A Good Time Was Had By All (If You Were a Dawg)
In these slower times due to COVID-19, I find my mind drifting back to memories not of olden days but of great and magical days of more recent vintage. Three years ago this week, Toni and I boarded a United Airlines flight in Charlotte bound for Chicago where we would spend a couple of nights and make our way to South Bend, Indiana for the Georgia-Notre Dame football game. It was a unique opportunity for a son of the south, raised to believe that there is no better football in the land than that of the Southeastern Conference. Oh, I had been in New Orleans 37 years before when the Dawgs had conquered Notre Dame to win the national championship. Yet, this was different. Toni and I along with 35,000 of our closest Bulldog friends were going to make our way right into the heart of what we had always been told was the grandest stage of college football. Notre Dame is the epitome college football to many people and the Dawgs were playing there. Though not my first trip to Chicago, it w