Glorious Redneck Football Lives In The SEC
By Erie's Scribe on Nov 15, 2007 with Comments 0
Really, the point has been made here already. Thank you Blogosphere!
Well hot damn, I see the boys from the ACC, Big East, Big Twelve, Big Ten and Pac-10 have been chirpin’ here all week. Can ‘t say I took the time to read all those words, I’ve been too busy checking here, keeping up with the conference as we go down to the wire leading into the SEC championship game. I reckon from the titles, though, that those boys from the other conferences all think they can play a little pig skin. Hell boy, you couldn’t even mow the grass on the football fields in the SEC.
Before I even get to the teams, let me show you something here (just in case you missed the first link) that y’all can’t even hope to match. Do your tailgates look like that? And speaking of tailgates, I’m sure all y’all think you’ve been to a real tailgate, but unless you’ve been down to a southern football tailgate, you haven’t seen anything. I could write a novel about trips to Baton Rogue, piloting the my party deck pontoon boat up the river to Neyland, or some of the violent games I’ve seen in the parking lot at the Iron Bowl, but I’ll just alert the ignorant of The Grove at Ole’ Miss. The place is celestial. Never seen a decent description of The Grove from someone who isn’t a regular there. I’m not a regular, but imagine a cocktail/dinner/rush/tailgate party that runs from before sun up on Saturday morning until sometime before sun up on Sunday morning, with some of the best ‘talent’ in the SEC is on display. Now you’ve wrapped your mind around about a quarter of the experience, you’ll need to visit to understand the remaining 75%. Dress up when you come, Hotty Toddy!
On the field, well I think the SEC’s on the field performance speaks for itself. National championships? Hell, any team that makes it through a full SEC season with only 1 or 2 losses should be handed the national championship. I’d rather win 1 SEC title than 10 national championships. But for you who care about that sort of thing Florida won last year, LSU won 3 years ago and they’re going to repeat this year.
I hear a lot of hype about Ohio State/Michigan this week. Now you know what every game feels like in the SEC. Let me run down a list of SEC teams that have spent some time in the Top 25 this year; LSU, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Auburn, South Carolina and Arkansas. That’d be 9 out of our 12 teams. Only one SEC team is below .500. Maybe they should call us the All-star Team Conference. And by the way, has Les Miles officially changed his name to Titanium Stones yet?
The total package: the beautiful women, the overwhelming tailgate parties, and the on field domination, that is what I refer to as Redneck Football. I doubt you can comprehend it, and you definitely can’t beat it. Good God, I haven’t even mentioned the majestic quality a game Between the Hedges or the futility of trying to breath in The Swamp. There is more here than one man can cover. I’d need about 80,000 more words to even get halfway through what football means down here, but I’m out of space.
See if this quotation, compliments of Charlie, can get through to you: I’m from Ohio, but if I’d known when I was two what it was like down South, I would have crawled here on my hands and knees. Frank Sinkwich, University of Georgia
–#24RednBlack
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