Picture This Was Gene Chizik's Pickup Line Back in the Day
I wonder if they sell this at the Auburn bookstore. (via EDSBS)
News Hurricane Too Weak To Put Sports In Perspective
Despite reaching Category 3 strength over the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Ida weakened by the time it crashed ashore on Tuesday near Mobile, Alabama, and was reduced to a tropical storm.
“In meteorology, a Category 2 storm is one that we characterize as being too weak to put sports into perspective,” said Greg DiSiorno of the National Weather Service. “A Category 3 storm – which is what Katrina was – packs enough force to put sports into perspective for a week all the way up to a month.”
DiSiorno says he doesn’t think a Category 4 hurricane will ever make landfall.
“A Category 4 is so strong it actually causes sports to be put in their proper perspective permanently. It results in a sincere change in people’s outlook on life. And not just for a few weeks or until the playoffs start or until the next fantasy draft. It’s truly sincere,” he said. “A storm of that magnitude is more of a theoretical storm really. The Bigfoot of meteorology.”
Ida hit Alabama with 45 mph winds, causing no more than some minor flooding in coastal areas.Auburn head football coach Gene Chizik, whose team has lost three of its last four games against FBS opponents after starting the season 5-0, admits he could have used a much more destructive hurricane.
“I’m just saying — if the state of Alabama gets seriously ravaged by a hurricane, no way they fire me in that atmosphere,” said Chizik. “They’d have bigger things to worry about. And, at the very least, I wanted this hurricane to cause enough heartache that I could use it as motivation for our players to play for the community. At this point of the season, your typical speeches start getting old. But now I’ve got squat. And we have Georgia and Alabama coming up. I can’t catch a break.”
