|  After last month's Florida orange fiasco, Governor Bob Riley (R) is too frightened of the religious right to dare a friendly wager on the outcome of the Alabama-Texas BCS championship game. Fear not!
State pride lives on in the liberal blogosphere. When our friends at Burnt Orange Report in Texas proposed a a small, friendly wager of locally produced FOOD, we at Left in Alabama were happy to accept. Your liberal bloggers here at LiA are proud to demonstrate our abiding faith that the Crimson Tide will prevail over the Longhorns Thursday evening and take their rightful place in the history books. So get ready; we're venturing some Alabama ribs against Texas sausage in the Blogger Championship Series: Burnt Orange Report vs. Left in Alabama. That's right. Nothing says Alabama is number one like a couple of slabs of Dreamland's best* -- with sauce -- pledged against 10 pounds of Elgin sausage (that's a lot of sausage, particularly since 40% of us are vegetarians.) This is a straight up, win or lose bargain. Points are for patsies -- moral victories are just as empty on the field as they are in politics. "But, but, ... isn't this (gasp!) GAMBLING," you say? Maybe so. Strictly speaking, it might be. But it doesn't involve slot machines and -- now y'all know I'm not eager to see a bingo hall on every block -- a small, friendly side bet expressing state pride isn't likely to damn any of our souls for eternity. Or to attract the attention of Troy King. Besides, since Bob Riley is too chicken to do the right thing, somebody had to publicly step up and get behind our guys. Bring it on, Longhorns, and may the best team win! Roll Tide!** * Other finalists: Belle Chevre gourmet goat cheese (Belle blogs), Alabama satsumas, Conecuh sausage and Peggy's Peanut Brittle. ** As a dyed in the wool Sooner fan, my fingers almost refused to type those words, but then again, we're talking Texas here.
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