Jim Harris: Arkansas Razorbacks vs Samford Bulldogs Live Game Blog

11 years ago

The stage is set. It’s the Arkansas Razorbacks vs Samford Bulldogs at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.

Join us today as Jim Harris tracks the action on the field from War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. The Arkansas Razorbacks vs Samford Bulldogs. Here is Jim’s game preview. The game kicks off at 6 p.m. Sept. 7, 2013, and is televised on pay per view. Details on how to get the game are available by clicking this link. Bookmark this page and plan to come back often. No one live blogs a game like Jim Harris. Want proof? Here is Jim’s work from the season opener last week against the UL-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns. You’ll learn more about Razorback football during one Jim Harris Live Game Blog than you thought possible. Guaranteed. Also, don’t forget to tag us in pictures your take and post to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. On Twitter, we’re @sportinglifeark; click here to get us on Facebook and here to get us on Instagram. Whether you’re at the game, at a party or hanging with friends at the sports pub, we want to see all the fun you’re having. And if you’re planning to come out to War Memorial Stadium, please come by, say hi to us and grab a FREE Tropical Smoothie. All the details on that are at this link. We look forward to seeing you there.

It’s game day, people. Let’s have a blast!

6:08 — Arkansas receives and defends the north end zone. Kickoff is 8 yards deep and downed by Eric Hawkins. Samford obviously has a strong-legged kickoff man.

6:07 p.m. — With pay-per-view, as the Razorbacks have for this game, you could set the kickoff time at any time you wanted, right? 7 p.m. would have been nicer in terms of temperature for the fans. But 50,000 people at least have been on the golf course partying since at least 2 p.m. (and a whole lot well before then, as we saw many areas already filled with tailgating at 10 a.m.). It’s 96 degrees now, and at 3 p.m. the head index around here was 102, so I’m sure a little more heat in the stadium won’t bother the fans. The empty seats are mostly in the south end zone, spread out across the stop mostly. Also some a few hundred empty seats under the scoreboard in the north end zone. It’s my contention these seats should be $55. Not every seat in this stadium is worth the same (and forget that, yes, the people sitting from 30-to-30 pay extra to the Foundation), I’m just talking face value on the tickets. For years, when tickets were $6, then $8, then $10, the end zone tickets weren’t the same price. So they need to be the same price now? $55? something to think about in this so-called stadium debate. Little Rock is “taxed” an additional $10 per seat, ostensibly to make up for the money lost by not playing on campus. But would this game have drawn 60,000 in Fayetteville? Would the season ticket price be seen as a bit much if Samford and Mississippi State also were part of the Fayetteville season tickets. You’d have to ask the people who only buy tickets for Fayetteville that question, I suppose. Anyway, there’s a football game to play. Let’s enjoy it.