...with a bullet!

Thought I'd update everyone (4 people) on my thoughts with a series of bullet points.

• A lot of Bama fans are gaining a lot of confidence that it is "our year" this time and that we're a better team than Florida. So far, it looks like they are right, but there are two things that are going against us right now: 1) I hear that this team has a tendency to "lose its focus" sometimes which could result in an upset loss, and 2) it looks like we just lost a who plays our most crucial defensive position for the year in LB Dont'a Hightower. On the other hand, Florida ain't exactly looking invincible and the teams that were supposed to give us trouble aren't looking that good either. Bottom line: we still don't know, but it's nice to be considered a contender for the national championship and not be frightened by that expectation.
• Some may say in my previous post I was a little harsh with my take on the AU football team. Not so. They will open 4-0, yes. But their toughest game was against either Mississippi St who will be known as "mid-90s Vandy" by me for the next 2 years, or West Virginia who has been paying for the worst and laziest coaching hire in college football since...Gene Chizik. I won't back down from my estimation that Auburn will have a terrible year. Although...
• LSU, Ole Miss, and Arkansas are worse than expected. LSU, not surprisingly is doing "Les" with more, Ole Miss is right on the H.D. Nutt schedule for crushing preseason expectation (in a negative way), and Arkansas received more hype for losing a game - against UGA - than Notre Dame did for losing to USC a few years back. If Alabama loses to any of those teams it will be a stunning disappointment (especially considering we've already beaten one of them).
• I hope that UK does not injure our QB the way they did Tebow. It was a clean play, but if someone hit the wispy-by-comparison McElroy that way, he may cease breathing.
• We're ranked 3rd nationally and our fans feel like the team is underrated. The feeling of mediocrity from a few years back is not so far away that I don't appreciate where we are as a program. And yet, I agree that we have looked the best of any team in the country so far. The lesson as always: rankings are meaningless until your team gets screwed by them at the end of the year (insert your own dig at 2004 Auburn here).

Enough bullets, we'll switch gears from college football to things that should be mentioned.

You should watch the show Glee. The cheerleading coach carries the show.

When Kanye grabbed the microphone, Dana went all mother hen and got so mad that I had to excuse her from the room to calm down. She later cried when Beyonce called Taylor back on the stage to give her speech.

Jon Hamm (Don Draper) hangs out with Bill Simmons on Sundays and watches pro football at Jimmy Kimmel's house...I continually wonder what it would be like to get to sit in with them one Sunday.

I watched all of the Monday Night Football game and they were referring to Peyton Manning as "The Sherriff." Never has a nickname seemed so forced since a guy from my high school who played quarterback began telling people to call him "Heisman."

...But I think the most under used sports nickname is "The Professor." You could call any player who succeeds on his smarts rather than athletic ability this. Example: Greg McElroy. Or you could sarcastically call a stupid player "The Professor." Example: Shaq. I'm sure there are better examples, so you should leave them in the comments.

Dana's birthday is this week...she turns twenty-AACCHHKKKKKKKKAAKAKKKK....sorry Dana choked me with one of my sweat socks.

We'll see some of you soon.