All Glory is Fleeting - Florida State 46 Chattanooga Tennessee 7

Florida State is 2 -0 ................pounding on two weak Division I-AA schools and paying them off in $900,000 of blood money....for their blood. Reminds me of George Patton's troops saying under their breath, "Blood and Guts - yeah - our blood and his guts."

Next Saturday starts the real season when nationally ranked Wake Forest Demon Deacons visit town.........Wake Forest? Just a few years ago - Wake was the doormat of the ACC - now they are coming to town hoping they can extend their win streak over Florida State to 3-0.

Even after two big wins - FSU barely made it into the top 25 ranking. It was a beautiful day in Tallahassee - but you can tell as the camera pans all the empty seats in Doak Campbell Stadium - that the dynasty has not returned to Leon County. FSU was the team of the 90s - winning 2 national championships and being ranked in the Top 4 in the nation for 14 years in a row. Folks say that things go in cycles - right now Southern Cal and Florida are hot - FSU - Miami - Penn State - Alabama - Notre Dame and Michigan are not.

One wonders what attracted all those fine football players in the 90s to come to the hills in the Florida Panhandle. Some say it was Coach Bowden - others think that it was all the pretty girls at FAMU - some cynics think it was the fantastic shopping at Dillard's. What ever it is/was - the fans impatiently await a return to glory.

Currently - FSU is playing with a dozen players suspended for 4 games for cheating on a Music Test. The professor used the same test for 7 years and a tutor gave the students a previous test with all the answers circled. The next game - the Wake Forest game - will be the last game played before all those players return. It was ironic that last year FSU went to the Music City Bowl minus the players that cheated on the music test.

Ticket prices for the first 2 games were a joke. One could get the best seats in the house for $5 to $10 outside at kickoff. An even bigger joke are the face value ticket prices of $36 to $60 for regular season games. Needless to say - some folks are certainly making a lot of money off the sweaty backs of these amateur players. Faithful fans keep writing hefty checks for season tickets to keep their places in the stands if the Noles return to glory.

The video represents the new and the old. First a fly-by of the Stealth B-2 bomber - second - Osceola riding Renegade and planting the spear - the spear that no one fears anymore.

"A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
- Gen. George C. Patton