Alright Boys and Girls, It's On! Time To Play Some Football

This weekend officially kicksoff the 2017 college football season. The professional  sports monkeys on high have made their pronouncements; they have awarded the Heisman Trophy, crowned the Conference Champions, picked the 4 playoff teams and proclaimed the Bucknutts of Ohio will win the NC, and go on to lose to the Patriots in overtime in the Superbowl. And as more often then not, they will be wrong.  I'll reserve any further comments on that because I kinda-sorta promised an OSU grad friend I wouldn't make fun of their team here again this year, like OSU having a strength of schedule that doesn't even rank in the top 50 of major college teams. ;)  So here we go.......

The Battle of the Cats - BYU v LSU

But first things first: Harvey the Tiger Cub passed all his entrance exams, and on the first day of fall classes Harvey joined the freshman class and officially named Mike VII. 

Harvey's predecessor came to campus in the fall of 2007 as a 2 year old and promptly rallied the Tigers to a National Championship that year. Harvey is but an 11 month old cub who is yet to grow into his paws, so we are giving him a year before we expect any such magic from his presence. ;)

And one more first things first: because of important project deadlines due during this years football season, my SEC Sister and fellow blogger, Curmudgeon of Political Clown Parade has kindly offered to work her magic and do some of her excellent Game Day Graphics for these post to save me time. If you are a new reader of this blog, I encourage you go by and check out Curmudgeon's rousing Alabama game day post as well, as we both run headlong towards our annual, much anticipated friendly trash talk week in November when the Tigers and the Crimson Tide face-off in Tuscaloosa on 11/4. 

Brigham Young vs Louisiana State- Sat. 8:30pm CT (ESPN)

The Tigers kickoff 2017 Saturday Night against the 1-0 BYU Cougars at the New Orleans Superdome. This will be the first ever meeting of the two teams. The Cougs finished last year 9-4 and handily defeated Portland State in their opener last week. BYU has a QB who can sling it, and should be a good test of the Tiger D backfield. They have a lot of returning starters on defense and are not to be taken lightly, as they have a very good history against SEC teams. 

As for the 2017 Tigers? I'm like most; cautiously optimistic but encouraged from what I've heard from friends in the Baton Rouge media, and gleeful there is no hype around the Tigers this year. It's fell elsewhere in the SEC. The 2016 Tigers finished the year AP ranked a respectable #13, ahead of 12 other teams with better records, and start 2017 at the same position. 

With the addition of Matt Canada as the Tiger Offensive coordinator the Tigers will have a much different look. Canada likes to play a spread offense, with lots of motion, shifts and misdirection.  Gone are the days of 3 yds and a cloud of dust. Expect the Tigers to still be primarily a running team, with a potential Heisman candidate in the backfield it's to be expected. The concern seems to be the depth of offensive line. Injures could be a major setback for the Tigers late in the year.  Expect Dave Aranda's Defense to be, maybe not top 5 as they proved to be last year, but stout and continue as they did last year to improve game by game. 

The biggest question is can the Tigers endure their meat grinder of a schedule of late Oct. and November? We will see. I say there is an even chance Auburn and LSU could meet at Tiger Stadium on Oct 4th both undefeated, with both yet to face Alabama. 

That said, I see spoilers, spoilers everywhere.  

Blessfully, gone are the Les Miles years, 
and it is now Officially The Coach O' Show.  

GEAUX TIGERS!

* Diogenes' Kickoff Week Prediction: 

Every SEC team wins their opener.......except Florida. 

Obama Set To Become Nation's Most Costly Ex-President

Harry Truman entered politics as a former Army officer and business man who took his turn as a citizen legislator. Through oratory, happenstance and tragedy he wound up President.  He did not gain financially from his public service. After leaving office he ask and was granted a small stipend to cover the cost of answering the mounting correspondence he received as the ex-president. He was later granted a small pension for his service. 

Today the perks of an ex-president are generous to say the least, and it's no wonder a professional grifter like Barack Obama who has spent his entire adult life someway or another on the public payroll, amassing millions as a result of his tenure, would also become a greedy public money grabbing basturd after leaving office.

WT - "President Obama is about to become the most expensive ex-president, costing taxpayers $1,153,000 next year, according to a new Congressional Research Service memo looking at the official allowances for the five living former chief executives. 

His $1,153,000 budget request for 2018 is more than $100,000 higher than President George W. Bush’s request for next year and nearly $200,000 more than President Clinton’s expected budget. President George H.W. Bush is slated to get $942,000, while President Carter will get less than half that, at just $456,000. 

Every former president gets an office, expenses and, in some cases, an annual pension payment, thanks to a 1950s-era law enacted after former President Truman struggled for income when he left the White House in 1953. 

By far the biggest cost for ex-presidents is renting office space. Mr. Obama’s office — 8,198 square feet in D.C. — will cost taxpayers $536,000 next year, the most of any ex-president. Mr. Clinton’s New York office is bigger, at 8,300 square feet, but slightly cheaper at $518,000. The younger Mr. Bush’s office in Dallas is $497,000, while his father’s space in Houston is $286,000. Mr. Carter’s Atlanta office is just $115,000."

Barky's pension payment is also the highest of all living presidents at $236,000 for life. Yup, he's F**kin' us coming and going........

Thank You MJA for the Linkage!

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Earl has been down covering the hardest hit in the south Texas area,

you can check out his report HERE

Tips For The Rookie Anarchist From 'The Beverly Hills Antifa'

Tips for new Antifa members pic.twitter.com/aO8SFtGSC6

— Beverly Hills Antifa (@BevHillsAntifa) July 2, 2017

Thank You MJA for the Linkage!

Mental Midgets or Pure Propagandist?

With all the leftist and media hysteria over confederate statues and Nazis behind ever tree, I'm beginning to believe either their cheese has completely slipped of their crackers and are haunted by waking up night after night from night sweats, or they are just phoning it in to help infect the low information crowd on social media with more hateful propaganda. Are these people really this stupid?

I'm leaning toward they are just mental midgets they seemed to always be and just don't know any better........

As Twittermeister and actor James Woods so simply and eloquently as usual points out to these hysterical leftist boobs:

It's getting really difficult these days to satirize the left. They have become a caricature of their own idiocy and don't seem to realize it yet.  And I suspect just any day now we will here from some liberal writer who swears they saw Vladimir Putin in a Confederate uniform sneaking into their back yard at night and planting poison ivy.

Leftist Wack Job in a Bad Wig Says She Takes It All Back Now

“I’m no longer sorry. The whole outrage was BS” - controversial comedienne @KathyGriffin on THAT @realDonaldTrump photo. #sun7 pic.twitter.com/j444Vnqoxe

— Sunrise (@sunriseon7) August 28, 2017

Hollywood Land Whale Admits Imminent Defeat??

DT - "For all of the foul-smelling wind that has poured out of leftist gasbag Michael Moore over the past year could it be that the rotund filmmaker is finally acknowledging failure? That very well may be the case with the Resistance having now been taken over by opportunists and violent, masked thugs in black and the ersatz revolutionary leader reduced to preaching to the choir in his self-referential Broadway show and sliming around the late-night shows. He is also making a plea to eliminate the Electoral College, the same system that was never a problem with the left until Hillary managed to run up the popular vote total in loopy liberal California."

"Three weeks into the run of his anti-Trump Broadway show, The Terms of My Surrender, filmmaker and activist Michael Moore tells Fast Company that the president will be reelected in 2020. “I should say re-appointed, because we will have an even larger population that will vote against him in 2020, but he will win those electoral states as it stands now.” 

"Moore’s admission should be a message for Democrats who staked everything on having Trump removed from office under the pretense of he and his team colluding with the Russians to cheat Hillary. But there has been ZERO evidence on that and the longer that it drags on, the more that it looks as if the Democrats themselves were involved in a considerable amount of illicit activity in terms of the election."

"The new craze, that Trump is a racist, white supremacist, neo-Nazi has already failed once before and now that ANTIFA is so out of line that even the Washington Post has to admit it, that won’t fly either.

Moore seems to be getting a head start as the rats break for the lifeboats." - Read Moore

h/t Broadside Betty                          Thank You MJA for the Linkage

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