Unless you are a fan of flag football, Saturday's slugfest in Tuscaloosa lived up to the hype as the Game of the Century. So that means people who follow Conference USA and similar non-SEC conferences either thought the game was boring or they came away with the opinion that neither Bama nor LSU have offenses worth a  hoot.

This is crazy.  

I've never seen this kind of hype, but the SEC has never seen this kind of #1 vs. #2 in regular season.  Ever.  The buzz is everywhere, the hype is ratcheting up each day exponentially like the Richter Scale.  So what more can little ole me say about the game than what you can read and see on all of the regular media and the Internet?  

Plenty! There are two "inconvenient truths" that few have brought up in all of this hype, and here they are:

Every college has its football traditions, and West Virginia has the claim to fame for couch burning. Maybe I should say it’s their claim to flame.  No kidding, when you look up “couch burning” in the Urban Dictionary, WVU is in the definition. Supposedly it started with frat boys setting fire to trash dumpsters after big wins, but that was not sparktacular enough.  An unknown group of Country Rhodes Scholars, intoxicated with victory and moonshine, had a real spark of hillbilly genius and dragged an old couch into the middle of the road.  Finally, they had a tradition to call their own.  And created a grassroots furniture recycling program. The Salvation Army Thrift store there is not happy.

Mike A. Tiger here.  Been busy prowling the jungle and mending from a nasty case of carpel paw syndrome. So I'm back for now and my blogs will be briefer than the past because Mrs. A. Tiger wants me to spend more time cleaning my cage.  And because I figger if I make them half as long I'll get half the complaints.

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