It was many football moons ago, when UNLV, for the briefest of times, was pretty good at football — when John Robinson was coach. UNLV was scheduled to play Air Force at Sam Boyd Stadium, in the relative cool of the evening, before the networks switched kickoff to the oppressive heat of the afternoon.
Paul Pucciarelli, UNLV’s longtime equipment manager, was supposed to set up cooling fans on the Falcons’ side of the field. He delegated one of his assistants to perform the task, because this is what longtime equipment managers do.
It either never got done or the really good fans, the high-powered oscillating ones — the ones with high BTUs or whatever — did not get set up on the Air Force side of the field.