At some point during the five hour forty three minute slushy slog that was Louisville’s drenched 31-7 victory over Indiana State at renovated Cardinal Stadium, it came to me.
It being how to distill all of the evening’s bizarro twists and turns into a single word.
Furshlugginer.
It is from the Mad Magazine of my youth. When the editors of that ‘zine, who used it often, were once asked by a reader to give a meaning, they replied, “It means the same as potrzebie.”
Just how furshlugginer was it?
Backup kicker Evan O’Hara made the tackle after his kickoff following Louisville’s last TD, then he was mobbed by teammates on the sideline.