Football season is here
by Pat Dooley
HOOVER, Ala. — So here we are again as our summers continue to shrink down to long weekends. Summer is over when we descend on Hoover because football season is here.
Already this has been an odd trip. It seemed to take longer than usual to make the drive. Our favorite barbecue place outside Dothan shut down. And when we got here I realized I never made a reservation.
So I’m bunking with Robbie Andreu, which is fine and looking forward to what should be an interesting few days. Already it seems strange to be waiting for the first coach to hit the print media room and there is a Texas A&M helmet on the podium. I am going to have to learn where the ampersand is on my keyboard.
Robbie and I will be blogging, tweeting, doing videos and, of course, writing columns and features throughout so we hope you will enjoy it.
Pat Dooley shot an 85 at Augusta National. Tripled the 18th. Other than that, there’s not much to tell. Great wife, two beautiful daughters. Been at The Sun since 1987 and worked in Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale before that. Spent a year in Storrs, Conn. Actually, it was only five days but it seemed like a year. Likes Tom Petty, The Beatles, Weezer and long walks on St. Augustine Beach as long as they end at the Beachcomber. Reads every e-mail except those sent with Russian alphabet. Favorite sports are college football, college basketball, golf and cooking chili.
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