One more enjoyable read on college football…
Wright Thompson of ESPN.com writes “A Love Letter to Southern Football.” If you are a fan of college football in the south, I recommend it.
An excerpt:
I love “ARE YOU READY?” and all the other SEC football idiosyncrasies, too, because they come from the same kind of passion: Mississippi State’s cowbells, the Vol Navy, an Arkansas fan using the Freedom of Information Act, the way the crowd sings along to “Sweet Home Alabama” on a warm Southern Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium. In Birmingham, they love the gov’nah, indeed. Me, too, even if I don’t know a single thing about him. That’s what football can do. It can even make me love Steve Spurrier. That rat bastard, I love him so.
I love most everything about Southern football, but more than anything else, I love for it to begin.
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That was superbly written–
as good as that first cold one tastes on game day on the quad or plains
bi-partisanship today!
Comment by Skeptic — September 1, 2007 @ 10:29 am