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I was wrong last week. I felt a Wake Forest win in the mojo heading into the Clemson game and could not have been more incorrect.
Might as well admit when you make an honest prediction that turns out to have been totally bone-headed. I bit the cheese curd, missed the boat, and fell off the mountain. It was a bad call in every way. Got all of us thinking maybe this was our year to beat Clemson. Unnecessarily and obnoxiously, I got our hopes up causing a more free-falling plummet into the emotional abyss than last Saturday needed to be.
Not a win. Not close to a win. Not a sniff of anything resembling a win.
A dog I was. That one’s on me.
Own your mistakes.
I always do.
Which is why you shouldn’t bother scanning this preview I’m now going to lay on you about Saturday’s game against the wild animals known as The Huskies up there in Storrs: UConn.
My overall take is we might lose but might win but maybe not or it could be close or it may be a blowout and maybe Wake will smoke the Huskies and head off to a post-game cookout like no other.
In other words, I’m not sure.
But before we get to my visuals crystallizing the post-game cookout with ~25 Wake Forest friends, we need to memorize the names of some UConn players so we at least have some sense of who may or may not be on the field on Saturday. Knowledge is always good even if it’s not important.
Here’s a list to commit to memory before kickoff at Noon:
Nathaniel Wallace-Dilling great great grandson of poet giant Wallace Stevens, punter
Nader Chirchi, nephew of Ralph Nader, tight end
Valentin Be My Valentine Senn, Offensive Line
Toluwaniomi Frozen Tundra Tunde, fullback
Roberto Salas, estranged brother of Robert Sala who was the Jets head coach until a week ago, linebacker
Tank McNamara Green, stepson of comic sportswriter Tank McNamara, offensive line
Zach Ephron Christinot, long snapper
Oliver “Stone” Lundberg Coleman, running back
Chase Fountain of Youth, defensive back
Dominic Toy R Us, tight end
Reggie “Break” Ackles, defensive back
Jackson Brown Hooper, wide receiver
Jake Flipotripski Tripptree, quarterback
Aaron “Songs In the” Key of Life, linebacker
OK, enough about UConn. Don’t wanna wear you out with any more Xs and Os. Let’s get to the main event, the cookout at Mac’s house after the game with the Iron Old 25 who will have trekked hundreds of miles to see the game and catch up. This is what’s going to happen. All of us will be given picnic baskets with our initials engraved on them to hold our finger food such as Swedish meatballs and sausage cheese balls.
Nursing a slender, 12-inch glass of whisky on the rocks, Mac will be grilling Korean barbecue, Caribbean jerk chicken, and Indian kabobs lathered up with A1 sauce and bourbon. He’ll throw roasted sweet potato wedges on the coals so we get our veggies, grilled pineapples, and peaches for our daily ration of frooty tooties. There will be DIY food stations next to the cornhole, Jenga, and tug or war gear. Sweat will pour from playing these games and I’ll ask Mac for a dry shirt.
Late into the night we’ll eat and chat about Wake Forest beating UConn evening their record at 3 and 3 with hopes still alive for the the Kellogg’s Pop Tart Bowl.
The booze will make us sentimental, the sunburn will assure us we will sleep well that night. Mac will light up the campfire and we’ll all sit around roasting Smores and stare at the fire, talking about how we all got to be over 60 years old, where life went, how we survived, and discuss what our joint experiences meant at Wake Forest back when Rick James broke out “Superfreak” and Prince released “Little Red Corvette.” Kunk will offer some of the most unforgettable observations.
We will mull over the question: How did our coming together as friends culminate around a fire some 40 years later? We are still wondering what life means, and we don’t really know the answer, except that it’s been fun getting together these past four decades to cheer for our beloved Wake Forest football team.
Past midnight, sometimes Mac will snuff the fire. We’ll all go to bed and sleep in peace, knowing we are friends forever and that Wake Forest won earlier that day.
As pleasant as a day can get, as idyllic as life could ever be.
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