ECU SAYS MAHALO!!!

I had an impending sense of doom the entire second half of the Hawaii Bowl. But with 4 seconds left I saw Skip Holtz joking with kicker Ben Hartman after the Broncos tried to ice him, and I felt pretty good about making the game-winning kick. They seemed relaxed and confident.

Good thing I didn't know beforehand that Hartman was only 11 of 20 during the regular season.

Still, when I actually saw the kick, for some reason I thought Boise State had been blocked. Even when I saw the ball go through the uprights, I still wasn't sure I'd seen it, so I waited to see the refs' arms.

Then I paused the TV to make sure their arms were going up and not out the side.

Then I made my girlfriend promise me she wasn't lying about the 41-38 final score that I couldn't seem to read.

"Don't lie to me!!!" I screamed.

She claims the Pirates won, and I believer her, I guess.

Oh, and Chris Johnson is a god.