It’s almost spring, and Murphy’s ventured out of his cave early in a particularly foul mood. It’s been hard to be otherwise with the mess these human creatures have created, and its impact on this great sport. Lately the usually-happy Bear has been anything but.
It’s a good time to recall that this sport is all about fun – especially Sebring. So here’s a look back to Murphy’s Somewhat Silly Sebring Stories. Nobody the Bear’s ever met failed to have a boatload of fun at Sebing. Whether there are ten cars or one hundred, Sebring is always a real hoot.
January 2, 2006, Salinas, California – Murphy’s sufficiently recovered from his New Year’s revels to get back to work, so he’s pulled up a chair and cracked a bottle of a 2000 Saint-Emilion Grand Cru to share his first fuzzy-headed thoughts of the new year. The Bear’s holiday was like yours, out on the town for the last gasp of 2006, then spend the first day of 2007 recovering on the couch. Murphy suspects the popularity of New Year’s day football has as much to do with providing cover for indolence than with the sport itself. We warmed up for the weekend with the don’t-call-it-the-Peach-Chick-fil-A Bowl. If you wear a dawg on your head, or you are one of the residents of the Poultry Capital of the World for whom your vacation ends in one of the sponsor’s stores, you might really care, I guess, but otherwise? That one was a day after the Golden Rodents set an all-time record by blowing a thirty-one point lead in a quarter and a half. Goldy’s footballers are unique in accomplishing such swan dives, having previously performed similarly spectacular collapses at Michigan in 2003, to Wisconsin in 2005, and to North Carolina State in another of those countless and eminently forgettable bowl games.