Idiots Write About Sports

So a bit over a month ago, Phil and I discovered that we were expected to appear at a meeting for work in Boston on August 30th and 31st. With the “Man, you gotta go!” of my Lair of the Bear neighbor ringing in my ears, I realized suddenly that my East Coast work session would be breaking up just before Cal played Tennessee in Knoxville.

A visit to the travel agency web site later, I discovered that a round-trip itinerary that took me through Knoxville on my way back to San Francisco would run me almost exactly as much as my usual SFO-BOS-SFO round trip on Jet Blue. And a ticket to the game: $50. In other words, for extremely little cash I could have my Southern College Football Trip of a Lifetime.

I mentioned this to Phil, and he gave me one of those noncommittal looks that I’d expect to see from him if we ever played poker. But a few hours later he walked into my office and told me that he was intrigued by my crazy idea.

To make a long story short, Phil managed to finagle his itinerary to pass through Tennessee as well, and so the Idiots Who Write About Sports will be among the 100,000+ throng at Neyland Stadium on Saturday to watch Cal kick off the college football season against the Volunteers.

We will try to cover our trip with ample photography and maybe even an audio report or two from the scene. For those of you who can not make the trip, we’ll try to be your eyes and ears. And if you are making the trip, drop us a note so that we can hook up when we’re in orange-land.

Hey! I'm from Orange Land myself. As amazing as it sounds, I'm not a huge UT fan, and I'll be watching the game on TV (I work in a newsroom, so I have to go in after the game and catch the game copy.) Funny what a small world it is. I got here by way of teevee.org.

Enjoy the game!

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