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  1. Caleb Williams Suffers Awful Injury At Awful Time In Awful Game

    Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:22:51 -0000

    <p>Caleb Williams was going to score a touchdown. Anyone watching from home, or inside of a thoroughly drenched Soldier Field, knew it was about to happen. The Chicago Bears were trailing Minnesota by an ugly score of 6-3 in the fourth quarter when Williams, boxed in all game by the Vikings’ defense, faked an outside zone handoff to running back Kyle Monangai and booted out to his left. The Vikings bit, and Williams found himself with a relatively easy scamper to the end zone ahead of him when he was suddenly and out of nowhere struck him down on the sodden turf:</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-provider-bluesky wp-block-embed-bluesky"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://bsky.app/profile/insidenflnews.bsky.social/post/3mvxx2jsrc22s </div></figure> <p>As of this writing, Williams is reported to have suffered a hamstring injury. If that’s the case, it appears to be pretty bad. Not only was Williams screaming in agony for an extended period after going down, he was seen crying hard tears on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/sportscenter-2.bsky.social/post/3mvxycoc2bx26">his cart ride</a> back to the locker room. Those were not, "aw gee I’m gonna miss a couple of games" tears. Those were "Fuck my season might be over," tears. Awful. Shitty. Unfair.</p>

  2. NC State Innovates Brand New Endgame Choking Strategy

    Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:07:31 -0000

    <p>The beauty of college football is that there are so many teams, and so many bad coaches, that inevitably, a play that would otherwise have a one in a billion chance of happening actually has quite a good chance of turning into reality. For proof let’s go to Nashville, where the NC State Wolfpack committed an all-time boner yesterday. Roll the tape:</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://bsky.app/profile/sickoscommittee.org/post/3mvvj7uilus2r </div></figure> <p>A bit of background. The Wolfpack led Vanderbilt 24-7 at one point in the third quarter of this game, only for Commodores quarterback Jared Curtis to stage a furious rally that brought his team back within a field goal. There was just over a minute left on the clock when Curtis had first down at the NC State 16. Vandy had never led in this game, but it sure as shit looked like they were about to go up when WHOOP DEE!, Curtis threw a pass that Wolfpack safety Brody Barnhardt picked off at the two-yard line. Comeback bid sniffed out. Game over.</p>

  3. This Is So Fucking Embarrassing

    Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:13:46 -0000

    <p>I guess the addled corpus of Lee Corso was the only thing keeping ESPN’s college football arm from shedding every last trace of dignity. Because if you tuned into the four-letter network's College GameDay program yesterday morning, you were treated to this profoundly nauseating minute of unwanted jingoism:</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://bsky.app/profile/awfulannouncing.bsky.social/post/3mvurjqbakl2h </div></figure> <p>That’s human malware Pat McAfee, Corso’s ostensible replacement on the GameDay set, giving the HOO BABY to our troops while his colleagues mindlessly chuckle in assent. This latest offense comes a mere week after the show invited universally despised Senator Ted Cruz onto its live broadcast from Austin, in which GameDay host Rece Davis allowed the Texas republican to shill for the odious <a href="https://defector.com/the-protect-college-sports-act-finally-has-its-suitably-off-putting-mascot">Protect College Sports Act</a>, and offered zero pushback on Cruz in doing so.</p>