Rob Suggs, aka Saxondawg, is a best selling author with over 50 books to his credit. He is the soul of the DawgVent, where he can often be found pontificating and generally making life more pleasant for his fellow Dawg fans. I have asked Rob to give us a weekly column and if time allows, he will do so. - Radi Nabulsi
'Twas the night before football, and all that. Whatever. Rewrite the thing yourself, subbing football stuff for visions of sugarplums and all that rot. Knock yourself out.
See, last season didn't leave me with any poetry in my soul, you dig me? We couldn't score on Georgia friggin' Southern. UGA-Missouri was an epic battle of the big toes of scrawny kickers. Ragweed sprouted in the end zone. The zero on the home side of the scoreboard got stuck there.
No offense, but it was that kind of season: um, no offense. So I tried to enter 2016 with realistic expectations. A first down here or there would be nice.
So Ma in her kerchief And I in my UGA cap, had just settled down by the TV--oh, snap. I said I wasn't going to do that. Anyway, we turned on the game and Georgia elected to receive. Say WHAT? We actually wanted our offense on the field? Fire Kirby!
Then, on the first play, we ripped off a really nice run, and then another one. With a lumbering tailback so lively and quick, we knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
Oops. Sorry. It's just that already this little voice in my ear, a little tiny Herschel, or at least one of his personalities, whispering, "We're back to Sinkwich! No more Stink-wich!" Then, of course, Lambert took a couple of sacks. Yep. Okay, it was nice while it lasted. But the defense held, we got the ball back, and Lambert hit a really nice pass. And as I drew in my head, and was turning around, o'er the goalline St. Nicholas came with a bound.
"A touchdown!" I exclaimed. "I remember these! You get six points, right?" And Tiny Herschel replied, "Yep. But guess what? Sometimes you even get two or three or four of these touchdowns in one game."
