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I enjoy his writing style, and I guess I'm supposed to read one of his other books.

The only long work of Wolfe's I've read is The Right Stuff.  I enjoyed it immensely.

Wolf's book is starting to get interesting now.  I'm glad I stuck with it.  Half the book was about three unrelated individuals off doing whatever and now they are on a collision course.

The book contains a number of mentions of the Piedmont Driving Club, which is the old elite invitation only club up the street from me about half a block.  The name derives from the 1890s when men would "drive" their buggies in the park, and race them, on the same course I use for my jogging.

Apparently the city PTBs opened their doors to him and were not amused at the result so now he is persona non grata.  I think he did a pretty good job capturing the essentials of the city myself.

I'm going up to sit on the deck and read it some more.

I'm attack all fans of teams in the "Big Whatever" conference.  If you have Big in your name, your toast.

I'm after all from a directional conference ....

I also believe bowl games lost their prestige with the playoffs.   It has become just another game...

Yes, let's have the players vote. 
The outcome might surprise the old fogies obsessed with weather and Rust Belt pride.

You know what you are doing?  You are deflecting the issue, just like you accuse virtually everyone on the board of doing when discussing racial unrest.
Nobody's talking about Rust Belt pride.  Nobody's "blaming" anyone.
I'm making the reasonable point that southern teams (specifically, SEC teams) have a near-home-field advantage come bowl season.  Try attacking that idea instead of all the straw men you have created.

Exactly.  Here on this very board, many of you are pulling for your school to get into this bowl over that bowl PRECISELY due to the city it will be held in. 


And by the way, the Big 8 champion all those years was invited to the Orange Bowl, they didn't have to accept it.  Did OU or Nebraska, even once, get offered to play Miami in the Orange Bowl or FSU in the Orange Bowl and say, "nah, we're tired of doing that, we'll play somewhere more fair."????  No. 

And on this very board, I've repeatedly been told how the Rose Bowl is held in such high esteem, it's even above the national championship game, or at least rivals it.  But was there any clamoring to turn down the offer to play in Pasadena?  Or move the game to a more neutral site?  Puh-lease!


Bitching about the locations of bowls in warm-weather climates is an after-the-fact excuse losers give.  Period.

Deflection, deflection, deflection.
Try dealing with the actual issue--that SEC teams have a bit of a home-field-advantage come bowl season.
If you weren't an SEC fan, I suspect that this would be as clear as crystal to you.

What order do these steps go in?

Be a slave to tradition.

Romanticize the tradition.

Bitch about the tradition.



I'd really like to know.

1. Deflection.
2. Deflection.
3. Deflection.
4. Deflection.
Do SEC teams have a home-field-advantage during bowl season or do they not?  If not, please explain why not rather than attacking people for things that they have not said or done.