If the East is riding on it, that game
better get played. I swear to God, if the SEC sends a 6-1 croc team to the Championship ahead of a 6-2 UT team that spanked them head to head, a year after letting them keep 6 wins with a PED-enhanced QB...
But that being said, corndog fans are the LAST ones who should be complaining about this. Recall the conversation prior to our game in 2005:
UT: We're so sorry for all you guys have gone through. And now it looks like there's
another storm headed your way. Clearly it will be logistically impossible to play a game down there this week. So why don't we just swap home dates? You guys come up to Knoxville on Saturday, and we'll go down there next year.
LSU: Yeah, sorry, but that's just not going to work for us. Our fans have lost their homes, and everything they own. Many have lost loved ones. Food and water are scarce across the region. What these people need right now, more than anything in the world, is to go to a football game.
UT: Really? THAT'S what they need more than anything in the world?
LSU: Are you being insensitive to the suffering of Louisianans?!
UT: NO, no no. We just...
LSU: KATRINA!
UT: Okay, sorry. What do you propose?
LSU: We're going to play on Monday.
UT: Monday? But isn't Hurricane Rita supposed to make landfall around then?
LSU: Well, yeah. But it's probably going to miss us. Probably.
UT: Uh, ok. If we play it sometime in the afternoon, that would work best for us. That would give our people time to drive down and back up afterwards, since there are no hotel rooms available.
LSU: No, we're playing a night game. That's what we do. Our people need a night game.
UT: But that would mean that most of our 10,000 fans who were planning to come will have to eat their tickets.
LSU: Yeah, and since there are no rooms, you'll have to leave your band and cheerleaders at home, too.
UT: Why can't we just do it in the daytime?
LSU: BECAUSE KATRINA! ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO FIGHT US ON THIS, AFTER ALL WE'VE BEEN THROUGH?
UT: No, no, no. Sorry. Just secure a few rooms for our team, and we'll be down there Monday night.
LSU: No rooms means no rooms. Your team is going to have to come down the day of the game and go back that night. Oh, and the airports are closed, so they'll have to bus down.
UT: Wait, isn't YOUR team staying in a hotel the night before?
LSU: Yeah. What of it?
UT: Well, couldn't they just stay in their OWN dorms?
LSU: No.
UT: Can OUR team stay in your dorms?
LSU: ARE YOU QUESTIONING US?
UT: No, no no. It just seems that you're taking advantage of the situ...
LSU: KATRINA!
UT: Sorry.
LSU: Now we've been through a lot, and we REALLY need this win, so you WILL be good patsies and play the Washington Generals to our Harlem Globetrotters, right?
UT: That's one option. Or we could beat your ass with your former backup QB. One or the other.