Steve and Lance Burris are good guys, and have great blogs that I enjoy a great deal.
This is a picture I have seen at both their blogs, it is a badger, and since the Burri boys are Wisconsin fans, it is quite reasonable that they would feature the fearsome mascot of that fine university.
In truth the badger can be a very nasty guy to tangle with, it is a tenacious creature and can do some serious damage with those teeth.
This, however, is a gator
Gators are also fearsome especially in places called Swamps
And, if a Badger and a Gator should meet, well………GATORBAIT!
Uh-oh Pat Austin weighs in, predicting an LSU win over the Gators this season. Sorry Pat, Tim Tebow will not allow such a thing, but I wish LSU good luck, and they can have another national title when Tebow graduates.
Doug,
It’s about damn time you fought back with some spunk! I have been trying to bait you for some time now. I was beginning to think you were a moderate or something.
In reference to badgers vs. gators: All I know for sure is that the badgers up here must have killed all the gators ’cause there ain’t no gators here.
I must ask a little background on you. You root for the Gators, you have mentioned Alabama regiments of the Civil War, and you now live in Texas? (South Texans think that everyone who lives north of I-10 is a Yankee.) What’s the deal?
Hmmm, well I was born, raised, and lived in Tampa until I was 29. I moved to Texas then and am still here near Dallas.
Most of my family,on my mom’s side, the Allen’s, McWhorters, Lowes, and Mewborns came from Virginia,and South Carolina, and eventually settled in Georgia.
My dad’s side Hagin’s, Blues, Hendrys, and Hendrixs wer scattered in Bama, Georgia and Florida.
As to my Confederate ancestors, I have, or my dad did actually, tracked down 75 of them. Most were from Georgia, some from South Carolina, and Alabama, amd a good number from Florida as well.
An interesting side note, two of my Great Great Gradfathers were both captured in the war, Lt. William A Allen Co. G 56th Georgia lost an eye fighting at Visksburg and was captured there, after he was exchanged he came back to fight again. John Allen McWhorter, 4th South Carolina cavalry, was captured and went blind in the Point Lookout prison in Maryland. Another Great Great Grandfather, Martin mewborn, Co I 63rd Georgia, was wounded at Kennesaw Mountain.
I grew up in Wisconsin, but I lived in a tent on Sugarloaf Key, Florida, for a winter, a couple of years in Marietta, Georgia, where Kennesaw Battlefield Park was my running track and playground, then Victoria, Texas, for about 15 years.
Dude, you followin’ me? See you in Wisconsin soon.
You know, I hpe to visit every state, yes, EVEN North Dakota, so maybe I will visit you.
Yeah, well…um…your face!
LOL! Nice come back my friend, good luck next year, win the Big 10!