Kellenberger: How was the SWAC title game? It was great

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HOUSTON, Texas -- On an afternoon filled with moments that ran the gamut from delightful to sublime to giggle-inducing to positively SWAC-tastic, I must first share with you my favorite of them all.

It came with a second remaining in the first half, a fact that was the subject of some debate and required an official review. So they took a look, and then the ref turned on his mic in order to tell us the ruling — only to find out that he had to wait a moment because someone else had a mic and wanted to tell us all about the “official” SWAC Championship Game postgame party at Groove’s, hosted by someone named Kirko Bangz (guessing that's not a given name) and featuring .75-cent drinks until 11 p.m.

This is when Groove’s loses me, because there’s a time and age in your life when cheap drinks are worth any amount of hassle. But then you wake up one day and you’re 32 with a wife and kids, and the kind of people showing up there on Saturday night to pay three quarters for a cup of booze are most assuredly looking for a different kind of good time than you are. But I digress, because the point of the whole story is this: it was at this moment, with the ref patiently waiting at midfield, that I went all-in on the SWAC Championship Game. Alcorn beat Grambling, 49-21, but the whole thing won me over.

What happened at NRG Park on Saturday … well, it was amazing. I’ve never seen ...



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