{"id":387208,"date":"2017-09-11T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=387208"},"modified":"2017-09-11T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:10:59","slug":"the-strangest-play-of-the-2017-season-happened-saturday-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-strangest-play-of-the-2017-season-happened-saturday-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"The strangest play of the 2017 season happened Saturday in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp-9-11-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-387284\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp-9-11-1-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 14 minutes left against Mississippi State, Louisiana Tech trailed 57-14 but had a second-and-goal at the Mississippi State 6. After a loss on the next play, they faced third-and-goal from the 7.<\/p>\n<p>That might not seem worthy of Tighten Up recognition &#8212; until you realize that the third-down play was run from their own 7.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Tech lost 87 yards on a single play that should only be viewed with accompanying clown music.<\/p>\n<p>The ball was snapped past quarterback J\u2019Mar Smith in the shotgun formation. Smith missed on a chance to recover the fumble around the 20-yard line, then two Mississippi State players kicked the ball multiple times down the field.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Tech\u2019s Cee Jay Powell should be commended for hustling the whole way, eventually recovering the bouncing ball at the Louisiana Tech 7, setting up a third-and-93.<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re wondering, Mississippi State successfully completed the goal-line stand.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana Tech was never going to beat Mississippi State. But an 87-yard loss? They\u2019ve got to tighten up.<\/p>\n<p>For Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-387208-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp091117.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp091117.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/TightenUp091117.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>With 14 minutes left against Mississippi State, Louisiana Tech trailed 57-14 but had a second-and-goal at the Mississippi State 6. After a loss on the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/the-strangest-play-of-the-2017-season-happened-saturday-in-louisiana\/\" title=\"The strangest play of the 2017 season happened Saturday in Louisiana\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,161],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-home","7":"category-nuts-and-bolts"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387289,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387208\/revisions\/387289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}