Filed under: Auburn, Oklahoma, SEC
In the South, we care about college football a lot more than you do. So much so that it's our drug, our prohibition era liquor, our own illicit underground economy.
Sure there are rules that prohibit the best college football players from being paid to play. But those rules are merely obstacles to be overcome, the money will find a way to reach its desired object. The college football world has cast its gaze upon Auburn's Cam Newton. Whether Newton received money to play for Auburn -- or anywhere for that matter -- has become the top story in the final full month of the season. The only wonder about the Newton imbroglio is that it's any sort of surprise at all.
Tuesday night, I sat down on my couch to watch an extraordinary ESPN documentary about the nation's number one football recruit, Marcus Dupree from Philadelphia, Mississippi. The story was set in the early 1980s, but the rhythms of the piece are timeless in a region where players are still being bought and sold based on their gridiron potential.
Watch the long, loping strides as Dupree breaks into the open field, runs over defenders, and streaks into the end zone. Then close your eyes for a moment, put the film in HD, and you're watching Auburn's Cam Newton running roughshod over SEC defenses.
Just as Dupree emerged on the field at Oklahoma for a brief, shining moment, a college football comet streaking across the Southern night sky, so too has Cam Newton become a college football shooting star, burning brightly on the village on the Plains, in less than three months.
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