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As I was thinking lovingly about the Ole Miss football helmet this morning, which we will all see when they play Wake the third week of the season, it got me focused on the Louisiana Purchase.
Now I don’t know what the Louisiana Purchase was although I heard of it and imagine it involved some sort of hostile land acquisition by hedge fund managers, but what really interests me quite a bit is the name itself: The Louisiana Purchase. What a ring that has that hits the soul with a powerful thud. It’s a lot like that feeling when you say to yourself “The New Deal,” “The Boston Tea Party,” “The Battle at Bunker Hill,” and “Anybody But Carolina.”
Many of you have been chastising me for writing on my national championship preview of Wake about Ole Miss not being from Louisiana but from Mississippi which is blatantly obvious if you just look at the name Ole Miss. But you need to realize when I was writing about Ole Miss I was myopically concentrated on the aesthetic gorgeousness of their football helmet — Bo Derek — and wasn’t focused on making sure I told you they’re from Mississippi and then I lumped them together with the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns and it all got conflated in my mind so that both teams Wake Forest plays are from Louisiana even though that’s not true.
But what is true is Wake will play Duke which will be coming over from little old Greenville, North Carolina, and they’ll play NC State hailing from Tarboro, and UNC based out of Fayetteville over there where DJ broke all high school scoring records or so he tells us.
The important thing is we all need to get our facts straight as we enter this Fall’s football season. If we’re going to have a serious dialogue, it’s imperative we start from the same baseline of information.
No messing around. Serious Wake Forest football analysis and insights, byte byte-by-byte breakdowns of the delayed run-pass option mesh, player performance evaluations, honest appraisals of the deviled eggs spread across the tailgates, and no sophomoric jokes about what happens to the hydrogen sulfide air quality after eating them.
Louisiana is in Ole Miss and the Rajun Cajun food is spicey, just like the most pungent and powerful bedeviled eggs.
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