Sime, No Reservations, El Cid, the Badgers and a Brewery!

Sime wrote me today in his usual “black-berry” shortened prose to tell me that “Mr. Bone in The Throat” Anthony Bourdain’s show, No Reservations, on the Travel Channel was filmed in South Carolina and would air on Monday night @ 10 PM. Surprisingly enough, he didn’t mention anything about the El Cid marching into Camp Randall Stadium to face his Wisconsin Badgers this Saturday @ high noon. Wait; is Wisconsin an hour behind us? Because that would make the game actually “high-1 pm” which doesn’t sound as cool.

I digress; I am not sure if it is Sime’s security in the Badgers’ level of play (Wisconsin has the longest win streak in the nation with eleven straight) or the highly endorsed (and scouted) talent of the 7th ranked team in the nation that has the usually loquacious Badger fan so unusually quite. Not a breath of talking smack has transverse between us? And I can’t help but think why?
Normally I am not all that concerned with the objective truths (the why); my interests normally lie in the much more interesting level of subjective truths (the how). As in how it is Sime is so quite? Could it be he fears the “App-State-So-Con Underdog” and doesn’t want to look too far down Championship Alley? Or perhaps Sime knows the Badgers are lacking in their ability to stop the spread offense--Wisconsin allowed an average of 317-yards rushing in their first two games: UNLV and Washington State—and this would be the third spread offense the Badgers would face.

Or could it be he knows his history: that Camp Randall Stadium was named after the Army training camp and Confederate-POW camp that once existed where the stadium sits today. Is tomorrow the day of reckoning for those Citadel grads that perished during the Civil War?

Probably not, but if I could pass along advice to the boys from the Citadel, ride up to Madison, collect your paycheck of $425,000 and skip over to the Capital Brewery in Middleton, Wisconsin, which Playboy just voted in their latest issue as being third on the “Top 10 College-Town Microbreweries”. Try a couple of those unapologetically Teutonic brews (see Bavarian Purity Laws, aka Reinheitsgebot) for the Bushido and enjoy your national spotlight and pay-day. Cheers!