Poodle Pete, fresh from his grooming.
Reportedly, Pete Carroll has said of the upcoming Notre Dame/Southern Cal game:
[USC] have been growing the Coliseum grass very long for ND’s practice Friday afternoon, then plan to cut it short for Saturday. Additionally, he indicated that Desmond Reed would be captain for the game given his injury on the long grass at ND last year. Lastly, when asked if he had anything special planned for the Irish, he said “no, nothing unusual.”
Now, either Pete is stupid enough to believe that the grass made any difference in the 2005 game and/or Desmond “External Locus Of Control” Reed’s injury, or the USC fanbase is stupid enough to buy into all of it. Or both.
Remarkable that only USC players were affected by long grass in 2005. Think I could buy a brand of grass for my lawn that would injure only particular people like Southern Cal fans, CNNSI.com writers, and Encyclopedia sales men?
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The long grass was meant to be a tool of Charlie’s mind games. And judging how a year later people are still referring to it, it worked quite well. Maybe Zibby returned a punt for a TD and Bush didn’t because the grass was long. Keep dreaming Poodle. And if Poodle did say that, he is a walking hypocrite as he publicly claims to approach ND as just another opponent, just another game week. No more no less. No shit!