equal time Phil Mushnick NC State’s airheaded loss kicked off yet another embarrasing week of college and pro football By Phil Mushnick Published Sep. 24, 2026, 9:22 p.m. ET NC State quarterback C.J. Bailey reacts after his turnover gifted Vanderbilt a victory last Saturday, the beginning of a football weekend full of chaos, carnage and corruption, writes The Post's Phil Mushnick. AP Confusion, chaos, carnage, corruption!
Another week of what we still call, absent an accurate term, sports.
The end of Saturday’s NC State-Vanderbilt game broke fresh ground in adult-supervised big-ticket insanity. NC State’s quarterback, likely wisely instructed to concede a safety or at least throw it out of bounds on the last play of the game to ensure the visitors a road win, instead chose to scramble around in the end zone — “use his legs” in modern TV parlance. As he was tackled he fumbled.
