The last time UNC FB “dominated” a good team Monica Lewinsky was an unknown chubbette and The Torbush Era began at UNC (’98 Gator Bowl). …. Under a leaky October sky, 45,000 hardy Kenanites hopped back aboard The Butch Bandwagon for a trip to Boise and beyond …. And we speak of fans, coordinators and zebras.
…. Baseball has always been “my sport” …. It’s the one at which I was less un-skilled as a youth and my choice for general spectatoring. Yes, I do love my Fall Color & Pageantry gridfests but for this American my favorite past time is still Baseball. So, who are all these fuzzy-cheeked whozits playing in October? ….. and BobLee has a Butch & Jimma Update if anyone is interested.
…. Heels scald the do…. “Where was Moses when the lights went out?” was a ditty that Mamma used to recite to little BobLee. Neither Mamma nor you would ever guess “where BobLee was when the lights went out” among Kenan’s fabled pines. It involves Napa Valley, cocoanut shrimp, huggin’ the Chancellor’s wife and Sarah Palin. …. BUT there were no cheerleaders in the toilet stall.
…. Al Davis is a tyrannical ego-manical raving lunatic! That glowing tribute could have been written any time over the past 40 years, long before Lane Kiffin was even born. Guess what? I crossed paths with Darth Davis and his little henchman Al LoCasale (aka The Mad Dwarf) back in the day. BobLee on “guys who own sports teams”. ….. and “Lay It Down Ziggy” ….
…. Remember that Big Journalism shindig I was at a few weeks ago? …. BobLee has some thoughts from that as STOP THE PRESSES finally happens. We have a heckuva Week Five amid The Color & Pageantry. Another major NC-based bidness goes by-by. …. Steve Bizell and a McQueen & Mary Updates.
…. It was bad enough dealing with psychos, methheads, and peeping toms; now Steve Bizzell has “the Alphabet Agitators” in his grill Yes, this is THE STORY you all knew BobLee would HAVE to discuss. Our annual rant on Zebra Rage generated the usual backwash …. More downsizing among the local nabobs.
…. One of the unique joys of sports is that unfetted exuberance of unfounded and unrealistic Great Expectation. Each early season every partisan dreams the dreams of innocent naïveté Alas, for every Tampa Bay Rays fan (of which there are still only a pitiful few!) there were 10,000s of ECU and UNC fans today. …. Chuck Dickens’ Pip never dreamed it was Magwitch. UNCers, of course, BLAMED THE %$&^# REFEREES as is their custom.
…. Long-suffering Kenanites are hearing BCS melodies after their BIGGEST W since Connor Barth had a haircut. Wuffs welcome Skip’s Boyz to the friendly confines of The Carter. Deacs go scalp-hunting in Tally. Devils welcome the hapless Hoos ….. and the NCAA wants to “de-color” College Football.
…. We’ve covered some lulus here over the years but not too many have drawn the reader interest of the current Mary Easley Mess. There is more to this scandal than has been reported in “the mainstream”. For those of you not in NC, this has sinister elements that could happen in your backyard too. Friends to the Right of me – Friends to the Left of me …. Volleyed & Thundered.
…. The first BLSays since transferring the nuclear stockpile over to Platinum Pals …. BobLee visits Rose Bowl East searching for column fodder and sees a darn fine football game …. In G-Vegas, BCS Fever has hit Pitt County like a Cat 5 Hurricane. …. In the old coaches section of Heaven, Clarence Stasavich, Wally Wade and Peahead Walker are drooling their oatmeal and laffin’ their butts off ….
…. Mizzus and I were invited to a dinner party recently. I rank such ordeals right in there with root canals and visits to the DMV and to “the cable company”. “Can’t I stay home and shoot myself in the eyes with a staple gun?” I entreated to no avail. I’m a darn fine “hang out with friends” kinda guy but I never claimed to be a “people person”. These days I’m REALLY not “a people person”. I made a D in inane chit-chat (and I had a copy of the final!).
….. After “Weak One” of ACC Football, Little Johnny Swofford has ordered the ACC media machine to “push Field Hockey” this Fall. Smart move Johnny. Two thoughts from Kenan Stadium (1) Why did Cocoa Puff cause that thunderstorm? …. (2) Sarah Palin coulda fixed that stoopid Jumbotron with her Leatherman tool. And more incredible insights from “amid the towering pines”..
… I’m duty bound to report on the Mile High Mardi Gras going on in Denver this week and obligated to do so in an unpredictable fashion …. I don’t mind agitating folks but I don’t want to be boring if I can help it. …. Somewhat related, I was invited to a fancy corporate shindig this week …. I had never met a single person there before, but actually I have met every one of’em many many times.
BobLee cuts thru the yadda yadda from the street corner pundits and fuzzy-cheeked faux-experts to bring you all you need to know about ACC FB ’08. It’s late August. Dreams of bowl glory in December are as numerous as Obama yard signs in Carrboro. Alas, reality WILL bite. Disgruntled loons will form firecoach___.com websites as “sleeping giants” snooze. Who will be this year’s Missouri and Kansas? …. Read More McDuff. Read More.
….. Vistas, chipmunks and pork belly to die for best characterize our recent Blue Ridge Getaway to Blowing Rock. …. To those of us born during Truman’s Administration, birthdays need to be more than just more presents to be appreciated….. Gideon Ridge Inn was the place. Me and Mizzus were the only guests with all our original knees and hips and yes….. It was a very fine time. UPDATED !!