Thursday, September 2, 2010

Kickoff!

The 2010 college football season begins tonight with its annual cupcake bake off across the land. Perennial powers USC and Ohio State ease into the season with a pair of warm up games against Hawaii and Marshall respectively. USC, playing at Hawaii, is on vacation--a long one; they can't go bowling this year because they cheated so much over the past decade. They will play nasty tonight and beat up the Rainbows--er, Warriors.

Ohio State's Terrelle Pryor is a big quarterback and fine runner; I'm still not convinced he's a good passer, though. Marshall won't beat tOSU, however. A yawner in more ways than one. OSU's Jim Tressel is football's most conservative game planner. He always dresses in a sweater vest, too, a sure sign.

The best game of the night features Utah at home against Dion Lewis and 15th ranked Pittsburgh. Lewis is a supersoph running back like Oregon's LaMichael James and fun to watch. This game ought to be competitive, a chance to see how Utah shakes out as it prepares to jump to the PAC 12 (with Colorado) next year.

I won't be climbing any mountains tonight, or running any marathons, or even dancing the jig at the local dance hall.

I'll be getting my exercise on the sofa--a beer in one hand and a club sandwich in the other.

Life is good, I say.

TS

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