Are You Ready for Some Football?!

After all the months that have passed by, College Football is finally back! Games start tonight! Ga Tech plays Alcorn State and South Carolina plays North Carolina. I've picked UNC to upset SC. I don't know why, it just feels like that will happen. Ga Tech should not have any trouble defeating Alcorn State. There is no way Alcorn State can stop the Paul Johnson option play. I expect a blowout.

For this blog, I will try to comment on the top games rather than commenting on all of them. This year should be interesting and very competitive. I think we are in for the most exciting season because of the parity of the players. Like I've said, one school can't recruit all the good players; therefore, they are spread out all over the nation. 

I will also try to tell you a funny story each week. One of those is as follows:

One of my friends, who was a football official, was carrying his bag with his uniform in it. He arrived at the hotel and saw all the other officials eating breakfast. He asked the bellhop to watch his bag while he went to join the other officials for breakfast. The bellhop said that it was fine, he would watch the bag. The official had a nice breakfast with all of his colleagues but when we get ready to leave, he could not find the bellhop or his bag! Neither of them were anywhere in sight. My friend thought one of the other officials was playing a joke on him by hiding his bag and decided not to say anything. All the officials gathered in their shared dressing room. My friend walked in (thinking another official was playing a joke) and asked everyone, "alright, who's got my bag?" He discovered that no one was playing with him. None of us had his bag. The game we were getting ready to officiate was going to be on National TV. Each official was trained at that time to bring extra parts of the uniform with them in case something like this happened. My friend was able to get most pieces of his uniform except for the shoes. He had to borrow those from the LSU locker room. He also had to use a safety pin to keep his pants up. He was one of the smallest officials on the crew so all of the extra pants were too big! Needless to say, this made the crew a little nervous since it was a national broadcast but luckily his pants never fell down. Any time we think about it today, we just laugh!