carolina @ duke, wallace wade stadium, originally uploaded by minervacat.

There’s something about the pageantry and passion — the way sunshine comes later departs earlier behind the colored leaves of the trees, and the pounding drums in an on-rushing band on a Southern campus — that stirs your heart. People who otherwise would not speak to you exchange high fives as you stand as one on a fall afternoon and scream in unison with blood-curdling fury. A feeling comes over you in these moments that is impossible to explain. Football time in the South has arrived. — Clay Travis, Dixieland Delight

And somewhere in the nation today, Greg Paulus is being sacked, they’re drunk in Baton Rouge, and TJ Yates, third year running, still sucks.

Football season’s here. Bring it the fuck on.