Against then-No. 2 Clemson, Pittsburgh kicker Chris Blewitt already ... missed ... twice. Now set up for the game-winning field goal with 12 seconds left and the Panthers trailing 42-40, the story would certainly be he ... misfired ... again.
So across living rooms, puns were reloaded back in the chamber. Witty tweets were saved into drafts. One-liner headlines were set to publish.
"I've been here for four years, and it's like they're saying it as if it'd be the first time," Blewitt said of the marriage of surname and specialty. "It's been done before.