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 government goes ahead and gets us in a bunch of wars too, just to be on the safe side.
Of course, the South again dominates the college football rankings. Rest assured, the South 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.
On opening weekend I enjoyed attending the Memphis vs. Ole Miss game, especially since Memphis won. You have to love this upstart Memphis team with a defensive lineman from the outback of Louisiana nicknamed “The Swamp Donkey.”
I hate to kick Ole Miss when it is down, but it has yet to recover from its holy-roller coach resigning after escort service phone numbers were found on his cellphone. It was embarrassing for an Ole Miss coach to have to pay for sex in a college town like Oxford, Mississippi.