Shot:
Chaser:
It’s been an interesting few months, you scamps. From off-season predictions to beers on the walls to Shakespearean prose, keeping us all together and entertained has been a unique labor of love. It’s nice to see your handles and see your comments each day. We hit another milestone this week, eclipsing 250,000 views. Thank you to all of you for joining us in this ride, and here’s a little musical palate cleanser to greet the pre-Saturday start to a long and football-filled weekend.
I’ll be enjoying the game from section HDTV, but if you’re at the game, make a little noise for the rest of us.
It’s almost time to tee it up, and I look forward to bitching and celebrating with you all come Saturday in the comments section. – JP
Almost as much red in the MBS photo as in the ND picture.
Gives the tv illusion of more peeps in case it’s not a sell out…GO DAWGS!!
That’s one of the Falcons’ problems, they’ll get sell outs. It’s just fans of the opponent. That place will be packed full of Steelers fans week 1, and plenty of saints fans when they come to town, too.
One and a wakeup!
Thanks for all that you’ve done, JP. I’m saving a longer list about this place for later tonight.
Thanks so much to you, Otis, and all the contributors. My Dawg life just wouldn’t be the same without this place.
Finally, it’s here: FOOTBALL EVE!!!!
Looking forward to spending the season with you scamps. Thanks to Bluto (DGD may he RIP) for starting it, and for you gents for keeping it going.
“FOOTBALL EVE”…it’s got a Friday night sumthin’, sumthin’ I can drink to …GO DAWGS!!
Just making sure i have this right… we will go 4-0 in MBS this year.. Got it.
RIP Senator and Ranger Russ
You guys are missed.
Dawgs are going to take care of business
just for you guys.
DGDs
Did not know about Ranger, really hate to hear it! Going to miss his comments!
likewise,
R.I.P. soldier ..
Bluto, RR are on overwatch.
I should have posted this this morning but hopefully it’s still seen. I’ve been thinking about posting this comment since those cold days back in March when so many things seemed in doubt. Would football season ever return and even if it did finally come back around would things even be recognizable? Would anything be the same?
So much has happened in a short span of time. Kirby brought us back to where we had all dreamed of returning. As Chris Fowler said, “Demons be gone!” All the years of watching everybody else do it, all the “1980!” jokes we had to endure from everybody up to and including Tek fans. Seriously is there anything worse? I think most of us would still be warm from the glorious joy that set in when Kelee crossed the goal line. But Kirby was just getting started. We got an undefeated season as a follow up and a second NC in as many years. What a time to be a dawg.
But in the midst of such a wonderful time tragedy struck. We lost Devin. We lost Chandler. A slime ball “journalist” seemed to be enjoying our pain and the controversy surrounding it. We got another fine football season on a quest for a three peat. But at on our favorite corner of the blogosphere, our little home where to borrow from the Cheers theme song everybody knew our names, it became evident something was wrong. The great Senator Blutarsky’s posts had become sporadic after years of consistency that I for one had taken for granted. Then they became downright rare. I feared the worst. Then, on a day I’ll never forget, after a long silence the family confirmed my worst fears. The Senator was gone.
Like all of you I was struck by sadness but also wonder at feeling such loss over someone I never met. But just as I began to process our loss, I thought, “Where do we go from here? None of us will ever met up and talk about the Dawgs again.” I read the comments in the final post at GTP just trying to enjoy a few more days of having this bunch. But just as all good things have to come to an end, new beginnings are possible. In those dark days, Otis Day decided there were as no reason for us to lose each other after losing the Senator and he created a place for us to go. A new home. Just as things were getting started here, tragedy struck again. We lost the incomparable Ranger Russ. Just as I did with the Senator I felt an enormous loss. And it made me determined to do all I could to help our new home feel more like a home.
As I type this here in one of my favorite places here in the glorious Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains, sitting on the banks of the Coosawattee River on the eve of football season, what I feel is gratitude. Overwhelming thanks for the Senator and all that he did. For the great Ranger Russ (FTMF!), and for Otis, JP, and all of the Knights for keeping us together and doing such a fine job even in those dark days back in the early spring when any t would have understood if y’all had decided it wasn’t going to work. Y’all are doing the Lord’s work and this blog gets better and better. JP told me early on when I commented on one of his posts, he felt the Senator’s spirit was here. So do I. And thanks to all my fellow commenters. Glory, glory, Go Dawgs!, and FTMF! I typed this from the hip and didn’t check for typos so I apologize if it reads like a drunken bot.
Great tribute to start the season. GO DAWGS! and Go GTP Refugees!