Kyle Singler gets flattened

I'm not a particularly huge football fan. I use to like the 49ers a lot back in the days of Steve Young and Jerry Rice, but as their performance has fallen off, my interest level has waned. I never really had a college football team, seeing as UConn just got good a few years ago.

I can enjoy a football game with the best of them, especially when it involves some combination of grilling meat and drinking beer. Still, I'll be honest. The main reason I'll watch a football game is for the big hits. A wide out getting beheaded by a safety. A defensive end burying a quarterback. A running back leveling a linebacker trying to fill a hole.

But the best -- the absolute best -- hits during a football game come on returns. A would-be tackler blindly trying to run down the ballcarrier before getting decleated by vicious block that resembles resembles playing chicken with a Mack truck.

Well, we had one of those last night.

Brian Zoubek missed the second of two free throws and Gordon Hayward had corralled the rebound and taken off up court. Kyle Singler was giving chase when Matt Howard decided to get in the way.

"I was just standing in the way, so I figured I would be useful," Butler forward Matt Howard said.

Just watch it:



Laid out.

Also amusing is the reaction of the manager at the very right of the Butler bench after Hayward's shot bounced off the rim. I don't mean to poke fun at a kid that is clearly devastated, but he looks like he got picked off by a sniper.

Anyway, here's a great picture of the screen (via @joesportsfan).