The fifth season in Louisiana, football season, kicks off this week with the big local high school jamboree Friday, and with LSU and UL opening their seasons on Saturday.
Then again for football fans, perhaps there are only two seasons — football season and pre-season.
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A friend from South Carolina loves to talk about football and sent me a list of differences in the way Southerners and Northerners approach their football.
Included in those differences:
• Getting Tickets
NORTH: Five days before the game you walk into the ticket office on campus.
SOUTH: Five months before the game, you walk into the ticket office on campus, make a large financial contribution and put your name on a waiting list for tickets.
• Women’s Accessories
NORTH: Chap Stick in back pocket and a $20 bill in front pocket.
SOUTH: Louis Vitton duffel with two lipsticks, waterproof mascara, and a fifth of bourbon. Money not necessary. That’s what date is for.
• Heroes
NORTH: Rudy Giuliani
SOUTH: Herschel Walker and Peyton Manning
• Parking
NORTH: An hour before the game, the University opens the campus for game parking.
SOUTH: RV’s sporting school flags begin arriving on Wednesday for the weekend festivities. The really faithful arrive on Tuesday.
• Game Day
NORTH: A few students party in the dorm and watch ESPN on TV.
SOUTH: Every student wakes up, has a beer for breakfast and rushes over to where ESPN is broadcasting “Game Day Live” to get on camera and wave to the idiots up north who wonder why “Game Day Live” is never broadcast from their campus.
There were a number of others. I’m not sure of the source, but it’s obvious this is from a Southerner’s perspective.
Then again, until Michigan proves it can beat Appalachian State, and until Ohio State beats an SEC team in a big game, I guess those in the South can talk some trash.
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At least one local wag is reporting that discount stores across Alabama have reportedly sold out of ammunition in recent weeks.
They say sources are reporting those stocking up on ammunition are saying that while the Russians may have invaded Georgia, they sure as heck ain’t gonna do it to Alabama.
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I’d written a couple of times recently about the unusual, but beautiful, Night Blooming Cereus. Richard Berzas stopped by the other day, showing off several photos of a most beautiful bloom he credits to wife, Judy, from a Night Blooming Cereus at their house.
Richard says the plant is also sometimes called, “Jesus in the cradle” related to an image you might find inside the bloom (I could kind of see it after he told me about it).
Richard says he and Judy have been enjoying these magnificent, one-night bloom shows for more than 30 years.
WILL CHAPMAN is publisher of The Daily Iberian.
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