Nice Hit, Wilbur

I saw it live and you’ve probably seen it a gazillion times since Saturday, but the lick that S.E.C. football umpire Wilbur Hackett Jr. layed on South Carolina QB Stephen Garcia is certainly worth watching again, don’t you think?

Hackett, who played linebacker for Kentucky in the late 60s, has pretty much been given a pass on this with even the “Ol’ Ball Coach” Steve Spurrier saying that it was an “accident,” but I don’t know. Watching the way he shuffles his feet, closes down on Garcia and then lays that forearm into him looks more like some kind of flashback to me.

Somewhere, Tommy Lewis is smiling. He always said in defense of that play, “I was just so full of Alabama.” It kind of makes me wonder what kind of history Hackett has with the Gamecocks.

Roll Tide, Tommy. And nice hit, Wilbur.

4 Comments

  1. mmlace

    Actually, no, I hadn’t seen that! I was a bit lax in my football-watching this weekend!

    That’s just funny.

  2. kdeats

    Ok now that was funny!!

  3. whoopigsooie

    I saw it live and kind of did a double take, but after further review…”the call on the field remains; definately a knee-jerk adrenalin rush in the heat of the battle…unassisted tackle by the weak like linebacker in the zebra suit.” Coach TT may want to request his services come Iron Bowl time…

  4. Mike the Eyeguy

    I’ve racked my brain trying to think of a similar “heat of the battle, adrenalin-fueled, knee jerk reflex” in my past and the best thing I can come up with is that time my family was visiting the Everglades in the summer of 1974 and a bunch of those tiny little black mosquitoes that bite like fire got into the car with us after we had stopped to ogle some gators. The ones who didn’t manage to get into the car with us hovered outside in a dense, black cloud.

    With lightning quick thinking, I proceeded to roll down my window in order to try to coax the mosquitoes to leave the vehicle.

    Bad move. Very bad move.

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