The weekend, as I watched the absurd denouement of the Northwestern-Michigan game, something struck me as familiar -- beyond the now-routine bumblefuckery that inspires the Wildcats to turn fourth-quarter leads into triple-overtime losses. No, it wasn't simply that Michigan drove in the dregs of game clock to kick the tying field goal (false start, refs, btw). It was how Northwestern allowed that to happen.
The weekend, as I watched the absurd denouement of the Northwestern-Michigan game, something struck me as familiar -- beyond the now-routine bumblefuckery that inspires the Wildcats to turn fourth-quarter leads into triple-overtime losses. No, it wasn't simply that Michigan drove in the dregs of game clock to kick the tying field goal (false start, refs, btw). It was how Northwestern allowed that to happen.
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