Our latest edition features University of Tennessee head coach Phil Fulmer. Last night, as all you big sports fans know, Tennessee rallied from a 21-0 deficit in Baton Rouge to beat LSU in overtime. It was, without a doubt, a great comeback. The Vols won with now-backup QB Rick Clausen at the helm. Clausen's got an interesting story: he was a highly-touted recruit for those same LSU Tigers, then benched, then a highly-touted transfer to Tennessee, then benched again. So after Clausen came off the bench to lead the team to a phenomenal victory, Coach Fulmer had this to say:
"I don't know if there is a better story in the world than what this guy has done."
Look, Coach - I get that you were pretty excited when you said this, in the first moments after the game ended. And it's a pretty cool story. We all love an underdog, especially one that's fallen from grace, and gets a second chance, an opportunity to redeem himself. Unless you're an LSU fan, it's probably pretty hard to root against Clausen right now.
But may I suggest that maybe there are better stories out there? Maybe, I dunno, the tremendous outpouring of support and money for the hurricane victims in that same state of Louisiana? Perhaps some scientist somewhere has recently developed a new drug that might help alleviate the pain of some awful disease? Some sick kid just got a puppy - somewhere, anywhere?
Clausen's got a good tale, Coach. But why don't you focus on the SEC, and leave the story-telling and the history writing to someone else - and in the meantime, shut your piehole!
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