The game wasn't going well. UW was losing 0 - 40 a half-time. Then with 6 minutes and 30 seconds left in the third quarter Utah scored a field goal to take a 43-0 lead.
On the ensuing kick off the University of Utah attempted an on-side kick. Fortunately for UW the kick didn't go 10 yards and they recovered the ball.
Personally I consider a team attempting an onside kick against an opponent that you are beating by more than 6 touchdowns to be really low class. I would love to hear the Utah coach, Kyle Whittingham's explanation as to why he would make such a obviously bad sportsmanship call.
The announcers of the game in CSTV had this to say:
"They are going to onside kick it? You gotta be kidding me!"
"No. This is wrong."
"What is the point?"
"But this is classless in my mind."
"I disagree whole-heartedly with this."
So what did Joe Glenn the head coach of the Wyoming Cowboys think of that play?
Well, Joe didn't waste too many words. He just grabbed his shovel dug for a little while until he got down to the same level as the Utah Coaches and said:
Under normal circumstances I would never condone this kind of behavior. But in this case I think flipping a little bird may have been deserved. Probably not appropriate but definitely deserved. I just wish the coach had expressed his disgust with Coach Whittingham in person instead of on national television.
Later when questioned about his finger Coach Glenn said that "Football is an emotional game and he got caught up in the emotions of the moment and wasn't thinking."
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Obviously you haven't been following the Patriots season so far in the NFL. Their behavior is making Utah look halfway respectable. Either way, it is something that few announcers mention when a team is trying to run up the score, so it is good to hear that they pointed it out.
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