trojandad
11-15-2009, 01:30 PM
ok, i understand this may sound like a little much to some, but here's the background to this....
we're ahead of wo-s in the 4th and they have all the momentum, we couldn't score AGAIN and got a big break when a punt went out of bounds at the 1 yd line, pinning them way back....here we are breathing relief for the first time in the second half and, low and behold, they throw a 99 yd td pass the very next play to take the lead....
everyone on our side knew, from memories of the past two years the worst was coming, that this was the beginning of the end....one of my buds standing with me looked at me and asked "why are you smiling?", i didn't even know i was, i had no reason to, i'd experienced this hurt for two, and what looked like three, years.....
so i asked myself why and thought about it....turns out my mind was on (i know, this gets stupid) the 75 world series game (the one fisk hits the winning homer on, waving the ball fair, everyone knows it)....the story goes that at the end of the game pete rose came to bat, turned to fisk who was catching, and said "isn't this the greatest game you've ever seen?", even though his team had not yet retaken the lead....it was such a great game that who won ALMOST didn't matter....
well here i was, the other team just took the lead, we're throwing a 500 yd game at wo-s and they're taking the best shot we have with a go ahead td in the 4th.....this now became a game where both teams are really showing true effort and manhood, and at that point i quit watching the scoreboard and just watched the game.......and i'm no professional lip reader but even while the receiver is still running this 99 yarder i saw our qb pick up his helmet and turn to a teammate and say "what a great game".....i think he was feeling the pete rose feeling, too, if not him specifically.....
i've been on a cloud since but, after that effort, i just think it's awful wo-s is sitting anywhere, they deserved better with THAT effort, so over breakfast this morning i told a group of friends i've decided to take wo-s with me to the next game and, God willing, from there on....
i need to know where i can get a wo-s cap....
i haven't decided whether to wear the cap alone or take the emblem and put it on my trojan hat in some manner but either way, that effort, that drive, that moxie deserves to go with us in some way, leaving all that behind and not "channelling" it with us would just not be right.....so, if anyone can tell me how to get a cap during this next week (hopefully without driving to orange, lol), i'd be grateful.....
also, i'd consider it a privilege to have you guys go with us on the rest of this trip....if we've gotten any sharper as a sword its because we've been sharpened by a really tough wo-s rock....i'm thinking maybe wings before the game for the 3adl mustang supporters that would join us would make a good picture for the following week.....
so there's my story and i'm sticking with it.......that was a football game !!!
we're ahead of wo-s in the 4th and they have all the momentum, we couldn't score AGAIN and got a big break when a punt went out of bounds at the 1 yd line, pinning them way back....here we are breathing relief for the first time in the second half and, low and behold, they throw a 99 yd td pass the very next play to take the lead....
everyone on our side knew, from memories of the past two years the worst was coming, that this was the beginning of the end....one of my buds standing with me looked at me and asked "why are you smiling?", i didn't even know i was, i had no reason to, i'd experienced this hurt for two, and what looked like three, years.....
so i asked myself why and thought about it....turns out my mind was on (i know, this gets stupid) the 75 world series game (the one fisk hits the winning homer on, waving the ball fair, everyone knows it)....the story goes that at the end of the game pete rose came to bat, turned to fisk who was catching, and said "isn't this the greatest game you've ever seen?", even though his team had not yet retaken the lead....it was such a great game that who won ALMOST didn't matter....
well here i was, the other team just took the lead, we're throwing a 500 yd game at wo-s and they're taking the best shot we have with a go ahead td in the 4th.....this now became a game where both teams are really showing true effort and manhood, and at that point i quit watching the scoreboard and just watched the game.......and i'm no professional lip reader but even while the receiver is still running this 99 yarder i saw our qb pick up his helmet and turn to a teammate and say "what a great game".....i think he was feeling the pete rose feeling, too, if not him specifically.....
i've been on a cloud since but, after that effort, i just think it's awful wo-s is sitting anywhere, they deserved better with THAT effort, so over breakfast this morning i told a group of friends i've decided to take wo-s with me to the next game and, God willing, from there on....
i need to know where i can get a wo-s cap....
i haven't decided whether to wear the cap alone or take the emblem and put it on my trojan hat in some manner but either way, that effort, that drive, that moxie deserves to go with us in some way, leaving all that behind and not "channelling" it with us would just not be right.....so, if anyone can tell me how to get a cap during this next week (hopefully without driving to orange, lol), i'd be grateful.....
also, i'd consider it a privilege to have you guys go with us on the rest of this trip....if we've gotten any sharper as a sword its because we've been sharpened by a really tough wo-s rock....i'm thinking maybe wings before the game for the 3adl mustang supporters that would join us would make a good picture for the following week.....
so there's my story and i'm sticking with it.......that was a football game !!!