Special delivery

   The carpet is here.

   That's right, the rug that will be put in at Foreman Field -- artificial turf, astroturf, whatever you want to call it -- was sitting in the back of an 18-wheeler that had it's engine running as I drove down Bluestone Avenue this morning on my way to work.

   I stopped and asked Stan and Fred and Pat and Earl what they had in the back of the truck. The conversation went something like this.

   "Hey, what ya got in the back of that truck?"

   "Rug."

   "From Georgia?"

   "Yep."

   "Is it green and does it have stripes on it?"

   "It does, as a matter of fact."

   "When's it going down on the field?"

   "Dunno. We just deliver the stuff."

   I looked over Stan's shoulder and the goalpost in the north end zone was standing, waiting for rug to be put down around it. And there was a really big opening in the northwest corner of Foreman Field where they are talking about putting in temprary seats to meet the demand for tickets. Looked like a lot of equipment had been moved from that corner. In fact, when I thought about it, Foreman Field had become overgrown with weeds and little bothersome trees sprouting up wherever they could survive.

   Now that football is just around the corner -- did you know today marks 100 days to kickoff? -- the place is really starting to look ... clean.

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