A brief reintroduction

About four or five years ago, when I first stumbled onto the growing Georgia blogosphere, I became a fan of a blogger then known as 'The Realist' who provided ridiculous volumes of post-game analysis of Georgia football and marginally witty commentary on various other happenings in college athletics. Now, there were, obviously, numerous other Georgia blogs that I enjoyed reading, but let's leave them out of this for just a minute.

'The Realist' - in all his mystery - was gracious enough to pop by my old place and offer a comment from time to time whether it was on politics, sports or the alluring, yet mind-numbing draw of the Jesse Stone franchise made popular by uber-mustached actor Tom Selleck. Anyway, after writing about both sports and politics and, again, Tom Selleck, at my old blog for some time, the sports writer in my had enough and opted to venture out on my own.

And the first one to offer a hand was 'The Realist' ... and, given my appreciation of his site, I was flattered. So, in the process of sorting out where to go, what to call it and who would do what, 'The Realist' finally decided to pony up the truth and reveal his identity to me. To say it was shocking would be as grand of an understatement as suggesting that the whole Jenny Craig worked out for Valerie Bertinelli.

Eddie Van Halen's kicking himself now, ain't he?

'The Realist' it seems, was a guy in my Sunday School class who I considered a friend - and, at one point, even kicked out of my house in a now comedic, though then painfully awkward, moment when he was visibily infuriated at Georgia's inability to play anything resembling defense in the first quarter against West Virginia in the 2005 Sugar Bowl - and it made the marriage that much easier. So, with that, the first version of The Cover Two was born.

Well, kind of. He got really busy with work and a pursuit of higher education, which was great for him, and I got busy with work and, well, something else I'm sure. So we sort of unofficially folded it, and 'The Realist' ultimately had to leave the intertubes to focus on professional (i.e. money-making) ventures.

Of course, the next year ... I wanted to try again. So, with the help of Tim (aka 'Our Boy Tim Kelly' from The Cover Two podcast), we gave it another go. And, of course, it didn't go anywhere for the exact same reasons.

Now, as you read this on what is the third incarnation of The Cover Two you might ask yourself 'Jmac, what incentive do we have to think that you won't do this for, like, 17 minutes and then call it quits?' Fair questions, but I've been writing this particular post for 19 minutes, so I'm already beating the spread.

It takes Tim 17 seconds to throw down a Natural Light.

I'm currently talking with a few folks about writing here, so that's good. And we're going to bring back The Cover Two podcast, starting next week (though we haven't officially picked a day yet), so that's good too. Safe to say, I'm sensing a better level of committment from Team Cover Two this time around, so let's see what happens.