In the era of the BCS, football bowl season lasts through the beginning of January. Louisville and Florida face off in the Allstate Sugar Bowl in the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The last time I was in New Orleans my friend Leigh had invited me down for the Final Four last year. He said we had a great hotel close to the French Quarter. It was close to the French Quarter. I walked down to the Quarter for the Final Four festivities. The hotel itself was the former orphanage for infants in the Orleans Parish. It was said to be haunted. There was a shooting just prior to my arrival and the police were only called once while I was there to settle an argument between the hotel staff and some potential customers. I won't bore you with a detailed description of the physical condition of the room, but you can imagine it. On the bright side, I did shake hands with Kenny Smith in the Harrah's Casino. (The Jet - awesome!)
Louisville is a two loss team that won the Big East by coming back against Rutgers, thus earning their way to the BCS. Florida is a one lost team that features one Will Muschamp as their head coach. Muschamp was the former Texas defensive coordinator and was the supposed "Head Coach in Waiting." We still have Mack Brown. (We played in the Alamo Bowl and have lost to our rival in blow outs... never mind.) Muschamp is a defensive coach and the Gators play defense. They have a strong running game, too. Louisville passes. They have a stud QB who played hurt against the Scarlet Knights off the bench and passed the Cardinals to the Sugar Bowl. Florida is a 14 point favorite. Florida is SEC. The Gators should win.
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Here we sit watching the Sugar Bowl, which is 14-0 in favor of Louisville at this point. At least these two teams don't both wear red and white. I had a hard time yesterday with all that red/white on the field in at least 2 of the games... I think when they wear red they should have to be ALL RED, helmet to shoes and the opposition should have to be ALL WHITE from helmet to shoes. That way I could at least tell who was who on any given play. Florida's uniforms are so garish -- but at least I can tell who they are....and there they go, on the move!
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