>Here is a repost of TheDerisoReport’s live tweets from Grambling’s historic loss on Saturday to Prairie View in the 2009 State Fair Classic. Follow TDR on Twitter here — http://twitter.com/thederisoreport.
Black faked a handoff. PV up 35-32 with less than a minute to go and four downs. The Panthers kneel on it.
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PV converts on a trick play. That’s the game.
Less than 2 minutes left. Fourth and less than a yard. Game to go.
Third down and less than 1 for PV, at the GSU 27. Grambling stops them.
PV is running the play clock down as far as possible on each play, milking the clock.
Carter, standing at the back of his own endzone, punts admirably, too — sending PV back to its own 49. 4 minutes left.
Dillon’s third down pass is too hot. Fourth down on the 12.
After a flurry of scores, this one has become a field position game.
Perfectly kicked by Ventura to the GSU 4. Grambling will have 96 yards to cover in just over 5 minutes.
Ball at PV 47. Rains coming down again. Almost intercepted in flat by Nigel Copeland. PV to punt.
Third and short now for PV, inside 6 minutes.
Carter kicks it out of bounds at the PV 40. 7 minutes left in game.
Third down pass dropped for Dillon. Punt team taking the field at GSU 37.
Grambling makes a stop, deep in PV territory — gaining good field position. GSU ball at its own 42. 8:28 left in game, Panthers up 35-32.
Dillon fumbles on third down try, but Grambling recovers. Ari Johnson’s 22-yard field goal makes it PV 35-32.
Out of bounds pass from Dillon to Nick Jones. Second down and goal.
Kiare Thompson converts to the PV 9. First and goal. Dillon has finally found his groove, and it comes — as it did last year — against PV.
11:34 left in the game. PV up 35-29. Grambling now at 3-3 on PV 17>
Dillon is finding some openings on the deep routes, creases that just aren’t there in the running game right now.
Bakari Maxwell pulls in a pass at the PV 24, converting on a 3rd and 27.
Replay third down, with 15 yards walked off. Grambling now at GSU 33, needing to get to PV 40 for first.
Larry Donnell scores on a long pass, but appeared to push off. Flags fly.
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Grambling moves to midfield on its initial fourth-quarter possession after a defensive penalty.
He’s had a pair of momentum-shifting scores — in the final drives of the first and then the third quarters that kept Prairie View ahead.
In a back-and-forth game, Panthers’ receiver Anthony Weeden keeps finding a way to quiet Grambling.
Touchdown pass from Black to Weeden, 51 yards, on a broken play. XPT makes it PV 34-29.
First sack of the day for Grambling, back to PV 47.
False start on PV to start new set of downs. First and 15 on GSU 42. less than 2 minutes left in third period.
Prairie View is still getting to the edges with blinding speed. Grambling’s corners are there this time. 3rd and short at the GSU 41.
GSU 29-28, 4:27 left.
Three touchdowns for Grambling in a matter of moments. Ryan Allen comes down with a toe-toucher in the back of the end zone.
Grambling recovers at the PV 19. Another turnover for GSU. Toby Mott recovers a ball that bounced around but never touched the ground.
Somehow, Grambling has narrowed this game to one score late in the third quarter.
Ball now on PV 1-and-a-half yard line. Dillon is intercepted on the second 2-point try. PV still up 28-23, with 6 left.
Going for 2. Pass interference on PV.
Derrick Wilhite blocks the PV punt, and Gabriel Fleming runs it in for Grambling.
Important 3-and-out for Grambling defense. PV up 28-17, with 6 minutes left in the third.
Dillon throws a rainbow 41-yard touchdown bomb to Van Phillips, igniting the dormant Grambling crowd.
XPT makes it 25-10, Prairie View, with 9:32 left in the third quarter. Dillon’s lob to the other team couldn’t have come at a worse time.
Black takes a broken play at the GSU 43 all the way in. Exama and at least three others missed him on a thrilling zig-zagging run.
Anthony, who has been relatively quiet, ran the ball carrier all the way to the sideline on a first-down play.
Pass on the outside gets around Lenard. PV moves into Grambling territory to the GSU 43.
Hard to understand, with such an engrossing contest on the field.
Black keeper for the first. Many of the fans, as is the tradition with this game, have left after the bands played.
PV now to its own 37. They are getting to the edge very quickly. Third and 1.
Dillon came out and moved Grambling into PV territory, then threw an ill advised pass inside the 10 that was picked off by PV.
Watching the Michael Jackson tribute show from the World Famed. Again. A pressbox wag just showed me a Web site called PannellGottaGo.com.
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Grambling goes into halftime behind by only 11 points, but it feels like much, much more. PV has been winning at the point of attack.
XPT makes it PV 21, Grambling 10 with 18 seconds left in the first half.
A tremendous catch by Weeden in the corner of the endzone. PV extends its lead.
… momentum is back in PV’s favor.
Grambling has made a game of it, but if PV comes out of this time out to score inside the final 30 seconds of the first half …
PV at Grambling 34, Black passes to Grambling 13. Penalty on GSU — pass interference. First and goal, 25 seconds left.
Weeden holds on for tough first down catch despite brutal hit by Toby Mott. Weeden again for consecutive first downs.
Third and six after an Anthony stop.
Pair of tough stops by Cliff Exama. He doesn’t get the recognition he deserves for playmaking on this unit.
PV first down, as Black passes to the Panthers 43. Inside 3 minutes in the half.
PV, starting on its own 25, is stopped on first down. 2-9, as bands begin filing down to the field.
Ari Johnson’s 28 yard FG is good. PV 14, Grambling 10. 4 minutes left in half.
Dillon throws to corner. Incomplete to Donnell on a nice play by the PV defender. Fourth down.
Kiare Thompson catch from Dillon to PV 11. Third and 7.
Holding on Grambling puts Tigers back to 2-18.
First down on a bootleg pass by Dillon to Kiare Thompson. Garmbling ball at the PV 13.
Frank Warren earns back all of a holding penalty. Grambling first down at PV 24.
Fans are six or eight deep under the overhangs as rain continues to fall at the Cotton Bowl.
Donnell, again. First down, again. This time to the PV 34. Still PV 14-7, with 7:30 left in the half.
Larry Donnell catches another pass, to the GSU 38. If they can get Donnell involved in this offense, this team becomes much more dangerous.
Copeland again makes a tackle on the edge, this time on Babers. Fourth and long. PV to punt.
Nigel Copeland makes key tackle on edge to push PV to third and long.
Holding play puts PV back to its own 23. Short game on a pass puts PV at second-15.
A year ago, Grambling went 40-7 after that first-quarter 9-0 lead for Prairie View — a loss that kept PV out of the SWAC Championship Game.
Dillon’s pass and run were the key elements of that drive. Is he ready to become Greg Dillon again?
Run stuffed by a stout PV defensive stand. Dillon keeper on second down puts Grambling on the board. 14-7, PV with 11 minutes left in half.
Dillon on a third-down scramble passes Grambling to the PV 3. Kiare Thompson makes a terrific play.
Next flag was for holding. First and 20 for GSU now, back into its own territory — at the GSU 48.
Flag was on the defense — the second delay of game call on defenders in this game. A rare call.
Kiare Thompson catches a swing pass and streaks to the PV 42, Grambling’s deepest penetration yet.
Larry Donnell converts at the Grambling 20. He’s underused. Late flag comes in.
Grambling third down at its own 14.
Prairie View opened with a 9-0 run last season, before Grambling recovered. You wonder if this offense can find itself in time.
Disastrous special teams play has Grambling at its own 8.
From 1964 to today, Prairie View beat Grambling just once — in 1986. Over that 45-year span, GSU won 21 of its 22 conference titles.
Babers on outside run to score. PV up 14-0 with 39 seconds left in the first.
Rain intensifies. Black keeper to GSU 4. First and goal.
Babers converts to GSU 15. Upset in the making?
Short pass is well stopped; 3rd-3 for PV on Grambling 24.
KJ Black is back at it. Nobody can tackle this guy. He’s already to the Grambling 38.
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Fourth and 1: Now Grambling is going for it. No gain on offtackle run. PV’s ball at the Grambling 47.
Dillon rolls out on his own 43, hitting Van Phillips in the hands. Dropped.
Dillon takes the field for Grambling, and executes a nice misdirection play that sends Warren up the middle.
KJ Black goes in from the four on a quarterback keeper. XPT good; PV up 7-0.
Babers stuffed on consecutive runs. Third and goal, inside the 5. 6 minutes left in the first.
Derrick Wilhite makes a great tackle to force a 3-12 for PV, who has eaten up half of the first quarter with this drive. Panthers convert.
PV is back to 4th down after an incompletion. Going for it with 4 to go. Converted.
Prairie View going for it on 4-1 at Grambling 40, after nice kick return. QB dive to earn a new set of downs.
Prairie View has only beaten GSU 11 times over the past 60 seasons, leaving out two forfeits, and nine of those came in the 1950s.
Radio personality Tom Joyner did the coin toss, wearing a jersey split down the middle with Grambling and Prairie View.
The umbrellas have come back out at the Cotton Bowl, with 20 minutes to go before kickoff.
These conditions seem to favor a run-oriented game, promising lots of both Grambling’s Warren and Prairie View’s Babers.
The Cotton Bowl videoboard, new to me since I missed this game last season, is a wonder. Crystal-clear picture, and large graphic stats.
Thoughts heading into Dallas: you know, you really can’t see much for it to be called Longview.
Dillon is on the field, but is moving gingerly on a bad ankle through warm ups.
about 8 hours ago from mobile web
Teams have taken the field at Cotton Bowl. Grambling is in white jerseys, black pants with gold trim. PV is in all black.
Showers have slowed around Cotton Bowl. Foot traffic is picking up.
Steady rains now in Dallas. Probably keep thousands away. A shame.
about 9 hours ago from mobile web
Few clouds rolling into DFW; but plenty of Grambling flags flying. Hopefully, it won’t impact attendance.
about 10 hours ago from mobile web
Do not go the speed limit in Texas. It will get run down like a loose dog.
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