New Post-Game Award Announced for Spring II Season

The ever popular McDonald's McGangBang Player of the Game Award will now have to share the spotlight with a new post-game award, the KFC Double Down Play of the Game.  The player, or players, involved with the play of the game, will be awarded with a KFC Double Down sandwich. 

The Double Down contains "bacon, two different kinds of melted cheese, the Colonel’s secret sauce... pinched in between two pieces of Original Recipe chicken fillets."

Although the Double Down has been widely ridiculed as unhealthful, NPR compared its calorie count favorably to that of McDonald's Premium Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich.  Both the grilled and fried Double Down products had nearly a full day's worth of sodium according to the American Heart Association's guidelines.  A Los Angeles Times reviewer pointed out that the grilled chicken Double Down has fewer calories than does the fried chicken Double Down (460 versus 540) but that the grilled chicken option has more sodium (1,430 mg versus 1,380).  The L.A. Times article noted that either Double Down has fewer calories than does Burger King's TenderCrisp chicken sandwich, which has 800 calories.  A San Francisco Chronicle review described the Double Down as "truly disgusting."

Say hello to your arteries!