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South Wins 2008 Under Armour
Senior Bowl In Thriller
Florida's Andre
Caldwell scores on game's final play and Georgia kicker Brandon Coutu
kicked the extra point to give the South a 17-16 victory.
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MOBILE,
Ala. (January 26, 2008) -- In the most thrilling Under Armour Senior
Bowl finish in history and the first to be decided on the game's final
play, Florida's Andre Caldwell scored on a two-yard touchdown run as
time expired and Georgia kicker Brandon Coutu kicked the extra point to
give the South a 17-16 victory.
Florida's Andre Caldwell celebrates his
game-tying touchdown as time expired
in the 2008 Under Armour Senior Bowl
Tennessee quarterback Erik Ainge led
the South on a 14-play, 86-yard drive in the game's final 2:48 to give
the South its first win in four years.
Tulane's Matt Forte was the game's
leading rusher with 59 yards and caught four passes for 38 yards,
including a key 13-yard reception on the game's winning drive to win the
overall Most Valuable Player award.
The contest capped off another
highly-successful Senior Bowl Week in Mobile, as 100 of the nation’s top
senior NFL Draft prospects took advantage of the opportunity to spend a
week being coached by San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders entire
coaching staffs.
Senior Bowl Week was also attended by
over 800 NFL general managers, personnel directors, coaches, scouts and
other top decision makers, making Mobile and the Senior Bowl the
week-long host to a one-of-a-kind NFL convention.
Other game MVP’s were Ainge for the
South offense and LSU linebacker Ali Highsmith, who had four tackles for
the South defense. Michigan's Chad Henne threw two TD passes to win MVP
honors for the North offense and USC's Sedrick Ellis had two tackles, a
sack and was credited with a North safety to earn the North's defensive
MVP honors.
Over 21 house of original Under Armour
Senior Bowl programming also aired on the NFL Network during Senior Bowl
Week, including complete coverage of the game’s practice sessions and
the game.
2008 Under Armour Senior Bowl Most
Valuable Player,
Tulane's Matt Forte
Under Armour brougt its expertise in
performance apparel and rich history on the gridiron to the Senior Bowl
athletes in what is essentially the first game of these players'
potential NFL careers. With access to the most technologically advanced
apparel on the market, participants will be able to perform at optimum
levels in the week-long practices and game that are the key tools used
by NFL coaches, scouts and training staffs to judge the best talent in
the country as they prepare for the draft.
The Senior Bowl is also a non-profit,
charitable event that has donated over $4.2 million through the Food
World-Senior Bowl Charitable Partnership over the last ten years.
Under Armour, known as the originator
of moisture wicking performance apparel worn by athletes, launched its
first line of footwear-football cleats-during the 2006 NFL draft with a
major media campaign entitled CLICK-CLACK™, a reference to the sound
that cleats make on concrete just before the players step on the field.
Under Armour also presented The Under
Armour New Prototype Awards to linebacker Dan Connor of Penn State and
Dominic Rodgers-Cromartie of Tennessee State. Notre Dame's Trevor Laws
was the game's Most Outstanding Lineman and Irish teammate Tom Zbikowski
won the Long Distance Play of the Game with a 38-yard kickoff return.
The game was played before a sellout crowd of 40,646, the 14th straight
for the contest in Mobile's Ladd-Peebles Stadium.
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