What it was was football

College football begins at the Big House

    The first time I ever heard of Andy Griffith was on his 45 RPM record ‘What It Was, Was Football’.  On it Andy is a country boy (big stretch) who finds himself in a college town at noon one Saturday in October. He buys a hot dog and ‘a big orange drink’ then gets swept up by a horde of people into a stadium where he saw “a whole raft of people a’sit…