I’ll agree that there really isn’t any big markets down in the Bayou and in the Delta. New Orleans, I guess, would be the closest thing. I guess major league baseball gets no attention down there, does it?

For the record, I’m from the South, but Sports Geek and Bleacher Fan are from the Midwest so it gives us different perspectives on how much region feels. I’m outnumbered though, so I appreciate the support from my fellow Southerners!

Luckily we’re multi-talented here in the South…I’m not a huge football fan but hey, we play some mean baseball too…and run really fast and jump really high. We don’t have that swimming thing down yet though.

Unlike the other conferences, we don’t have ANY huge TV markets in our geographic region, which means we get short shrift in the national spotlight (in both football and baseball, generally), so those folks from the other conferences are surprised when they show up for a national-championship-something-or-other and take an old-fashioned butt-whoopin….

I take it you are from SEC country? Do you call the Hogs? Do you do the Dawg Walk? Do you Gator chop? Who do you support?

It’s a simple, elegant solution that allows all the other conferences to maintain their traditions (of coming in second, mostly) without adding another game to beat themselves up with–prior to taking the field and having an SEC team stomp them a new mudhole.

Leave the real football to the boys from the South and let the other conferences dot the I’s, run a cow around the field with some dudes dressed up in cowboy outfits and parade their fossilized coach up and down the sidelines prior to returning him to the Smithsonian for the rest of the week.

And oh yeah…Notre Dame can just keep playing with themselves. They seem to have that down pat.