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Alabama-Georgia…It’s on Like a Donkey Kong "F-ING FUNERAL" Saturday Night
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As with any big college football game, the anticipation throughout the course of the week leading up to it is well, enormous. And so here we are, about ready to close out the first month of the season with another one of these games. First it was Ohio State-USC, um yeah, I’d would’ve rather hammered nails into my eyes…For one thing, it would’ve been more exciting! The media folks tried their damndest to build up the Tennessee-Florida game a week ago…Again, would’ve rather rode out Hurricane Ike! More thrilling! Same goes for the Clemson-Alabama matchup to start the year! However, if you try-try again, you’re bound to get one correct and last weeks billing of LSU-Auburn finally lived up to what it was supposed to be!
So here we sit this week, where the "Game of the Century", (or week…however, one wants to look at it) will be between The Hedges when the Fighting UGA’s host the Fighting Elephants, or simply…Alabama-Georgia! Another battle between two top ten teams…It’s what we’ve come to expect from the SEC week in and week out! And so the media attention began shining the spotlight on this game last Sunday, as Georgia announced then that it would black out Saturday’s game against Alabama. That’s right, one big "Black Out"…Just a question, I thought black was the color appropriate for funerals. Why do teams have this notion that all black uni’s will put the fear of God into them…I never understood that?
So obviously there’s only one thing for Nick Saban to do then, but wear a black Alabama golf shirt to his press conference. Of course! Responding to a writer who noted the black Alabama polo like this…
"It was the only thing I could find at the house this morning." Here, take a listen for yourself…(fast forward through all the blah, blah, blah…the cooking of the meat and potatoes begins at the 4:25 mark. Listen closely…Besides being a football coach, Nick Saban is one hell of a comedian).
http://crimsonconfidential.com/news/articles/2008/9/22/video-nick-saban-press-conference-2
Um Nick, if that was the only thing you had to wear, um, either, A) your ball-n-chain at home doesn’t like to do any kind of laundry, or B) I just have to know what the hell you’ve done with all that loot that the Alabama Slammer boasters dumped in your lap? Only thing you had to wear…Gees, I know things are tough in this country nowadays, but holy shit! Having to ransack through your hamper in order to get dressed, damn!
Although funny thing is, Mark Richt and Nick Saban must have a common joke writer. They used the same quip about their shirts about 24 hours apart on opposite sides of the border. So on Tuesday Mark Richt decides to wear a red Georgia golf shirt instead of getting into the blackout spirit…Responding in nearly the same fashion…(Sorry, no video footage of this)
"It was the only thing I could find at the house this morning."
Okay now, it’s a known fact that the SEC coaches get paid the most jack of any other D-I football conference in the nation…Is it preposterous to fathom that if their battle axes at home aren’t keeping up with the honey dos around the crib, (i.e., the laundry) couldn’t they just hire somebody? I’m thinking if one is making 2-4 million a year…Hell, shouldn’t he at least have clean threads to go to press conferences in?
So it goes without saying, the pre-game hype has already started. But you can’t tell by the press conferences. Both teams kept their answers guarded….Disregarding their apparel of course!
They praised the opposition and even held their criticism vague enough to mean anything. It will be hard for anybody to find bulletin-board material. Keeping their yaps closed…Not like that Clemson Defensive Coordinator who got a searve case of oral diarrhea before the Alabama game. Yeah oops! Bulletin-board material will be nonexistent as Saban and Richt have respectively evoked a gag order to everybody associated with their respective team. Yep, when the cameras and tape recorders are rolling it’s time to super glue the lips together!
Although, I wonder what’s said in practice, where they’re no mics and cameras around? Well here, why don’t we have a looksy at a Alabama practice this week…And as Paul Westerdawg of GeorgiaSportsBlog points out an Alabama assistant coach using the Black out this Saturday as motivation for BAMA to bury the Dawgs. His exact words at the 1:03 mark in the video are this...
[1](For those of you who can’t make out the mumble jumble…Here, I’ll help you out)
MUMBLE JUMBLE TRANSLATION, HE SAID…
"THEY ARE WEARING BLACK BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO A MOTHER F-ING FUNERAL!"
Two things here…A) that gets back to my earlier mention of my funeral theory. And B), well, if it wasn’t already on by the two coaches mocking each other in dirty clothes, just got one thing to say! IT’S ON LIKE F-ING DONKEY KONG NOW, JACK! OH YEAH!! Were’s Michael Buffer when you need him?
