From The Sports Desk

The other desks have conspired to keep the Sports Desk quiet, even going so far as giving us our own little Tumblr to post about sports to our heart's content.  But there's a game coming up on Saturday that has such globally significant ramifications that they've given up today's spot on WDW for us to talk about it.

On Saturday, December 1, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the No. 4-ranked University of Georgia Bulldogs (11-1) will play an internationally televised football game against the No. 1 University of Alabama Crimson Tide (12-0) for the SEC Championship.  The two teams met last year in the national College Football Championship game, so Saturday's game is essentially a rematch of the Championship.  Georgia led that game at the half, but Alabama switched quarterbacks, tied the game up by the end of regulation, and won it with a field goal in overtime.  

It was the hardest day of our life. It was the worst day in Georgia history since General Sherman left the state in ashes.  Grown men openly wept, women tore their hair, and children - we pity the poor children the most - had to face a whole year without a Bulldog championship. 

But that was then and this is war.  The Bulldogs want revenge, and someone has to spoil Alabama's ambitions for a perfect season.  Usually, that's Auburn's job, but this year, the Dogs have to roll up their sleeves and do the job themselves.  

We're no fools - Alabama is heavily favored to win, and nobody sounds confident about the Bulldog's chances.  But Georgia has won its last five games, each by 17 or more points.  What worries us is the one loss of the season was a 36-16 beating at LSU and a mere two weeks later, Alabama went to the same stadium and beat LSU 29-0.  

Side note:  Last Saturday, LSU played a seven OT game (!) against Texas A&M, eventually losing by a score of 74-72. That's 146 total points. There are college basketball games with fewer total points than that. There's no point here and it has nothing to do with this Saturday's game, but wow!, seven OTs! 

This Saturday's game will be played in Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a mere four miles south of our home. As we've pointed out before, the U. of Alabama is a three-hour drive southwest of here and the U. of Georgia is a 90-minute drive northeast of here.  Another side note: We were in Athens today for a 3:30 meeting and didn't leave here until after lunch and got back home before 6:00 p.m.  Again, no point, other than to emphasize how close Athens, Georgia is to Atlanta, and that we live at ground-zero of football superiority. 

But there is an overall point to this post and that is to remind everyone not to call us or email us or otherwise distract us between 4:00 and 8:00 on Saturday. We won't be returning telephone calls, we won't be responding to emails or text messages or Tweets, we won't be off meditating somewhere, and we won't even be playing Fallout 76 - we'll be cheering the Georgia Bulldogs on against the hated Crimson Tide in the biggest game of our lifetime - the biggest game, that is, that doesn't include the Red Sox beating up on the Yankees.  

Go Dogs!