Funny story (not really). I roll to the Rose Bowl yesterday with my buddies, and head up to the RV parking lot to get my drink on. After hours of boozing it’s time to go to the game. Roughly 100 yards from the stadium, I reach in my pocket for the ticket…and it’s gone. Yup. Four of my buddies pull out their wallets and I’m suddenly holding about a grand. I wasn’t gonna pay that for a ticket, but I shit you not you couldn’t have found a ticket for any price.
I ended up watching the game on TV in the parking lot with some Raiderfans
Some of the anklers in here will say I’m backpedaling, but to be honest I’m OK with how this all turned out. During the season we spend so much energy around the significance of what is, ultimately, just a game. Winning is fun, no question about it, but it certainly has more meaning when you’ve been hungry for a while. Texasfan finally gets to sit at the head of the table, and they deserve it.
Some of my buddies were pissed as hell after the game, and I let into them about getting some perspective. They wanted to bitch about play calling, officiating and the like, but that’s not what winners do and, despite the loss, the Trojans are winners in the sense that we’ll bounce back and build something great next year and in the years to come. Let me be clear- no moral victory here.
So to Prime, Harv, Vito and the rest of the Hornfans out there, congratulations on your National Championship. We’ve had some fun with this, and I’m glad that for the most part we’ve done it with the kind of class exhibited by Mack Brown and Pete Carroll, in the wake of such a huge game.
Good luck next season, too.
Fight on.
