One of my favorite things about sports is the collision between meticulous preparation and the completely arbitrary moments you can’t plan for. Take, for example, Grant Haley’s blocked field goal return in 2016. The block was designed, or at least that’s what everyone says after the fact. Marcus Allen getting a hand on it was part of the plan, everything else was luck. That ball could have rolled in nearly an infinite number of directions and for Penn State it just so happened to bounce in the most favorable one. Haley could have done a million different things in that moment. He could have tripped, he could have tried to scoop up the ball and missed, he could have been looking the other way and never had the chance to make the play in the first place. John Reid could have intercepted an overthrown pass on third down, he nearly…
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