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\nWith fall officially here, it means only one thing: its
\nfootball season! The temperatures have dropped, the pool is shut down and
\nwe’ve officially added jeans to our wardrobe for the year wear. The St. Louis Cardinals wrapped up their
\nseason on a high note, but it wasn’t enough to make it to the playoffs…which
\nmeans it’s time to retire their team flag and move in a new direction…hello, football
\nseason!<\/p>\n
If you’re south of the Mason-Dixon line you know good and well
\nthat high school football rules the roost. And of course, those games are
\non the local news. I cut my teeth in
\ntelevision as the annoying voice on the other end of the phone line badgering
\nfolks for scores so she could get a complete scoreboard into graphics for
\nKFVS’s Heartland Football Friday. Brett
\nhas spent countless Friday nights standing on a sideline waiting<\/s> praying for someone to score so he could race to the next
\ngame, then race to edit before pitching the hour long live show. So when football
\nseason kicked off this year, it was a first that we could finally enjoy from
\nthe luxury of our couch.<\/p>\n
In case you weren’t aware…college football is an institution in
\nthe South! Living in the heart of the SEC put us within spitting distance
\nof several schools known more for their athletic lineup than anything else.
\n Smack dab in the middle of Mississippi made us targets to pledge our
\nallegiance to either Mississippi State or Ole Miss. And the rivalry is a
\nbig thing down there…on more than once occasion, Brett was accused by
\nviewers of ‘favoring’ one school or another by showing a few seconds more of
\nhighlights in his WTVA sports newscast. No one ever seemed to catch on
\nthat Brett was from North Carolina by way of Arkansas. Since moving to
\nupstate New York, we haven’t lost our loyalty to my Missouri State Bears and
\nBrett’s East Carolina Pirates (ok, not real heavy contenders…but at least the Pirates made it to the Liberty Bowl last season) Up here, y’all don’t seem real interested in college football?<\/p>\n
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Brett was such a hard worker he never even noticed those <\/b><\/p>\n
Ole Miss Cheerleaders!<\/b><\/p>\n
Maybe Yankees aren’t too
\nsmitten with high school or college football, but they sure are crazy about
\nprofessional pigskin! We were shocked when we realized that the NFL has seven<\/b> <\/b>teams
\nin the New England area! There’s plenty of professional grid iron glory
\ngoing on around here! Of course, we’ll be sticking to our roots (well, Brett’s anyway) and are cheering this season for Carolina Panthers (hopefully
\nthey’ll win a game or two). My husband’s family are season ticket holders,
\nplus #34, running back DeAngelo Williams, is a from our neck of the
\nwoods. Williams hails from Wynne, Arkansas and Brett got to cover him
\nduring his college years at Memphis.<\/p>\n
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\nAs the Cardinals flag comes down and the Panthers
\nflag flies high (ok, about waist level) at the Garrett homestead, we have high
\nhopes for this year’s football season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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