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What do Florida football and Apollo 13 now have in common? | Whitley

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Before we discuss whether animal sacrifice can help a team win, please note that Florida football fans finally got some good news over the weekend.

No, Billy Napier did not add a witch doctor to his army of analysts. He did hire New England Patriots special teams assistant Joe Houston. It’s easy to imagine how that phone conversation went.

Houston: “Hello.”

Napier: “Houston, we have a problem.”

With all due apologies to Mission Commander Tom Hanks, I can’t resist the Apollo 13 analogy. Those words became famous when Hanks calmly relayed them to Mission Control after an explosion on the spacecraft.