Time and Tide, Sooner Or Later

It has belatedly come to my attention that a cartoon I drew last month about Kyler Murray and Kevin Hart pictured Murray in a Crimson Tide uniform instead of an Oklahoma Sooners uniform. In an email that got shunted off to a seldom-used address of mine, Google+ reader (Cripes, is that still a thing?) EaglesBamaF1 23 says I owe the entire University of Alabama an apology.

Well, I certainly apologize.

In a lack of due diligence, I had image-googled Mr. Murray and printed out the picture that appeared to best show the details of what football helmets look like these days. I had decided to draw Murray in a football uniform because I suspected that most of my readers would have no idea who he was if I drew him in street clothes. Unfortunately, it turns out that the photo was of Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, like Murray a candidate for the Heisman trophy at the time.

Frankly, I'd rather have drawn Murray without the helmet covering most of his face, because he seems reasonably fit for caricature. I wasn't pleased with any of the four caricatures of Kevin Hart in that cartoon; too bad I couldn't have just put a football helmet on his head.

And can I just say, as someone who doesn't follow college football except for the Wisconsin Badgers, that there are too many schools out there with red and white as their school colors?