SEC and the NY Yankees

Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, Don Larsen of Casey Stengel’s New York Yankees pitched a perfect no-hitter against the Brooklyn Dodgers. In Gainesville, where I was a senior at the University of Florida, horns started honking and people yelling the instant the game was over. Maybe some folks remember. You listened to the games on the radio, and America was not football but Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet. The all-time classic 1957 Chevy had just hit the showroom, and everybody was saying the Yankees were ruining major league baseball. 

Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Read all about it! Alabama Crimson Tide opens 2012 - 2013 season 41-14 against Blue and closes 42-14 against Green. There was a lot of green on the screen last night, but Notre Dame’s catastrophe began when they won the opening toss and made the disastrous psychological mistake of electing to kick off against the Tide.

When at half time it was 28-0, many remotes went “click,” the folks who had paid $200,000 for a box went home, and Bubba dozed off and didn't wake up until nature called at three o'clock in the morning. Linda watched until the Irish scored because she does not like a complete skunking.

Seeing that football has eclipsed baseball, it's time to move the World Series to NCAAF and go best four out of seven. 

In spite of it all, ND Middle School looked a halibut lot better than the Gators in New Orleans last week, and the best bowl game of the season was incontestably South Carolina v. Michigan.

Saban has earned his Houndstooth Hat.

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UFla '57

UMich '63