{"id":186455,"date":"2015-09-02T21:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebellyofthebeast.net\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2015-09-02T21:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:30:44","slug":"on-the-eve-of-college-footballs-return-a-look-at-one-footballs-greatest-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/on-the-eve-of-college-footballs-return-a-look-at-one-footballs-greatest-games\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Eve Of College Football’s Return, A Look At One Football’s Greatest Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

That sound you hear slowly gaining on you is the sweet noise of the day you no longer feel guilty about not making any sort of effort socially. You will no longer feel guilty because COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS HERE, FRIENDS, PLEASE STOP TALKING TO ME NOPE DON’T CARE YEP THAT’S REAL NICE OKAY TALK TO YOU IN LIKE FOUR MONTHS.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow evening, we shall be free from this plague known as “not-football” and treated to things such as South Carolina false start penalties, Steve Spurrier visor-throws, and Jim Harbaugh staring with mouth agape at a referee who has correctly enforced a penalty on Michigan. Your wedding wasn’t as magical as those events will be.<\/p>\n

While we wait for the clock to HURRY UP, we must pass the time. And what better way to pass the time than to look back at one of football’s greatest contests.<\/p>\n

What game might that be, you ask? A billion-overtime affair with Houston Nutt pacing around like a hyena hopped up on various methamphetamines? A contest from years ago\u00a0that sportswriters always bring up despite not having been alive at the time or too young to even recall it? No, none of these.<\/p>\n

The game I’m referring to was played on a tiny stretch of beach in Southern California, at night, far from the bright lights of a stadium (though it did have the bright headlights from parked cars). It featured a former Ohio State quarterback and a group of surfers who robbed banks to finance their surfing lifestyle.<\/p>\n

BEHOLD, THE FOOTBALL GAME FROM POINT BREAK.<\/p>\n[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bWWH-s8yGUE?rel=0]\n

It’s Bodhi and Johnny Utah sizing each other up while playing a version of football that lacks order and common sense, all in the name of showing the audience the establishment of the\u00a0first step of tension and mutual respect\u00a0between the two. Also, FOOTBALL.<\/p>\n

To better understand one of the greatest games ever played, we need to immerse ourselves the goodness that is here. And what better way to do that than through the power of bullet points, the lazy man’s way of avoiding paragraphs and transition sentences.<\/p>\n