21 the Hard Way

Click to enlarge Last night’s BCS title game offered more uni-notable details — several of them visible in the photo shown above — than all four of the weekend’s NFL playoff games combined. Here’s a rundown: • If you look at that photo, you can see that LSU defenders Ryan Baker (No. 22) and Barkevious Mingo (49) both play bare-handed, with tape on their fingers. • You can also see that LSU’s Michael Brockers (90) wears tape on the fingers of his gloves. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. I noticed it when he blocked a field goal in the first half. Went looking for a photo of it, and that’s when I noticed his bare-handed teammates. • And of course the most uni-obvious element in the photo is that ’Bama running back Trent Richardson had “Gloria” and “Katrina” inscribed on his left wristband. Those are both famous hurricanes, although one of them took place before Richardson was born, so I figured th...