood today. The commentary was excellent and funny, but one part got me. He talked about how as a Vandy fan, he definitely knew UT’s Larry Seivers was out of bounds when he caught a two-point conversion pass in UT’s 21-21 tie with Vandy.

I saw an interview with Seivers several years ago where he explained that even though Vanderbilt fans to this day claim he was out of bounds on the play, the real key was that he never actually caught the ball! It’s true: during the interview, they showed the play in slow motion and it was obvious that the officials were so busy looking at his feet, they never noticed that he didn’t really have control of the ball and signaled that the two-point conversion was good.

Seivers, during the interview, laughed at the fact that Vanderbilt folks weren’t even mad about the right error. Of course, these days the call would have been reversed on replay. But Commodore fans, it’s one more reason to dislike that play.

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