Although 2008 has turned out to be the worst year for the worldwide economy in decades with falling stock prices, rising unemployment and shrinking credit, the oasis in the desert is the incredible year that the Alabama Crimson Tide has had. At 11-0, Bama's own stock has soared and Saban's squad is set to settle a 6 year old score with Auburn in the Iron Bowl on Nov. 29 and will put the hurt on Florida's Tebow and Company in the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 6. On top of that, it's been a bear market for Auburn while the bottom has literally dropped out for the Unv. of Tennessee.
I know that bad news sells papers and delivers the ratings for the news channels, but the nationwide media seems to have missed Bama's return to college football dominance, an event which has served to offer a lantern on the levee in the midst of the Mississippi river fog, a cordial at the beggar's banquet, and an offering of sausage, potatoes and good vodka in the midst of gruel and thin watery cabbage soup and nauseating hard black bread in Zhukov's ranks at the western front.
Cliche Watch: Discounting the title which is of course, originally Biblical and as filtered down via Poe's Raven, there are at least 7 cliches in this post. Can you spot them?
