College football

Hotty Toddy Gosh Almighty A Yankee in the Grove

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It’s somewhere around 2:00 PM, Central Time.

My parents and I arrived on the Square, later than we’d expected because I had forgotten my wallet in the car and had to go back for it. That was fine, we still had about three and a half hours until kickoff. We stopped off in a bar to grab a drink or two and something to eat before heading into the Grove proper. This is my parent’s gameday tradition, apparently, because they like to see the other games going on that day, and are not trying to be falling down drunk walking into the game. The same cannot be said for everyone in Oxford, MS, and it becomes clear as Arkansas and Auburn enter their 4th overtime in Fayettville that some of our fellow bar patrons are not likely to make it until kickoff for the game tonight between the Ole Miss Rebels and the Texas A&M Aggies.

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