Gameday being in Boseman in near zero degree weather got

Nov 19, 2022, 10:08 AM

me thinking about how the local climate HAS shifted in the last 40 years. I still VIVIDLY remember taking a night field patrol during my first job in the chemical industry, at a DuPont plant outside Moncks Corner, SC. This particular night, the temperature up on the roof, where our giant cooling towers were, was....6 degrees. That is a single digit, SIX degrees. This was around 1979 or so.

Fast forward to now, we haven't had a winter with a temperature anywhere near that around here. I do remember one stretch in the late 80's where the temperature in Orangeburg didn't get above freezing for three consecutive days. But, the lows were still in the high teens, low 20's. I could predict the future back then. (All I had to do was walk through the plant and look up. Ice had pushed threaded cooling water pipes apart, and I knew the future was WATER raining down from above as soon as the temperature got above freezing for a couple of hours. It took over a week to repair all the damage from that cold snap.)

What does any of this have to do with Clemson football, you ask? Only this. Danny Ford embraced the fact that he was in Clemson, South Carolina, and that summers, and the start of football season, was going to be HOT. He drilled his charges relentlessly, getting them into such fine physical shape that we won games in the 4th quarter when our guys just flat outlasted the other guys. Changes in what is allowed in college football practices have cut down on that physical advantage that we used to have. I don't really see our guys out physicaling the opposition at the end of games like we used to. Maybe even the opposite, since we seem to let opponents back into games late nowadays.

So, I guess the upshot of all this is that, at least for a portion of South Carolina, it appears this globular warming thing may be real, but we are taking no advantage of it. And, I say, let Boseman, Montana, and any other place that wants it, have those single digit and NEGATIVE digit temperature days. Buffalo, New York is fighting 3+ feet of lake effect snow right now. They can have all that chit, I will stay in my humid Sou'se Calina, and root for my Tigers to find ways to win in the heat!

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Gameday being in Boseman in near zero degree weather got

I was in military service in northern Germany,

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