In honor of the Rebs having another winning season and getting the nod in the AT&T Cotton Bowl, myself and the peeps in the neighborhood decided to throw a party. This was not some, we'll come over about 30 minutes before the game and hang out.... I'll have susie make a dip party. No sir!! We called on our friends, the "Magnum P.I.G" cooking team. They have the tools, they have the talent to tackle a daunting task as the one shown above, the infamous whole hog. I had never personally taken on this challenge either so this was going to be a great learning experience for all of us, not to mention a ton of fun.
So it went for us, the rig arrived at 2 pm on New Years Day and we formed a battle plan and made a list of essential equipment that was needed to pull off this hog. We parted ways and hit up the stores, etc and reconvened at about 4 or 5 and started getting things going. The goal was to put the pig on at around 8, so we had some work to do in order to make that happen. Well we brought in the pig, it was a she, and we started prepping her. Peeled the skin off the ribs, seasoned the interior and exterior and prepped her mouth and ears. Considering there was several people working on this project we got ahead of schedule and were able to put the pig on around 7. We thought it would be done around kickoff the next day. We were wrong about that, but we will get to that later.
Well considering that we had about 15-20 hours to kill while this thing cooked, the party started building steam. What started out as a few casual beers around a fire pot turned into festival of consumption and hilarity. We drew a crowd of about 20 for the pre-party before the pre-party. It was insane....20 Budweiser's and a few mixed drinks later I am still trying to remember what the hell it was that I was laughing about for 4 hours straight. Well anyway, myself and 2 others who we will just refer to as "Pancho and Lefty" pulled the night duty for the hog. Someone's gotta stay up and monitor the fire for these things and even though we didn't exactly volunteer for this job, I am pretty sure we were the only ones who were not in the mood to sleep. So we did it. There was a moment on the cooking rig where we were just hanging out, monitoring the temperature and listening to some tunes when all of sudden "Lefty" just broke out into some air guitar and started shredding that thing like he was Slash. He got so into it that he ripped off the strap of his air guitar and just kept on playing. As soon as he tore the strap, "Pancho" and I looked at each other in disbelief because we weren't sure what happened, really happened.
Anyway, we got pulled at around 4 and it really couldn't have come at a moment to soon. We were cold and there was no more wood to put in the firepot. The morning shift took over and we slept or napped for about 6 hours. When I woke, there was about 10 or so people there pre-gaming. I walked into the kitchen to a buffet of bloody mary's and screwdrivers. "If you can't beat em, join em" or "when in rome"....or whatever analogy you want to describe for the occasion. AND it started again, not 20 minutes after waking up, the gas got turned up. I hung out in PJ's and mixed drink till about noon and then made the day official with a shower and a change of clothes. At that point the crowd had grown from 10 to 20 people and there were some concerns over whether we would have pig for kickoff. Well it was established that we needed to go a little longer so the crowd would have to wait.
The game comes on and the crowd steadily grows from 20 to 30 people. At one point, I got up to go inside to warm up and it was then that I realized that there was a house full of people in the living room watching the game, so add another 10 plus there. I was glad that we won the game and thank goodness our defense came to play because our offense has some ups and downs. We moved the ball here and there and had some opportunities but just couldn't cash in on them. I mean Powe on the goaline hurt a little. It gave them some momentum and had probably just about every rebel fan thinking, "Here we go again". Well it turned out be a defensive game on the scoreboard and fortunately the Rebs were on the better side of that battle. The pick six was no doubt the back breaker and it was nice to finish the season with a win.
You might be thinking that this is the part of the story where everyone goes home and calls it a day. Nope! The pig came off the grill, the crowd, who was mostly pro-ole miss was amped, so it was pretty much on at that point. I mean the pig was getting torn up, the beer was getting torn up, the shots got introduced, there were people shot-gunning beer. It was like, all at once, this house decided to take there BAC(Blood Alcohol Content) and step on, throw it out the door, and then light it on fire. It was quite possibly a slow motion recollection of my twenties. I walked in the kitchen and in glance across the room I saw a bottle get turned up, a bbq sandwich get eaten in one bite, a girl passed out, a guy drooling, and just a sea of people that had entirely over served themselves. It was madness, insanity and fun all rolled up into a nice package. The party rocks till well past dark and people are dropping like flies. I saw three people get carried out and one person made the comment, "Now I see why you don't have many parties at your house, because if they all were half as out of control as this one your house would be gone. I was hoping to just wait it out and have everyone leave so I could go to bed and worry with this mess tomorrow. Somehow that thought got tossed out the window, so we left and went to the local bar, which I think was the only way we were going to get all these people out of the house. Well some people went home and some went out and some should have never gone out and should have stayed at home. I am apart of the latter group, but oh well, seemed like a good idea at the time.
Anyway, it was a successful game and party and I hope that everyone that was there had a really good time, I know I did and I am pretty sure Mac did as well. He was in town and in attendance for the big day. On a sidenote, we apologize for our lack of contributions to this post. We have both been entirely swamped with work over the past few months and I personally have been experiencing some writers block. We will try to do better.
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