I hadn’t planned on visiting Mississippi at all this year, much less paying a visit to the home of the Cowbell in college football. When this season started, I had already bought a ticket for the Alabama game for this weekend. It was cheap, and Alabama has been a perennial favorite to play for a national title. But when I was at West Virginia last week, Nick (the WVU fan we met sitting next to us at the game) scoffed when I told him the opponent: Southern Miss. My response at the time was to say something snarky about him paying for my ticket if he wants me to attend a quality game in Tuscaloosa. He had bragged about attending the Iron Bowl last year because his girlfriend is a student at Alabama. Still, his derogatory
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