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Happy Homecoming, Tiger fans!

The happiest time of the happiest time of the year is upon us, as our beloved Tigers host the War Eagle Tigers from Auburn University on Saturday.  Kickoff is at 11:00 am, which I believe I’ve mentioned before is an awful time to start a football game and should be outlawed. Seriously, state legislature, if you can pass laws about ignoring NCAA rules and doing our own thing with NIL, someone please ban 11:00 am kickoff times.

I’ll be at the tailgate early, with a (very) brief walk over to the parade line up to see our various people. I walk by the parade before it starts, that’s my parade. It’s next level stuff. With that kind of thought leadership, Momentum Motivation has a bunch of bagels and pastries coming from B&B Bagel, because nothing says motivation like carbs. We’ll have the regular breakfast drinks, the regular non-breakfast drinks, and some coffee. Bring your own inspirational mug should you choose.

The good Tigers shall continue their undefeated (at home) season, improving to 6-1 on the year, inching back toward a Top 10 ranking, and remaining in the playoff conversation. Auburn seems to be a weird team, befitting a weird place calling itself “The Plain.” Their town is famous for lemonade and toilet paper, which are both fine things, but typically only bragged upon during disasters. Their fans are happy to scream “War Eagle” at you, often times from within punching distance. In general, it’s fine, they’re fine, we shall win.

Someone once told me why “War Eagle,” and it was so uninteresting I forgot. I looked it up just now, and in fact there are four different uninteresting origin stories, only one of which involves an eagle. The others are about a dude (on the other team) named Bald Eagle, buzzards, and something falling off of a hat.  Anyway, everyone knows the old saying, if you have four origin stories, you don’t have any. Speaking of made up birds, screw ku.

Written by Jason Becking

October 17th, 2024 at 10:23 am