.... and the one game in 2003 that we lost, Jack Hunt didn't play. Not that that has anything to do with this conversation, but I just had to throw that in.
I know. I was at that game! That was the only game I got to go to that season. I remember being disappointed in not getting to see Hunt lay the wood to some WR's.
It was a bad mistake, and I do not care for Hawthorne for a number of reasons, including his continual inaccuracies in player identification. But I don't beat him up as much as everyone else for this call. First, he simply thought he saw No. 8 not No. 9. I know one was a white DB and the other a black WR - so that makes it tough to defend, but it was the craziest play in the history of LSU football he was excited and going nuts - he thought he saw No. 8 and made the incorrect call. His problem with this call is that it has been replayed thousands of times, and short of his call of the Warren Morris homerun, this is his legacy call and he botched it. Sucks for him, but I cut him a little slack given the excitement of the situation.
This game will always hold special memories for me. I was on the sidelines, about 10 feet from where Henderson first caught it. My jaw has never dropped so far since . . .
The reaction of the Kentucky fans is priceless......the guy on the sideline who almost gets caught up in the LSU mob.....and the guy in the end zone who almost gets run into by Henderson. Fantastic.
You're welcome. And being that a football field is 160 feet in width and Henderson caught the ball smack dab in the middle of it, we were obviously very fortunate for not being flagged for having a fan on the field.
Just call me Hawthorne. Big ass spelling mistake, illogical spatial comparison and an otherwise incoherent rambling. I'm ready for the radio booth.
