… Texts From Game Day!

I have three offerings to get you in the mood, and it they make for a full circle sort of thing. One is vintage TFGD, dated and not as nuanced as things are now but plucked from what I perceive to be, with that one exception, the lowest moment since I’ve been on the beat.

It’s TFGD UConn 2010, and it features one of the all-time texts after WVU used two timeouts to make the Huskies punt into the wind in the second quarter. It’s so weird to read that now and know Oliver Luck was jettisoning Bill Stewart a short time later.

The next submission is from, without question, the highlight of my time on the beat. Times get no higher than the Orange Bowl TFGD. It’s perhaps the best and a memorable mosaic from an unforgettable night.

And finally, one from last season and the swing point of 2014, an occasion that could have seen Dana Holgorsen carried in the arms of the masses for ages and instead sent the team spinning the wrong way. It’s TFGD TCU. Personally, it’s one of my favorites and contains, like, six years of inside jokes.

It’s also a neat juxtaposition for all the promise and encouragement that precedes this season. It was not pretty after that game, but to think, a properly communicated play in the secondary or a mishit field goal attempt gives WVU that win and a 7-2 record. It didn’t happen, of course, but it was close.

It’s also a reminder that anything can happen, good or bad, and nothing ought to be taken for granted.

Anyhow, just think: A week from now, you’ll be reading Texts From Georgia Southern Game Day, and no one knows what wonders that edition holds.

Happy game week, gang.