Seedy K’s GameCap: Toledo
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If ever there was an appropriate ending to a seriously disappointing season, and to a meaningless bowl game that was laughably inept for a half then a comedy caravan of absurdly disjointed fauxball in the second, the 2025 Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans had one.
If ever there was a football game that should have been played on Festivus, this was it. And it was.
Keegan Michael Key, you are funny man, but dude, I sure hope the money was good because your rep took a hit trying to make this affair a thing of any consequence.
Louisville 27, Toledo 22.
In a nail-biter W over an undisciplined* Rocket team that committed fourteen penalties for triple digit penalty yards, that was without major coaches, playing a first time QB, and a first time hit or miss kicker.
*How indisciplined was Toledo? Not once but twice they were penalized for having two players wearing the same number in the game at the same time.
The game ground down after U of L took what should have been an insurmountable lead.
Among the highlights. A blocked U of L extra point that went for Dos the other way. U of L’s best player getting kicked out for targeting. An interim coach wasting his timeouts. A 53 yard What Can Brown Do For You? TD that turned out to be the winner. A Toledo penalty for swiping the ball before Louisville could snap it.
A sideline brawl.
After which the officials announced the wrong downs. Twice. The official scorer kept getting time, down, and distance wrong. And two TV announcers mucking it all up so much they made Andre Ware sound like a Mensa.
This game featured blocked punts, fumbles, bumbles and stumbles.
At halftime, I got a call from Doc, who had patients during the afternoon, and could only catch glimpses of the affair on his phone.
He wanted specifics.
I refused. To that point it was the least entertaining game I’d seen in aeons.
I advised how lucky he was that he had other things to do.
Grabbing a snack during intermission, I thought about the traffic jams I saw on the expressway trying to get onto Shelbyville Road, and how those people waiting interminably were having more fun than I was watching the football game.
As the game tightened, still being contested without a hint of excellence for the most part, I thought of two sets of fans.
The dudes in bowl pools watching their picks against the spread flip. And why those pools are so popular.
And the Michigan fans watching and thinking, is this a guy we really want coaching our sideline in the Big House?
Louisville only had two opt outs. Very nice.
The Browns each rushed for over a hundred yards. Boffo.
The good guys got to eat the bowl of beans. Tasty.
The resulting flatulence. An exclamation point for this mondo bizarro bowl o’ beans Cardinal victory.
— c d kaplan
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