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OK... So I did it. I re-watched the first half like a sick fuck. I am surprised how much of the game I blocked out and forgot. I think it was a defense mechanism from brain damage.
I forgot how much the announcers were harping on how awful Sims was and how utterly shocked they were than he wasn't benched and replaced in the 2nd quarter. Rightly so.
It's just unreal to me how he played with 0 awareness. The snap that he signaled directly into the motion man. The interception he threw directly to a waiting defender in the 2nd quarter. Not staying in bounds on 3rd and long, running out of bounds to stop the clock. CU gets the ball back with 49 secs left and later scores 3 before the half. Taking multiple unnecessary sacks instead of getting rid of the football. No pocket presence. Just a 0 for football IQ on top of his other mental limitations. Dumbstruck.
I could never go back and rewatch that game. I have literally blacked out in my mind, most of the last 10 years worth of games, as there were SO fucking many games we literally were at like 98 or 99% win likelihood in the 3rd or 4th qtrs, and yet still found ways to pull off the impossible losses. Game after game, year after year. An unbelievable clusterfuck of losses over a decades worth of games.