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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
What Take 10 Wants For Christmas
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“It’s that time of year… when the world falls in love…” Blah blah blah. Sure, we could sit around singing the 72,049,385th off-key version of “The Christmas Waltz,” but why bother when you can cozy yourself up next to a warm computer and check out What Take 10 Wants For Christmas? We’ve been naughty AND nice so we reckon nabbing some of the cool “HS football stuff we reeeeeeeally want” on Santa Haws’ list is, as they say, in the bag.
10: Wireless routers at stadiums — We’ve got some Internet cards, but the Dome reminds us every year how nice it is to just be able to snag a wireless signal and go. Certainly makes us happier on deadline. Or maybe we should just get an iPhone like everyone else.
9: No more strangely timed games — Saturday games and 8 p.m. games throw everybody off a bit, including us. We’d like to see every game start at 7:30 Friday night. And let’s put a 2 1/2-hour time limit on the games too, just for good measure.
8: Instant replay at every game — Yeah, it could slow things down a little at times, but that whole Roswell-Peachtree Ridge thing drove everybody nuts. Replay could have quelled some of that problem. Of course, it would create more issues, but what doesn’t?
7: Press box food spreads everywhere — Some schools really do this up nice, and it’s always good when they do. Sandwiches, barbeque, pizza, drinks. We do have to spend several hours covering games; it’s nice to have a little grub. And since it’s free, we can’t even complain when mushrooms show up on the pizza.
6: The GHSA moves somewhere near the interstate — Have you ever driven to Thomaston? I’m sure it’s a fine little town. I’ve been there, and I’ve gotten twisted around the strange street layout. But Macon seems like a more logical choice. Is the GHSA trying to hide from us all?
5: Stat guys in the press box for every team — I’m pretty used to keeping my own stats by now, but it’s always good news when somebody hands me a stat sheet at the end of the first half. Of course, being a skeptical journalist, I often don’t trust the stats I get. I clearly have issues.
4: Every game is at the Dome — It’d be a pain for the teams and would feed the South Georgia cries of favoring Atlanta, but it’d be great for us. Any time you can walk from your office to the game is a good time. No parking or traffic woes. No weather issues. It’s perfect - for us, anyway.
3: Everybody is happy with their realignment — Fat chance, sure. But there’s so much consternation surrounding this stuff. We’re all for harmony around here.
2: An All-Classifications champ — This would be great. Set up some sort of tournament, though it’d be better if there were only four classes again. Maybe we could make that happen at the same time. Two more weeks, and there could be an all-class state title, and Buford fans could stop their posturing and see if their Wolves are as good as they think.
1: North/South harmony — Like I said, we’re all for bringing people together. Maybe we need to exhume Lincoln or something for this task. He seemed to have this act down. Or perhaps we can at least join hands and sing Kumbaya, if only for the Christmas season. Even the Grinch’s heart would melt after seeing that.
Go on. Take Ten. What’s on YOUR football wish list? Shoot Santa Haws your list of what’s naughty and nice about Georgia high school football.
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