Just a little wide.
One college football fan was humbled after trolling kickers’ football abilities.
ESPN’s “College GameDay” was on South Carolina’s campus ahead of the team’s heartbreaking 36-33 loss to No. 16 LSU on Saturday, and a fan named Jousha Watson — a sophomore business major at South Carolina — took on panelist Pat McAfee’s kicking contest with $120,000 on the line.
Before he kicked, however, Watson took a moment to ridicule kickers.
“All the time,” Watson responded when McAfee asked if he had ever said anything bad about kickers. “It’s just so easy, it’s not a sport.”
After telling McAfee that he had never kicked a football before, Watson said: “I’m gonna make it, because it’s easy.”
But Watson’s shoe made it farther than the ball.
He badly shanked his kick, and his right shoe went flying into the air as the ball sprayed to the left.
“Worst kick of all time,” McAfee said in the immediate aftermath. “This kid sucks.”
“We’ve had some s—-y kickers, that was embarrassing,” panelist Kirk Herbstreit said in a subsequent video McAfee posted on X.
Each week, McAfee picks one fan and challenges them to make a 33-yard kick for a a cash prize that increases as the season continues.
For Watson, $45,000 was initially on the line.
But country singer Darius Rucker, who was a guest on the show, offered to add another $15,000 to sweeten the pot.
Then, McAfee and Rucker noticed Watson’s shirt, which said “Walk-On for Jake,” in honor of the Jake Panus Scholarship, which awards a South Carolina walk-on with an athletic scholarship.
They decided to add another $60,000 for the fund if Watson made the kick, bringing the total to $120,000 at stake.
After Watson missed the kick, McAfee said they would still donate the $60,000 to the foundation.