All-time presidential election here

By Joe McAdory

For the next few weeks, oanow.com is having an all-time presidential election. Through a number of primaries, then final general election, readers will have the opportunity to vote who they feel is the greatest president ever. The presidents were split into three divisions: nostalgic, Republican and Democratic. There were so many different parties in the early days, we decided to pool these presidents all into the nostalgic group rather than try to determine whether they best fit the Republican or Democratic mold.

The poll will be updated each week and can be found at http://www.oanow.com

Winners from each division will meet in a grand showdown. George Washington was the winner last week in Nostalgic Pool A.

Here is the complete list of candidates:

Nostalgic Pool A 1789-1825
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe

Nostalgic Pool B 1825-1853
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore

Republican Pool A 1861-1885
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Chester A. Arthur

Republican Pool B 1889-1913
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft

Republican Pool C 1921-1961
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower

Republican Pool D 1969-present
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
George H. Bush
George W. Bush

Democratic Pool A 1853-1889
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
Grover Cleveland

Democratic Pool B 1913-1963
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy

Democratic Pool C 1963-2001
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton

Preliminary prediction? Got a hunch the general election will be between George Washington, FDR and Ronald Reagan, but of course, that’s up to the voters.

ESPN.com tried to fool us

By Joe McAdory

Andrew Hatch and Charles Scott were celebrating an LSU touchdown in the lead photo, see above, on espn.com Saturday following LSU’s win at Auburn. OK, I get it. The picture, taken by The Associated Press, tells the story. LSU players celebrate ... they win ... that pretty much sums it up.

Except the photo wasn’t taken Saturday night at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Oops.

The picture shown on espn.com was actually one taken earlier this season when LSU played North Texas in Baton Rouge. In the distance behind Hatch’s right arm, you could spot players in green uniforms. That’s North Texas colors. Last I checked, Auburn wore blue and orange. Besides, Hatch never came close to the end zone in Auburn. A few of his friends did, however.

Hopefully next time espn.com will use photographs from the actual game they are covering.

What’ll ya have?

By Joe McAdory

Took my 8-year-old son, Joseph, to The Varsity in downtown Atlanta Sunday after the Falcons game. Got two free naked dogs with ticket stubs, and ordered a plate of onion rings to go along with it. My insides are filled with cooking oil.

That’s certainly an eclectic place and I look forward to pigging out there again. But something was missing.

Not gold

By Joe McAdory

LSU’s official school colors are listed as purple and gold. Well, the band has gold-looking uniforms and their majorettes are, well, golden. Very golden.

But the football uniforms? I don’t see any gold out there. The uniforms are, and have long been, YELLOW AND PURPLE. Those pants look bright yellow to me. They look like the Packers, minus the green, Notre Dame is gold. LSU is yellow.

Just sayin…

Big timers in town

By Joe McAdory

This must big a big game. Bigshot media folks like ESPN’s Ivan Maisel and CBS Sportsline’s Dennis Dodd are here, not to mention the ESPN GameDay crew. But we’ve been over that. Hope all of these out-of-town hotshots like BBQ and grits. If they don’t, well, that’s their problem. This is the South and they’d better like it.

In all the games I’ve been to at Jordan-Hare, this appears to be the most crowded press box I’ve seen. When you have two Top 10 teams going at it, that makes sense.