(from MZone wire reports) Kabul, Afghanistan -- Members of a Navy SEAL platoon compared their successful assault on a Taliban stronghold in Kandahar yesterday to the University of Tennessee football team.
"They way we pushed right through their perimeter and took out their entire position, it was like a running back busting through the Tennessee Volunteer defense for a long touchdown run," said Lieutenant Dave Garrett Nelson who led the special operations forces in the two hour battle.
"I don't want Tennessee football fans to get mad at me. I'm not attacking them. But the way those guys just broke down under our firepower reminded us all of Derek Dooley's team."
Fellow operator Paul Zillikowski agreed. "It's college football out on those mountaintops. Each time we get in a firefight, it's just like a big play in a big game at Neyland Stadium."
When asked if he thought some people might be offended comparing war to college football, Nelson said he didn't think so. "Everybody knows we mean no disrespect. Sports is the center of the universe. Just ask coach Dooley, he'll tell you. And we understand that. We know that's what's really important. What we're doing? Hell, it's just life and death, fighting for our country."
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