If you’re down in Savannah, here’s your PSA.
So, easy one for today…do you celebrate? If so, what’re you eating and/or drinking?
Happy St. Patty’s Day. Behave and be safe, you scamps.
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Top of the Mornin’ To Ye
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Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Drowning Your Sorrows
I may say that this is the best headline in Tennessee Volunteers football history:
Both of Tennessee’s top-selling alcohol games were a loss to Oklahoma ($844k) and Georgia ($828k). I’d have to think much of the sales in the Georgia game were celebratory in nature, since Tennessee was handing it to us a good bit in the first quarter, but may have quickly turned to sorrow as soon as Georgia came back. If only they had opened up sales after the missed kick, it might have set a record for most alcohol sales anywhere for anything of all time.
Anyway, for today’s Roundtable, which causes you to hit the libations more – a great win, or a devastating loss? Personally, a bad loss is sobering and somber, so I don’t head for the bottle, but a great win – like the Rose Bowl or the National Championship game…whoa buddy, watch out.
So which way do you go in times of triumph and times of sorrow? Bonus…what’s your potent potable of choice when you do?
Discuss.
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Offseason Sporting
For today’s Roundtable, here’s something we can chat about…what’s your favorite sporting obsession when college football isn’t being played?
I’ll start:
I do watch some college stuff in between, to be sure, and I used to watch baseball until I couldn’t see the Braves anymore, but I do enjoy tuning in to Premier League Football. While I initially thought watching this was like watching paint dry, it wasn’t until I actually started to play soccer in college that I began to realize what a challenging and unique sport the game really is. Something, too, about an entire community coming together, chanting in unison, and, more importantly, no commercials for 45 consecutive minutes…and I eventually got hooked, slowly but surely.
How’s about you…do you have a second passion outside of college football? What is it and why?
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Field of Streams
One of the fonder childhood memories I had was having access to not just one but two Major League Baseball teams – the Braves and the Cubs – that I could watch to my heart’s content without paying a thin red dime. Many of you did to, regardless of where you’re from, hence the Braves being dubbed “America’s Team”. I think WGN also aired the White Sox but my boyhood innocence somehow thought the Cubs and the Braves were almost like brother teams to one another because they wore red, white, and blue, so I don’t think I got into the Sox.
Anyway, long gone are the days of the “superstation”. I also think back to Georgia football in the 90s and Jefferson Pilot sports. Somehow, I enjoyed watching games free from the corporate, Disney World flavor of broadcasting that accompanies these games nowadays. To be honest, I hadn’t watch a Braves game in a while because they were being carried by some group that didn’t air on any of the stations in our cable package, and, well, the team sucked just enough for me to not really care. Now, here we go again…
Just my humble opinion, but it seems like the organization is more interested in building their entertainment empire than they are in trying to field a winning team. If on Amazon, I have a subscription, but somehow I envision watching will come at a higher price for subscription.
Thanks, but I think I’ll pass.
Anyway, for today’s Roundtable, is it the network we watch on or is it the needless surrounding noise that accompanies game that is taking the luster off sports nowadays? I can’t hardly watch football without “let’s get back to the studio” with a cast of clowns, the Braves don’t exist on my viewing packages, and I haven’t had an interest in the NBA since Jordan hung it up. I will say I watched the Stadium Series in Tampa on Sunday and quite enjoyed it, but it wasn’t without the annoyances of “entertainment” between periods. If there is a good thing, like watching European Football (soccer), it’s that the action is relatively free of commercials and commentator bantering. I somewhat enjoyed it.
How about you? Are you less or more entertained with sports than you were when telecasts had a touch less “production value”?
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Marketing and Promotions
Check this out…brave the weather, and riches are your reward.
And two dollar beer? Hell, I’ll start walking there now.
Anyway, for today’s Roundtable…what’s the best fan promotion you’ve ever experienced at a game…or, what addition or nuance to Georgia football games have you enjoyed the most?
Discuss.
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: He’s Beck
So I posted earlier that Frazier was returning. Frazier later posted on his TikTok that it was never about the money.
If it wasn’t, then why wait to announce? Rumors swirl that he was looking for over a million, then others said he’s just achieved DGD status. I know that’s a designation we like to debate about around here, so I’ll ask this Roundtable question for today:
If it does turn out it was about the money, and Frazier develops a case of fumblitis again or has a subpar season, does he get shown the door like Beck did? Does haggling for more money make an athlete less of a DGD for taking care of his financials (and his family). Can’t say I fault the kid but the college football purists don’t always see it that way.
What’s your two cents about it?
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Agony of The Feet
In case you missed the FCS National Championship last night, you missed bizarro ball for the final five minutes of the game. Illinois State’s kicker had a game winner blocked, then an overtime extra point attempt blocked, allowing Montana State to take home the title.
Is missing a field goal the most executing way to lose a game? Did that make the loss to Ole Miss that much worse for us? While we’ve been able to laugh away Tennessee and tOSU on missed field goals, we have had a few special teams snafus cost us games.
Or is there another more excruciating way to lose a game? Discuss.
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: First Blush
For today’s Roundtable:
There’s been some good ones, for sure. To me, though, one of the all-time best that I can watch time and time again:
Some others that come to mind: 1997 Georgia-Florida, 2021 National Championship, 2022 Peach Bowl, and 2002 Georgia-Auburn.
How about you?
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Sweet Sixteen?
Okay, someone threw this out as a hypothetical (call it the Auburn Invitational, then):
General roundtable question for today: would this be a bettter solution to a CFP bracket? Notice there are no G5 teams there (let’s face it, if Tulane and JMU get waxed and Notre Dame has their way, the G5 will disappear). I’d be all for a G5 team taking the 16 spot over the Spoiled Children, but the rest looks, well, more entertaining than the current bracket.
What’s your thoughts? Personally I feel the current top 4 are the only teams who should be in the conversation right now instead of the rest of the island of misfit toys, but that’s my personal opinion.
Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: To SECCG, or Not to SECCG
So I posed this question yesterday in the Mumme Poll, and it’s a near split between the two scenarios:
- Go to the SECCG, win, and Get a First Round Bye in the CFP
- Avoid the SECCG, still Get a First Round Bye in the CFP
Based on last year’s results, it would seem that time off leaves a team rusty, or there’s no certainty that the off time would yield fewer injuries and better game planning. Each team that had a first round bye in the 2024 playoff lost their first game, and the eventual championship game featured two teams that had to play the full bracket…but they did avoid the conference championship games (albeit Notre Dame wouldn’t have one of those, would they?).
On the other hand, it was the first iteration of the “new normal” and last years’ results could be an anomaly.
What’s your choice? Why?