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Football will be played in The Last Great Colosseum

The Battle at Bristol is America at its most excessive, and playing college football there actually makes perfect sense.

I’m gonna just be frank right off the bat: I’m a NASCAR fan.

I first fell in love with the sport (and yes, it’s a sport,) while living in South Carolina, the home state of The Lady in Black, Darlington Motor Speedway.

There’s just something about the roar of the engines and the brash personalities behind the wheel that lend a rugged attraction to this thing called stock car racing.

I grew up watching watching Brad Keselowski flip Carl Edwards into the catchfence to win his first career race, Clint Bowyer chase down Jeff Gordon after a wreck that caused their pit crews to tussle on pit road and watching Jamie McMurray win a race by the smallest possible margin of .