Sorry folks

but I gotta get a football post in.

My Weir Lions tasted defeat last week in the match up against their former coach. Too many mistakes led to a Eupora victory. Since it was an out-of-district game, it only stings a little. Plus, I can't feel bad when Coach Graham got a special victory.

This week, Weir gets back into action against McAdams. And by 'back into action', I mean 'rolls'.

Still undefeated - 48
McOuch - 6

Now for some SEC action. Let's see if I can improve my 26-9 record. (Thanks, Bama).

LSU at Tulane

The Battle At The Dome! And by 'battle', I mean 'LSU scrimmage hoping no one gets injured'.

Bayou corndogs - name their score
Bayou victims - name their shutout

Ole Miss at Georgia

One of my buddies was hoping to do a double-header. The MSU game in Columbia, SC and this game between the hedges. Well, his better 7/8ths won't be making the trip, so this game won't be attended. 'Tis a shame, 'cause Athens is a nice place.

Athens-lite - 14
Athens-Athens - 35

Florida Atlantic at Kentucky

Big Blue pads their W column.

F_U - 21
Basketball? - 49

North Texas at Arkansas

Arkansas is playing possum. They have to be. Surely they aren't this bad.

Shirley - 10
Saving it for LSU? - 38

Eastern Michigan at Vanderbilt

Vandy inches closer to bowl eligib... I almost was able to type that out.

EMU! - 21
VU! - 28

Alabama vs. Florida State

Bobby gets to coach against the team he wanted to coach way back when. And I do mean waaaaaay back when. Saint Nick (Roll Tide) is still (Roll Tide) the only (Roll Tide) coach (Roll Tide) for (Roll Tide) Ala (Roll Tide) bama (Roll Tide).

Still (Roll Tide) National (Roll Tide) Champs (Roll Tide) - 27
Needs to get back to Free Shoes days - 26

Auburn at Fl*rida

Poor Tubby. Urban Warfare was pissed when a team he wasn't even coaching lost in Mississippi. Wonder what he's been like this past week when *his* team almost lost in Mississippi.

0-1 vs. Magnolias - 17
1-0 vs. Magnolias - 17++

Mississippi State at South Carolina

Let it sink in for a while. 3-1. 3 wins before October. Competitive football, for the most part. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Competitive - 20.5
Cocky - 21

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Last night's Heroes

Good start. Some new characters were introduced. Most of the good previous characters are still around.

I'm interested to find out what the sister from Honduras(?) has for a power. Whatever it is, it's hardcore.

Hiro's adventures took a wild turn. This will be really fun to watch.

Notice that I'm not really giving anything away? That's because I want to make sure you have watched the show and not spoil anything.

YATA!

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Yes, there is more to life than football.

Look to the right. Come Monday night, my full attention will be focused on one thing.

YATA!

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SEC pickin' review and preview

On the young season, I'm 21-7 in trying to predict winners. Most of them have been easy picks. Some of the 7 incorrect ones were close, except for Urban Warfare. And no thanks to Arkansas and Vandy for making Alabama look good.

A big thank you to my Dawgs for giving me a wrong guess. I figured they would play Auburn close, but fall short in the end. Very glad they proved me wrong. And yes, I was there even though video shows otherwise.

As for this weekend's games, three games with potential for goodness. Three others that should provide needed practice for the respective teams.

Georgia at Alabama

Between the hedges, I likely would have taken the Hairy Dawgs. But the tempting ribs from Dreamland lead me elsewhere.

Too many kegs? - 27
Wake the arroga^H^H^Hghosts - 29

New Mexico State at Auburn

Before the MSU game, I had an Auburn fan tell me that he was more worried about this game than the MSU game.

Los Lobos - 35
THIS IS THE SEC, BROTHER! - 42

Fl*rida at Ole Miss

The O got the troops fired up last year and had LSU on the ropes in Death Valley. Can his wacky ways do the same at home against Urban Warfare?

Uh, no - 56
Missing P-Willie - 3

Kentucky at Arkansas

Big Blue pulled a huge upset in beating Louisville last week. Momentum baby! The Nutt pulled defeat out of his as^H^Hhind end (family show ($1)) when he had the game won in T'town.

Wildcats, no longer that mild - 35
WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING?!?!?! - 36

South Carolina at LSU

Lucky for Cackolacky, this game isn't at night.

Cockin' for an upset - 17
Ready to knock some co^H^H^H - 34

Arkansas State at Tennessee

Phat Phil's seat is getting hotter and hotter. And there aren't enough McRib's in the world to help him feel better.

Surprised at the # of colleges in Ark. - 14
Out of contention, aGAIN - 31

Gardner-Webb at Miss. State

Losing your starting quarterback is never good. Having a true freshman and an unproven JUCO as your backups isn't any better. They best find some passing mojo this week before heading to Columbia.

Runnin' Bulldogs - 14
Runnin' and better-be-passin' Bulldogs - 35

Off this week, Vandy. Rest easy, soul patrol.

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Tonight's high school game o' the week

Weir steps up a class and takes on 2A Eupora. Why is this an intriguing game? Eupora is coached by Junior Graham. Coach Graham is the former Weir head coach. He took the Eupora job after Eupora's coach jumped all the way up to the South Panola job. I'm thinking this was scheduled as a friendly get-together, as a way of letting Coach Graham come back to a warm welcome.

No ill will towards Junior. He did good at Weir. Hope he does just as well at Eupora.

But tonight, it's all Weir.

Thnks fr th mmrs - 21
Golden - 26

(hint: the theme revolves around a current band)

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Shiver some timbers!

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!

My pirate word for the day:

Bung hole – Victuals on a ship were stored in wooden casks. The stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole is called the bung hole. That’s all. It sounds a lot worse, doesn’t it? On TLAP Day – When dinner is served you’ll make quite an impression when you say, “Well, me hearties, let’s see what crawled out of the bung hole.” That statement will be instantly followed by the sound of people putting down their utensils and pushing themselves away from the table. Great! More for you!

Not to be confused with:



Arr.



Even more pirate fun:

MythBusters pirate special

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I Was Here!

19-14!

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Live from Montgomery,

It's blogging for the heck of it.

Let's see, picks:

no I-AA teams
Arkansas
Louisville
Tennessee
LSU
Vandy
Auburn (close one, a la Georgia last year)

Sorry I forgot about picking Weir. The C-L predicted a close game. It wasn't. Weir's rolling, baby. Look out south 1A.

From my parents, gator hunting is like Appalachian State. They went to the gator weigh-in last night and saw an 8-footer that was caught near our house. Sweet. They also said that a near 12-footer was caught. I hope they took pics.

Here's hoping there's plenty of food at the tailgates. And that we make it to the tailgates.

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Frank Melton is going back on the streets.

"I'm going to get in trouble, but we'll deal with that tomorrow."

And just when Marshall Ramsey takes a vacation.

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Mmmmm, donuts

One of the few things that makes work enjoyable.

And for the record, they are from The Donut Shop in Richland. Those and The Donut Barn in Madison are light years better than Krispy Kreme.

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The "It's Almost Too Late" edition of picks

How dare work get in my way of predicting SEC games.

Alabama at Vanderbilt (11:30 a.m. CT / LFS)

Yippee! SEC football is underway. St. Nick goes to Nashville to rape their cattle and steal their women. Yes, that's correct. Why? Because he can.

But he'll lose his first SEC game. Yes, that's also correct.

Bear with him - 20
Easy Like Sunday Morning ($1 to Bubb Rubb) - 21

South Florida at Auburn (8 p.m. CT / ESPN2)

Upset alert! USF is a good team. They beat West Virginia last year and return most of the entire team. Or so the pundits say.

Auburn looked sluggish in their first game. 9th year QB Brandon Cox best get things in high gear real quick like.

Better than K-State - 24
Better than last week - 38

Troy at Florida (6 p.m. CT)

No TV means no shots of Mrs. Meyer or Tebow's girl.

Getting paid - 10
Gettin... uh, nevermind - 49

South Carolina at Georgia (5:45 p.m. ET / ESPN)

Spurrier's team may be cocked but they weren't firing last week. They go between the hedges to try and jump start their season. Kegmaster Matthew Stafford will have the hairy Dawgs ready to uncock the Cocks.

QB questions already? - 17
Look out Florida - 35

Kent State at Kentucky (6 p.m. ET)

Kentucky's getting ready for Louisville. Kent State may help prepare Big Blue's offense, but not their defense.

MACtastic opponent - 13
SECond best team in state - 48

Virginia Tech at LSU (8:15 p.m. CT / ESPN)

Under normal circumstances, this would be a dominate game. But these aren't normal circumstances. LSU fans are being asked to be polite.

LSU's defense won't.

QB issues - 16
Mild week 1 practice - 22

Missouri at Ole Miss (5 p.m. CT)

Let me be the 3789th person to say that this is a MISS-match.

*groan*

That's Mizz to you - 28
Tennessee let Brent go, why? - 10

Southern Miss at Tennessee (7 p.m. ET)

Why isn't this on TV? USM almost always plays the big boys tough and 9 times out of 10, look as if they are about to pull the upset. Only to have the big boy snap out of it and take control of the game. Isn't that right, Bill Callahan?

Best in MS - 27
Phat Phil is no Bill - 28

Mississippi State at Tulane (6 p.m. CT / CSS)

Why *is* this one on TV? Does CSS not want people to watch their station?

1 SEC championship - 15 (defensive or special teams TD plus 8 safeties)
2 SEC championships - 14 (two INTs for TDs)

Let's see if my perfect record remains perfect Sunday.

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This week's high school football predictions

Since the mighty Weir Lions play tonight...

Weir at Edinburg

Edinburg got a brutal beating last week at Durant. Now they come home looking to redeem th...

Oh, they play Weir? Forget about it.

Mighty Lions - 47
Not-So-Mighty Eagles - 6

[Post-game edit]

Weir - 68
Edinburg - 6

Clarkdale at Union

The Mighty Union Yellowjackets roll into to Clarkdale to show the world how dominate they are. How dominate? I'm talking Colossus of Yore dominate.

Union - a million
Clarkdale - -14

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Fantasy football chat

One of my fantasy football leagues was set for auto-draft. I prefer live drafts, but if that is what they want, fine. Since the league had an odd number of teams, it couldn't get started.

Well, at some point during the past few days, another team joined. So the draft started. Since it's auto-draft, you can rank players if you want.

I check my team and notice I have LaDanian Tomlinson. He's only the #1 fantasy football player. Sweet. I had the #1 pick.

But wait. I had the #2 pick. Then, how did I get LDT?

The team with the #1 pick selected: Chicago's defense.

Oh my. I tried not to make a spectacle of myself at work from laughing so much.

Chicago? #1? Seriously?

I will never let this owner forget this through the season.

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Things I hate - traffic division

1. Timed traffic lights. What's the point of sitting at a red light when you are the only vehicle on the road? I'm looking at you, city of Madison.

2. People that don't signal when changing lanes.

2a. People that don't signal when changing lanes while cutting in front of my by a foot.

3. The douchebag that stopped on the entrance ramp to the interstate the other night, then flew like a bat out of hell passing me just a short ways up the road. Douche on, douche.

4. People that tailgate me for a half mile or so on the interstate, then move over a lane and pass after another half mile, then move back into the same lane by cutting me off by a foot.

That's all, until some other douche does something stupid on the road that pisses me off.

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Football predictions review

Well, let's see how my first attempt at prognostication worked out.

Alabama vs. Western Carolina

Predicted: Alabama 38, W Carolina 10

Actual: Alabama 52, W Carolina 6

Ok, so I figured Saint Nick would call off the dogs. Silly me.

Arkansas vs. Troy

Predicted: Arkansas 31, Troy 17

Actual: Arkansas 46, Troy 26

Eh, close enough.

Auburn vs. Kansas State

Predicted: Auburn 42, Kansas State 17

Actual: Auburn 23, Kansas State 13

It was closer than it appears. And it was K State's game to lose. Which they did, with the help from Auburn's all-world defense.

Fl*rida vs. Western Kentucky

Predicted: Fl*rida a lot, Western Kentucky 3

Actual: Florida 49, Western Kentucky 3

What can I say? I'm that good.

Georgia vs. Oklahoma State

Predicted: Georgia 28, Oklahoma State 20

Actual: Georgia 35, Ok State 14

Georgia looks good.

Kentucky vs. Eastern Kentucky

Predicted: Kentucky 49, E Kentucky 14

Actual: Kentucky 50, E Kentucky 10

This will get harder once real teams start playing other real teams.

Ole Miss at Memphis

Predicted: Ole Miss 13, Memphis 12

Actual: Ole Miss 23, Memphis 21

Memphis was thisclose to tying the game at the end, but the Rebels pulled one out.

South Carolina vs. La-Lafayette

Predicted: USC 38, La-Lafayette 7

Actual: USC 28, La-Lafayette 14

Something's not right with that picture.

Tennessee at California

Predicted: Cal 35, Tennessee 28

Actual: Cal 45, Tennessee 31

Heck of a game.

Vanderbilt vs. Richmond

Predicted: Vandy 21, Richmond 0

Actual: Vandy 41, Richmond 17

I envy Vandy football.

Mississippi State vs. LSU

Predicted: LSU 41, MState 17

Actual: LSU 45, MState 0

Not surprised by LSU's offensive output. Utterly disgusted by MState's "offense".

Weir vs. South Leake

Predicted: Weir 34, South Leake 21

Actual: Weir 43, South Leake 0

I should be surprised, but I'm not.

So that's a 12-0 start. Not bad, but then again, no real surprises from week 1. A couple of close games, but the "team that was supposed to win" did win.

Until next time...

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Vandalism

Kids these days. They think it's cool to drive around in the dark of night, knock over mailboxes, throw paint on the roads (weird flashback) and TP yards? Well, apparently, there was a group of kids doing that in our neighborhood. Someone from the neighborhood was driving around telling people about it.

The mailboxes and paint in the road? That's bad. TPing someone's yard? Ok, it's annoying when it's your yard, but if that's all that was being done, I wouldn't mind.

But I don't like how they did our yard. No biggie getting most of the TP out of the tree. What got me was that they used good quality TP.

That's just wrong.

Seriously. Kids these days.

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