Good Day Grover Pickers, Jimmy Buffet died. So, this week we continue an occasional series called “How Dead Musician’s Music Explains Football”. With just a guitar and his bare feet, the Gulf Coast’s great philosopher, the Auburn drop out, the leader of the Parrot Heads, and humble billionaire, puts one week of football in perspective. …
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Bonus Post: Noah’s Boys
Fashion is hard. I get it. But a basic fact of fashion is that you never want to get caught in public wearing the same outfit as someone else. Athletes have a much easier time with this than us regular folk. We have to text or ask, “Hey, what are you wearing?”. Athletes just go …
It’s the Hope That Thrills Us
The annual return of football season is the birth of hope. It’s like spring, when birds chirp, flowers bloom, and the verve a life renews after a miserable winter, but without allergies or golf. So… better.
Happy Ranking Day For All Vols Who Celebrate. Plus, Dreamland Sucks and Stanford Hates Fun.
Reasons Why Bama Should Play In The Citrus Bowl Ranked. Dumpy Southern Villages Ranked. Leading Auburn Head Coach Candidates Ranked. College Town Barbecue Ranked. Five Things To Do In Tampa Ranked.
The Science of Fear with Special Guest Dr. Blargen VonSchweinsleder, XII
Fear itself is afraid of Jacksonville.
The Volunteers Give, And The Commissioner Gives Back
One hundred thousand dollars isn’t even the hourly wage of A&M coach Jimbo Fisher, but it’s enough that if you could use someone else’s money to pay it, you should.
You Want Your Officials Tall, Fast and Sighted
Maybe YOU Don’t Suck: Mental Health Strategies in Modern Officiating
A Grover Picker Does Great, Plus Fat Elvis Biscuits, Hating Pickle Green Teams, And Was The Commissioner Incarcerated.
October 5, 2022 Good Day Grover Pickers, I don’t know what you heard, but The Commissioner’s absence the last several weeks was definitely NOT due to an incarceration on charges of impersonating an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant. I also continue to deny any involvement in the demise of the Queen or the McRib. I was not, …
Lazy, Because Football Players Do All The Work This Weekend
September 13, 2022 Good Day Grover Pickers, I don’t even know how to begin looking ahead to this week’s games. Two of the NFL’s best QBs face off Thursday night on Amazon Prime. Oklahoma and Nebraska renew the fabled rivalry just days after the Huskers shucked Scott Frost. Gameday is going to Boone, NC instead …
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Football and Biscuits
September 6, 2022 Good Day Grover Pickers, You are reading live from the Queen Street Playhouse in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Hey, Ya’ll! THE COMMISSIONER is here for an event to launch the second season of a PBS television series, How She Rolls, which he produces, directs, writes, and endlessly ponders. He’s joined tonight by …
