some good f’in football out there today

so i grew up with a lot of good football in my blood. i was raised in baton rouge, LA by parents who went to nebraska and ohio state. in the end, my one brother started at texas and wound up graduating from LSU, while my other brother went to virginia tech. i went to boston college, followed by my brother for 2 post-grad degrees, my sister for undergrad, and a hell of a lot of my parents’ allegiance. it's not a football powerhouse, but that doesn't mean that they're not my team. so i kinda love me some college football.

tho there’s also plenty of truth to the fact that i don’t care as much as i should/think. i don’t watch religiously and i still have a girl’s inability to really remember what happened, but i try. and i manage to live up to some of it. for example, last weekend. with BC’s awesome OT win, and the OSU win over texas. i was all over those. like i should have been. except i fell asleep thru most of the BC game, only waking up for the last few minutes of regulation and the OTs. but who really needed the first 55 minutes of regulation? i actually watched some of it and all i was doing was screaming at the TV. so that was fine.

anyways, then there was this weekend, with lots of good football. not that you probably need me to re-hash it for you, and it's not even all over yet, but i have been sitting here, very happy for quite some time:

1. BC over BYU. ok, so i watched the whole game, til after the first OT, and it was really nothing but awful and a question of who could screw up more. so i actually left after that and led lexi on the bataan death march, but when i returned, it turned out that we had won again, so YAY!
2. Louisville over Miami. i don't care at all about louisville, but i do like an underdog (the fact that they were higher-ranked is irrelevant to me b/c they have never been a blip on my football radar, whereas miami is a big blip) and i have a history full of hating miami. so there reached a point where it was no longer even a game, but i could not help but love the fact that they were not just losing, but they were being decimated.
3. oregon in the last seconds over oklahoma. as a nebraska daughter, we always hated oklahoma. so YAY! and an amazing last few minutes, that are the sort of thing you just love to watch. didn't look like oregon was going to be able to win, but a few plays later, they were withing a few points and scored that touchdown and i thought it was over, but then oklahoma had one amazing play, and YAY for blocked field goals. god i love those.

actually, i suppose my happiness has been mitigated to some degree by other games, but the fact of the matter is that i have a very short attention span, so i have forgotten the sadness b/c i have told myself they matter less than the big wins:

1. LSU almost eking out a win against auburn, but losing. i did love the adrenaline i got in the end, but it didn't kill me.
2. notre dame losing to michigan. as the daughter of an OSU alum, i always thought Michigan was the devil. and as a BC girl, i thought for many years that ND was the devil. only i have now found that i am friends with a number of ND grads and i have decided that they are no longer evil and i would not root for them if they were playing us, but i suppose the catholics have to stick together. i actually didn't really watch this game, as it was the biggest loser in the fact that i was trying to watch 3 games at once, meaning i couldn't actually watch any of them, and this game was already over by the time i got back from the bataan death march.
3. oh yes, UVA losing to directional michigan. well, i wasn't there. i have decided that i can convince myself it is worth going to see UVA in ACC games, but not against some of these other teams that we have insisted on playing recently. so instead, i made lexi and i take a lengthy, rapid-paced walk for exercise at 3:30. we nearly died. it turns out the hoos lost. oh well. i got great exercise in the meantime.

so now there are even MORE great games on and i am excited. also, yes, i know, i should not become a sports reporter anytime soon. yes, i know this. oh well. the fact that i do not really appreciate what is going on does not diminish the joy i get when i am paying attention.

so YAY FOR TEAMS I WANT TO WIN!!!