Messing with Perfection

This beautiful football weekend was the first time I wished I had the Musstang back. What a glorious time for a convertible. I know the front spoiler was too low to the ground, the motor's rumble a bit too loud and I do prefer an automatic transmission. (I know, I know, I am old) But on a campus in Late October, there are worse things than having the top back on a Rousch Racing designed, Red Mustang.

Saturday night in Starkville was a great college football atmosphere. Mississippi State has made numerous improvements to their stadium since my last visit in 2004. They have the largest and best video screen that I have ever seen. Crystal clear and a great sound system. Before our game they had the Tennessee vs Alabama game on. What a great idea, the fans can come early, get to their seats and watch another SEC football game. Great idea.

The game itself? Didn't like it so much cosmetically, but hey, it is a conference road win. Every Gator fan knows how tough it is in this league to go into another team's house and beat them. All in all, it is great to be seventeen and zero. The State fans were fired up and ready. As an aside, I still do not know how they are permitted to bring in those damned cow bells. I mean they are thousands of them and they are deafening. Artificial noise makers are banned by the Southeastern conference, so what is up with that? They say tradition, but I say to hell with that. What if our tradition was to bring air horns and when the other team had the ball thirty or forty thousand people blew their horns? Think the commissioner would permit it? Me neither. And if you think they are loud in a stadium, let some drunken fans ring them on a bus to the game. Deafening, painfully deafening.

Ya'll all watched the game so I am not going to try and make this a sports column. I will leave that to the nay-sayers at the Gainesville Sun. Just a thought on Tim Tebow, the finest college football player to ever strap on a helmet. I believe Tim came to Florida a better quarterback than he is now. Every attempt to change him has been counter-productive. The young man was the leading passer in the history of Florida high school football. As a sophomore at Florida, he lead the nation in college football passing efficiency. Put simply, I believe he has been over-coached. My thought is this; Coaches have a preconceived idea of what constitutes good passing mechanics and exactly how a quarterback should throw. However,Tim Tebow is a once in a lifetime player with unique physical gifts. He can make unbelievable throws because of his superior physical gifts. A coach looks and say if he can do that using unorthodox methods, what could he do if utilized "good passing" technique? The answer, he doesn't do as well. The attempted alterations and changes to his natural motion is simply too much to think about. He was far better when he was just reacting and having fun. If he were my son, I would say "Tim, just go play forget everything else and just be yourself." Because when he is just Tim Tebow...he is simply the best that has ever played the game.