It is winter in Australia which means that it is football season it Australia. And by football, I don’t mean steroid stuffed giants in full body armor standing around for three plus hours, nor overpaid Brazilians kicking a round ball around for an hour and a half in the quest for a nil-nil draw. No, [...]
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I was living in a devil town
I’m a fair way behind the pop cultural curve these days, particularly when it come to television. TV in Oz is, well, just very bad. It consists mostly of reality shows and last season’s American dramas and sit coms or – worse – Australian interpretations of last season’s American dramas and sit coms. So I [...]
Deep South ‘Smack’ Talk: The Southern Gentlemen Edition
I doubt that anyone who knows anything about college football would have predicted that this years manifestation of The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry would be relegated to an early start on regional television. When Georgia and Auburn square up in mid-November, as they have for virtually every year since 1898, it’s typically a clash of [...]
Deep South Smack Talk: The good Lord’s earth beneath the feet
Well, Jamie called it in the heat of Florida Hate Week – Georgia’s year of self loathing has begun. But there is still work to be done, still games to be played. This weekend the Dawgs have to head up to Lexington or Louisville or some-damn-where in Kentucky for a date with the feisty, fiery [...]
Deep South Smack Talk: Like a paper tiger in the sun
Well, I’ve got talk for this weeks matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and LSU Tigers, but I struggled to get the smack. I tried to find an LSU fan willing to stand up for their team this week ahead of their matchup with the Dawgs. I approached more than a couple of bloggers who came [...]
Deep South Smack Talk: A dish best served cold
Despite being members of the same division of the same conference, Vanderbilt is not really a rival of Georgia. This is because, as the SEC’s whipping post, Vandy is typically lurking around the bottom of the conference standings. Georgia usually looks forward to the Vanderbilt game as a mid-season break. They’re often the homecoming victim [...]
Deep South Smack Talk: The Expat Feud Revisited
10 Oct 2008 at 10:18
A Free Man
Australia, Boy Z, Britain, Football, Georgia, Georgia Bulldogs, expatica, parenting
Deep South Smack Talk continues this week as the hated Tennessee Volunteers roll out of the hills of east Tennessee and into an almost certain ass kicking at the hands of my beloved Georgia Bulldogs. Those of you who have been reading A Free Man for a while may remember the humiliation visited upon my [...]
With a sawed-off .410 on my lap
Welcome to the Midwest edition of Deep South Smack Talk. The Dawgs are, thankfully, off this week. But looking westward to my graduate alma mater, there’s a big game brewing in Lincoln. Undefeated and fourth ranked Missouri is headed into a tricky match up with the 3-1 Nebraska Cornholers. Cornhuskers, sorry, I always get that [...]
Your cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch
Welcome to a new feature here on A Free Man: Deep South Smack Talk
With the SEC Football season moving in to full swing this week, I thought I would give the enemies, er opponents, of my beloved Georgia Bulldogs an opportunity to sing their team’s praises before the Dawgs take them apart. It’s just good [...]
I guess all this history is just a mystery to me
19 Sep 2008 at 16:31
A Free Man
Australia, Football, Georgia, Georgia Bulldogs, Missouri, Music, expatica, link love
(For those of you who, inexplicably, couldn’t give a toss about college football, scroll down for some non-sports related fun and public humiliation. )
Lot of controversy on A Free Man lately, so I’ve decided to ease into something we can all agree as the weekend nears – the supremacy of my almae matres’ football teams*. Both [...]
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