A Tribute to the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship Game

Feeling guilty for fart sacking Tuesday morning following the 2017 CFB Playoff National Championship Game, 14 pax showed up in the Gloom for a customary Goat Island beat down. (Quick side bar – I believe TCLAPS are warranted here for Tiny Tank and Shad Rap who both watched the game and still mustered up the fortitude to post Tuesday morning at The Storm. Well done!) Back to the Goat….It was a beautiful morning for an F3 workout. 50 degree temps. Energy and mumble chatter were lively between the pax. (Almost) everyone was early, and we had 1 FNG. After a brief welcome & intro for the FNG, the disclaimer was given.

The QIC explained to the pax that today’s workout was intended to be a tribute to Monday’s 2017 national championship game…arguably the best college football national championship game of all time.  To make sure we were all on the same page, a summary of the game was provided: Clemson was able to avenge last season’s 45-40 loss to Alabama in the 2016 Nat’l Championship game with a thrilling 35-31 win to be crowned the 2017 champs.

Warm Up & Pledge

Don Quixotes x 16 in honor of Alabama’s 16 national football titles

SSH x 18 in honor of the combined national football titles for these two heavyweight football programs

Moroccan Night Clubs x 26. The tigers snapped Alabama’s 26 game winning streak.

Hillbillies x 9. The Tide’s average third down distance to go was 9.3 yards for the game.

Mosey down the hill & back x 2 – high knees, butt kickers, karaoke right, karaoke left

Pledge

The Thang

The QIC used these standout statistics from the national championship game for the workout:

Clemson’s red zone touchdown percentage was 100%. The Tigers were a perfect 4 for 4.  Hearing the number 100, the pax begged for the opportunity to complete 100 burpees before 5:50 am, (#allin) which we did, via the 10 Minute Burpee Challenge. 60 seconds to complete 10 sets of burpees with the following reps: 8,9,10,11,12,12,11,10,9,8 = 100 burpees. (Thank you Nantan for providing this idea…though I missed the snow.) This was a crowd pleaser.

Alabama was 1 for 13 on third down attempts longer than 4 yards.  This meant that Alabama punted the ball 11 times. In recognition of the 11 punts, Round of 11s: hip slappers, pull ups. With 14 pax, we divided into 2 group so that we would have adequate space for pull ups. One group started at the gazeebo with pull ups and the other group started with hip slappers (double count) across the bridge.  Given time constraints, we Omaha’d somewhere in the middle of the count so that we could highlight a few more stats.

Clemson ran a total of 99 plays against The Tide, a feat that no other opponent was able to do this season in a single game.  (The Alabama defense hadn’t faced more than 84 plays in a single game all season).  Attributing much of this accomplishment to teamwork, we partnered up to Wheelbarrow 99 Yards across bridge & back. Teams were encouraged to switch every 24.75 yards (for the engineers in the pax).

The Alabama defense had been stifling all season. It was reported that, with the number of points scored by the Alabama defense during the regular season versus their opponents, the Tide would have finished the season 6 and 8. Again, this assumes the Tide offense never took the field in the 14 regular season games. Wow! Surprisingly, for a defense with the ability to rack up lots of points, Alabama only scored only 3 points off of two Clemson fumbles. Recognizing that each of us will also “fumble the ball” in life and will need our F3 brothers to fight for us in the scrum to help recover the ball (kick us in the duff & remind us of the gospel), we did a variation of the Bermuda Triangle (3 corners in tribute to 3 points scored) to practice recovering fumbles. Using the triangle intersection on Goat Island, we split into three groups. The groups bear crawled from one corner to the next. At each corner, the pax did French Fries x 20 (single count). The goal was 2 laps around the triangle…which we cut short due to time. Quick mosey back for the COT.

TIME.

Named the FNG – Q*bert

COT.

It’s an honor to be in community with you men. Thanks for encouraging me to DFQ….to keep pushing the rock.

Last stat from Monday’s national championship game…which I’ll work in to future workouts: Clemson had 4 receivers with more than 90 yards receiving