'Cause it's fun to say "Birmingham"

I think it is, anyway.  It sounds rather dignified, "Birmingham" as it rolls off the tongue.  In the world of college bowl games, espousing dignity may be the best this game can strive for. 

The combatants are the University of Pittsburgh and Southern Methodist University.  The mention of either conjures up no image of anything much, these days.  Pitt was coached by Wanny, then he left last year, leaving his team to go to this very same bowl game without him, at which very same bowl game they did prevail. 

Wanny's replacement, some guy whose name escapes me at the moment (the guy is Todd Graham, I looked it up), has "pulled a Wanny" and left the Pitt boys without their head coach for the second consecutive year, and for their second consecutive appearance in the fine BBVA or something Compass Bowl in this dignified sounding southern burg of Birmingham.

This is SMU's Gerald Ford Stadium, not the site of
today's game in Birmingham, which will be played
at Dignified Stadium (not really, I'm just too lazy
to look up the name of the stadium).  Gerald Ford,
the individual after whom this stadium is named,
was NOT the President of the U.S. of A!!!
GOTCHA! 
This is a different Gerald Ford (haha), a lad
who made a couple bales of money in his career
and decided to fork over a chunk to SMU to
build this nifty little playpen.  I've pictured it
here because I like new stadiums, and this one,
at 32,000 seats, appears to be pretty much a
perfect place to June Jones' teams before he
packs up the old carpet bag and shuffles off
to his next duty station.

The opponent for this afternoon's match up is Southern Methodist University, coached by good old June Jones, he being formerly the headmaster of the football program at the University of Hawaii, as well as the former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, and for a short time, the big guy for the San Diego Chargers.  I also learned that June Jones was a college quarterback, and true to his itinerant nature, he performed for no less than three schools : Oregon, Hawaii and Portland State.  Coach Jones was recently a candidate, along with Todd Graham, the chap whose name I had to look up,  for the coaching job that was eventually bequeathed to the now former coach of Pittsburgh.  The job for which they vied was at Arizona State, home of the Sun Devils, boo-yah.

So, after a short study period on this game, I became highly agitated that I was facing yet another bet in a series of bowl games at which I have displayed the success and accuracy rate of a chimp flinging shit at the zoo crowed, and was thus cowed by the realization that I'm not having fun doing this and my performance record is a very strong indication that neither am I competent in this area.   Doing what any rational man would do, given a like set of circumstances, I made another wager.

So there.
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