Jim Fassel thinks back on it now and remembers all the eerie feelings after the world changed forever. The United Airlines plane waiting to depart as one he was traveling on landed in Newark early that September day. United Flight 93. Sitting at the next terminal. Loading passengers, all of whom would be dead within a few hours. Just waiting to depart.
On the opening drive of the NFL season opener, it was business as usual for the New Orleans Saints. There was no containing Drew Brees, who shot down the field with the aggression of a wildfire.
It didn’t sound any better a few days later. It didn’t play any less disgusting on YouTube. It wasn’t any less racist, any less hateful, any less ignorant. As for the apology Floyd Mayweather Jr. subsequently released via another video, well, there are kiddie pools all around Summerlin that aren’t as shallow.
As a former UNLV starting quarterback, Bob Stockham will be disappointed if the Rebels and Wisconsin don’t continue their football series beyond 2011.
Jim Livengood wanted most to see a football team with a brain, a side that while not as good and unquestionably not as big or physical as its Midwest opponent, at least gave the appearance of having a clue.
Maybe Wisconsin-UNLV will be another pointless pairing of opposites. The Badgers are 21-point favorites. But Review-Journal sports columnist Matt Youmans says the Rebels have some real hope in the form of new coach Bobby Hauck.
