Theme Song: Washington

I was starting to run short on “bad things happened” songs until I remembered a shot of Ty Willingham right at the end of the USC – Washington game where, if I didn’t know better, I could have sworn I saw the hint of a glisten in his eyes. Perhaps he was thinking, it’s come to this: I get fired and they can’t even muster the enthusiasm for the traditional post-partum win. Perhaps it was the smog.

In either case, from the Police, the lyrically apropos “Driven to Tears”: