[T]here are people who actually dislike football and openly criticize many of its institutions.
A columnist in the University of Tennessee newspaper (Tennessee! Athletics! A blog like this one couldn’t survive without UT athletics!) shares some of his shock and awe at the presence of football haters (He doesn’t really mean football haters. He means people who don’t like or who don’t care about the football program at UT.) on his campus.
People who mainline booze up their ass and then hold surrealistic press conferences about it – now that’s nothing to write home about at UT; but people who fail to come out for the games… Are you fucking kidding me? Actually??
Tennessee’s athletic department, along with most other large football schools in America, is historically very profitable. [Yes, the lad believes most large football schools are profitable. I mean, look no further than the king of large football schools, the University of Texas.]
January 12th, 2015 at 11:31AM
The young man is a Classics major, according to his byline. UD was kind not to go SOS on him.
January 12th, 2015 at 12:51PM
Polish Peter: Yes. I did a double take when I saw Classics.
January 12th, 2015 at 10:39PM
But Euripides and Sophocles both were famous butt chuggers, at least in their time. They couldn’t possibly compare to this fine young man and his bespectacled, dignified brothers. Aeschylus, on the other hand, didn’t go in for butt chugging. So maybe our esteemed gentleman is an Aeschylus man and prefers his libations in other ways.