The Great American Game

Whether it is the expansion of the SEC to include Missouri, South Carolina, Arkansas and Texas A&M or the NFL's decision to merge with the struggling AFL, every great league or sport has a pivotal moment in its history that signals its arrival and allows it to transcend its label of sports league to Great American Past-Time. For CFC, the dwindling fans was directly related to the retirement of past stars and the absence of a Seniors Tour. A drastic move was necessary.

Winners

On an unseasonably warm Winter Saturday in February of this year,  a youth movement (some say a Revolution) pulled into the drive at Clover Fork Croquet Club in West Knoxville, changing the landscape of Southern Croquet forever. Not since Tiger Woods teed it up in the Quad-Cities Open has a sport been so inalterably changed when Adam Priest and Robbie Pryor stepped from their limousine and picked up their mallets for the first time. The game and the league would never be the same.

Yellow conceding to Purple...again

Over the next few installments, we'll take a look back on the controversial and exceptional 2016 Season. We'll cover the Revolution, the magnificent run of World number one, John Kenny, the dissention and sex scandals that threatened the league, the allegations of performance enhancing drugs, the Rookie of the Year, and the inevitable physical decline of the game's legends. In a year which saw record crowds, the infusion of youth and charismatic players, and the league's first truly dominant player, we'll explore what happened behind the scenes and what to expect in 2017. This Blog is dedicated to The Great American Game and the exceptional athletes who play it.