Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference

by Clay Travis

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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 show more 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. show less

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Clay Travis is a sports commentator and writer, based in Nashville, Tennessee. His work includes sports commentator for Fox Sports Radio, columnist for Outkick the Coverage, and his daily online sports shows, Periscope and Facebook Live show. He is the author of Man: The Book, On Rocky Top: A Front-Row Seta to the End of an Era, Dixieland Delight, show more and Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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