A major plumbing crisis and other important errands prevented us Friday from more detailed coverage of the major debates going on in Congress over taxes and the budget, but a quick review of the action shows at least that the Democrats are working hard to fight a Republican controlled Senate hell-bent on slanting government programs to big corporations and the rich and to slight poor and working Americans.
It is still a mystery why people of modest means in the South and other parts of the country would ever vote for these policies, but as the liberal Republican Abraham Lincoln indicated, you can fool enough of the people some of the time.
Congress Rushes to Tie Up Loose Ends Before Break
Meanwhile, we do not spend a lot of time and space covering sports here at The Locust Fork, but this game has us worried, since Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson has two degrees from Alabama.
SEC’s Best Offense and Defense to Face Off in Auburn, Ala.
It will come down to whether the Alabama defense can hold off the Auburn offense, and maybe to whether the Tide offense can overcome its problems and generate a few touchdowns for a change.
But the main editorial point we want to make here, no matter who wins the game, is that someone should come up with a new and better name for this rivalry. The game is no longer The Iron Bowl, because it is not played in Birmingham, the iron city.
You can blame this on former Auburn coach Pat Dye for pressing to move the game to Auburn, or Birmingham’s former Mayor Richard Arrington for not spending the money on Legion Field to keep the game in Birmingham, or simply the economic realities that both universities want to play the game at home. No matter.
It ain’t “The Iron Bowl” no more.
In spite of the history of the rivalry, we just wish some smart sports reporter, if there is such a thing, would come up with a phrase that characterizes the rivalry and has nothing to do with iron.
Any thoughts?
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