The Other Football Starts

We all agree that all of us here at FGOC love soccer. We are all going to the World Cup in South Africa next year to cheer for our favourite teams.

But, since we’ve established that despite most of us living overseas and adopting the world game, we’ve also established two other things.

We’re Americans.

And…

We’re Assholes.

So, I bring you the first weekend of College Football season in all its glory.

Last year, I lived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and saw very, very little college football, but that will change now that I’m back in Melbourne with a (somewhat) proper Internet connection and Foxtel cable that beams college football games to my little home in Moonee Ponds.

Now, despite me spending four years at the stellar institution of higher learning called Southern Methodist University, my blood runs Razorback Red. You can take the boy out of Arkansas, but you can’t take the Arkansas out of the boy.

The other three guys from FGOC went to some place called Texas A&M University – a former all-boys military school in BFE East Texas.

These two football teams play in exactly one month to renew a rivalry that’s been dormant since 1991 – my first year at that football powerhouse SMU. Plus, the game is at the crappy new JerryDome in Hoover’s hometown of Arlington, Texas.

I’d like to put out there an offer that the four of us try to make the game a little more interesting with a little wager – because both of our teams suck this year and have no hope of playing post-season football. Maybe having to sing the other team’s fight song at a South Africa bar in 2010? Extol the virtues of the winning team throughout the college football season on the blog?

Interested to hear other ideas – and GO HOGS!