Spent a good portion of yesterday watching football at Calhoun’s.\u00a0 In case anyone is not aware of my college allegiances, here they are:<\/p>\n
Go Tigers!!!<\/strong> Besides that fact that Memphis has been my home for almost my entire adult life, the U of M is my alma mater for grad school, and I taught there for 5 years.\u00a0 I’ll admit there isn’t much to cheer for football-wise this season.\u00a0 Middle Tennessee State?\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Let’s hope basketball season gets here quickly.<\/p>\n Go Hogs!!!<\/strong> I grew up in Little Rock, and went to Arkansas games at War Memorial Stadium.\u00a0 Many of my high school friends went to Fayetteville when it was time for college.<\/p>\n Boo Vols!!!<\/strong> I can’t understand why people expect me to cheer for a school that’s no closer to home than the Gulf Coast is, just because it bears the name of the state I live in.\u00a0 Tennessee fans are some of the most obnoxious on Earth, and their men’s basketball coach is a total douche.\u00a0 Nothing sucks like a big orange.<\/p>\n Boo Rebels!!!<\/strong> Ole Miss represents everything I hate in a college football program.\u00a0 I hate The Grove; I hate Colonel Reb; and I especially hate the stupidest cheer in college sports, “Hotty Toddy.”\u00a0 Our group’s father figure\/inspirational leader says he’s going to take us on a road trip to The Grove sometime, which makes me think I better start compiling a list of excuses why I can’t go.<\/p>\n Boo ‘Horns!!!<\/strong> I grew up in Little Rock loving the Hogs, so naturally I learned from an early age to hate Texas.\u00a0 The two teams were still in the Southwest Conference at the time and were bitter rivals.\u00a0 UT is admittedly in a very cool city – Austin – but the school (and the entire state, really) seems to have an artificially inflated opinion of itself.<\/p>\n Congrats to the UCLA Bruins on a fine victory over Tennessee yesterday.\u00a0 I watched the entire thing at Calhoun’s.\u00a0 Lauren didn’t seem to be in a very good mood toward the end of the afternoon for some reason, and Frank changed from an orange shirt to a blue one.<\/p>\n Damn Calhoun’s was crowded… I wanted to cash in one of my gift certificates to get habanera hot wings, but it just wasn’t possible to get a desirable seat at the bar to have room to eat.\u00a0 I ended up riding the trolley north after the game and going to Bangkok Alley.<\/p>\n After that I decided to call it an early night, not in a mood to deal with Downtown crowds.\u00a0 As a result, I’m up and well rested at 8:20 AM.\u00a0 Going to make it to brunch for a third week in a row… that hasn’t happened in a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spent a good portion of yesterday watching football at Calhoun’s.\u00a0 In case anyone is not aware of my college allegiances, here they are: Go Tigers!!! Besides that fact that Memphis has been my home for almost my entire adult life, the U of M is my alma mater for grad school, and I taught there … Continue reading “I’m for five teams: Memphis, Arkansas, and whoever is playing Tennessee, Ole Miss, and Texas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4615,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}