Argentine soccer team, Racing, rushing for post game juice boxes and Rice Krispie treats.
Racing for local windsurfers.
Janitor's Note: Amazingly, our fertile imagination contributed very little to this article. The more improbable it sounds, the more likely it's true.
Racing. We know to most of you it brings to mind that great Buenos Aries football club - 16 time champion of Primera División as well as the first Argentine team to be world club champion. Perhaps it's because Racing was promoted back to the first division after defeating Atlanta in 1985. Of course, who wasn't beating Atlanta in any sport in 1985. But this, in fact, was an Argentine club, Atlanta, which allegedly got its name after our city of Atlanta was struck by an earthquake.
Cursory searching of the interwebs doesn't show any earthquakes hitting Georgia in 1904. There was a minor earthquake in Maine that year. Perhaps, they heard about an earthquake in Augusta (Maine) but confused it with Augusta (Georgia) and then thought, after looking at a map, that Atlanta (Georgia) would be a cooler name. Who knows...
But, the comedian Earthquake was performing in clubs around in Atlanta in the early 1990s, so there is that...
While we hate to disappoint our Hall County readers by switching the conversation away from futbol, there was a bit of racing in our little community, and, in fact, in Hall County last weekend. Timed to roughly coincide with the End of Days, our 34th Atlanta Fall Classic & End of the World Spectacular took place on the scenic grounds of and waters off of the Lake Lanier Sailing Club. Organized by the now legendary Chris Voith, it was an event blessed with wind in a place not often blessed with wind.
After all, this is Atlanta: Where Wind Goes to Die™. (Our new catchphrase)