How Rutgers And Tim Brown’s Miracle TD Crushed UCONN’s Broken Heart
February 25, 2010
Sitting in the exact same chair as I’m in right now, I was about to turn off the on line broadcast of the Rutgers-Connecticut football game of last year.
Listening to it on the computer was the only way I could tune in to hear my alma mater.
And what I was hearing wasn’t very encouraging.
With years of mediocrity, at best, to fall back upon, my cup of Scarlet melancholia runneth over.
It was UCONN’s first home game since their player Jasper Howard was murdered and most thought it a slight sense of justice that the Huskies were about to honor him with a victory.
They had just driven the length of the field to take a 24-21 late fourth-quarter lead and had Rutgers pinned back on their own 19-yard line.
Huskies fans were on their feet, waving signs feverishly with Howard’s number six in their hands.
With only 33 seconds left, UCONN was only a miracle play away from an emotional win in a series that has quietly become the best Big East rivalry that no one has ever heard of.
But the cruelest of fates was about to befall the UCONN faithful in an eerie reminder that sometimes things don’t always go as scripted.
Rutgers freshman quarterback Tom Savage dropped back to pass on first down. What transpired was one of the great plays of the 2009 college football season.
And how ironic that it was Jasper Howard’s childhood friend, and Rutgers wide receiver, Tim Brown who’d be the recipient of a gift from above.
Watch for yourself and see if you don’t agree that it was one for the ages.
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