Wake Up, Baton Rouge: It's Time for Football

That jerk Gustav is rolling through the Gulf of Mexico, threatening our friends on the southern coast of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Officials moved up the kickoff of LSU's opener against some cupcake school (ahem) to 10 AM local time (11 Eastern) in order to make sure the game could slide in before Gustav really makes his presence known.

Ten o'clock is awful early for live football; tailgate breakfast is a beautiful thing (chorizo!), but replacing coffee with Bud Light and brandy is not advised. Still, you have to believe a small part of the forward move of the kickoff serves to keep Tigers fans a bit more sober, right? Evacuations (if needed) are difficult enough without 70,000 hammered young adults in the way.

We hope first and foremost that everyone remains safe in Gustav's path. We also hope, though, that LSU fans find a way to have a good time this morning. Sport is the greatest distraction. Some unadulterated joy (hopefully) before a potentially gnarly reality is deserved for the folks of southern Louisiana.

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