{"id":2991,"date":"2010-06-18T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T19:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2010-06-18T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T19:07:58","slug":"college-football-annual-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/18\/college-football-annual-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Annual Time (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like a bad drug, or an otherwise undesirable habit, each year I insist I will swear off throwing $$$ after the yearly crop of annuals.  It never works.  I am hopelessly addicted.<\/p>\n<p>For my upcoming Scotland trip (16+ hrs travel time counting wasted hrs trying to go from here to there) I picked up \u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Phil Steele\u2019s 2010 College Football Preview<\/em>, which features Auburn and Alabama on the cover.  Steele advertises his annual as the most accurate preseason magazine over the last 11 years.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lindy\u2019s Sports Southeastern 2010 Preview<\/em>, which features Georgia\u2019s A.J. Green on the cover.<\/li>\n<li><em>Athlon Sports Southeastern 2010 Preview<\/em>, which agrees with Lindy that A.J. is worthy of being placed on a cover.<\/li>\n<li><em>SportingNews College Football 2010<\/em>, which is yet another regional annual with Green on the cover.<\/li>\n<li><em>Athlon Sports Pro Football 2010<\/em>, which has nothing to do with college football annuals, but I decided to pick it up since it features Matt Ryan, and I wanted something to balance out my college football reading material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The funny thing about all these annuals is that I never save them; not really a collector of annuals.  If I was a collector (or was a collector in the past) I bet I would have a crap load of money on my hands for people that enjoy buying old annuals.<\/p>\n<p>All of these annuals may be somewhat of a letdown in light of the recent realignment activities and discussions.  If I have some time, and anyone is interested, I will post some impressions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a bad drug, or an otherwise undesirable habit, each year I insist I will swear off throwing $$$ after the yearly crop of annuals. It never works. I am hopelessly addicted. For my upcoming Scotland trip (16+ hrs travel time counting wasted hrs trying to go from here to there) I picked up \u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/18\/college-football-annual-time-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College Football Annual Time (Again)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}