The Daily Memphian has a roundup of college football bowl projections including the Memphis Tigers. Although the Tigers didn’t live up to last season’s accomplishments, most likely their record is good enough to warrant a Power 5 conference opponent. Forecasts include
- Birmingham Bowl vs. Tennessee or Mississippi State
- Military Bowl vs. Virginia
- Gasparilla Bowl vs. Boston College
The Tigers play their final game against Houston at 11 AM Saturday, televised on the ESPN+ premium streaming package.
Majestic Grille/Cocozza co-owner Deni Reilly responded on Facebook yesterday about Christmas plans for this year:
Happy December Majestic friends! We hope you are all happy & healthy. Thank you to those of you who have been supporting us in our pandemic pop-up, Cocozza American Italian. Your support is helping to ensure we can re-open The Majestic on the other side of the pandemic. Many of you have been asking about Clark’s Christmas Dinner & Brunch with Santa. After much thought and discussion with our team, and in light of the ever changing & seemingly obtuse restrictions being handed down to us by the County, we feel that we cannot execute either of our popular annual Christmas events to the Majestic standards we and you expect of us. While we are incredibly disappointed not to be able to cheer on Cousin Eddie or share a hot cocoa (or mimosa) with Santa this year, we know in our hearts that it is the right thing to do to keep us, our staff, you and our community safe.For those of you wanting to get in the spirit & show your support, we recommend ordering Cocozza Bulk Dinner platters & watching Clark make a mess of Christmas at home and ordering Cocozza Brunch ToGo (don’t forget the Bloody Mary’s) & enjoying some Christmas cartoons at home with the kids. You can visit www.cocozzamemphis.com to see our menus.Stay safe this holiday & here is to a Majestic 2021!Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!Patrick & Deni & The Majestic Grille Family
The Health Department closed two T.J. Mulligan’s locations over the weekend for COVID protocol violations. Reports indicate the health department had issues with people walking into the restaurants unmasked and people being allowed to voluntarily put down contact tracing info without being stopped at the door and asked for it. The lesson seems to be (and I’ve been preaching this for months): Have a doorman or host at all times. Yes it’s an additional person on the payroll, but it’s the cost of being open during a pandemic. More from WREG
The County Commission meets this afternoon at 3. Watch the shitshow here. Oh dear God… I just checked Facebook Events and “The Conservative Women of Collierville TN” plan to hold a STAND up for FREEDOM rally at the Commission meeting. They’ll be demonstrating outside the building and broadcasting on Periscope.
President Trump’s attack dog/flying monkey Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID.
Wishing a very, very happy 4th birthday to Perjorie T. Roll… Mondays aren’t normally going-out days for me, but with an important birthday like that, an exception will be made this afternoon. Back tomorrow with more news.