"Carelessness" doesn't describe it...

OK, so this will be my first “quick thought” blog.

I played tackle football for 5 years in my youth and was fortunate to be put at running back for most all of them. During my play, I came across a simple truth…and this truth was confirmed later during a brief career in intramural flag football at ISU:

Perhaps the best pleasure in the game of football, (challenged only by cleaning someone’s clock on a blindside Wagner-esque block) is to stand proudly in your opponents end zone, HOLDING the ball.

WHY DO PLAYERS INSIST ON DROPPING THE BALL JUST AS (or worse: JUST BEFORE) THEY UNCONTENDEDLY CROSS THE GOAL LINE?!?!

This happened again this week in the Alabama-Florida game and that makes 3 that I have seen this season. I’d say there is a close call on this exact play in roughly 5% of college football games. Sometimes the refs catch it and rule it a fumble and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes (as in today’s incidence) players are lucky enough to have truly broken the plane just a fraction of an instant before the carelessly drop the ball. But by dropping the ball just as you cross it, not only do you risk being the biggest goat and losing the game for all of your teammates, but you forfeit the greatest pleasure in the game.

-Confused in Tennessee