For Josh and Thank You Perry

As the family is aware, Josh was in Atlanta on New Years Eve for the Chick-Fil-A Bowl against Georgia Tech. Early in the afternoon is a parade. First is a picture of the Chick-Fil-A mascot in a LSU jersey.

Second is a picture of the band moving along the parade route. The third is part of the trombone second...note Josh in the second row of the picture, second in. Last is the a great shot of Josh in his uniform. With his eyes front (Crossmen training in evidence) is Josh with his goatee and his marching trombone.

These pictures were taken by a friend of mine who was in the downtown area as the parade went past. Knowing Josh was in the band, this gracious southern belle jumped out of her car, leaving her mother, brother and sister-in-law stunned when she stopped the car in the street, grabbed her camera, ran down the road and then along the side of the band to take pictures of the band just hoping that one of the pictures captured Josh.

Thank you Perry....the pictures were excellent.

Cows Sell Chicken

Jenn asked on Josh's blog what is a Chick-Fil-A?

The fast food chain uses cows to sell their chicken sandwiches.

Here is one of their television commercials.




There are two more commercials on the company’s site http://www.chickfila.com/#thecows

For self preservation purposes cows promoting chicken is an interesting marketing concept.

Bowling Season

College football bowl season will soon upon us. Once the BCS selections take place Sunday, the non-BCS bowls will quickly start picking their teams. Most bowls have agreements with particular conferences to select a bowl eligible team from their conference. The non-BCS bowls pick in a sequence…for example the Capital One by agreement gets the strongest Big Ten team that does not go to a BSC. Once the Capital One bowl makes its choice, the Outback Bowl makes it choice followed by the Alamo Bowl making its choice of the remaining Big Ten teams.

For the SEC (Southeast Conference) once the BSC selection is done, the next highest team goes to the Capital One Bowl. Once Capital One Bowl is settled, the Cotton makes its selection, followed by the Outback and then the Chick-fil-A bowl in Atlanta makes its choice from the remainder. Then the other SEC bowls follow as per their agreements with the SEC.

If Boston College beats Virginia Tech (Atlantic Coast Championship game) on Saturday, Virginia Tech will likely go to the Chick-fil-A bowl.

If Ohio State is selected to go into a BSC bowl, the Capital One will take Michigan State which will likely mean Iowa will go to the Outback bowl.

As for LSU, the opinions are that the Tigers will be going to the Chick-fil-A bowl. If so Josh will have a good number of friends on the other side of the field, several of whom will be in VA Tech’s marching band. That said, the Outback bowl could elect to invite LSU instead of South Carolina (which would then go to the Chick-fil-A).

If LSU goes against Iowa, as Evie has said to her son, at half-time she will be cheering for the LSU band to do well. But for the rest of the game she will be for Iowa. I will be conflicted…at the moment I would side with Iowa but then I may end up cheering for of LSU.