Sports/Movie/Music: FOOTBALL/FOOTBALL/FOOTBALL

IT MUST SUCK TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER

I write this with first hand knowledge of what it's like to be an Auburn Tiger. You see, I worked at beautiful Auburn University for 3 years. I was an integral part of the athletic program, working with the marching band and basketball pep bands for both men and women's games. But please people....can we ever get to a point where football is not the only thing that matters in life? I want to make this short - it's not really about football - it's about human relations. Take a minute and look up the name "Tommy Tuberville" on wikipedia and look at his career record and accolades as a major college football coach. But wait, I'm sorry....Tommy, was "paid to resign".....I guess that's different than being fired. Please write to me and explain how a person with this kind of record....a person that seems to run a clean and winning program can be fired. All I'm asking for is one or two sentence. Tell me why he got fired. Then go look up Eric Ramsey. He was a defensive player who brought down Auburn's football program in the early 90's because he secretly recorded coaches agreeing to pay players under the table. Eric's football coach Pat Dye was not fired. He was allowed to quietly step down. What the hell? This is a very confusing topic to me and one thing I will say....I'm looking forward to how much Auburn and Tennessee will both suck in football next year because they dismissed coaches who are at the top of their profession. Oh - by the way, the Auburn University football field is called "Pat Dye" field. WAAAAAAAAAAAAR EAGLE!!!!!

INVINCIBLE

If ya never get enough of Mark Wahlberg give him one more shot. Ok - it's a sports movie but it is a pretty cool story. It's about a regular guy - Vince Papale - good high school athlete but really didn't amount to much after that. Then suddenly walked on in a tryout with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and actually made the team. This movie is a great movie for adults and kids and shows what hard work and dedication can get you. Markey Mark really does a great job in the role and so if you want to just lay around a chill out with a non-stressful feel good story, this is a good one.

MUSIC and FOOTBALL

The Yale Princeton Football Game. Yup - that's it - American Composer Charles Ives. I be you guys out there are always thinking that I can't possibly make sports, movies and music connect in my blog. Well, if not for the Yale Princeton Football game, a musical composition by Charles Ives....this one may have gone down the toilet. Now, I'm not saying that this is the Ives piece to listen to. It's hard to find - probably been recorded about one time, and all in all is not his gift to the world of composition. But here is what I will tell you to listen to: The Songs of Charles Ives. My God people...this guy wrote some of the most advance arts songs of the early 20th century. They are full of advanced harmony....beautiful pianistic color and some extremely tuneful writing. He wrote many, many songs and ounce you've heard one of them YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THEM ALL. They are so amazingly different from one another I often wonder how it all came from one person. Charles Ives is the man....check out his songs, chamber music or symphonies. More on him in a future blog.

GRIPE OF THE DAY

Welcome to my new segment called "Gripe of the Day". Today I would like to gripe about the AT&T store down the street. Not only did you not have my new phone at 9 a.m. the other day like you said you would.....you're doors were not even opened until 9:15 even though your hours start at 9 a.m!!! CAN YOU PLEASE DO YOUR JOB PEOPLE? Please? Oh...maybe doing your job really doesn't matter. I guess we should ask Mr. Tuberville about that.