Wright Thompson's finest work ever

I had trouble getting through it...

It's nowhere close to his best work... How anyone could put this work in the same class as his Father's Day story is beyond me.

 

I'm just curious if you could elaborate on this. I've covered quite a few Division III games. Outside of Mount Union and the Battle for the Monon Bell, I don't really know of anything like that in D3. I was just curious.

 

I guess I was thinking more of generalities; small schools in small towns that are lucky to get 2,000 people at the game, but they tailgate rain or shine because of their loyalty to a small school.
Old, small cool looking stadiums kinda thing.
When I went to college, a mid-major D1, there was a D3 school next door. And within a driver/3-wood of the bigger stadium was the D3's stadium -- set into a hillside, wrought iron fence around it with brick/ivy covered pillars... probably never more than 3,000 people went to their games. But they tailgated and always seemed to get into the spirit of it more
A whole lot of little things that add up to more than the sum of the parts, as opposed to some (emphasis on some) rituals at larger schools that have become less ritual and more hype.
Make sense?

 

I enjoyed the piece, because it resonated with me as a southern football fan. If you take this as an ode, which it is, it is enjoyable. Odes generally do not hit at the underbelly of things, however.

 

I think what you're getting at is it's less commercialized.

 

Of my 10 favorite college football experiences, two of them are a Furman-Ga. Southern game I saw in Greenville a while back, and Steve McNair's last home game at Alcorn.
And the food at the various Alcorn tailgates was dazzling.

 

I liked it...but I'm an SEC fanboy loooser

 

Bravo, Slap

 

mmmmmmm, sweet tea

 

I gave up after the first section.

This was certainly not Wright's best work. I can see how die-hard SEC fans would eat it up, but this topic has been done so many times it was tough to appreciate.

Yea, I get it. People in the SEC like football, beer and fattening foods. But so do Big 12, Big 10 and Pac 10 fans. This topic isn't worth 25 national stories a year.

 

Read like a book proposal.