Most Memorable Gamecocks Football Plays of 2010: Number Five, Antonio Allen Puts the Nail in the Coffin of Kyle Parker's Career
by Gamecock Man on Apr 23, 2011 12:22 PM EDT
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PrintWith summer fast approaching, we'll be talking about football here at Garnet and Black Attack more and more in the coming weeks. With that in mind, I'd like to whet your appetite with a series of Youtube videos of some of the more memorable moments of last year's football season. We're going to start off with what I thought was the most memorable play of the Clemson game, Antonio Allen's pick-six.
Allen INT for a touchdown! (via beamerwhb)
Why was this play so great? Well, it wasn't exactly the most impressive play of the year; Kyle Parker kind of made it easy for us, didn't he? That said, this play cemented a blowout win over our most hated rival and rang the death knell for the football career of its overhyped QB. There's something to be said for plays like that; they find their way into the lore that surrounds rivalry series. What made it particularly enjoyable was the sense it gave me that the tables were turning in this rivalry; we've seen Carolina make blundering plays like this against Clemson many times, and it was nice to be on the other end, for a change.
So sound off, Carolina fans: how memorable do you think this play was?
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no doubt it was memorable
but in terms of long term success I doubt it will be remembered as that “this turned our program around” type play. It may however go down as one of the larger plays in the clemson/carolina rivalry as the play that brought on the era of the Gamecock
Any play involving Allen is one of my favorites.
I think he’s one of the most underrated players in the SEC.
stuff 'bout stuff.
Honestly, I had plum forgotten it
my biggest memories of the 2010 Clemson game were (a) the blocked pun followed by DiMarco’s TD and (b) the sack-fumble by Tahj Boyd when he got pasted by Quinn Smith.
I never really disliked Parker. I actually thought he played with a lot of guts at Jordan-Hare after Auburn cheap-shotted him when he was on the ground. I think in hindsight he should have taken the Rockies’ money – I feel sort of bad that he and his parents let Dabo talk him into staying, only to saddle him with stone-handed WRs and an inexplicably anemic running attack. Dabo was just doing his job, of course … but the Parkers should have taken the money and run. I read somewhere he’s doing really well in the Rockies’ farm system.
They wore garnet helmets.
I don't necessarily dislike Parker, either.
He seems like a tough character, for all the jokes about him. He was definitely bamboozled by Dabo, but I guess you can’t blame either party for what happened.
In a way, it turned out to be a good thing for us that he came back. He didn’t manage to help Clemson beat us last year, and because he came back, the Tigers lost out on using last year to get Boyd ready for this season.
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by Gamecock Man on Apr 24, 2011 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Not the most important, but most memorable to me:
DL Moore laying out their punter.
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by Gamecock'n'Balls on Apr 25, 2011 4:53 PM EDT reply actions
Definitely entertaining.
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by Gamecock Man on Apr 25, 2011 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions
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