Hail Mary Haiku: UAB Blazers edition

by Joel Hollingsworth on Sep 8, 2008 6:30 AM EDT in Tennessee Volunteer Football

Time for the UAB Hail Mary Haiku.

Here's the concept for those new to the game: You're behind by four 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. Bonus points for actually observing the traditional 5-7-5 format for haikus, but free form haikus are allowed. This is, after all, a desperation play.

I'll try to post the entries and open up the voting on Thursday morning. Voting will continue until Game Day, when I'll post the winner. The winner gets . . . a point in the RTT Pregame Guesses Challenge.

Enter yours by clicking on the "Comments" link below, and pass the invitation to enter along to others. Keep 'em clean, please.

Hike! Ooooh!

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City of Angels egg,
Let us put it behind us,
kick some Blazer butt.

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Sep 8, 2008 7:12 AM EDT reply actions

Correction

City of Angels,
Let us put it behind us,
kick some Blazer butt.

(I can’t count at this hour)

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Sep 8, 2008 7:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Chavis’ defense,
soft as a baby’s bottom.
Time for him to go?

by wvvol on Sep 8, 2008 12:36 PM EDT reply actions

My haiku is called "One second on the clock, UAB has the lead, we have the ball at midfield, and you want me to write WHAT?"

UAB up FOUR???
If we are down by four points,
My brain will combust.

Someday we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.

by MeytonPanning on Sep 8, 2008 2:44 PM EDT reply actions

lol. nice ;-)

by David Hooper on Sep 8, 2008 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions

Titled "I take ideas above and steal them"

UAB up Four . . .
Tennessee is in trouble
Damn, is it 05?!?!?!

by bobo_the_vol on Sep 8, 2008 4:40 PM EDT reply actions

Between 4 and 6 is......NOTHING! OK?

I thought that all Vol fans had unilaterally aggreed to abolish the number between 4 and 6. Or if you were referring to a calendar year between say….2004 and 2006….to call it two thousand fou-ix. Or to take a play from Orson Swindle’s EDSBS and call it the “Two Thousand and [INTEGER REDACTED] Season.”

Gosh Darnett, man, you are not to mention “the season of which we do not speak.”

I OFFICIALLY MOVE TO HAVE THIS HAIKU STRICKEN FROM ALL EXISTENCE UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THE AUTHOR CAN RESOLVE THE ISSUE AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. Please please, if you mention the season we do not speak of again, my brain will also, as I put it, combust.

Someday we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.

by MeytonPanning on Sep 9, 2008 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions

lets keep it running...

UAB up four
my Lord how long until we
can watch Pearl again?

by thetennesseethumper on Sep 9, 2008 8:39 AM EDT reply actions

Second submission just for fun

One two three four six,
Something else that you just said,
We do not speak of.

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Sep 9, 2008 6:55 PM EDT reply actions

Heh.

Except for McCoy. He’s linebacker enough to get a pass on that rule.

by David Hooper on Sep 9, 2008 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Nice

Personally I’d like Rico McCoy to start using fractions as a number. If he was really enamored with [INTEGER REDACTED] then he could go with the jersey number “30/6.” Yes. I am MeytonPanning and I approve that idea.

Someday we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.

by MeytonPanning on Sep 10, 2008 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions