"Hey, baby, you ever seen a blue field?"
For the record, this is not the way head coaches and upstanding family men Chris Petersen and Kyle Whittingham wanted to spend the sabbath. But they were game enough Sunday to force a smile, keep their hands where their wives can see them and stand still long enough for the annual "Looking Awkward Next to Showgirls" photo ahead of Wednesday night's Las Vegas Bowl. It's a shame BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall wasn't in the house this year, really, because after five straight Vegas trips to cap his first five seasons with the Cougars, he's got this part down, man. And he's pretty sure the girls were really starting to like him.
Alas, the night ended early for Utah after a "mild skirmish" broke out between players during dinner at the Hard Rock, sending the Utes back to their hotel down the street before the situation escalated. Otherwise, Whittingham was getting ready to call a limo and it was about to get off the hook.
The tackiest part of this picture? The trophy – that would be the thing at center, or roughly a 140-degree turn on the cleavage axis – which is definitely going to clash with the other hardware back home. But it does accurately capture that certain hideous Vegas vibe: If you're not going to come back from Vegas with something gaudy, ill-considered and embarrassing in or on your arm, why even go?
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Matt Hinton is on Twitter: Follow him @DrSaturday.
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