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Today may be a legal holiday. December 23rd is, of course, Festivus. If you aren’t familiar, you’ve made some life choices that we'd like to speak about. there's no excuse for not having seen every episode of Seinfeld during this day and age. Whether you were sufficiently old to observe it in real time or are young enough to possess missed it entirely, you'll now watch a replay of each episode on virtually any streaming service on demand or just activate TBS any day aside from Christmas Eve and it's on 24 hours each day.
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Fuck this.
MattReisener: Iowa athletics aren't giving me many reasons for pessimism lately. But if there's one grievance worth airing on this most bitter of holy days, it's to try to to with the selection to award the 2019 Lou Groza award to Georgia's Rodrigo Blankenship over Iowa's Keith Duncan.
The 5-10, 180 lb. kicker might not be anyone's first option to participate within the feats of stregnth, but he did quite enough to earn the Groza. Duncan made more field goals than Blankenship (a Big Ten record 29 to Blankenship's 25) while also kicking at a better percentage (85.3% vs 80.6%). Furthermore, while Blankenship missed two crucial field goals in Georgia's loss to LSU during the SEC Championship, Duncan hit the sport winning kick to beat Nebraska in Lincoln, only to mercilessly taunt the stunned Husker fans afterwards.
In the immortal words of Frank Costanza, “you dont need glasses Rodrigo, you’re just weak.”
Iowa also doesn't beat Illinois, Purdue, or Iowa State had Duncan not rained blows upon them by making four field goals in each of these games, so there's that to think about.
On-field exploits aside, Duncan deserved the award for the context during which his miraculous season occured. After making the sport winner against #3 Michigan as a freshman, Duncan finally earned back his starting job after two seasons sitting behind Miguel Recinos only to instantly be called upon to be the savior of an offense that was seemingly incapable of converting redzone trips to touchdowns. that's tons to place on a walk-on. Furthermore, since Duncan wasn't on scholarship, his family incurred over $170,00 in debt over the course of his college career as they helped pay the way for him to pursue his dream. All this for a few inane voter to (allegedly) tell Duncan that Blankenship was more deserving of the award because it's harder to kick field goals within the SEC due to the humidity (see this interview with Miguel Recinos for context: https://anchor.fm/washed-up-walkons/episodes/73--Miguel-Recinos--WUW-073-e9hnpg)
So to the voters who were too distracted by all the tinsel on their christmas trees to seem at the stats before casting their ballots, I hear your little Groza Award stinks! You couldn’t smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe...ahh, I lost my train of thought.
And now for the feats of strength. Come on and fight your father! Festivus isn’t over until you pin me!
You guys wouldn’t happen to possess any grievances to air, would you?
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