Acing weekend small talk is how legends are made. That or at least someone might buy you a drink.
Giving you something to talk about,
The Last Night’s Game
College Football
And just like that, the fall football season is almost back to normal. The PAC-12 (think Oregon, UCLA and Arizona) withdrew from the fall season earlier in the year, but yesterday they voted to play starting in November. They are the last “power five” conference to reinstate their 2020 college football season. The big daddy of the conferences, the SEC (think LSU and Alabama) will start their season this weekend. WHO’S PLAYING?
Translation – We know that’s a lot of talk using conference acronyms but what it really means is college football is almost back in its full glory. It’s going to make bowl game season very interesting since everyone started at different times and the teams in each conference are playing a different number of games.
Overtime
Tennis legend Billie Jean King is gracing the cover of Glamour magazine this month, fifty years after she and eight other tennis players shook up the sports world. The group, known as the “Original 9,” were tired of second-class treatment at tournaments so they risked their careers and signed $1 contracts to launch a women’s pro tennis circuit. That move led to the creation of the Women’s Tennis Association. Now men and women tennis players receive the same prize money at all four Grand Slam Tournaments and women have access to rewarding endorsement deals and lucrative tournament prize money. STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF LEGENDS
Sideline stat
The Watt family is known for raising boys built for football. Brothers J.J., T.J. and Derek Watt will meet up this on Sunday when J.J.’s Houston Texans take on T.J. and Derek’s Pittsburgh Steelers. It will be the second time in NFL (National Football League) history that a trio of brothers will play in a game, the last time was in 1927. While this weekend's game is bound to be taxing on their parents, it can't be any more exhausting than trying to keep the fridge stocked with three football playing sons. SOME SERIOUS SUNDAY WATT-AGE
Coaches’ corner
To play or not to play, that is the question. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his business partners bought the defunct XFL football league out of bankruptcy in hopes that restarting the league, which failed in 2001 and 2020, will be finally be successful. The football player and wrestler turned actor teased fans with a photo of him working out with a caption that reads in part “maybe I’ll be the first owner in pro football history to actually suit up and play in the game.” It may not be true, but it would certainly have us tuning in. EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES TURNS TO GOLD
