Friday, September 19, 2008

Florida has a reptile dysfunction

It is Florida week here in Knoxville, which means that the crazy has been kicked up a notch for the start of SEC play. Forgotten, at least for the moment, is the unfortunate season-opening loss to UCLA. Hope springs eternal as the town thinks about upsetting the fourth ranked and much hated Gators. Since a victory is highly unlikely I have to talk bad about them now, before the beatdown.



Two cars decorated in typical UT fashion.
It goes to show that in this town, both the rich and poor are crazy.

Speaking of college football, both Lixi and Jarom have received taunting messages from friends this week in the wake of BYU’s 59-0 dismantling of UCLA. Some of you may think that because we are now in Tennessee we have begun to hate the cougars. This is not the case. In fact, we will continue to root for them and hope that they win all their games, even when they are playing someone who beat UT.

Alixa continues at her ambulatory job (which is ironic because she just sits in a chair all day), and has started to become friends with the ladies at her office. Today they found out she was a Mormon after she heard one of them talking about having 3 flat tires and mistook it for incredibly bad luck (since most of my readers are also LDS I should clarify that a flat tire is an alcoholic beverage.)

Jarom continues to enjoy golf, especially now that the beautiful Tennessee autumn has started. However, the Winn family has no money, so in order to keep playing he has to walk instead of using a cart. In order to cut down on the number of miles he had to walk, he played only one ball. Despite (actually because of) not having a driver in his bag, he played nine holes at +7, mulligan free. He hopes it doesn’t get too cold here and he can keep playing until November.

Imagine him without the smile, and replace 
the cap and gown with 45 pounds of gold chains.

Jarom does also go to his classes, which he likes. He actually hasn’t missed a single one yet, which is probably the longest he has ever gone into a school year without an absence. Nancy should check the archives and verify that. In his sport marketing class he sits next to Mr. T. His name is Jesse Turnbow, and he looks and sounds like B.A. Baracus. He played O line for the Vols in the late 70’s and was then drafted by the Cleveland Browns. He is 6-8, 360, and Jarom hopes to get him to say, “I pity the fool” by the end of the semester.

Check out the video in the top right corner of the blog, and take the quiz, without searching the Internet for the answer.

2 comments:

Amberly said...

haha i was totally confused about that "flat tire" until it explained it. how typical of someone who has grown up in happy valley utah eh?

Laura Cates said...

I always have so much fun reading Mitch's posts. He's so funny! Thanks for the birthday call. I was in school when you called, and haven't had a chance to call you back. I do miss you and want to talk to you, so sometime I'll call!