COLLEGE FOOTBALL / BOWL REPORT : BLOCKBUSTER : Penn State, Stanford Players Pig Out

By JOHN CHERWA

Dec. 30, 1992 12 AM PT

Penn State was a winner in one of the critical pre-Blockbuster Bowl matchups this week, when a three-man team consumed more ribs in three minutes than its counterpart from Stanford.

The final count was 108-91 in favor of the Nittany Lions. Since both teams have closed practice for this New Year’s Day game, it is only natural that details of the rout were sketchy. But, assuming that the ribs were pork--in the South it could be nothing else--and that a pig has between 12 and 16 ribs on each side, it can be figured that seven to nine pigs laid down their lives for this exercise.

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John Cherwa

John Cherwa is a special contributor to the Los Angeles Times. He started at The Times in 1980 and left in 1995 to be sports editor of the Chicago Tribune and Tribune Co. sports coordinator in 2002. He rejoined The Times in 2009 and left his post as deputy sports editor late in 2017. Currently, his major coverage area is horse racing, where he can be found at big races at Santa Anita, the Triple Crown series and Breeders’ Cup. He also can be found at the Olympics, having just finished the Tokyo and Beijing double, marking his 11th Olympics. Cherwa also contributes general interest stories from Florida.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL / BOWL REPORT : BLOCKBUSTER : Penn State, Stanford Players Pig Out

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