I have moved around a lot in my life. My father was in the Air Force so we never lived in one place for more than a few years. From 1st to 12th grades I attended nine different schools! All told I lived in six different states before he retired to his hometown of Knoxville, where I finished high school and started college at the University of Tennessee. Since leaving college I have continued to be on the move. In fact I’ve changed addresses six times between three states in the 13 years since. I moved back to Knoxville in late 2006. The main reason I started this website was because I was so thrilled that I was finally going to be able to really follow my favorite team that I wanted to throw myself into my fanaticism in a big way!

Is there a point to this post? Yes!

First of all, I had always planned for this blog to be a lot more personal than it ended up being. I didn’t want just facts, figures, and links. I wanted more of a conversational dialogue along with it. Unfortunately, I have not done a great job of getting that tone down. Maybe I’ll do better from now on!

But the real reason I bring this up is to admit that during all my moves around the country I have actually picked up five favorite college teams. Luckily for me, during all the conference upheavals in the 1990’s and 2000’s all five of them ended up in different conferences. Which means I rarely have to worry about them playing each other! This week brings one of those rare match-ups. Tuesday Tennessee travels to the town I lived in from 2002-2006 (and where my son was born!) - Louisville, Kentucky - to take on the Cardinals. So I can’t miss this chance to follow the Lady Vols up and watch both teams play!

As a true college sports fanatic I obviously have a pecking order for my five favorites for just such moments. And Tennessee is far and away my favorite team! But it will be great to see another team I like that I don’t get to see much anymore.

I hope this personal aside didn’t bore you too much! I’ll get back to dry facts and figures soon enough!

(PS: I know you’re just dying to know the full list of my favorite college teams! So here they are in the order in which I root for them: Tennessee, East Carolina, Baylor, Louisville, Air Force.)

This entry was posted on Monday, October 15th, 2007 at 12:18 am.