This was sent to me from a friend of mine and I just wanted to repost it here:

College Football in the South 

By B.J. Bennett 
SouthernPigskin.com Senior Editor

Simply put, it's different down here - just ask former Heisman trophy 
winner Frank Sinkwich. 
 
"I'm from Ohio," the University of Georgia legend once said, "but if 
I'd known what it was like down south, I would have crawled down here 
on my hands and knees." 
 
Football in the south is an interesting beast. It's not a game, it's 
not a pastime...it's a way of life. It's a mixed drink of family, 
religion, politics and pageantry, spiked with shots of antagonism, 
arrogance and pride. 
 
Critics label our view of college football as naive and tendentious. 
Our response? We couldn't agree more. Southerners revel in regional 
bias, and why shouldn't we? In the south, we transform a vast picnic 
area into The Grove. We see a stadium on the river and bring a Navy. 
We take a plain desert stone and make it magic. We have The Chop, The 
Chomp and The Ramblin' Wreck. We root for the same team as our dad, the 
same team as his dad and say "to heck" with the team of your dad's dad. 
We call players by their first names, anyone on the athletic staff 
coach, and to the chagrin of media pundits and those who just don't 
understand, we say "! we". 
 
Southern football is why my grandmother spent fall Saturday's in 
orange capris, blue reebok classics and alligator jewelry and had a 
football card of Danny Wuerffel taped to her dresser. It's the same 
reason why my mom can't watch the fourth quarter, my dad won't watch 
the first quarter and my uncle and his two sons have walked around 
Valdosta, Georgia with a little more pep in their step since December 
7th, 2002. 
 
Southern football isn't tailgating, it's all-nighting. It's not about 
painting your face, it's about painting your chest. It's not about 
grills, it's about cookers. Inside the stadium, you don't talk to your 
neighbors, you yell at them. Those around you aren't strangers, they're 
80,000 of your closest friends. You don't go on the road when you 
travel to see your team play...you go home. 
 
Down here, you're not born a boy or a girl, you're born a Gamecock or 
Tiger. Down here, football is just as entrenched in our culture as 
Jesus, sweet tea and barbeque sandwiches. We say "Yes Ma'm" and "No 
Sir", but we also say "Roll Tide", "War Eagle" and "Pig Sooey". Down 
here two plus two equals third down and six. 
 
Southern football is why you drive through Wrightsville, Georgia and 
see "The Home of Herschel Walker" on Highway 15. It's why hundreds of 
adults in the state of Alabama are named "Bear". Southern football is 
Billy Cannon, Bo Jackson and Archie, Eli and Peyton Manning. It's Bobby 
Bowden, Vince Dooley and the Ole' Ball Coach. It's detergent boxes 
under toilet paper, frat boys in team-colored pants - it's Lynard 
Skynard and Molly Hatchet in button-down shirts, Southern Living with a 
cowboy hat; it's a clash of styles that produces a scene often imitated 
but never duplicated. Ever. 
 
The setting? So picturesque you don't want to touch it, yet so 
enthralling you just can't let it go. It's a similar one in Knoxville, 
Tennessee, Starkville, Mississippi and Blacksburg, Virginia, and it has 
been for years. 
 
Southern football is Erk Russell joking, "we don't cheat at Georgia 
Southern, that costs money and we don't have any." It's John Heisman 
saying, "it's better to have died as a young boy than to fumble the 
football." It's Bobby Dodd saying he'd rather face the lions in the colesium than the Tigers in Baton Rouge. It's Clemson fans stating they  
would rather be on probation than lose to Furman. 
 
The players, the coaches and the rivalries are captivating here in the 
south. Florida-Georgia weekend causes more people to call in sick on 
Monday morning than the stomach flu and strep throat, Alabama- Auburn 
divides households, neighborhoods and the entire state, and The Egg 
Bowl is a true late November fixture. The storylines are just as 
alluring. Think "The Choke at Doak", "Lindsay Scott!!" or the 1961 
Clemson-South Ca! rolina game where a group of USC students 
impersonated the Tiger football team in pre-game warm-ups, catering to 
the crowd and the band before flopping all over the field and mocking 
Clemson's agricultural background with milking hand-motions. 
 
Though the press tries to hype the last week in the regular season as 
rivalry week, every week is rivalry week in the south. 
 
Something down here makes this game different. College football has a 
legitimate influence on state governments, a major affect on commerce 
and local economies and is the lifeblood and pulse of God's country. 
 
Perhaps former Tennessee Volunteer radio personality George Mooney put 
it best. 
 
"Southerners are proud of their football heritage, their schools, and 
their teams. And they share a deep pride that goes with being from the 
South," he said. 
 
It's a match made, and currently outplayed, in heaven.

*Cause when I see you, it's like I'm staring down the sun ...Third Eye Blind

*Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light. Those days are over, you don't have to sell your body to the night...The Police

*Move over baby, gimme the keys, I'm gonna try 2 tame your little red love machine...Prince

*After all we've been through, I know we're cool...Gwen Stefani

*Jesus take the wheel, take it from my hands. Cause I can't do this on my own, I'm letting go. So give me one more chance, to save me from this road I'm on...Carrie Underwood

*You must not know 'bout me, I could have another you in a minute. Matter fact, he'll be here in a minute...Beyonce

*I said I love you and that's forever and this I promise from the heart: I could not love you any better. I love you just the way you are...Billy Joel

*The more I know, the less I understand. All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again. I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter, but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter. But I think it's about forgiveness, forgiveness, even if, even if you don't love me anymore...Don Henley

*I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad...Meatloaf

*There's a lot of ways of saying what I want to say to you. There's songs and poems and promises and dreams that might come true. But I won't talk of starry skies or moonlight on the ground, I'll come right out and tell you I'd just love to lay you down...Conway Twitty

*She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies and she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me...Billy Joel

*And you can tell everybody this is your song. It may be quite simple but now that it's done. I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind that I put down in words. How wonderful life is now you're in the world...Elton John

*And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be...The Beatles

*I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have and cannonball into the water. I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have, for you I will...Teddy Geiger

*You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows...Harry Nilsson

*I'm open, you're closed. Where I follow, you'll go. I worry I won't see your face, light up again...Howie Day

*Electric slidin' on a sawdust floor, long-neck chaser for a shot of hard-core whiskey, that's how they do it in Dixie...Hank Williams Jr.

*Because I can see us holding hands, walking on the beach our toes in the sand...Justin Timberlake

*When my soul was in the lost-and-found you came along to claim it. I didn't know just what was wrong with me, til your kiss helped me name it...Aretha Franklin

*You touched my heart, you touched my soul. You changed my life and all my goals. And love is blind and that I knew when, my heart was blinded by you. I've kissed your lips and held your head, shared your dreams and shared your bed. I know you well, I know your smell. I've been addicted to you...James Blunt

So yes I totally stole this idea from Aimee but I thought it was a pretty neat idea, so there!

*We were too young to understand to ever know that lovers drift apart and that's the way love goes...Roy Orbison

*You thought you would be satisfied, but you never will - learn to be still...The Eagles

*And even though I know the river is wide, I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore and try to cross to the opposite side, so I can finally find out what I've been looking for...Billy Joel

*I can't do what ten people tell me to do so I guess I'll remain the same...Otis Redding

*When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case, I would offer you a warm embrace to make you feel my love...Bob Dylan

*Cause with you, I'd withstand all of hell to hold your hand...Nickelback

*Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness but it's better than drinking alone...Billy Joel

*Whiskey river don't run dry you're all I've got take care of me...Willie Nelson

*Life ain't nothing but a funny, funny riddle, Thank God I'm a country boy...John Denver

*To really love a woman, to understand her- you gotta know her deep inside, hear every thought- see every dream and give her wings when she wants to fly...Bryan Adams

*So leave me if you need to I will still remember angel flying too close to the ground...Willie Nelson

*She still believes in miracles while others cry in vain...Billy Joel

*But it's not so bad, you're only the best I ever had...Gary Allan/Vertical Horizon

*It's times like these when my faith I fell and I know how I love you...Dave Matthews Band

*Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight. Stay here with me, love, tonight just for an evening when we make our passion pictures you and me twist up secret creatures and we'll stay here tomorrow go back to being friends...Dave Matthews Band

*You fill up my senses, come fill me again...John Denver

*I don't know what brought us together, what strange forces of nature conspire to construct the present from the past...Alan Jackson

*If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by...Vanessa Carlton

*Country roads, take me home to the place I belong...John Denver

*And baby...talk dirty to me...Poison