… is the Mizzou game.
My first reaction was a little surprised, but once you see that CBS wanted ‘Bama and Mickey wanted Georgia for sure, I can see how that wound up happening.
Still, whenever I see a morning game scheduled for television — out there, it will be — I’m always reminded of the grizzled ballplayer in Ball Four who, after being told his team was playing an early Game of the Week, complained, “Eleven AM? I’m not even done throwing up then.”
Well that’s to UGA’S Advantage… Can’t see the Mizzou crowd showing up in droves ‘early’. And with ‘energy’? No chance…
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Mizzou fans don’t show up in droves any time.
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Agreed. Also we won’t get back too late with Tennessee the next weekend. We need to beat Big Urnge about 60-0 for recruiting purposes, in order to throw some shade on that hope and change message Pruitt’s trying to sell.
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On the flip side, this sets up nicely for parking one’s ass on the couch for 10 hours.
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This. Love the early games!
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Thanks for getting me out of my slacker self-image.
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It will be 11am there. Yuck!
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It will be 1 PM here. I think the sun still travels east to west.
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It’s says noon EST, so Deb is right.
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I misread what Deb wrote. She wrote “there” which I read as “here”. My bad. I need to read more carefully before I make a smart ass comment. Please accept me apologies.
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“my” apologies
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It’s called a “faux pas”, not “misread”.
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Not a huge fan of noon games, but at least it won’t be a 5 hour affair on CBS.
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I am actually okay with a noon game in CoMo. The start time hurts the CST team more than the EST team and it takes the fans out. More importantly it allows us to get back to Athens and into recovery sooner. I also have a big bag of popcorn ready for the UT/UF game, so I am glad the UGA game won’t interfere.
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Sounds like Kirby got what he wanted.
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Ugh. I’d rather read the encyclopedia than watch UF-UT. That game is going to set the sport back 50 years.
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As a fan who came of age during the brutal ’90s, there’s something compelling about watching 2 of our 3 biggest rivals scrapping to avoid a last-place finish in the East.
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Me too. May those days never return.
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It’s time to repay the 90s
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Like yard dogs over the last pig’s ear.
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Not me. We are staying in St. Louis so 11 a.m. CST is going to be tough for us.
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Love the Ball Four reference. One of my favorite books.
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Just as good as the time a Senior Chief told me: “I don’t care if your still drunk or hungover, PT starts at 0500.”
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Was an army section chief in 85…I was the guy waking my troops at 0400 to get ready for PT. It’s cold at 0400 in Germany during January. Really cold when you’re still drunk
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Tell me about it Moe. 😉
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Hoo ahh. I stepped in puke a couple of times. Good ol Hefe Weisen
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hahaha
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The bigger questions is whether Mississippi State @ Kentucky will draw more eyeballs than Tennessee-Florida. The 1990s weep.
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Oh no, do you realize what this means? Our 2nd game with Beth Mowins.
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I was just going to post that, Chili! That will make throw up!
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My ear holes hurt just thinking about it.
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3rd game with Beth Mowins. She’s in Athens Saturday.
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What did we ever do to the football gods?
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Bama would never have to put up with this shit
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Mark Jones, where have ye gone?
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He’s “choppin it up” somewhere if I remember his catch phrase correctly.
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And I’m in Athens Saturday too. Won’t hear her.
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If you guys thought she was bad for college games – turn on MNF.
It’s like she’s trying to channel Kenny Albert. I’m pretty sure Kenny Albert isn’t even dumb enough to repeatedly speak in short hand like saying “oh-cord” instead of offensive coordinator, though.
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Howard Cosell is turning over in his grave.
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Research from our Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has confirmed a full 10% increase in actual fan attendance and concession revenue when Ms. Mowins is engaged in our television broadcasts.
Rest assured, she remains a friend of the program and we will continue to request her involvement in future broadcast opportunities.
#COMMITTOTHEG
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Coach Kirby Smith will have our boys ready whatever the time
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Love it.
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Early games on the road are good. Can get back home at a decent hour.
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The 4th installment of the semi-annual Grown Man Football Classic!
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We kicked some serious ass out there at 11am in 14, without Gurley.
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IIRC, a spry, young lad named Chubb said, “Hello, world.”
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Much to Desmond Howard’s dismay, lol
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Surprising looking at rest of the schedule. Seeing as how Mizzou is the next “trap game” for the Dawgs, you’d think it would be afternoon or evening game.
And thanks for reminding me that was a “Ball Four” quote. I’ve used it for years but forget I read it when I was 10 years old. Quite eye-opening at that age. And it was a gift from my Godmother. 😉 She obviously just thought it was a “baseball book”.
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I guess I shouldn’t be, but I’m surprised the fl tn game is at night. I guess they’re counting on the checkerboard being done and the drama of “can tn win a conference game?”.
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Not at all surprising. It’s a rivalry game, and it features two first-year coaches who are likely both going to circle that game as one they really have to win. Should be a good one to watch.
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Yep. You’re right.
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The off-field histrionics will be far better than the on-field dreck…
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At least it’s away so we don’t have to read about some administrator bitching about students not showing up till the second quarter.
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That sucks for the viewing audience. My son’s Bday is that day and we have festivities planned. We were counting on this being an evening game.
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That’s your fault for having children during football season. Mine were born in January and February. Grandchild July. Lol
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My daughter was born 9/4. I learned after the first birthday to offer to plan the birthday celebrations. Since it’s usually Labor Day weekend, I always have it on Sunday.
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My son was born on 12/1. Similar situation, swapping Labor Day for SECCG.
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There is a famous photo of renowned jazz musicians titled “A Great Day in Harlem”. They took the shot at 10am and the photographer said “most of these cats didn’t know there was two 11 o’clocks in a day!”
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/amazing-photograph-jazz-history/
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Classic photo.
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That’s a great link. Thanks for that!
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This is such a strange out of conference series we got going. I can’t believe we’ve scheduled a home and home with them every year since 2012.
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Um, they are in the east
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The SEC is good at football. Geography, not so much.
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#thatsthejoke
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The joke
You
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Along the lines of the Ball Four story, is the tale of a 75 year old man from North Wilkesboro NC who smoked 2 packs of Camel straight pipes per day for about 40 years. R.J. Reynolds invited him to Winston-Salem for a publicity thing to prove cigarettes aren’t harmful.
He said sure. R.J. said ‘can you be here at 9:00?’ He said ‘no way, I don’t quit coughing till 10.’
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I just visited thr Reynolds Mansion on Sapelo and there is no smoking!
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9 AM Vegas time..get your bet on…
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Mizzou’s game vs Purdue is a 7:30 kick, so even if they win in regulation, that’s a late flight back. Curious how that one goes, as Purdue, who doesn’t look that good, is still probably the toughest test the other other Tigers have faced this season.
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Yea those hour and ten minute flights are a bitch.
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…and it’s down hill 😉
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I will be in Columbia and will be tailgating at the radio station. 11:00 am doesn’t give us much time to prepare but we will do our best.
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Since most around here love Animal House:
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Are there people currently alive who do not understand/LOVE “Animal House”? If so, then you sirs can continue to support the Carolina Gamecocks. Good day then. 🙂
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I shared this and “Office Space” with my teenaged daughter. She laughed at both and then said she finally realized where 90% of my humor/jokes came from (the remainder being Monty Python).
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Let’s play some Old Man Football!!
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