Some Misalliance Thoughts!

B) Well the football season has finally ended. What do we do now? I never have been a big fan of pro-football, I'm a college guy at heart. Someone asked me this morning if I had watched the Pro-Bowl game. I didn't even know it was being played. Watched the old Bob Hope Pro-Am golf tourney and was amazed that Sing blew a three stroke lead in the final three or four holes. What was the most exciting football game you watched this past season? I happened on the Yale vs Harvard game on the tube. What a game! There is a lot to be said about the Ivy League. No a athletic scholarships, just guys playing for the love of the game. No 300 lb plus lineman, no 4.3 runing backs and no Q-backs with rocket arms. These are true student-athletes. Yale lost, but it was an exciting game, more like SEC football in the forties, fifties and early sixties before college football became a money maker for the school and athletic department. What a shame to loose that sense of purity. Back then there were no special classes for the athletes, they attended class with the rest of the student body. If the couldn't cut the mustard in the class room, they were out of there in a hurry. Why has things changed? The almighty dollar is the answer. Just like everything else, I guess. What will I do in this off season? Watch college baseball in Athens and yes even attend a Tech game or two. Like I said I am not into pro sports of any kind. Georgia tennis looks good again this spring. Athens a fun place to watch the Dawgs play tennis. It even gives me a chance to say hello to Dan Magil again. I will attend the G-Day game, the only game I see in person, since I gave up my season tickets. It gives me a little idea of what to expect this fall. So much for my rambling. Have a great off season.
As always, GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!

Yes, the game has surely changed. No more players playing both ways, no more 200 lb. linemen, no more priority on academics.
I think today's game is more exciting, more physical and generally more fun to watch. It's big business now and there's nothing we can do about it. And there are still great student athletes, kids like Thomas Brown who took 21 hours and played football at the same time. Nostalgia waxes pleasantly and I appreciate values but for my money, I'll take today's game.
I remember when the best athletes couldn't play Georgia Football because of the color of their skin. We've come a long way.
GO DAWGS!!!!

I hate the off season away from the Dawgs.....guess I'll concentrate on my second love, muscle car collection. I grew up in the muscle car era and it's been back in a huge way and is SO much FUN.....just a very expensive hobby/investment.

wlayton, what cars do have? I love those cars, if I had only bought a few back then and stored them, hmm. My wife inherited a '49 Ford convertible. She sold it in '91 for 14K. I'll always regret that sale. My best friend when I was a kid had a 442 all souped up, remember it well. I remember another guy I knew had a Shelby Cobra, the ride of my life. I guess they're worth what, about a mil now? Great hobby.

I've got a 1968 Shelby GT500KR and a 1965 Corvette conv. with sidepipes. Both are loads of fun to drive and extremely fast (in a straight line). Yeah, muscle cars have always been a big weakness of mine (my wife can't understand the passion, \"they just sit in the garage and take up space\"....my answer is, \"I KNOW they are there\"!!). In the past, when I was a kid, I have owned a '68 GTO, '69 SS396, '66 Vette, another Shelby KR and a '67 Mustang GT 390. Only have the other 2 now.

Our era was THE best....the best cars and the best music of all time!!

Cool cars!