BCS

Tonight is the night. The BCS bowl. I am deep in the heart of BUCKEYE country and everyone here is excited about The Ohio State University playing the LSU Tigers. Today I have seen all manner of folk walking around in scarlet and grey, buckeye ties, jerseys, hats faces painted and flags and banners on most of the houses in my neighborhood. It's getting a little sickening. I am not a huge fan of LSU-but they are S.E.C. ( the greatest college football conference) and they are NOT Ohio State. I have a dislike for OSU & here is why. When I was a young buck and waiting tables Ohio State won the right to play in the highly sought after Liberty Bowl in my hometown of Memphis, TN. they were playing the Air Force Academy. All you heard in the news was that OSU deserved to be going to a better bowl and they should save their money and stay home that year and why would they play the lowly Air Force team. I happened to be one of the waiters when the Air Force team came in to have lunch the day before the big game. We were right across from the team hotel and during that week and we saw the polite and decent tipping Air Force fans come and go and the drunken, demanding, not so good tipping Bucks fans . We also, as I said served the Air Force team. They were polite, called me sir-even though I was about the same age as most of them and they were excited to be in my hometown. As it happened, the Air Force beat the living crap outta the Bucks and sent them back to Columbus licking their wounds. this is the main reason I do not like the Buckeyes. Also the O-H-I-O cheer gets really annoying after about 30 seconds. If you don't know what I am talking about - one person in a large, mostly drunken crowd yells out O-H and then someone else in the crowd yells out I-O. This goes on until the group gets so drunk they forget how to spell OHIO. My prediction:LSU 32 OSU 28 in a good game.

Geaux Tigers,
SF