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Help Smoke Daddy Pick A College Football Team

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Aug 13, 2013 4:45PM

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Photo credit: Laurie Chipps

The folks at Smoke Daddy are looking for ways to fill all that extra space they just built and aren't hedging their bets hoping cooking solid barbeque is enough. The venerable Wicker Park smokehouse is looking to become the home for fans of a college football team that, ideally, doesn't already have a home among all the Notre Dame, Big Ten, SEC, and other powerhouse conference-affiliated bars in the city. So Smoke Daddy is holding a contest to see which college football team will be featured on their TV screens in the autumn.

All you need to do is tweet @TheSmokeDaddy your college allegiance and the college receiving the most votes will be the "featured" game with sound at Smoke Daddy. The votes will be tallied and the winning college announced on Smoke Daddy's Facebook page Aug 23. This would be an ideal opportunity to load the vote in favor of a bad football team or, better, a service academy. Let's rig the vote for the Naval Academy.