COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S MOST INTERESTING SPRING HIGHLIGHTS!

Weather is getting warmer, hoodies and sweatpants are going into the closet, shorts and sundresses are coming out, and spring scrimmages are in full bloom for College Football.

Outside of students, and hard-core alumni fans, College Spring Games go laregely unnoticed, but there have been a couple teams who’ve gained some national attention for a special play or two this season.  Let’s take a closer look.

Beast Mode “smokes” defenders at Cal!

            Seahawks running back (and Cal alum) Marshawn Lynch showed at the Golden Bears' spring game, took a handoff and …hold on, is he high in this interview?

I mean I can’t say for sure, but he looks TOO faded.  I hope that reporter has some Skittles in his pocket.

Cool Points: +5

Andre Johnson and Gino Torretta link up at Miami!

The “U” decided to one-up Cal by pulling out their own famous NFL alum in Texans all-pro Andre Johnson as WELL as 1992 Heisman winner Gino Toretta…

They definitely don’t get any cool points for originality since beast mode started the trend.   Gino clearly forgot to tell the equipment manager that he’s grown a bit since his playing days with that that tight-ass jersey 

Is he also wearing flip-flops?

Cool Points: +2

Jadeveon Clownley comes off the pine for the score!

South Carolina Defensive End Jadeveon Clowney rules the world. 

If he had come out of college this year, he would have been the #1 overall pick in Thursday’s NFL draft.  It’s just that he’s only 20, so he has another year of college fun to wait before he gets paid.

Speaking of College Fun, Clowney was ruled out of the Gamecocks’ spring game with a concussion. However, Coach Steve Spurrier is known for running a single play in which a player literally runs off the bench to catch a pass.

I’ll give you one guess which 6’6, 270 pound man-child he picked this year…

Other than not falling down, I don’t have a negative word about this kid.  He may find me and make me famous like he did that Michigan player. 

Cool Points: +8

Irish Chocolate QB keeper for the conversion!

            Louis Nix is 6’3, 347 pounds and has no business under center.  Especially not in the shotgun formation…

That is unless it works.  As a former nose-tackle myself, I love to see a fat guy score.

Cool Points: +15

Little guys light up the scoreboard!

            A couple weeks in scene that could warm even the coldest of hearts, Jack Hoffman, a seven year-old Brain Cancer patient scampered for a 69-yard score during Nebraska’s spring game…

Last Saturday, Noah Roberts, an eight year-old born with Neurofibromatosis received an opportunity and took it to the house with a 40-yarder of his own during East Carolina’s Purple-White scrimmage.

 

 How can you not enjoy that? Humanity wins.

Cool Points: +50

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