College Football
Finally … Football Season is Nearly Upon Us!
It’s WAY too early to start making crazy declarations and prognostications regarding the upcoming season (unless your name is Lev Davidovich Wuerffel), but I just had to log on to say that I got a bit tingly today when the first USA TODAY college football coaches’ poll was released with the Florida Gators perched firmly atop the heap.
It’s almost football season! And for that we should all thank a deity of your choice, if you so believe.
This is always a big deal for me, but perhaps moreso this year because of a rough spring for two of my favorite teams. I had to watch the Detroit Red Wings lose the Stanley Cup AT HOME to the young punk Penguins. Days later, the Orlando Magic lost in five games to the Lakers.
If my Detroit Tigers weren’t doing such an admirable job holding on to first place in the AL Central, I’d have great cause for depression and anxiety.
(Funny, I never fretted about the Tigers when they sucked. I’m also a Detroit Lions fan, and their 0-16 season last year didn’t get me down. Which all makes me believe that fans of shitty teams have a much saner existence.)
The coming of college football actually hit me a couple of weeks ago when Sports Illustrated arrived in my mailbox with Tim Tebow looking like a bad ass on the cover next to the words, “Man of Many Missions.”
That made me tingle too.
Tim Tebow Sports Illustrated Cover July 27, 2009. Photo by Gary Bogdon, a former colleague from my newspaper days in Orlando.
Just look at how intense that guy is. And this appears to be during a pre-game walk-through!
I’m not sure Jesus Christ ever walked on water, but I’m pretty sure Timmy could.
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