Scarlet Knights Escape Disaster

The magical season for the vaunted Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team almost took an awful turn Sunday night, due to the persistence of the Connecticut Huskies, a troop that wasn’t supposed to give Rutgers all that much trouble. After a harrowing third quarter, the Knights managed to hold UConn off thanks to the fine efforts of their defense and specials teams, 24 to 13.

You could almost feel it coming especially after Rutgers handled Pitt on the road and with a show down game against Louisville looming: the Connecticut contest was shaping up as one of those awful trap games, one that could have sent R.U. to their first loss of the season.

The game started out looking as if it would be a Rutgers blowout. The Knights marched their opening drive down field for a touchdown highlighted by Ray Rice’s sweep around the left side. In the second quarter the Big D stepped up by forcing a turnover that led to a touchdown, which was followed by a Jeremy Ito 50 yard field goal to extend the scoring. At the intermission Rutgers was up 17-0.

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I Hate Time Changes!

Spring forward, fall back. Ugh! My body doesn’t seem to quite adjust, at least for the first week after the time has been changed. This twice annual tradition of moving the time to suit farmers seems a bit dated these days. As anyone who has worked on a farm can tell you, cows know nothing about time as they need to be milked on their time, not man’s time.

Oh well, at least I’ll be early to church this morning…not the full hour, but early enough to get there in plenty of time for worship service. At least this is something that I look foward to time change or not!

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