Breaking down the 2007 football season

The Bayou Jamb against Rayville-Great concept to have football games all day long. I wish I didn't have a house and yard full of dogs to have to take care of so that I could have stayed for all the games. Calvary and Rayville had the distinction of breaking in the new artificial surface at ULM.

Southwood-We were really counting on the Cowboys for some help with the power points. Maybe next year?

Southern Lab-See Southwood above. The halftime fireworks were unbelievable.

Rayville-Great competition and great game marred only by the comments that Calvary ran up the score. Get real--the final score was 37-27.

Lakeside-Always will be remembered as our first 2-A district game.

Homer-Whew! I sure am glad Richie Casey was not playing at 100 percent. I didn't understand how the Pelican fans could stand up and cheer when Kendrick Wilson got knocked out though.

Loyola-History was made when the Cavaliers were the first team to shut out the Flyers on their home field at Messmer Stadium. The way the Flyers moved the ball early was scary.

North Caddo-Homecoming!

Desire Street-No show made our weekend quite boring.

Springhill-I knew it. I knew we would come out flat to start that game. Nice fans, nice concession stand attendants and the loudest press box I have been in since I don't know when. Remind me never to compliment the sound operator prior to the game.

Evangel-Still ahead as of this writing. No one will sleep this week and those who do manage a few minutes of slumber will wake up several times during the night with visions of what could have happened if the Cavaliers could have booted that field goal last year. Let's hope the memories of the playoff score don't add to our insomnia.

Politicians pick up your signs for LSU

Now that the elections are over, for the most part, I make a motion that all politicians take a day or two off with their campaign staffs and pick up their signs which they posted all over the Louisiana landscape.

The first thing Bobby Jindal should do when he gets in office is propose a $1,000 clean-up tax on every politician that runs for office. If after 30 days, there are no signs left on the sides of the roads and highways of this state, each candidate could be given a percentage of that tax back.

My wife and I helped the situation by pulling up one sign on our way back home today. We plan to use the metal frame of the sign to attach our "Beware of Dogs" warning along our driveway.

There must be unlimited uses for the signs and their hardware. I just had an idea. We could take up a thousand or so signs, paint them purple and gold with "see the ball, catch the ball" over the original political message and place them along the sidelines at the LSU football practice field and along the sidelines wherever the Tigers play ball.

Monkey off the back of LSU now

Thank you Kentucky Wildcats! You finally did what needed to be done by beating the LSU Tigers and bringing them back down to planet Earth.

Now before you readers go sending me the hate mail and calling me a traitor to my own state, let me say that I have been an LSU Tiger fan since before most of you were ever born. I was a Tiger fan shortly after I was weaned and have very seldom missed listening to an LSU game on the radio while watching it on the television set. (You know you do that too.)

LSU was the No. 1 team in the nation the first night of the season when they humbled Virginia Tech, but ever since then things have gone down hill. I dare you to argue with that.

Now that the media hype is off the Tigers and they have time to think about things, perhaps they will come back to reality. They better do so quickly, because the Auburn Tigers are coming to Baton Rouge Saturday and, with a loss there, LSU could begin a downward spiral.

First though, the LSU wide receivers need to go to an Andy Hamilton camp, the O-line needs to find some consistency, the D-line needs to get more aggressive and the entire team needs to take a lesson on what constitutes a penalty.

It sure would be nice to see the same LSU that dismantled Virginia Tech make an appearance for the rest of the season.

And oh, has anyone else noticed that the fire the Tigers played with against VTU seemed to have gone from a roaring inferno to a flicker after the word Michigan was tossed in the mix?

Lack of Desire leaves gap in schedule

Though Calvary football fans are in the midst of their last full month of regular season action, they have lost their Desire for gridiron action on Oct. 19.

Desire Street Academy, scheduled to pay a visit to the Cavaliers on the third playing date in October, had a change of heart and decided to stay in Baton Rouge that night rather than make the trip to the northwestern corner of the state.

There will be a cloak of darkness on the carpet at Calvary's Jerry Barker Stadium that night affording the neighbors an escape from the traffic and noise from the Friday night norm. Moreover, that darkness and lack of activity will provide us Calvary fans with one big, long night of boredom.

Sure, there will be other games around town that night, but those events will be just that--games--most about as exciting as a game of monopoly or Chinese checkers. We Calvary fans have been spoiled by the product our coaches and players have put on the field.

So, on Friday, Oct. 19, I plan to come home, take a nap, dig in my closet for my Scrabble game and countdown the minutes until another Calvary football game rolls around.