Thank You For Freedom CU!

Don't you love it when your favorite college football team loses it's first game of the season? I know you might think I'm crazy, but hear me out. Why wait until there is more on the line to lose your first game. Wouldn't you rather have your team lose now then in November when it means more? Of course I never want my team to lose, but if they are going to lose, lose the first game. Then, I won't have to stress out or even care anymore about how the season goes. Fortunately for me, the Colorado Buffaloes were more than happy to oblige my little request when they fell to their in-state rivals, the Colorado State Rams, Sunday evening, 23-17.

As you can tell, I'm being a bit sarcastic in my comments about this lovely event that happened tonight. Even better than losing their first game was losing to CSU the same weekend that a lot my friends favorite team (BYU) pulled off an upset of #3 Oklahoma. Oh, but wait, the weekend was completed when our buddies from the mid-west, Nebraska decided to win their opening game as well. I wish I could have just been standing in front of Ralphie (real buffalo mascot) when they opened the gates for him to run onto Folsom Field. He could have trampled me and put me out of my misery.

While I'm watching the game, if you want to call it that, I find myself coming up with some strange thoughts. First I was wondering if a coach ever got fired during half-time? If it was ever to happen, tonight should have been the night. CU looked very out-played, out-hustled, out-hearted, out-coached and any other out-blank you can think of. Next I was thinking, hmmm, well the son of our coach is the quarterback and he is in his third year of starting and we are 13-23 under Cody Hawkins and his father, Dan. If Dan doesn't pull his son soon, the T.V. may go flying across the room. Finally, later in the evening, I checked on the score from my phone, hey it's my daughter's birthday and we took her to a movie so cut me some slack "Mr. I watch my team no matter how crappy they look", and we had lost.

I really thought I was going to be mad. I imagined myself throwing the popcorn tub all over the people that were sitting in front of me while starting to yell out profanities, I was at a kids movie by the way - remember daughter's birthday? Then something strange happened. I was calm and relaxed. Was I losing my edge? No, it finally hit me that losing the first game of the season was great. Now, I will still root for my team, but I don't have that pressure of will we lose a game and mess up our National Title hopes, not that we had any but lets not focus on the negatives. Finally I can root for us to upset some teams and play, gulp, spoiler? I can't believe I just said that. Somebody please grab a gun and put me out of my misery. Just make sure that Dan and Cody are there with me!

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