GRANTLAND.com: The Triangle

Monday, October 31, 2011
About Last Weekend: The Ballad of Halloween

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By Shane Ryan

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports last weekend.

On Halloween Morn we gather the bones of the clashes

Burn up the skeleton weekend and scatter the ashes.

The fins from the Florida tip whom combatants adore

Have gnashed their frail teeth at Giants, then washed up ashore.

While black-and-gold men cut from steel in the cradle of Penn
Shot holes through the Patriot flag on the back of Big Ben

From the waterless lands of the desert, a red bird took flight

To challenge the Raven — alas, nevermore to alight

Warlike-Ndamukong shall meet with commissioner G

To discuss all the ways of his evil and then be set free

And dreams of a title for Clemson were cleaved at the neck

Far from the valley of death by the Rambling Wreck

Though flawless to date, so too did the Wildcats croak

Not later, but Sooner must they on a single loss choke

Yet launching offensives from inside equestrian wood

Stanford waged war on the Trojans and perfectly stood

Hordes of the Cardinal faithful have gathered in prayer

To implore Prince Albert to stay, though their coffers are spare

As the Kingdom of Pinstripes, a land ripe with silver and gold
Made offers to CC, but lo, the Big Bear was cold.

Thus has a weekend been passed in the dark world of sport —

Macabre legions of men in a stark, brooding fort.

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