One E Gordon Gee has stepped into the pointless debate over who is and isn't worthy of playing for the pointless BCS Title. Gee, president of TOSU, said that Boise and TCU have no right to play for the championship. I have no interest in exploring the validity of his argument. The whole system and the debate about the system are both silly. Gee is certainly entitled to his opinion. Blah, blah, blah. The interesting thing about this story for me is that I have met Gordy Gee. Gordy was president of TOSU when I went to TOSU. He moved on to Brown and Vanderbilt after that, but came back to TOSU for some reason several years ago. The key thing about Gee that is going unmentioned in this media maelstrom is that Gordy Gee is a Mormon. Yes, he wears the sacred undergarments. When I finished going to college, they threw this thing where all the students who have finished at that time get together in St John Arena wearing these robes and silly hats. Mr Gee, in his capacity as president of the university, was there to shake hands with the new graduates just after they were given their worthless diplomas. I had never met a Mormon before. And I don't think I've ever met one since. Anyway, what I did after getting my 2 grossly undeserved degrees was this: I walked toward Gordy Gee, shook his hand and said this, and I'm guessing he might remember this even 15 years later, "This is the first time I've ever shaken hands with a member of a cult." I walked away, down off the platform deal giggling. It was like 11 in the morning. It was Friday March 17, 1995. I was hungover because the night before was night one of the NCAA basketball tourney. But I managed a chuckle nonetheless. So remember, Gordy Gee is nothing but a Mormon. You can't take anything he says seriously.
Right after the graduation exercises had concluded I bolted out of the arena and walked the 7 minutes over to BW3 at Woodfruff and High. I got there just in time. Why? Because tip-off for day 2 of the NCAA basketball tourney was quickly approaching. That's why. I believe the Cuse was playing that afternoon. My man Lawrence Moten.
One other thing about that ridiculous graduation deal is that they printed up this program for the occasion with the names and hometowns of each freshly-minted, soon to be jobless, graduate. When I was filling the form out several weeks earlier, I thought to myself - "Self, why put your real hometown? Everyone will put Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, Akron, Newark, Marion, other hick towns all over the state, etc." So what I did, after thinking for a moment, is wrote Sussex, England. They printed it that way too. I got a kick out of that when I saw the program. I've never been to England in my life. They wouldn't let me in anyway - what with parole agreements and all. That, and the fact that if I went overseas - would have international incident written all over it.
Going back to the controversy over the BCS and should there be a playoff, etc. I get asked pretty often about my opinion on this at sports bars around town. And I always have the same answer: "I could care less about the BCS system or a playoff or whatever. Just tell me who is playing and what the point spread is. That's all that matters." And it is all that matters.
Looks like Thanksgiving is upon us once again. I'm sitting the same place I was last year at this time. Blogging just the same as well. If anyone has any leftovers from dinner (leftovers that are good anyway) today, feel free to pass them along to me. I haven't had a real Thanksgiving meal in years and years. I mainly miss the stuffing.
If you wanna read a longer post where I reminisce about Thanksgivings past, go back to the one 2 years ago called The Thanks Of The Giving (there's a picture of Donna Reed). It's pretty amusing, if I may say so. It's a classic TBFH post, as it covers everything from Pocahontas to Edward G Robinson. And yes, there is a Geilfuss mention as well. I mock the kid. Shocking!
Speaking of Geilfuss, long suffering readers of this blog might recall the struggles Geilfuss has had with MegaTouch over the years. It used to be the case that if you posted a top 10 score at Titty Touchers or whatever on the MegaTouch and typed Geilfuss in as your name, the machine rejected it. Geilfuss was a bad name. Well, at one point about 20 months ago Geilfuss got in touch with a MegaTouch rep via his now defunct blog. I even blogged about this in a post called The MegaTouch Man Walks Into The Bar in Jan 2009 (there's a picture of Sherilyn Fenn). Anyway, this MegaTouch rep promised Geilfuss that his name would be removed from the prohibited list on new versions of the game. Well last night I finally came across a new version of MegaTouch at Scams Brassfield (the new machines are nice by the way - bigger screen for one thing). I was killing time playing Card Bandits. On my 3rd game I got the high score - 310,000 and change. And I entered Geilfuss as the name. And it was accepted!!! YES!!! This is probably the greatest news of the year. I suggest that every reader of this blog, whenever they get a top score on their MegaTouch game of choice, enter Geilfuss as the name. Geilfuss will take over MegaTouch in this country. As he should. About fucking time.
I'll try and get another post up tomorrow.
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble.
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