Tallahassee Rocks!

Tallahassee has got to be the greatest place in the world to be in the spring time! Cool mornings and warm afternoons. The flowers bloom in a rhapsody of spring colors. God even sneezes pollen down on to our cars every night to give them a nice Springy yellow-green coating. The legislators add comedy by trying to spend our taxpayers’ money while saying they are saving our taxpayers’ money and all the while allowing us taxpayers to enjoy the bounty of all the tax money they have spent while cutting back on our taxes. (You gotta admit that’s way funnier than Abbot and Costello’s “Who’s On First?” routine!)
But most of all this Saturday the powers that be decided to drop a football game down right here in the middle of all this spring bounty! Yep, the annual FSU spring Garnet and Gold game gives a southerner what he truly longs for, football! Ok, so now it has been moved down to not a real game but just a glorified scrimmage. But, nonetheless (I can’t believe “nonetheless” is actually one word), there will be some of the finest athletes in the country throwing around a brown sphere with a point at each end, wearing gold helmets and popping each other to the ground. Actually, that is one of my favorite parts of the Garnet and Gold game. There is not enough crowd noise to drown out the “CRACK” of a good hit, or a little trash talk between players, or even a good chewing out by a coach.
Now this year they have even gone one step farther in making it seem like real Seminole football. Yep, it will hearken back to the glory days of Saturday Night Fever when fans would release thousands of balloons into the night sky when Chief Osceola planted his spear at midfield. For those of you who don’t remember this joyful period, it was when the Seminoles weren’t good enough to be on daytime television and administrators cared about fans not having heat strokes in the September mid-day sun. Oh, and the balloons? Well the above mentioned legislators decided that some wayward gator might strangle on one of our well traveled balloons. (Lord knows we wouldn’t want to have one less gator in the world, reptile or alum.)
Yes, Springtime in Tallahassee! American by birth and Tallahasseean by the grace of God!