This Week's Picks: Week 4

I am going to say something very controversial.  I miss Verne Lundquist.

If you ever want to get a fight started, say something good about Verne Lundquist.

He was the play-by-play guy for the SEC games on CBS for years.  Everybody hated him, particularly Alabama fans. I've haven't quite figured it out.  Maybe he didn't genuflect enough towards Saint Saban, I don't know.

But I liked Uncle Verne. He wasn't one of those blown dried Syracuse graduates. He was a Texas Lutheran grad that liked to eat.

Oh sure, sometimes he got the player, team, stadium, and sport wrong. But he was real.

I miss Larry Munson, too.  If you are from Georgia, you've heard at least one classic Larry Munson call live.

Larry:  "The Dawgs are on the one-yard line. Three seconds left. Boys, it is time to hunker down like you've never hunker down before. I don't see how they're going to do it. Loren, whatta got?"

Loren: "Huh Larry?  Mrs. Dooley is wearing the most beautiful yellow chiffon dress. It highlights those eyes of her. I love her".

Larry:  "The Dawgs set. It's a quarterback sneak! It's a quarterback sneak (Note-Larry says this 50 more times).  We took their face and stepped on it with a golf shoe. We took their liver out and put  it on the grill. We ripped their kidneys out and gave it to a raccoon. Look! Sugar is falling from the sky! Wait! That's rain! Okay, enough celebration, let's start worrying about the NorthSouthWest Louisiana game." 

This Week's Picks!



Jawja vs Moosouri- UGA starts its SEC schedule with Missouri, which for some reason is in the Eastern Division of The SEC despite the fact that the state of Missouri is west of the Mississippi River. Geography isn't a big deal in The SEC. For some reason, the Tigers always play the Dawgs tight probably because UGA still doesn't think Missouri is in the SEC. It won't matter.  UGA wins

Wrecked vs Erange- I don't get it. Coach Paul (Giggles ) Johnson's record in 11 years at Georgia Tech is 77-56.  A winning record to be sure, but it is nothing to build a statue over. You would think Johnson would be on the hot seat, but it doesn't seem like it is an issue. I guess the Bees are happy beating UGA every four to six years.  You don't have to be good at math to know Tech just won't have it against Clemson.  The question isn't if the Bees will lose, the question is by how much. And Coach Giggles will probably get a contract extension. Clemson wins.

Rocky Topped vs  Lizards- For some people, the first sign of Fall are the leaves changing color. For others, it is the appearance of pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks (yuck!) but for me, the first sign of fall is the Tennessee-Florida game.  In their salad years, you see as many Tennessee and Florida fans here as you do Georgia fans. This isn't one of their salad years, so these guys have been on the down-low as the cool kids say.  Tennessee has been in a state of rebuilding since they fired Big Fat Phil. Florida lost to Kentucky a couple of weeks ago. If that isn't proof there is a God, I don't know what is. I tend to think Florida is a little bit better than Tennessee.  What the heck:  Florida wins.

Ducks vs Trees- When we went on our Alaskan cruise a couple of years back, I met a guy that was a Florida grad living in California. He said due to the time difference, he has no trouble keeping up with The SEC.   He'd wake up Saturday Morning and there was a SEC football game. It is the opposite issue with me about the PAC-10. It is hard to keep up with a team when their games come on at 11:00, because unlike you heathens, some of us have to get up on Sunday morning and go to church. Stanford is number 9 in the polls and Oregon is 20. I guess that means something.  Gameday is going to be at Eugene, so I guess Coach Lee will be picking the Ducks.  By the way, did you know that Oregon has a handshake agreement with Walt "Wonderful World of Color" Disney himself to be able to use the Donald Duck likeness?  You don't get that type of information on Gameday.  Wait, maybe, you did.  No particular reason but I think Stanford wins.

 

The Fighting Herms vs Worshington-I hate it when I forget something that happened in the off-season, like when Herm Edwards was hired as the head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils. Herm was the coach of The New York Jets and The Kansas City Chiefs.  When he was let go from Kansas City, you'd see him on ESPN and he seemed like he had just a wee too much coffee. But it seems, so far, that college football agrees with him. Arizona State has beaten a Big Ten school. (Okay, even Troy University has beaten a Big Ten School.)  Washington is a pretty good team. They almost defeated Auburn. They're better than Arizona State.  Washington wins.

My Beloved Owls vs  Clark Atlanta- I don't care if Kennesaw State is playing Clark Kent, Clark Griswald, or Clark Atlanta, the Owls will win.