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It was a flip-flop for the ages. A double-reverse, pass. A game-changer. Chip Kelly, gone to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, then, suddenly, trotting back out the tunnel at Autzen Stadium tugging on his visor as if nothing happened.
If Sunday night made a sound, I'm thinking it would be "Swoosh."
We weren't fooled. We weren't lied to. None of us. Not a one. Just all left wondering what happened, who played the parts, and how it is that Kelly went from gone to back again. Because one minute credible sources told multiple news outlets --- national and local --- that Kelly's deal with the Buccaneers was a done deal, and then, the next, the same sources were insisting you'd heard right: Kelly changed his mind, reversed course and decided to stay at Oregon.
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