Arizona State-Arizona underway

A few observations:

*Where in the world did Arizona get those ugly-ass uniforms? Red shirts with blue helmets and blue pants? They look like the prisoner team in Longest Yard II, and I don't mean the re-make. And . . .

AAAAAH! Touchdown, ASU! 7-0!

*Where was I? I was about to write, if Rudi Carpenter can get in a groove against Stoops's gambling, swarming defense, this might work. I say it here, it comes out there.

Update: Arizona State goes for it on fourth and short, results in a touchdown . . . and a vicious, late, punk-ass forearm to the windpipe of Carpenter by a ScumCat defender. I'm sorry, but try that against Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Brett Favre in the NFL, and you'll find your ass in the locker room awaiting the news on your fine.

Update: I like baseball more than college football, only because you walk away from a baseball game often saying, "I never saw something like that before." Well, I've never seen a punter punt the ball twice, as the UofA punter just did. ASU ball, first and goal . . . and in. 21-0.

Update: Excessive celebration leads to a deep kick-off, a return to midfield, a called fumble (correctly reversed--apparently even the good calls go against ASU). Soon enough, touchdown, UofA. 21-7.

Update: What a crap call! UA's Tuitama gets a clean hit, his head snaps back, bangs against the helmet of a Sun Devil defender . . . the announcers basically admit that, yeah, the hit was clean, the contact incidental, but if you knock heads "with a kid who had two concussions . . ." With a kid who had two concussions? What is this, gridiron affirmative action?

Update: So it goes. For the past three decades, Arizona State has had the superior talent, all the starters on a combined team featuring all the Arizona schools, all but the rare future NFL star who inexplicably showed up in Tucson (Chuck Cecil, Rickey Hundley, Teddy Bruschi, No-Bowl Bobby). The talent has, with rare exceptions, been on ASU's side, and the breaks have fallen to Uof A. Such is life. So it happens that two ASU blow-them-off-the-ball drives are flattened by two turnovers, and what might have been at least 28-7 ASU is now 21-14 at the half. Brother.