Greetings from Stallworth Stadium in Baytown, site of the seventh annual Bayou Bowl. The game, pitting all-star teams from Texas and Louisiana, is set to kick off in 3 hours, 19 minutes, promptly at 8 p.m.
There is a ton of area players on the roster, which can be found at www.bayoubowl.org.
It's still disappointing to me how few people really know about this game outside Baytown. It's a big thing here, but people in Houston either don't know about the game or don't care. Anyone who isn't aware is depriving themselves of a fun game. It's not a bunch of second-tier kids with nothing else to do. Players in this game are committed to Texas A&M, Utah, SMU, Louisiana Tech and TCU among other schools.
But as big as Texas is, it's easy to see how the all-star pool is diluted. After all, the Oil Bowl is taking place tonight up in Dallas, and we also have the Blue Chip game - or at least we did until recently. A check of that game's Web site shows no information regarding this year's game.
For those who can't make it out to Baytown, the game will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday on Fox Sports Houston and Fox Sports Southwest. Not sure who is on the call, but my money is on Local 2's Randy McIlvoy. The FSSW crew and a few press box workers were the only people who beat me out here; I couldn't come up with enough things to do to kill time between the end of the lunch banquet at 1:45 and 5:30 or 6.
I am simply thankful Stallworth now has wireless!!
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