{"id":1212,"date":"2008-10-22T06:25:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T11:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:12","slug":"nice-hit-wilbur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Nice Hit, Wilbur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw it live and you&#8217;ve probably seen it a gazillion times since Saturday, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VqfOCB21qwA&#038;eurl=http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-726-College-Sports-Examiner~y2008m10d21-Referee-accidentally-levels-South-Carolina-quarterback\">the lick that S.E.C. football umpire Wilbur Hackett Jr. layed on South Carolina QB Stephen Garcia<\/a> is certainly worth watching again, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Hackett, who played linebacker for Kentucky in the late 60s, has pretty much been given a pass on this with even the &#8220;Ol&#8217; Ball Coach&#8221; Steve Spurrier saying that it was an &#8220;accident,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t know. Watching the way he shuffles his feet, closes down on Garcia and then lays that forearm into him looks more like some kind of flashback to me.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eSteCSinjTs&#038;eurl=http:\/\/www.ricefootball.net\/tackle.htm\">Tommy Lewis is smiling.<\/a> He always said in defense of that play, &#8220;I was just so full of Alabama.&#8221; It kind of makes me wonder what kind of history Hackett has with the Gamecocks.<\/p>\n<p>Roll Tide, Tommy. And nice hit, Wilbur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw it live and you&#8217;ve probably seen it a gazillion times since Saturday, but the lick that S.E.C. football umpire Wilbur Hackett Jr. layed on South Carolina QB Stephen Garcia is certainly worth watching again,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,43,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama-crimson-tide-football","category-college-football","category-humor","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/9271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}