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SALT LAKE CITY — There wasn't much of a fight in the BCS title game, well at least not from the opposing team for Alabama, but there was one between the quarterback and the center for Alabama.
The Crimson Tide were up 42-14 with 7 minutes left in the fourth quarter of the national championship game. A time when most players are picking out what color Gatorade to pour on their coach, but the Tide were rolling again looking to run down the clock on the way to a back-to-back championship.
Then the craziness started. Barrett Jones, widely considered one of the best centers in the country, and AJ McCarron, the team's quarterback, were calling out plays at the line and apparently differed about the snap count.
"He's an emotional guy," Jones said to ESPN. "and we had a snap count difference. I was right ... but whatever. It doesn't matter. We love each other and gave each other a big hug. That's just how we are, if you don't know us."
McCarron saw the play clock running out and couldn't get Jones to snap the ball so he had to call a timeout. Then McCarron yelled at Jones and the 300-pound Jones used his natural ability to stop it. He just pushed the quarterback. They walked back to the sidelines visibly upset about wasting a timeout up 28.
This might stem from their coach Nick Saban who was steaming mad on the sidelines for maybe the same reason or maybe another.
This seems crazy, but it is probably the reason why 'Bama has won three of the last four championships.
Or it might be because of McCarron's girlfriend.
Miss Alabama
There is a really good chance that the true winner of last nights game was McCarron's girlfriend Katherine Webb, and by extension every man. Webb is the 2012 Miss Alabama, and now America's sweetheart.
She wasn't unknown going into the game, you don't date the quarterback and win a state pageant by living a quiet life. However by the time the game ended she had a meteoric rise to fame, as calculated by Twitter.
This is a tweet from Darren Rovell, "AJ McCarron's girlfriend @_KatherineWebb had 562 followers this morning according to@TheCounter. She is now over 30,000." That was in the first half, by the end of the game it was over 100,000 and right now she is up over 160,000. For someone that has tweeted just a handful of times this year that is a fantastic number, probably all having to do with her jokes and great opinions on Twitter.
She became the life of the party by the end of the title game that people were making fun of Brent Musburger who seemed to be pitching all matter of woo at her.
Maybe this is the real reason why men get into football.
The non-brawl by the bus:
Carmelo Anthony was a little more than displeased with some of the antics of Kevin Garnett. Boston's Garnett has made a late-career living by becoming an enforcer for his team that slyly backs out of any confrontation while twiddling his mustache.
Garnett and Anthony received double technicals after Anthony started guarding Garnett and they both walked away while chirping.
The refs were letting the game play and at the end of the night Melo apparently wanted to straighten things out with Garnett, so he waited by the lockerroom, but Garnett never came out.
So Anthony waited by the Boston bus to talk to Garnett, but never got the chance. Basically from there NYPD, Madison Square Garden security and coach Mike Woodson all gathered around Anthony to make sure nothing happened, and ultimately nothing happened.
But there is some video of nothing happening by the bus as you can see Anthony waiting, probably playing the best defense of his career trying to stay between his man and the bus.
Really a brawl this time:
High school sports, young men pushing themselves against one another deep in the trenches, battling on the blocks, guarding the plate and sometimes just running a little too close to eachother.
In the New York 4x400-meter relay a boy from Mt. Vernon, New York, and one from Thomas Jefferson, Brooklyn, started pushing each other. Rai Benjamin from Mt. Vernon was bumped off the track then tried to come back in and was pushed off by another racer.
Then every member of the track teams started to get into it and a full on brawl broke out. Exactly what happened isn't confirmed. No one seemed to be overly hurt, but one team was banned for a month and the other for one-meet.
And if nothing else just enjoy the guy recording the track meet/fight.
More fights, sort of:
The mamba vs d12 !! It's on lol twitter.com/kobebryant/sta…
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) January 7, 2013
Well every knew it would happen eventually. There was no possible way that Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard could get along and now we have the proof. On Bryant's new Twitter account, that skyrocketed a Katherine-Webb-like amount, he posted a picture of he and D12 getting ready to rumble in the training room with only Mike D'Antoni holding them back.
Okay, it was actually a joke, but a pretty good one. Bryant was able to take the common perception of his role as an alpha dog and play it up on twitter.
Of course Howard would probably win this, unless Bryant brought in an actual black mamba, but then Howard could become Superman again and mamba don't spit Kryptonite, just venom.
Well, regardless this will have to wait for another time.
