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Weekend winners
McCallie. Wow, what a win for Big Blue over Baylor School on Friday night. And here’s betting if those two can meet in Finley for the BlueCross Bowl to decide the state title, there will be 20,000 there. And half of them will be college recruiters.
Brock Bowers. What a dude. With all apologies to the litany of great skilled dudes that have put on the silver britches in Clarke County in my lifetime — AJ Green, Todd Gurley, Terrell Davis, Rodney Hampton, Andre Hastings, Nick Chubb, et al — Brock “Mother Bleepin'” Bowers is the most-unstoppable weapon since Herschel. How many college players can you recall that were so dominant that you knew they were getting the ball and good defenses still could not stop it? Tebow was that way. Cam Newton was that way. But there ain’t many. (Side question: Bearddawg, still pro-Bobo? Those first three quarters before Auburn’s safety got hurt and before someone got in Mike’s headset to remind him, that you know, Brock Bowers is on Georgia’s team, were confounding.)
NFL marketing. Are NFL fans already tired of Tra-ylor? Of course we are. But it’s brilliant for the league to maximize the exposure in a virtually NFL-free part of the American audience as Taylor Swift and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce flirt like middle schoolers.