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| | | Sports | Home » » » Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference | | | | | | | Description: | | There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory. In September 2006, popular sports columnist and lifelong University of Tennessee fan Clay Travis set out on his "Dixieland Delight Tour." Without a single map, hotel reservation, or game ticket, he began an 8,000-mile journey through the beating heart of the Southland. As Travis toured the SEC, he immersed himself in the bizarre game-day rituals of the common fan, brazenly dancing with the chancellor's wife at a Vanderbilt frat party, hanging with University of Florida demigod quarterback Tim Tebow, and abandoning himself totally to the ribald intensity and religious fervor of SEC football. Dixieland Delight is Travis's hilarious, loving, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining chronicle of a season of ironic excess in a world that goes a little crazy on football Saturdays. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Clay Travis | | Paperback:
| 384 pages | | Publisher:
| It Books | | Publication Date:
| July 31, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0061431249 | | Product Length:
| 8.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.56 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.95 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.74 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 45 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Worth your time if you're an SEC football fanSep 17, 2007
By L. L. Stallings
Even though I have degrees from two SEC schools and have attended games in five SEC stadiums, I wasn't sure I would like this book. I've enjoyed it thoroughly. I enjoyed his take on Southern culture. He hit the nail on the head without being offensive. I even learned some facts about SEC football that I didn't know previously.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 SEC fan mustAug 04, 2007
By Gustav A. Blomquist
This hilarious look at college football left me laughing out loud. Clay Travis manages to explore the hidden side of college football - from Bama bangs to his rating of SEC women - his experiences are highly entertaining and his book only makes me even more eager for football season to start. I can't imagine any SEC football fan (or any football fan) not loving this book.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Supporting cast is classicAug 27, 2007
By Neville Dastoor
Dixieland Delight is a wonderful read. All at once ironic, nostalgic, reverent, and hysterical, the book highlights the multidimensional author who is Clay Travis: sportsman, politico, lover, and friend.
However, the best part of Travis' work might be his lovable sidekicks, especially his intriguing companion during the Florida/South Carolina game who we only know as "Neville." Travis' portrait of Neville -- whom we now know was described in earlier, unedited drafts by Travis as "ruggedly handsome," "brilliant," "possessing piercing brown eyes," and "deeply complex" -- leaves the reader inevitably seeking to learn more about this obviously influential figure in Travis' life.
A definite recommendation.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Excellent BookOct 11, 2010
By Kerby1
It's great I learned and laughed a lot. If you're an SEC fan it is a must read.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Decent read for non-SEC enthusiasts. Otherwise don't waste your timeAug 10, 2009
By Joey
Clay offers a glimpse of what SEC football is like from a fan's perspective. There's nothing groundbreaking especially if you are already an SEC fan. He simply visits every campus, offers a few opinions about the places, throws out a few tired jokes that SEC fans have heard countless times and lets us know he went to Vandy Law School. It was boring to me, but for someone completely unfamiliar with southern college football culture, it might be somewhat entertaining.
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