An International Tiger Day & Proud To Be A Clemson Tiger Limerick

Artwork by Donnie Purcell

It’s International Tiger Day
And I’m bursting with pride when I say

The Last Clemson Wins The National Championship Limerick….I promise

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

I get it. It is time to calm down about #Clemson. No it isn’t. But so as not to contribute to the Great Clemson Nation being stigmatized as a bunch of obnoxious ungracious winners, I will make this one the last one….for a while. I would also like to note that most people in the Great Clemson Nation could give a rat’s ass about what the rest of the college football world thinks of them. I’m one of them, this forum notwithstanding.

A Clemson Wins The National Championship Limerick #2

I am a very proud Clemson University alum, Class of ’75. The Clemson wall is over my desk where I do this wonderful work making people smile and laugh with five lines of bad verse, a skill I honed at that glorious institution (see my personal blog – https://jgkravitz.wordpress.com/) My diploma is on that wall, my favorite picture from my Clemson Player days playing Snoopy in Your A Good Man Charlie Brown and a poster from a beer joint, Lester’s Tiger Den, where you could get three beers for a buck when I got there in the fall of 1970. MY BLOOD RUNNETH ORANGE. And that led to this……

A “Clemson Wins The National Championship” Limerick

I am sure that I have never had more riding on a single game than tomorrow’s National Championship game. I am extremely emotionally invested and I have a little action with a nice pay day if Clemson wins.