These are troubling times, and politics are not the only blood sport. We are seeing the surging forces of a regime that does not let kids go to school and stifles free speech. And that is the Biden administration. I understand that the Taliban and ISIS are even worse.
If you are like me, and I really hope all of you are not, you are excited that football is starting up again to distract us from the world crumbling around us.
It is an exciting time in the South. When summer’s heat subsides and there is a nip in the morning air, we know it is time for college football. Women, if you have anything to say to your men, now is the time. Otherwise, wait until after the New Year’s Day bowl games.
Football is the modern-day “bread and circuses” meant to placate citizens, and in the South it is akin to a religious experience. Psychiatrists will tell you that football satisfies the primal human thirst for war. But our government goes ahead and gets us into a bunch of wars too, just to be on the safe side.
Of course, the South again dominates the college football rankings. Beating the North in football is rooted in far deeper issues than an amateur athletic contest. And it bothers the blue Northern states that Southern football might just be maneuvers in preparation for secession. The SEC just added another Texas school and, to fortify the border, ventured north to get Oklahoma on our side as well.