That title's been sitting in my draft box since last week. He made me a prophet earlier this week by logging on to complain that, seven days into the season, there had been no talk of SEC football on the blog.
In response, my complaint is that there has been no Allan on the blog since January...hardly. Even as The South, which we, both proud sons of the Confederacy, cherish with equal fervor, has taken up so much space here. We've talked of beauty...a philosophical issue that can't help but butt up against perfection, an area in which he has earned the right to be called Doctor...silence. We recounted, with horror, an episode that nearly saw me killed by an exploding Cokecola bottle...no concern.
To think....he used to care.
So, if we want Allan around....and surely we do...I reckon we better talk about some football.
Tomorrow, the Florida Gators have the pleasure, the honour, of welcoming one of the two new members into the SEC.
Unlike JenniferQ...whose idea of a proper welcome is for the Aggies to be brutalized by every team in The Conference...I wish the Aggies well, after tomorrow.
We'll follow all the action right here.
We could ask Allan to provide play by play but, we tried that in the past and all we got out of that was an irresitable target for Russian bots. I have know idea why but that thing gets about 100 hits a month from Russia and the Ukraine.
For those of you who don't care about SEC football...they'll be flinging telephone poles and tying knots down at the Ag Museum all weekend...Mississippi Celtic Fest.
Arab Strap - The [Last] Big Weekend.
An old favorite..."I thought she had been quite pretty until Matthew informed me she had in fact been a peyg." Hahahahahah
I stand by my statement.
ReplyDeleteYou need to be focused on the Tigers*....and finding a rain coat. Take a chainsaw just in case the rain stops before kick off.
ReplyDelete* In this case the Auburn Tigers...not be confused with the LSU Tigers or the Missouri Tigers.
Allie the alligator is all excited for football to begin. She's even looking for one of those tiny helmets to wear..
ReplyDeleteShe needs an old leather one without a facemask.
DeleteJust as well I'm the faithful kind of 'follower'... I'll try e.f.
ReplyDeleteIt's always looked like a game for folks with very poor concentration spans - so I might be suited there. Though I that padding and helmetage is just not doing it for me....
;-D
The game can't be played at the current speed without head and shoulder protection. It's a modify version of rugby...the difference between the two being me and you wrestling v. me and you running at one another from across the room. Of course rugby has some of the most gorgeous bone crushing hits you'll see but the nature of football is to create the space and speed for them on every play.
DeleteIt's still about the most dangerous game you can play...they had to resusscitate a kid on the field today.
The pace of the game is one of tension and release...intense bursts that creates a different flow for each game.
Alright then we gotta find you a team. Vanderbilt is probably the only place where you might find more than two left-wingers but, it's a private school. We couldn't do that to you. This may be a tough one...
Hahahahahahaaha! Cannae wait for 'my team' to be unveiled. I suspect I'll need to be playing fantasy football for you to create me a team of real good left-wingers...
DeleteI can bear the odd (and I mean very odd - both senses) right-winger of course. I'm nothing if not tolerant...
;-)
I've got you covered I think you'll be pleased...in spirit and substance.
DeleteYou're such a tolerant lot...you left-winges.
:0
Aggies are being very rude to their new conference. If another Florida player gets hurt the mascot may have to line up. Did u see the running back roll over that player. Damn
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen any of it. I'm driving to Oxford.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's about time...But I'm here. Been watching the game sans computer, which is why I've not been about. I'm still baffled: how can we be winning against a freshman QB by ONLY three points with 8 minutes to play? I mean, I know the Aggie D is (traditionally, at least) nothing about which to laugh...But come on! Our D needs to be launching that freshman into the 12th Man's lap more often!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's sad...I can't even remember the glory days anymore...Have we been 8-5 or worse for the last 2 decades?!?! Grrrrrr!
Oh, and we just get stopped on 3rd and 1. I just love our offense. LOVE IT!!!
I'm just glad they won and I'm going to enjoy it while I can, before I call my Daddy and Brother...who will be ready to fire Muschamp and burn the stadium to the ground.
DeleteGlad you and The Boy get to watch Ole Miss, man. I can't blame you at all. The Boy'll love it. [And if he doesn't, well, don't tell anybody.] Wish I was at Vaught-Hemingway, if for no other reason than to hear the constant under-the-breath cursing over the fact that the Leg-Humpers (that's right, Scarlett, I said it!!!) took care of Auburn...
ReplyDeleteYou're on your own for that one.
DeleteI didn't hear to much about Starkpatch last night. Ole Miss was killin' it. Both of 'em look pretty good...better'n Arkansas at any rate. D**n!
You're right - the 'Hogs were an embarrassment. I think they win with Wilson at QB. That said, it's not as though they were exactly killing it with him on the scene. As some analysts nicely put it, the man's name ain't "John W. Smith," after all. :)
DeleteBy the way: this post represents the best artwork Flimsy Cups has ever seen. [Which, admittedly, isn't saying a lot...]
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see more of the same, less of the abstract [insert foul word] garbage one might expect to find in a French grandmother's toilette...
:)
Can our offense generate a first down to seal a win? Answer: I doubt it.
We tune back in...
I now know why E.F. took The Boy to see Ole Miss...He just couldn't imagine having to listen to Brent Mustardburger for 3 hours. You lucky jokers...
ReplyDeleteWow. Nice QB fake to pick up the 1st. [Lord knows he couldn't have PASSED for it...that'd be too much like a real QB...]
50 seconds to go...
I'd rathe have a monkey sittin' on my head, hammeing thumbtacks into my forhead, while stuck on an elevator with Racheal Ray than listen to Beerburger call a game.
DeleteNow that's some serious disgust for a fellow human being right there. Poor Racheal Ray... :)
DeleteShe claims her Daddy's from Georgia...the country maybe....maybe he was a travelling salesman that had nothingm to do with actually raising her.
DeleteA win...good. It _was_ on the road. And they did hang around and win a close one. And I should be thankful we've got an SEC win, always a good thing. Alas, I'm still not impressed.
ReplyDeleteJust keep hoping, I reckon...
Scorebaord B***ES!!!
DeleteHmm sorry for the late reply EF, you know that thing called life and all. Ahh football the perfect excuse to chug lots of beer and tell your mates or anyone else who goes for your team how much you really love them :p
ReplyDeleteHey I cant talk im the same just with motor sport nothing like getting drunk as cars spin past so fast you cant see the colors
Hey Horse.
DeleteWe need to have a formula one/nascar league around here...lots of gearheads on this blog.
Yeah, watching any ball sports not really my bag, though a bit of cricket is passable, but put wheels and and engine in it I'm there. This years F1 finale is going the be the best ever, I'm starting to get to the teeth grinding stage during the races!
DeleteWe are nothing if not responsive to the wishes of our readers...and I am not opposed to a little race action.
DeleteOn the other hand, I am not a big fan of most sports either. In fact, golf and football's it really. There's never been any real reason to bring it up here but I hate baseball with a broiling passion...basketball? I don't care at all. I don't hate sports or the idea of sports but, I hate almost all the games.
Not football (American football for the BBQers)...it's all together different. Each down is it's own game...with a hundred possibilities for the immediate drive and consequences for entire game. Then it stops and you have to contemplate a whole new set of possibilities...with each play a certain feel or narrative begins to impose itself on the game. Now there's a parallel tension that hovers over the immediate tension of each play. That's where the downs really work their magic and make the proceedings unbearable.
Golfs a lot like that...makes sense I reckon.