Last night I got a late phone call. It was Hollis and he was in Nashville for the Ole Miss/Vanderbilt football game. It was an SEC game and the season opener. Last year Vanderbilt came back from a seventeen point deficit to defeat Ole Miss so all the Mississippi fans were all revved up wanting revenge. Hollis said he figured I would still be up because the game was real exciting. Ole Miss jumped out to a ten to nothing lead, but Vandy score twenty-one unanswered points. They led at half time twenty-one to ten. Ole Miss started the second half by scoring, then Vandy scored, and the lead went back and forth till the last couple minutes of the game. One of Vanderbilt's best players was hit hard and had to leave the game and Vandy was deep in their territory with a fourth down and a lot of yards to go. They went for it and made a first down. The injured player came back and made a big gain. Then next play Vandy scored and led by three points. There was just over a minute left when an Ole Miss running back made a long run for a touchdown. On the kick off to Vandy the ball went into the end zone and the man who received it made a good run back. A face mask penalty put the ball close to the fifty yard line. Vandy was coming back when the ball was intercepted and that ended the game with Ole Miss winning: Thirty-nine to Thirty-five.
It was good to talk to Hollis and hear him so excited about the victory.
I know a lot of you may not be interested in football but I had all that in my head and just had to get it out.
Tales of Harper, short stories and poems
about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle
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