We Got a Lake...

Or, what's left of one....

So, the brilliant bastards of the BCS have announced all the Bowl Games and Clemson will be coming to the ATL to face Auburn at the Chic-fil-a (Peach) Bowl. (At least the chicfila people didn't name the bowl the Dwarf House Bowl - there would be midget wrastlin' goin on at the Dome.) Taken from a quote by Lewis Grizzard "Clemson is Auburn, with a Lake". I always like pointing that out to the WarTigerbirds from South Opelika.

This looks to be one of the BETTER Bowl Games. Good matchup. Their offense has struggled, as has our defence and their defence is good and should match up well against our offense.

I am sure that I will be picking this game apart as the weeks Drag on but on the surface the other games I will try to watch are:

Hawaii Bowl- Boise St. vs. East Carolina - Go Pirates
Champs Sports Bowl- Boston College vs. Michigan St., BC should win but dickboy was a Spartan
Mieneke Bowl- UConn vs. Wake Forest - if the UConn coach is there, they destroy Wake
Alamo Bowl - Penn St. vs. Texas A&M - I could give a shit here but this will be a good game
Fiesta Bowl - Oklahoma vs. West Virginia - Definitely going to watch this one.

The that's about it.

I will probably channel surf my way thru the rest. I will watch Georgia grind Hawaii into a pulp. Virginia Tech is going to KILL Kansas. Missouri won't be able to stop McFadden and he will solidify his Heisman as Arkansas rolls. Texas Tech will score 50 on Virginia if they can block Howie Long's son. Who knows what will happen...

Not very intriguing. I like LSU but really, really hate Ohio St. I hope they kill 'em and could care less if i watch the game. Last year I barely paid attention...

By the time the Bowls are over, Clemson should be 15-0, or so, in basketball and just starting ACC play. That should keep me interested - until we start dropping games...

I am just glad Notre Dame is not in a bowl this year - how did Alabama sneak in? They are 6-6 and dropped their last 4 games in a row. Is Satan, oops I mean Saban, that important. They should have put Alabama vs. South Carolina and at 1/2 time they should make Saban and Visor Boy cage fight at midfield since the coaches are what people want to see and the team is secondary.

I am excited about the Peach Bowl but am unsure of what to do after the games since Buckhead is gone now. Jesus, after the 1993 Peach Bowl, when Clemson beat Kentucky 14-13 on a last second TD, me and Barney (from the Promised Land of Little Mountain, SC) went to Buckhead. What a night. Barney laid in the middle of Pharr Road (I think) and blocked all traffic before I realized he just wanted to sleep there at 11:30pm. We had to find a Bar and Jeff Blauser's bar, Orchestra Pit, was packed and not letting anyone in. So, we went to the Acme. Wow. We push our way to the bar, I prop Barney onto chair and post up. This group of guys wearing sports coats and buzz cuts are next to us raising hell. They were Marines out of Paris Island. We had a blast until one of the Priviates orders a round of beers, some chuckle head reaches thru the Marines and takes one of their new beers. The Marine politely grab his arm and tells him that those are their beers. He says FUCK YOU!.. Politely he tells him to give it back. Guy says "You want it that bad -" S M A S H. I hear/see the explosion of the beer bottle against the side of the Marienes head. The Lt. grabs the guy immediately and, since you can take the boy out of North Chuck - you can't take the North Chuck out of the boy, I grab the chuckle head by the hair and give him 5-6 quick, fast and solid knees to the head. The rest of the platoon grabs me and pulls this dude away and they fall to the floor, blood, beer and this guys face hits the floor. In < 15 seconds it's over and the bouncers are kicking people out - just him... Bartender saw the whole thing, checked on the Marine that got the bottle smashed on the side of his head and he just had a cut on his ear. He got a shot of Tequila drank 1/2 and poured the other 1/2 on his ear and we were best friends for the rest of the night. All his platoon buddies felt guilty that they weren't the guys beating the shit out of this guy so they all bought me drinks for the rest of the night. Bartender uses me as the launching pad for all the Champagne, so I pass out about 40 bottles to eveyone and Barney and I have our own bottles and he snaps out of his drunken stupor and asks - What's going on??? What did I miss? Nothing Barney - Happy New Year brother! He missed the whole thing. (I haven't talked to him in about 4 years - I should look him up.)