Harvard Yard Picks

Sometimes in life you see something so amazing, so incredible, so out of the ordinary, that it shakes you to your very core . . . makes you question everything you ever thought you knew.  Maybe it was the ghost of your dead grandmother.  Maybe it was an alien from the planet Zenon.  Maybe it was the sausage that danced across your plate and then begged you to eat it.  But nothing, nothing can prepare you for what you are about to see.  THIS will blow your mind.

You know you saw it.  In some deep recess of your brain you are denying it.  The baby-you in your super ego is curled into the fetal position crying in the corner of your mind.  Cause you can’t have seen what you just saw.  What you just saw with your own two eyes.  Watch it again.  Deny it.  I dare you.  I know, I know.  It can’t be true.  But it is.  You just watched an SEC referee tackle South Carolina’s quarterback.  And now you ask yourself–Why? Why did he do it?

I don’t know.  Maybe he was angry.  Maybe he felt bad for throwing an inadvertent screen for a South Carolina receiver two plays earlier.  Maybe he wanted one more moment of football glory.  Honestly I don’t know.  I can barely watch it and keep my sanity.  Because it can’t be true right?  A man who worked his way up through the ranks to reach the level of SEC ref did not just deliberately throw himself into a player.  Right?  I mean if he wanted to affect the game, why not throw a flag?  Why not call holding?  There must be some rational explanation.  Find it.  I dare you.  Because you and I both know the truth.  And sometimes the truth is a hard, hard thing.  So laugh my friends.  Laugh, and keep your sanity.

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