Here We Go Again
August 31st, 2007 by jeb
We’ve been avoiding this topic ever since we started making our sporadic contributions to this blog. But we’ll remain reticent no longer.
Despite our love of and frequent posts about the Other Football, our first love was and our true sporting love remains college football, specifically University of Kentucky Football and Southeastern Conference Football. No posts on the topic notwithstanding, our moniker can attest to that.
This is the most anticipated Kentucky Football season of our twenty six years. It’s the rarest of Kentucky seasons: one in which the expectations of the fan base are actually well grounded (well, most of them), one in which our starting quarterback is an All-American, one in which the Cats are actually expected to be a factor in the race for the SEC East title, the toughest division in all of college football.
Although these topics have received much attention from the local press, we concede, the No. 1 offseason topic for the Commonwealth’s journalists has been the fact that Kentucky and the University of Louisville will be playing in Week 3 and not Week 1 of this year’s season. And after a week in which the Commonwealth’s pundits directed yet another round of criticism toward the Cats, we can remain silent no longer.