The Chess Board

Ole Bear would say, "It don't get no better than this!"

Who says that there needs to be a playoff in college football? The playoffs start this weekend homeboy! It’s the best regular season of any sport on the planet. Do you hear me in my Jim Mora voice, "What’s that? Ah — Playoffs? Don’t talk about — playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs?  What’s that Bart Scott? “Can’t Wait!” I've been bumpin' that Marvin Gaye all week bruh, "Let's Get It On!" You know I had to follow up with that T.I. and Jay-Z, "Bring Em Out!" because I'm ready for these boyz come out of the tunnel NOW!!!!!

Last year all of the talking heads were freaking out about the BCS imploding, like they always do. They were in an uproar about having too many undefeated teams left standing at the end of the season. Just two weeks before the regular season ended there were eight unbeatens and suddenly there was barely one! LSU was the last man standing in the big boy league at the end of the regular season. I'm not even going to mention the Houston Cougars that went on to get the brakes beat off of them in the Conference USA title game 49-28 by Southern Miss. I knew it would happen because it always works out.

 Any clown that thought that LSU and Alabama shouldn’t have played in the BCS title game doesn’t know the game of football at all. They were clearly the two best teams in the country and quite frankly, that's all we ever wanted to see. Both Stanford and Oklahoma State would have gotten buried against either of those teams bruh so get over it. All I ever want to see is #1 play #2 when it's all said and done and leave the bowls alone bruh! 

In order for you to be considered a REAL college football fan you have to understand that the game is bigger than just your team bruh. I always trip when I talk to people that call themselves college football fans that only watch their team play. That’s not a college football fan. That’s a fan of a particular school and that’s cool but you’re not a REAL fan. If you aren’t posted up on Saturday’s watching everybody play you’re false flagging pimpin’.  It’s a huge Chess board and the pieces are constantly moving. You can’t just focus on what your team is doing. You’ve got to know what everybody ranked ahead of you is doing and those that are ranked below you are doing and how their performance every week affects your team.

I don’t know about you but I can smell football season in the air bruh! There’s something about the crisp feel of it that gets me fired up and ready to go. If you’re anything like me you’re thinking about tailgating, singing fight songs and all of the game day traditions that go along with it.

I’m visualizing the Sooner Schooner running out of the tunnel in Norman because I’m a diehard Sooner fan for life. However, that doesn’t keep me from thinking about being on board with the Volunteer Navy singing Rocky Top or leaning back as "The Victors" win in the "Big House".  I’m trying to "Wake up the Echo's" with Touchdown Jesus and thinking about Bevo and the "Eyes of Texas!”  I love listening to Mike the Tiger roar way down in "Death Valley" and watching the Gator's chomp in the "Swamp!" I keep looking up for the "War Eagle" of Auburn and thinking about lining up "Between the Hedges" and running with the Dawgs or rolling with the Tide in Tuscaloosa. I also love watching the Trojan Horse strut in with the "Men of Troy" and seeing boyz riding high with Chief Osceola and Renegade at Doak-Campbell. It doesn’t get any better than that! I love all of the Game Day traditions not just those in Norman.  

Let me tell you homeboy, Labor Day Weekend is a national holiday for more than just celebrating our nation's work force!  They really need to just put slash College Football on the calendar right next to Labor Day because it’s worth an additional day off to celebrate it. I normally need it for traveling or just to prepare the BBQ.  So where ever you’re watching the games from this weekend make sure you get it in because you know that I will! Whatever your fight song is I know you’ll be singing that joint for the next couple of days! So from me to you, “Happy College Football Season!”  I would wish you luck but you may be ranked ahead of my Sooners at some point during course of the season so you’re on your own bruh! We can be cool when the season is over but right now I don’t even know your name bruh!!!!

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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