Posted by BillFromTampa

1.    Forget the truck he got. Those last two defensive stands were the real retirement gifts to Mickey.

2.    The one and only positive of Mickey Andrews’ retirement? No more sunflower seeds to clean up off the field after the game.

3.    And just when the only bowl I thought I’d be looking forward to was my cereal bowl. Instead I’ll have to visit the cardiologist.

4.    Show of hands please. How many of you said about 193 please please please please doing your best Judge Smails impression asking for the defense to hold Maryland in those last thirty-two seconds?

5.    And on that last play of the game by Maryland before the ball carrier was finally tackled, why was I having these flashbacks to that game a few years ago where the ball was lateral led about 47 times that eventually led to a touchdown? Or that famous Cal/Stanford game of the 80’s for that matter. At least the band wasn’t on the field so I guess we were safe.

6.    Dustin Hopkins is getting that ricochet off the upright through the goalposts thing down quite well. What is that …. three on the season so far? I’ll REALLY be impressed when he kicks it off the press box, bouncing it off the luxury boxes on the other side of the field, then off helmet of an oncoming rusher, and then off the upright and through the goalposts all on the same kick. Piece of cake.

7.    OK, you can keep those new uniforms. For the moment. But come the first loss though …….

8.    FSU was just toying with Maryland just to give you know who a false sense of confidence.

9.    Bobby Bowden after the game: All the games we’ve lost … it wasn’t for a lack of effort. It was lack of execution. You can see we still have a lot of work to do on that.” Here’s hoping that light goes on in the next six days.

10.    Those could not possibly have been ACC refs out there. No way. Not with zero penalties on FSU. I mean there wasn’t even the token phantom holding call. Who were those imposters and can we get them every week?

Bonus Defensively Random and Flowingly Meaningless Thoughts
11.    In noting the empty areas in the stands of Doak Campbell stadium, Mrs. BFT commented “must be a late arriving crowd.” Of course this was well into the fourth quarter when she mentioned that. Must have been a late arriving crowd for the next home game. In September next season.

12.    Sign seen at ESPN’s Gameday show: “If you can read this sign you didn’t go to ASU”. Obviously an Arizona Wildcat fan. Bet he wishes he couldn’t read that scoreboard right about now.

13.    Also seen at Gameday: “Nick needs a Flowbee”. For those of you who didn’t know a Flowbee is a vacuum haircutting device. So assuming Nick doesn’t wear a toupee’ he can’t buy a pair scissors?

14.    After Saturday night’s fascinating decisions on how NOT to manage the end of a game Bill Belichek just sent Les Miles a thank you card for getting him off the sports talk show airwaves for this week.

15.    The certainties in life these days. Death, taxes, and Michigan losing to Ohio State.