Sitting Behind The McCoys
- Saturday, January 9, 2010 1:11 PM
- Written By: Dan Hurwitz
As I approached my seats at the Rose Bowl for the BCS Championship, one thing caught my eye and it was not the Longhorn band marching on the field playing “Texas Fight” or the greatest sight in all of college football.
It was a beautiful blond woman that was slowly making her way to her seat in the row in front of me. I never see females this attractive, but for some reason I knew that I had seen her before (and no, not from any type of magazine or Victoria’s Secret Catalog).
As she slowly made her way to her seat, she was being greeted by everyone on her row, so I figured she had to be a celebrity. I did not even blink and just starred and drooled as this thing of beauty kept on coming closer.
She was being accompanied to her seats by what looked like a small-town Texas family who seemed to know more people in the stadium than the entire population of their hometown.
Then it hit me: I was sitting right behind the McCoys, and this girl that I had seen so many times before was Colt McCoy’s girlfriend who ESPN loved to show throughout the season and for good reason.
As awesome as it was to be directly behind the family of the Texas starting quarterback, this was not the best game to be sitting behind the McCoys who had a look of concern on their faces the entire game once their son and future NFL quarterback Colt went out on the Longhorns’ first possession with an injury.
Almost immediately, Colt’s father, Brad, had disappeared and it was later announced that he went to the locker room.
Brothers Chance and Case were furiously texting trying to figure out information from, I’m assuming, their father or their friends who were watching it on television.
Colt’s mother, grandmother and girlfriend remained quiet the entire game, just trying to make sure that their loved one was all right (or maybe just concerned about the possible millions of dollars lost from the injury.)
We all know what happened in the game. True freshman Garrett Gilbert entered the game and nearly led the Longhorns back from an 18-point halftime deficit.
But what does Colt’s injury mean to the legacy of this game and the legitimacy of Alabama’s BCS Championship?
More on this later …
