The Ballad of Stetson Bennett: From Walk-on to the Brink of CFB Immortality
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🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ryan McGee, you are working on New Year's Eve. You were in the peach ball press box. |
| 0:04.9 | You were there as George An Ohio State were fighting to make the national title game |
| 0:08.9 | in one of the most dramatic finishes to any game and any year that I have ever seen. |
| 0:14.6 | And so as the ball was just about to drop in time square, what was it like where you |
| 0:19.9 | were? |
| 0:20.9 | I had our friend Ryan C. Crest on the phone while the play is happening because I'm one |
| 0:31.8 | of these that have always complained about having these games on New Year's Eve anyway. |
| 0:35.4 | We've got 49 seconds until the new year. We're all going to count it down together. |
| 0:45.0 | Wait, you second screen C. Crest? Yeah, because I wanted to see it coming. Like I was like, |
| 0:53.4 | oh my gosh, this is going to happen. Like this is all going to happen at once. |
| 0:59.6 | And low and behold, that kick went up in the air. I mean, as the countdown was getting |
| 1:12.6 | to zero. And it was, it was beautiful and kind of awful all at the same time. |
| 1:26.2 | It's on the way. No good. He got sick. And Georgia is going to survive at the stroke of |
| 1:36.3 | midnight the first few seconds of 2023. Ohio State falls one kick short. |
| 1:47.6 | In by the way, let's give Ryan C. Crest credit. That guy went to Georgia. And so I give him |
| 2:04.4 | credit because he was able to maintain focus on the job at hand. But I know there was a |
| 2:10.0 | little voice in the back of Ryan C. Crest. Mine saying, hey, what do you think has happened |
| 2:15.3 | at the beach ball right now? So I should say that I misspoke actually. You were not second |
| 2:22.0 | screening C. Crest. You were first screening C. Crest because you were physically present |
| 2:27.2 | witnessing that kick get muffed not even close by the way. That is what happened. Wide |
| 2:32.0 | left advancing. Yes. Ryan C. Crest bulldogs to their second straight college football |
| 2:36.4 | championship. But when that happened, who did you look to first for their reaction? |
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