Army-Navy Cobra

 It was a thing of beauty.  I was watching the Army-Navy game, smiling at the memory of bets from past games, and biting my nails at the end of regulation, through the first overtime, and then into the second overtime....

And then there was this beautiful cobra that appeared on the screen.  Navy fumbled.









Army scored, game over.  

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