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Tennessee-Penn State Hail Mary Haiku

Update [2006-12-31 17:24:59 by Joel]: Last day to enter the Outback Bowl Hail Mary Haiku.

Update [2006-12-27 11:22:43 by Joel]: Bumped to the top for game week.

It's the season finale of the Rocky Top Talk Hail Mary Haiku!

I want to send out a special invitation to PSU fans to play along.  (Check out the Tennessee-LSU Hail Mary Haiku to see how that game's contest played out.) Volunteer fans, show 'em how it's done.

Here's the concept for new players who want to get in the game: You're behind by a touchdown or more at midfield. Only one second remains on the clock, and you have to heave the ball into a mass of players in the end zone and hope that one of your guys comes down with it. Oh, and bonus points for actually observing the traditional 5-7-5 format for haikus. Free form haikus are allowed, though. This is, after all, a desperation play.

I'll post the entries and open up the voting through the poll box on the right sidebar for the best entries in a week, maybe two.  Voting will continue through game day, and the winner will be posted soon after the game.  The winner gets . . . the satisfaction of having finished the season well.

Hike!  Ooooh!

Enter yours below, and pass the invitation to enter along to others.  I'll post mine below later.

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UT-PSU haiku
Will Vols beat Penn State?
Don't know, but bring some Depends.
JoePa sure is old.
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by rustytanton on Dec 14, 2006 7:46 AM EST reply actions  

Haiku
Penn State is not great
Joe Pa dosen't care he owns us
Please don't leave Cutcliffe

by Smitty @ Rocky Top Talk on Dec 14, 2006 8:55 AM EST reply actions  

Haiku
You know it's coming
Penn State runs up the middle
But stopping them though...
Mike
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by Mike @ Rocky Top Talk on Dec 14, 2006 11:38 AM EST reply actions  

UT-PSU Haiku
Outback in sunshine
state; Sunshine state makes or'nges;
Or'nges made for Vols!

(Coincidence?  For you to decide.)

by Aerobab on Dec 19, 2006 8:22 AM EST reply actions  

Haiku
Cherry Blossoms fall
Fuji is silent behind
Poz just smashed your face

by billybob on Dec 19, 2006 5:58 PM EST reply actions  

Nice!
"Poz just smashed your face"

This is the best single line of the haikus all season; but I really hope it doesn't play out in the game.  Sounds quite painful.

by Aerobab on Dec 27, 2006 9:53 PM EST up reply actions  

Yeah, I agree.
Nice contrast to the gentleness of the first two lines. References to Japanese culture. Very nice.

Coming from a guy named Billy Bob. And a Penn State fan, apparently!

All sorts of contrasts and ironies.

Go Vols!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Dec 27, 2006 10:57 PM EST reply actions  

Icons of coaching
Fulmer not too round
JoePa not too old, football
icons both of them
Go Vols!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Dec 31, 2006 5:18 PM EST reply actions  

Who's eating what?
Palm trees wave in wind
Lions can have fried onions,
Vols stake claim to steak
Go Vols!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Dec 31, 2006 5:22 PM EST reply actions  

I'm out
At plate for haiku
Rocky Top Talk eyes the pitch,
Swings, and it's strike three
Go Vols!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Dec 31, 2006 5:23 PM EST reply actions  

As always, tardy to the party,
but here we go...

Orange down JoePa's throat
just like his daily servings
of metamucil.

by CornFromAJar on Jan 1, 2007 9:39 AM EST reply actions  

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