LARGETONY Blog

Football is like a lover.
It gives me goose bumps. It makes my heart race. It’s irresistable and I am powerless to its charms. Sometimes it beats me and yet, I still come running back for more, only to have an explosive, toe-curling reunion.
Tennessee played Georgia tonight. The game was down in Athens, Georgia, so I [...]

I have a love / hate thing about night time football games.
I love the sound of the crowd crackling against a cool (well, cooler than daytime, anyway) sky. And it reminds me of the fun of football games back in high school.
What I hate is the waiting. Waiting around all day for the game to [...]

I swear football is going to be the death of me. My heart just can’t take it. Tennessee chalked up its second win of the season on Saturday. Just barely.
I’ve been under the weather all weekend, so I didn’t try to go to the game. That didn’t bother me too much because I thought , [...]

Like a kudzu on a hillside in the height of summer….Like a hundred-pound dog on a leash with a fifty-pound test…Like a loaf of bread on “I Love Lucy”….You just can’t contain it.
I have tried to not blog about it.  Tried for two days. But I just can’t contain it any longer.
The college football rankings [...]

About 7 AM on Saturday, I was sitting on the back porch having my daily bowl of oatmeal. I don’t eat oatmeal every day for health reasons or anything like that. I do it just because I like oatmeal. It’s just a bonus that it’ll keep my cholesterol down and helps keeps me regular. (I [...]

There are certain phrases that no matter how many times you hear them your response to them is almost always the same. Maybe the response is dread (”We need to talk..” ); or maybe it’s anxiety (”Now this may sting a little…” ); and sometimes it’s pure excitement like when you hear “I have no [...]

Anybody who says that football is boring has never seen a good game. I’m talking about one with a good end. This college football season has seen more good ends than any I can ever remember. So many teams having last minute comebacks, so many games going into overtime (like Tuesday night’s Orange Bowl which [...]