Word: yaleness
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...writing to announce my resignation as Yale Daily News football reporter, a position I have held the past three seasons. What started off as a passionate love affair—oh, the excitement of covering an ’05 team that threw the ball 368 times and played three dramatic overtimes against Harvard!—has fizzled into an unending string of identical, fundamentally sound victories, two years’ worth of Ivy League dominance that almost makes me long for the days of Ryan Fitzpatrick...
...year ago in this very column I explained to naïve Harvard fans harping on the mediocre passing statistics of Matt Polhemus that they hadn’t seen what the fleet-footed Yale quarterback was capable...
...handoff to the wunderkind and dashed 19 yards on a naked bootleg. Polhemus would indeed dance all day in the pocket, then McLeod would gallop into the endzone (it happened three times) while Dawson ended his college career with only the 60 yards Brandt Hollander and the rabid Yale defense generously allowed...
...want a pretty-boy receiver, like Harvard’s Corey Mazza, who appears in Sports Illustrated photo shoots but disappears in big games (two receptions vs. Yale last year). Instead, you have a throwback fullback (Joe Fuccillo) who wears a cowboy collar behind his long hair and passes up touches for a chance to punch people in the mouth – who, in this golden age of the wide-open spread offense, still uses a fullback...
...those of us in the press box have no such mind-altering recourse to the mind-numbing dominance of the 2007 Yale defense. Eleven returning starters, a preponderance of that oft-sung “senior leadership”, and experience at burying Pizzotti makes this game over before it even starts...