'Twas the Night Before Kickoff....

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(HT: O.S. of edsbs.com for the gem of a song)

Football is upon us. Like a slow molasses drip, or sitting in church quietly, or reading anything by Dan Brown - time is at a stand still and does not seem to pass.

Real football starts tomorrow.

If 2008 is anything like 2007, I fully expect to be able to drink gallons mescaline during the course of the season and still have it all make sense. Last season was bizarro football. It was opposite day. It was Bea Arthur posing for Playboy. The rule of the day was that there are no rules. As the Silver Surfer said whatever that forgettable movie (Mediocre Four?) was: "All that you know is at an end."

-An above average, but not spectacular Ohio State team makes it into the BCS Championship game.
-A two loss LSU team wins the SEC and the National Championship Game.
-No team was ranked #2 for more than 2 weeks.
-A 9-4 Florida team hoists the Heisman Trophy.
-Notre Dame loses to Navy en route to a 3 win season.
-Stanford beats USC
-The team that was voted #1 at the end of the season was he underdog for the National Championship game.
-Duke still sucks (hey, some things never change)
-Kansas is invited to, and wins a BCS game.
...and it all started with Appalachian State beating Michigan.

These are just the high profile examples of the season that was.

Tomorrow starts with the tempered dish of South Carolina vs NC State, or Baylor vs Wake Forrest, but it's real god damned football. And that means Ohio State is only a couple days away.

Here's to 2008, the Orange Bowl is 127 days away, but real god damned football starts tomorrow.