January 2nd: On this date...

... in 2009, Big Blue Nation witnessed possibly the worst half of football of the year as a listless football team couldn’t do anything right in the Liberty Bowl vs. East Carolina. All of that changed during the opening kickoff of the second half, as David Jones went 99-yards to essentially cut the deficit in half. East Carolina never seemed to get the momentum back on their side after that play as UK went on to win 25-19 in Memphis. It was the new look Cats third straight bowl win, the first time that had happened in the program’s 118 year history. The most memorable play from Memphis that day came as the Pirates were driving at the end of regulation of a 19-19 tie. Big fella, 285-lb. Ventrell Jenkins, returned a fumble 56 yards for a touchdown, which included the most famous stiff-arm in Kentucky football history. The extra point was blocked, Lones Seiber’s second missed PAT of the game. The teams were a combined 2-5 on extra points in what was a weird college football game.

Big Blue Booyah on Tom Leach