Each week of the season we will publish a new blog after the game ends; that way we can show you the food and drink, criticize the announcers and send shout-outs to the players. We have a (pass-)skeleton menu planned for the entire season, but we welcome ideas, and company! As the week goes along, expect the occassional epilogue as the excitement builds toward the next week.
This isn't going to be all theme-y. You won't see anything made of crow when we play Jack Crowe's Jacksonville State Gamecocks, for example. But expect a little (clean) humor at the expense of Aggie and LSU fans, and probably a few Petrino jokes. It's also not about tailgating, for the most part. Because most of us watch the games from home -- especially with newborn babies -- this is about making the most of your home game-party experience. I know, I know, we all should buy more game tickets.
Week 1 we open with simple, elegant south-of-the-border fare: tomatillo-braised pork loin cooked in the enameled Dutch oven; black beans; chile-laced exotic fruit with star fruit, mango and whatever else we can find out the store that week; and caipirinha, the national drink of Brazil. (A note to fellow former journalists: see how I still remember how to use semi-colons? Man, that obit training paid off.) Time to start practicing your pronunciation of cachaca. Cahahahccchh. Chachacha.
Throughout the season you will drool over the likes of garlic-fried chicken, Moon Pie Bread Pudding, cheddar-blue cheese drop biscuits, Mounds cake, empanadas, crawfish bisque, and the best sausage-seafood gumbo you have ever tasted. The idea is just to share two of my passions with people who appreciate both of them. Hopefully, you will try some of the recipes and share some of your own.
Meanwhile, just for fun, here are the top 10 things I am looking forward to around this football season:
10. Coach John L. Smith at a press conference busting out a "Get Your P*** Hot" T-shirt. Someone crafty shirt designer might want to get on this right now.
9. Receiver Brandon Mitchell, former QB2, manhandling defensive backs on the way to the end zone on a 42-yard pass reception, then saying "this is easy" to his fellow receivers when they hit the sideline.
8. Knile Davis simply punishing defenders as he racks up 1,400 yards against the toughest defenses in the country and is an unstoppable force in the fourth quarter.
7. Our young defensive ends shocking everyone by having three or four sacks per game and earning some kind of catchy dynamic duo nickname.
6. Not having to scream "Peacock!" every game at the top of my lungs because Jason Peacock has been flagged yet again for motion, since he probably won't start this year.
5. Dennis Johnson figuring out how to return punts nearly as well as he handles kickoffs, and getting a total of six TD's for us off the kicking game.
4. Kiero Small learning the ropes at linebacker and flat knocking some heads off. There is a 40 percent chance he gets a Sports Illustrated story with the headline "Not so Small."
3. Beating Alabama in one of the most classics games in all Razorback history. Knile Davis' running makes the Bama defense more cautious about going after Tyler Wilson. The win is cinched when Wilson pitches to Mitchell on a reverse pass, the receivers are blanketed, Bama's linebackers stay in their lanes and Mitchell reverses field and runs it in for 37 yards and a six.
2. Beating LSU and earning a trip to the SEC Championship Game by sniffing out a fake punt in the fourth quarter, nailing LSU punter Brad Wing near the line of scrimmage and knocking out the ball.
1. Watching Tyler Wilson sit next to Knile Davis at the Heisman ceremony, and waiting, with excitement, to see who wins as Matt Barkley considers a new hair color.
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