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The idea is we write anything we want. Just from a newspaper from an alternate timeline. For instance, I'll begin with sports. I have no idea if this is already done or not, but hey, let's roll with it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- OILERS DROP BALL, DROP CUP This is the year, that was the battle cry of our Texas National Football team. With Chuck Bagget back at quarterback after suffering ACL troubles for two years, and a new and improved D-Line, the Cup looked very promising. But after a 14-16 loss to the United States Jacks, the hope must lay dormant for another four years.
The game began on a completely different note however, as Texas came on strong at the Phillips Dome in San Francisco. With a touchdown pass from Bagget to Donald only 3:51 into the game, it looked like the Oilers were going to take this one running. To further inspire this feeling, the Jacks went three and out on their first, second, and third possessions.
The last two minutes of the first half had the Oilers on the US fifteen yard line. The US defense was crumbling with every short pass that Bagget penetrated them with. On the last play of the drive though, Chuck did something very not Bagget. For a man who only threw four interceptions in a nineteen game season, he picked a wrong time to prove he was human. Bagget threw the ball directly into US cornerback Darnell Goodman's hands. Amazingly though, Darnell has butterfingers! He funbles the ball after three steps and it's recovered in the endzone for a touchdown! With only 1:47 on the clock too! The first half was nothing but Texas as the score was Oilers 14, Jacks 0.
By all means, Texas had won the game. Someone forgot to tell the US. The Jacks came out with more tenacity than I have ever seen on the field in twenty-five years of sports journalism. In the third quarter alone, they racked up four sacks, one of which forced Bagget to fumble the ball which led to a US touchdown. But hey, OK, it's 14-7, right? No biggie. Uh-huh, it's 14-8, US coach Fred Gordon has guts of steel. Did we mention the third quarter is over? No? Well we hope you still have nails left to bite.
The fourth quarter is where dreams go to die for Texas. But on the bright side, the US only got one sack. On Chuck Bagget. It re-tears his ACL. He fumbles. The US scores. Dreams shatter in the thirteen seconds it took for a play to happen. Naturally, the Jacks go for the conversion, making the score 14-16. Sorry Texas, a dropkick can't tie it anymore.
To make a long story short, it takes the Oilers a humiliating 7:20 to get the ball in field goal position . But that's alright. A field goal will give us the win by one. We can still get this. We can still make it to the American Cup Final! Well say hello to place-holder Billy Buckley, the bane of Texas football. With only :07 on the clock, the ball is snapped and Texas is about to go to the American Cup. Buckley fumbles. He fumbles. The place-holder fumbles. The man whose job it is to HOLD the ball...fumbles. It is one thing to do that in the season but another on the whole American stage.
So yay, we wait another four years. Bagget is gone. Texas football is once again disgraced. Well, we can always rebuild, but Billy? Don't come back.