This is the big one, Elizabeth!

Annually the longest post of the year takes place on this back porch on this calendar weekend with the speaktherights.com College Football Preview. I’ve sat back here for hours putting it all together.  There is a feeling of optimism in the anticipation of the upcoming season that makes those writing hours melt away swiftly.  Then the wait is on for the games to begin.  It is a nice dance.

I think the photo says it all.  College Football ain’t gonna fly I am afraid.  I will be shocked if it does. Should lightning strike and the games play on, I will be doing my weekly predictions.

I hope I am bad wrong.

No Egg Bowl?  No Oaken Bucket?  No Iron Bowl?  No Paul Bunyan’s Ax?

No USC-UCLA?  No MICH-OHIO STATE?  No Notre Dame-USC?  No third Saturday in October?

No having speaks with Aunt Barbara about Lane Kiffin and Mike Leach?  Folks in Mississippi have been waiting for this much fun.  I have too.  No going back and forth with Brother Tim about how the Tide needs to improve after they just beat someone 70 to 0.  No Hoosier optimism with Adam Disque.  No getting together with Adam and Evertts at Memorial Stadium for one game?  No going over to watch a game with my Dad and listening to him complain that the offense is holding on every down.  No getting down the road with my dear wife, Carrie, to see a game in Huntington.

In the big picture, I suppose I need to just hush my mouth and be thankful I can still sit here and care about football the way I do.  I know many folks out there are struggling a great deal more than I can comprehend.  That hurts.  Prayers to them and their families.

In case we don’t go down this college football prediction road again, know I have enjoyed it a great deal and that it is truly….

Speaking the rights!

Danny Johnson