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With UVA visiting Wake Forest in football next Saturday, it’s imperative we rambunctiously ruminate about Big Red Head Thomas Jefferson, who founded that school four hours to the north, read more books and wrote more than anyone ever including, notably, the Declaration of Independence which frees us up to watch Wake football games and write hype blogs about them.
I also want to point out that Thomas Jefferson is, notably, the second most famous TJ in American history after my guy Troy Jackson who eats Bojangles Chicken with me during Wake football tailgates. As a boy my boy Troy claims to have read the Encyclopedia Brittanica unabridged A-Z tomes which is something TJeff would have done had the collection existed during the 1700s because he read everything in the world and then wrote about everything in the world.
Don’t believe me? Wikipedia confirms he had three libraries that grew to 6,500 volumes. Get this: he organized his books into three categories aligned with the human brain: memory, reason and imagination. Isn’t that how we all organize our libraries?
I wonder what TJeff would imagine is going to happen at the football game this Saturday. I wonder if he thinks it’s reasonable to call oneself Sammy Sportface or something less than reasonable. I wonder if he remembers two years when Wake went up to Charlottesville near his Monticello abode and whipped UVA on their way to the ACC title game.
Knowing more than anyone ever has, Big Red could clearly help this Demon Deacon Sports Nation sort out confusion as to whether Louisiana and Mississippi are two discrete states because he was all for a Western expansion policy exemplified by the Louisiana Purchase, which for those of you who don’t know except DJ and Dr. Smiley, the Wake history professor, doubled the size of the United States.
And size matters in all cases including the size of Sportface’s prediction that Wake will win the natty in football this season.
Above all Big Red Head was a writer of sentences some of which were pretty solid. What would he consider the sentences you’re reading here to be? From a learned liberal arts Wake Forest English Major? Scrawlings of a scatterbrained Sammy Sportface? Wisdom crystallized? A football fan infused with fervor? A bruising beverage?
What of this football game this weekend would Thomas Jeffer think? I believe he would say in homage to his boy Patrick Henry, “give me a win or give me death.”
Not surprisingly, he once wrote this sentence: “I cannot live without books.”
And this morning he followed up on that with this sagacity: “I cannot live without college football and Sammy Sportface Demon Deacon Nation Sports blogs.”
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