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SMU Beats Virginia 23-13: Superfan Credits His Lucky Cowbell

SMU wins 23-13 on three field goals and two touchdowns. The whole segment, as it aired. College football fans call in from the parking lot. The desk regrets picking up.

On air
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley, with Marvin Tolliver (Mustangs Season Ticket Holder Since Birt)
Aired
on Scoreboard Saturday
Length
1:48
“The bathroom line was forty minutes, Rex, and I never once stopped ringing it!”
Marvin Tolliver

Transcript

What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

  1. Rex "Two-Point" GridleyMustangs fans, put your hands together, because No. 24 SMU beat Virginia twenty-three to thirteen, and on the line is a man who has held season tickets since birth, Marvin Tolliver!

  2. Marvin TolliverRex, I have not felt this good since the hospital gave me my first pennant! We are five and one, baby, and I did that!

  3. Rex "Two-Point" GridleyYou did that? Kevin Jennings threw for two hundred forty-six yards and two touchdowns, Marvin!

  4. Marvin TolliverAnd I respect the kid, but at the exact moment he threw the first one, I was tapping my cowbell.

  5. Marvin TolliverMy grandfather won this bell in a card game, and it has never lost a Saturday!

  6. Rex "Two-Point" GridleySo here is the stat that decides it! SMU scored twenty-three points with only two touchdowns, so where did the rest come from?

  7. Marvin TolliverSpiritual points, Rex. I rubbed the bell at eleven-oh-two in the lot, and then again at eleven-oh-three, and the Mustangs felt every second of it.

  8. Rex "Two-Point" GridleyBrendan Baird kicked three field goals, Marvin, and he used to play SMU soccer!

  9. Marvin TolliverSoccer! I knew it. That is why I rubbed the bell at eleven-oh-four, eleven-oh-five, and eleven-oh-six for him specifically.

  10. Rex "Two-Point" GridleyEleven-oh-six. Impressive stamina for a man who missed the second half of a football game!

  11. Marvin TolliverThe bathroom line was forty minutes, Rex, and I never once stopped ringing it!

  12. Rex "Two-Point" GridleyLet me pin you down on one number. Virginia scored thirteen, and the Mustangs won by ten. Do you owe the other side an apology?

  13. Marvin TolliverNever! My grudge is with their mascot, who looked at my bell during the anthem. I will never forgive that sabre.

  14. Rex "Two-Point" GridleyI called SMU over Virginia, Marvin. No bell, no lot, no grandfather's card game. Just a man and his gut. Dynasty!

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