Forde-Yard Dash: The Best (and Worst) Stadium Statues

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (Willie Taggart scapegoating kits sold separately in Tallahassee):

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SECOND QUARTER: HOW BIG IS YOUR CHICKEN?

By SEC standards, South Carolina has historically been a quart low on crazy. There just haven’t been as many you-must-be-joking headlines from Columbia as other places in the league, when it comes to fans who have completely lost perspective on football.

But now, nearly three decades after joining the most ridiculous league in America, the Gamecocks are upping the dose with a big bronze bird. This season they will unveil a 20,000-pound Giant Flapping Chicken statue (11) outside…