Temple-UConn II: Get your popcorn ready

By Mike Gibson
Last year, it was Wayne Hardin's shoe leather.
This year, it's Fran Duffy's video artistry.
Duffy is about 60 years Hardin's junior but his work will help pack the Linc, much like Hardin's work did.

Fran Duffy

Duffy's brilliant work is this video (above, click once or twice on the center of the icon). The two minutes has everything.
Drama.
Pathos.
Conspiracy. See Big East.
Motive. See Big East replay official.
Incredulity. See Big East replay official turn blind eye.
Justice expected.
Justice denied.
With all due respect to coach Hardin's tireless efforts _ stopping in every TV station, answering every radio and newspaper request for stories on his guarantee of filling Lincoln Financial Field, this ought to put even more fannies in the seats than Hardin's record crowd did a year ago.
Justice.
Every Temple fan who was outraged at the injustice done in East Hartford last year should make plans to come to the home opener at Lincoln Financial Field.
Even those Temple fans who weren't outraged (and who might that be?) should be there, too, because they are going to see a football team playing with a fire and determination fueled by a monumental injustice
done to them a year ago.
I can't see how UConn can match that emotion.
It's going to be fun to watch.
As former Owl wide receiver Phil Goodman once said: "Get your popcorn ready. It's going to be a show."
Or was that Terrell Owens?
It doesn't matter.
Last year it was about Justice with a capital J.
This year, it's about retribution with a capital R.