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Are your Georgia Bulldogs taking on a potent offense, trying to beat the same team twice in one season, and looking to become the first team in the 12 team playoff era to win a game coming off a bye (pending Alabama’s current face flop against Indiana, of course)? Then you could probably use a drink. I can help you with that.
A lot of folks around college football tuned into Ole Miss’s opening round matchup against Tulane with genuine interest. Not so much from an X’s and O’s perspective. Mainly just to see how the Rebels would play after a monthlong soap opera in which Lane Kiffin attempted to hold the Ole Miss administration hostage before decamping for Baton Rouge. He left behind a staff of coaches who would lead the Rebels through their playoff run despite already being employed at LSU. It’s hard to gauge how a team would perform under this unprecedented arrangement.
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The Rebels responded by beating Tulane under Pete Golding about as soundly as they had beaten the Green Wave in the regular season under the leadership of Coach Emotional Blackmail Von Yogapants. Which doesn’t really tell us a great deal about how the Rebels will perform tonight against a much tougher Bulldog team. But it at least seems to tell us that the Black Bears haven’t packed it in entirely.
At the same time, the distractions for both coaches and players have multiplied over the past week with the transfer portal opening and coaches pulling double duty trying to coach at Ole Miss and recruit for LSU. That’s generally been a tough combination when we’ve seen it in the past.
Ideally I’d love to see the Red and Black come out strong and force the Rebels to play from behind. Because I suspect that if they get far enough behind some guys in powder blue may start evaluating their next career options mid-game. However if the Bulldogs surrender an early turnover and give the Rebs a chance to have some fun, and maybe play a little looser, this one will get tight in a hurry. Are we clear on the plan? Sweep in, sweep through, and devastate everything in your path, Dawgs. And what’s the cocktail for sweeping through the gulf coast leaving destruction in your wake before they know what hit them?
A Hurricane, of course.
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The Hurricane was created at Pat O’Brien’s bar in New Orleans in the 1940s and remains the signature drink of this venerable Big Easy institution. At the time Caribbean rum was cheaper than whiskey and other liquors, so Pat O’Brien’s began experimenting with the spirit, eventually landing on their recipe that remains essentially unchanged to this day. The world famous bar continues to sell more than half a million Hurricanes every year.
You’ll need:
2 ounces light rum
2 ounces dark rum
1 ounce fresh-squeezed lime juice
1 ounce orange juice
1/2 ounce passion fruit puree
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 teaspoon grenadine
An orange wheel and cocktail cherry for garnish.
To assemble the drink add the light and dark rums, lime and orange juices, passion fruit puree, simple syrup and grenadine into a shaker with ice and shake until chilled.Strain into a large Hurricane glass over fresh ice and garnish with the orange wheel and a cherry. Enjoy, and…
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
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