“Bayou Madness”

Granted enough that there’s enough people trouncing around and making New Orleans their playground for Bayou Classic along with drinking, throwing up, making poor decisions as well as travesty.
This was my last Bayou Classic as an undergrad so one has to “live it up” right? Ha wrong.
The festivities were grand during this weekend minus the fighting and stereotypical black on black crime.
I had a blast, just didn’t have a blast watching the game and seeing all of the mistakes being made, which is why I’m here today.
This is your Sports Editor and I’m here to give you the “Sports Corner”, where I will parade around facts and fallacies and see if it fits your mantra.
I went to the game and turned on my laptop to type o’ so carefully the story of the Bayou Classic and since I am also a student of the fabulous HBCU, why not be bias even though journalism butchers that mantra.
Southern is capturing the lead and inside of my head I am grinning thinking that another win was in the books but o’mercy was I wrong.
Southern 6-3 went up early after Willie Quinn coasted his speed into the end zone after a 7 yard catch. Great job, Quinn, you did well.
I don’t think the referees like to rewind any type of tape to see the travesty that was happening on the field.
Southern held the drive for past four minutes and dealt with foul trouble on Grambling’s behalf. If a wide receiver cannot reach the pass it is either the ball being overthrown, the wide receiver wasn’t being observant, interception, or a PASS INTERFERENCE.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we found a winner.
My photographer took a picture of the cornerback tugging on Randall Menard’s jersey on the 10th play of the drive, yes I keep up with the numbers. Unfortunately, he wasn’t called on the first play.
If one didn’t check it out, Austin Howard threw the ball to Menard and finally the refs with their all mighty seeing eyes caught the corner doing a foul play and called the charge.
I don’t think that was a fluke by the quarterback, I think he eyed the play and made that happen for an automatic first down.
That was the first play that sent the Jaguars through penalty trouble.
It was lovely seeing Southern in the end; I mean what Southernite wants their team to lose.
But what was funny to me is that the refs saw every mistake Southern made: holding, false start, holding, but not the charges and fallacies Grambling was sending. This isn’t bitterness at all, these are facts.
Southern received eight penalties and was sent back for an excruciating 50 yards while Grambling on the other hand only had six and was penalized for 26 yards.
Did the suplex to Willie Quinn mean nothing?
Need I say more.
Was it just me or did you guys see the clock run every time Southern had a timeout, field goal or media alert?
Is it just me or when you press pause on a game, the play clock stops. So why only on Southern’s end did the clock keep winding down?
I have questions and referees you have answers. Now I’m not saying that Southern could’ve won from this but it would’ve gave the Jaguars a chance at redemption later in the game. I’m pretty sure Southern lost about 4 minutes in delayed time but did it matter, nah.
Granted SU made plenty mistakes on their part with incompletions, dropped passes, and fumbles. This piled up in addition to the wrong play calling by officials made this game unenjoyable for me even when I was so hyped.
So if you agree or not, it’s a commentary.