Filed under: Pigskin
I especially like this statement reproduced over at Roll Bama Roll concerning the hatred of “little brother.” Even if it is from the perspective of a Tennessee fan.
Dear Auburn,
With your football contest against my alma mater now less than a week away, I feel this is an appropriate time for me to remind you of my feelings for you. I hate you. I hate your backward little cow college. I hate your players, coaches, students, administrators, fans, alumni, janitors, and cafeteria workers. I hate your multiple mascots. I hate you to the point I root for both Alabama and Al Qaeda against you. I hate the fact your supporters, with their cow feces caked work boots, will be allowed inside Neyland Stadium next week. I hate you to the point that I have rooted for Texas to defeat you. I hate you so viciously that I don’t even root for you against Vanderbilt, I simply hope the ground opens up and swallows both teams and their supporters. I hate you enough to hope you go winless and scoreless every season.
I hope this clears up any ambiguity about my thoughts regarding your institution and its supporters. Have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Hatvol96
Filed under: Pigskin, Saban, The Tide | Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn, Bama, Cheesedick, Cheez It, Derek Dooley, FIU, Florida International, football, Gene Chizik, Greg McElroy, Hokies, La. Tech, Mark Ingram, rant, Saban, Virginia Tech
Well, well. We might actually have a decent football team on our hands here in Title Town. The first half was eerily reminscent of that “Oh shit what’s happening!?!” feeling (see: Sugar Bowl, 2009), but the Tide pulled it through in the second half. McElroy really seemed to come into is own, Mark Ingram was an absolute hoss, and the defense is as advertised. It will be good to have a light next few weeks, but Nick Saban isn’t taking it lightly. Just ask him.
I posed the question of what will be the bigger story, Auburn with a potential loss to La. Tech or Alabama’s match with Va. Tech. I don’t think there’s any question that the majority of the buzz surrounding college football is coming out of Tuscaloosa this week. To be fair, I didn’t see a snap of the Auburn game, but it appears they somewhat handled La. Tech. So I guess that means we have to start calling him 6-19 Gene. That’s such an improvement, right Barn?
I don’t know much about Alabama’s Week 2 opponent Florida International, except thanks to Coach Saban’s presser, #4 is pretty good.
Here’s to a 4 day week, the first weekend of tailgating on the Quad, and returning to Bryant Denny.
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Shipping out of T-Town for Atlanta. I won’t be blogging while in ATL, so here’s a question/prediction that will be a known quantity upon my return.
What will be the bigger story in Alabama Sports on Monday: A win/loss by Alabama, or a loss of any sort by Auburn to Derek Dooley’s LA Tech team? I have a feeling the latter is a more likely occurrence at this point. Time shall tell.
This truly is the most wonderful time of the year. You can’t describe the feeling of watching the first kick of football season. It’s like a drug but better. It’s all I’ve wanted for the last 8 months, and it’s only 29 hours away. Roll Tide.
Filed under: Pigskin, Saban, The Tide, Tuscaloosa | Tags: Alabama, Crimson, fish gate, George Kostanza, Hokies, Human Fund, Julio Jones, Mark Ingram, NCAA, ruling, Seinfeld, Tide, Virginia Tech
Damn, I’ve never been so happy to see the NCAA issue a ruling than I was at about 7pm last night when the edict came down from on high (Indianapolis) that Julio Jones and Mark Ingram are clear to play Saturday against the Hokies upon paying restitution for their “improper benefits.”
Apparently, Julio and Mark have already made their payments. If not however, might I suggest the “Human Fund”?
While Bama fans sit with teeth clenched waiting on an NCAA ruling that may, or may not be coming, I’m comforted by the view I’ll have Saturday.
The view from Section 108
I’m not about to guess what’s going on between the two most unpredictable entities in the universe: the NCAA and Nick Saban. However, playing against the #7 team in the nation without Julio Jones and Mark Ingram is not going to be a pretty thing to watch. The Tide can still win Saturday, but McElroy will have to be superb in his debut, and Richardson, Upchurch, et al will have to step up and make major contributions in the backfield. I’m confident that we can keep Tech’s run happy QB Tyrod Taylor in check. The question will be can a diluted Bama Offense (assuming we’re without the services of Julio and Ingram) be able to move the ball against Bud Foster’s perennially tough defense?
That’s why we play the game, I suppose.
Filed under: Pigskin
Without any explanation, here are my Week 1 picks. Hopefully a break from real life will allow me to pontificate on the first week of pigskin before I leave on the trek to Atlanta.
That Nevada upset of the Golden Domers is going to bite me in the ass, but I couldn’t help myself.
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Only 5 days until the Tide’s kickoff in Atlanta against Virginia Tech. Whether or not we’ve got Julio and Ingram, it’s game week.
For your topical musical pleasure: Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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A little late getting to this, but my boy Jeffrey Saad was taken down in the finale of Next Food Network Star by Texas Housewife Melissa d’Arabian. I was distraught for awhile. We even had mexican food in honor of Jeffrey’s bent for Tex/Mex cooking.
I survived, however, and hear the good news: In a mere 32 days and 4 hours, college football will be upon us once again. And in the end, isn’t that all that really matters?
Filed under: Food
Over the summer, mostly due to me being a fat ass and the general malaise that is the two month lead up to football season, the girl and I have become addicted to The Next Food Network Star. Tomorrow night at 8pm is the season finale when we all find out who Bobby Flay, et al choose to carry on in the path of Guy Fieri as the contest’s winner of a new show. We’re left with Jeffrey, the restauranteur, and Melissa the housewife.
I can’t begin to tell you the level of excitement around my house. It’s sick. We’re completely infatuated with the show. I’ll be sad to see Melissa the housewife go, but I’m pulling for Jeffrey. He seems a lot more into it and genuine than any of the other contestants have, and Melissa seems to just be a fancier regurgitation of Rachel Ray.
I’ll be cooking up something of my own to celebrate the occasion, and if I can ever figure out how to upload pictures to my mac, I’ll post some.
On a side note, last week’s show revolved around the new Amy Adams/Meryl Streep flick Julie & Julia. The film releases August 7th and focuses on a woman who cooks all of Julia Child’s recipes. I have pretty high hopes for it. (Read: Please don’t be a chick flick.)
Filed under: Housekeeping! You need fresh towel? | Tags: Erin Andrews, Favre, Mark Gottfried, Tebow, Vick
After almost a year-long hiatus, I’m going to start updating this thing again. The first year of law school was a bitch, and thus I didn’t really have time to post. That being said, I’ll have a little more time time in the future to post.
Lots has gone on in the sports world since we last spoke. The Tide had a perfect regular season, only to be spoiled by Tim Tebow and a Mountain West team. Brett Favre unretired, played, retired, and officially remained retired. Mark Gottfried is unemployed. Tennessee has a new, douchebag coach. Erin Andrews was videotaped through a peephole. USA soccer is now relevant. A Jim Wells led baseball team choked its balls off in the postseason, again. And last, but not least, Michael Vick is coming back to the NFL.
That’s all for now. I’ll have substantive stuff soon.
