ESPN Captures Clemson Fan's Misery
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ESPN Captures Clemson Fan's Misery
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Clemson fans didn't react well to their team's Thursday night loss at Georgia Tech. It was the kind of game that drives fans into fits of rage. One moment your team is down 24 points and you're sitting in the stands thinking, "I hope these bums get their scholarships pulled. I'm never watching another game. Ever. Why did I drive all the way to frigging Atlanta to begin with?" Then, miraculously, the winds of college football fate shift direction. Suddenly you find yourself standing in the visiting section of an eerily quiet stadium screaming at the top of your lungs as your team storms back to take a 27-24 lead in the fourth quarter. All is right in the college football universe.
Except, of course, it isn't. Which leads to the above vignette we like to refer to as the Cry of the Tiger. Here's what happened.
First, Georgia Tech ties the game with a field goal. Then your team uncorks a 38-yard pass that puts them in position to win a tie game. Only the play is called back for a phantom holding call. Next, Georgia Tech takes possession and Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt, who up to that point has been 2-for-13 for 44 yards passing and two interceptions, inexplicably uncorks a 39-yard pass that sets up the game-winning field goal.
Emotional rollercoaster, thy name is college football.
If you root for any team, we've all been this guy, hopeless, dejected, wearing our lucky hat and flip-flops in an opponent's stadium and wondering why we even bothered going to the game. Why the entire world is allied against your team, the inglorious self-obsession of fan defeat. But usually our shame is private, our self-defeat shared only within our circle of fan-friends.
Unless, that is, the ESPN cameras pick you and your buddy out of an entire stadium and make you a national punchline. First, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, and Chris Fowler ridicule you off-air for your reactions (the first part of this video was taken from the ESPN feed and not broadcast). They even break out the telestrator and circle you for television debasement. Then they top this off by taking shots at your hat, your posture, your pained expression. All with the ultimate goal of setting up their jokes so that when they return to the broadcast, your misery, your agony, your self-defeat will be all the more pungent.
Yep, Clemson fans can't even be allowed to wallow in their own misery anymore. Somewhere Tommy Bowden is counting his millions and chuckling.
Except, of course, it isn't. Which leads to the above vignette we like to refer to as the Cry of the Tiger. Here's what happened.
First, Georgia Tech ties the game with a field goal. Then your team uncorks a 38-yard pass that puts them in position to win a tie game. Only the play is called back for a phantom holding call. Next, Georgia Tech takes possession and Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt, who up to that point has been 2-for-13 for 44 yards passing and two interceptions, inexplicably uncorks a 39-yard pass that sets up the game-winning field goal.
Emotional rollercoaster, thy name is college football.
If you root for any team, we've all been this guy, hopeless, dejected, wearing our lucky hat and flip-flops in an opponent's stadium and wondering why we even bothered going to the game. Why the entire world is allied against your team, the inglorious self-obsession of fan defeat. But usually our shame is private, our self-defeat shared only within our circle of fan-friends.
Unless, that is, the ESPN cameras pick you and your buddy out of an entire stadium and make you a national punchline. First, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, and Chris Fowler ridicule you off-air for your reactions (the first part of this video was taken from the ESPN feed and not broadcast). They even break out the telestrator and circle you for television debasement. Then they top this off by taking shots at your hat, your posture, your pained expression. All with the ultimate goal of setting up their jokes so that when they return to the broadcast, your misery, your agony, your self-defeat will be all the more pungent.
Yep, Clemson fans can't even be allowed to wallow in their own misery anymore. Somewhere Tommy Bowden is counting his millions and chuckling.
shouldn't a clemson fan be use to this? it's not like their a perennial power house in college football.
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Awesome! This reminds me of a lonely island song!
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I honestly don't understand how someone can get so mad or sad or unhappy over a lost game. I like a good game of football or hockey or whatever but acting like a baby when my team loses? That's hilarious and sad at the same time.