Hey Kids. . .

. . .it's Sunday and we all know what that means?

Many tens of thousands of college children are sweating off their hangovers this early morn.

As for me, I'm smiling even though today is rather dour looking, cloudy, brown, but at least not as cold as yesterday. I'm smiling because my Ole Miss Rebels (that's THE University of Mississippi Rebels for y'all who don't speak Southern) beat the living bejesus out of the tired old kitty cats of LS-WHO? I mean LSU.

They not only beat them, they dominated them. This on a day when LSU honored Billy Cannon and the 1958 National Championship team.

"Billy Cannon" is vulgar language in the Ole Miss vernacular. Billy Canon's famous punt return in 1959 stopped the Rebels from maintaining a perfect season on their way to the National Championship that year. And it has haunted the Rebels for this long.

One word: Absolved.

My dad had a great, long-time friend, Douglas Elmore, who was our insurance salesman and a true christian man. Doug Elmore was the quarterback during that famous game in 1959. Doug led the Rebels down the field in the last minutes of the game and nearly scored the game winning touchdown with 18 seconds left before being stopped mere feet from the goaline. Before Doug's untimely death a few years ago, dad liked to pick at him, saying when he would stop by the office on a courtesy call, "Doug, if you'd a scored that touchdown, they'd be singin' songs about you instead of ol' Billy Cannon." Doug would chuckle, smile that big wry smile of his and wave it off with a humble, "Yeah, I guess they would."

We miss you Doug and your shortcoming on that famous day was finally corrected yesterday. God Bless the Rebels, Ole Miss and Mississippi. Being on the top is not something we can often claim here in Mississippi, but for a lot of us, we're up there, enjoying the view.