Not the Seasons I Expected

When it comes to college football there are fans and there are fanatics. Destined by geography and family tradition to latch onto the Arkansas Razorbacks Blant Hurt is of the second type. Like most devotees he was captivated by his love of his team at an early age. But unlike more casual fans Hurt found himself attaching what some might call outsize life importance to the fortunes of the Razorbacks -a team which like his own life had a habit of going in directions that he did not foresee. In this remarkably candid funny and introspective memoir Blant Hurt recounts his half-century as the most zealous of college football fans. Beginning with the so-called Game of the Century when he was nine-years old he tells how this enduring passion has colored his relationships with his family and friends shaped his romances and for better or worse marked every era of his life-indeed marked his sense of life itself. A self-described literary man Hurt draws on his love of narrative and storytelling to drill down deep inside himself and examine the soul of a college football fanatic. Not the Seasons I Expected is that rare sports book that focuses on the hopes and dreams of the people in the bleachers rather than the ones on the playing field. As such its sure to speak to delirious/heartbroken fans everywhere.