When your team almost blows a game it should have won easily, you sometimes say things you don’t mean. When Notre Dame needed overtime to beat Florida State after blowing an 18-point fourth-quarter lead Sunday, you never would have guessed the Irish had won based on Brian Kelly’s words. When being interviewed by Katie George on ABC immediately after the game, Kelly uttered some words that would have spelled disaster for him in any other context:
— no context college football (@nocontextcfb) September 6, 2021
If this was Kelly’s attempt at being clever, it certainly wasn’t the best one. It wasn’t easy for anyone to watch Irish nearly give that game away, and some fans might have choice words for certain players, if not the whole team. Even if Kelly was saying it tongue-in-cheek in reference to former USC and Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach John McKay, which he claimed was the case, the environment we live in might not let him off very easily, or it might just open him up to ridicule. Either way, it would be a little surprising if social media decided to forget this.