Great Clips of the Week: Jazz fans grow #HeadbandJoe into internet's latest meme

GETTING TAPED UP — It was a pretty great weekend in the Beehive State.

Utah clinched the Pac-12 South championship, it's first division title since joining the league in 2011. No. 15 Utah State won their 10th-straight game and set up a Mountain West Mountain Division championship Saturday at Boise State. And BYU joined the ranks of the bowl-eligible with a 45-10 rout of New Mexico State in the Cougars’ home finale.

Even Weber State joined the party, wrapping up its six-straight Big Sky championship and making history with the No. 2 overall seed in the upcoming FCS Playoffs.

So let’s take a look at the "best of the rest" in last week’s Great Clips of the Week — including the birth of a legend at Vivint SmartHome Arena. As always, click the video above for the complete rundown.

#HeadbandJoe is the latest internet meme

You’ve seen it online. You’ve read about it in dozens of outlets, including at KSL.com. But Utah Jazz guard Joe Ingles' headband has taken on a life of its own.

Ingles received four stitches to a cut above his eye during the Jazz's 96-88 win at Memphis last Monday, returned to the game wrapped in a tourniquet — and spawned a meme that will live forever on the World Wide Web and in the hearts of Jazz fans everywhere.

“That’s what I’ve been striving for my whole life,” the Australian shooting star deadpanned in the locker room when a reporter informed him his headband had taken on a life of its own. “We were playing well, I just wanted to go back in. I told (Utah Jazz athletic trainer Eric Waters) to wrap it up as quick as possible, and I was able to get back out there.”

There will only be one "Headband Joe," but a simple Twitter search will show you some of the imitations out there.

Here are a few of our favorites:

And this one is our favorite, but most because we can't say no to Joe's wife Renae and his cute children.

The Jazz wrap up their six-game road trip Monday at Indiana. Utah has collected wins over Boston and Memphis during that span.

Harvard beats Yale

The most entertaining college football play of the weekend may have come during an Ivy League contest between long-time rivals Harvard and Yale at Fenway Park in Boston.

In the Crimson’s 45-27 win over their hated rival, running back Devin Darrington appeared to break free for a 27-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. But officials called the score back for unsportsmanlike conduct, and many on Twitter and several viewers at home speculated it was for an extended finger — go ahead and guess which one — that Darrington released in the direction of the Bulldogs.

Upon further review (and an excellent photo from the on-campus Harvard Crimson), Darrington can be cleared of major wrongdoing. It’s pretty clear that the finger he extended toward the Bulldogs is, in fact, his index finger — not the other finger that people often extend towards hated rivals in emotional situations.

It seems the Harvard running back was merely saying, "We're no. 1," which, to be fair to the Crimson, they were on that day.

Did #Pac12Refs help Utah to South title?

The Utes clinched the Pac-12 South title Saturday night, several hours after beating Colorado in a snowstorm in Boulder.

The real clincher came by way of Oregon knocking off Arizona State, 31-29 late Saturday night. But should the final, potential game-tying two-point conversion have counted?

After ASU pulled within two via ASU quarterback Manny Wilkins’ touchdown, first-year head coach Herm Edwards elected to go for two to tie the game. Wilkins’ pass to Frank Darby in the back of the end zone was close to the out-of-bounds line, and the officials ruled him out — preserving the Ducks’ lead.

But further replays speculated that the play may not be as cut-and-dry as the head referee insisted. Perhaps there was a little bit of space between Darby’s down cleat and the back of the end zone.

Maybe that’s a catch. Maybe it’s not. Surely, high-definition cameras like the ones available to Pac-12 video replay booths would clear up the controversy, right?

Not so fast.

Edwards told reporters after the game that he appealed to the officials to review the call — and was promptly told that they wouldn’t, as they felt confident in the decision.

In a season marked by embarrassing officiating gaffes in the conference and several teams’ inability to close out the South, perhaps this result is far too fitting.

Either way, one thing is certain: we'll see you in Santa Clara, Utah fans.

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