August 31st, 2002 - 10.00 pm
Have I mentioned how into college football I've gotten? OK, I know it's sort of sad and depressing and typical, but I love CU Buff football. And today was the CU/CSU game.
For the uninitated, CU is the University of Colorado and in this case, the University of Colorado at Boulder. There's also UCD (University of Colorado at Denver) and UCCS (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) but the Boulder leg of the university has a Big 12 football team and therefore was re-named CU because the University of California already stole UC. Stole! (Catch the tounge in cheek tone, here)
CSU is Colorado State University (Fun fact courtesy of L, any school with "state" in the name started out as an agricultural school!) and often takes the position of sulky middle child who never made the honor roll or homecoming court and has to live in the shaddow of popular older sibling. CSU is in the Mountain West division and therefore, if it weren't for the Powers that Be in the state deeming that every year the two schools play one another in the Rocky Mountain Showdown. Last year, CU humiliated CSU in a 41-14 victory. This year, however was a different story. The CSU fans were rampant. They were wearing shirts that said Dirty Hippies on the front, and Fuck You CU on the back. Really classy, wouldn't you say? They chanted that before the game. Now, my CU bretheren did behave poorly in some instances, a gang of GO GREEK shirt wearers flipped off a bus full of CSU kids, who responded similarly. CU kids ran around singing the fight song and some old favorites while the CSU gang ran around chanting "Dirty Hippies, fuck you CU!" It was so immature and stupid. Now, CU has a repuation for being a party school, but CSU is quite bitter about last years game and the fact that CU overshaddows CSU in almost everything, including media coverage.
So, long story short, CU didn't show up to play the first three quarters. They were sorely disapointing. But that fourth quarter man, my Buffs were roaring back. After spending the entire game trailing by 13, Jeremy Bloom (Olympic skiier, gave up his endorsements to play for CU) ran a punt back for a touchdown, then Chris Brown fought his way over the scrimmage line to make another touchdown, putting CU ahead by 1. Then, in a horrifying show by the defense, CSU responded with a touchdown of their own, put in the endzone, by my least favorite college football player, quarterback Bradly Van Pelt. This put the score at 19 to 14. CU, with a little over 6 minutes left in the game ran the ball down the field and was at 1st and goal, one little pass and CU would have one the game, but unfortunatly, with 25 seconds remaining, Craig Ochs, CU quarter back threw an incomplete pass and we lost.
OK. I can handle my team losing. It was an exciting 4th quarter. But the CSU fans were out of control. Not all, but the college kids were, on the whole, horrifying. So, my sister MB and I are waiting for our dad to meet us and CSU fans are hissing us, shouting things, and one guy, surrounded by his CSU fuck you CU buddies, handed me a straw and said, "Hey, somone from CU, you need a straw because man, you guys suck."
So, I know I should have just rolled my eyes and not said anything, but did I? Of course not. I turn on him, eyes blazing, and said, "Yeah, we suck. You just barely squeaked by my team on one of their worst days, you're two incomplete passes away from being 0-2 buddy" and if that weren't bad enough, I said, "You wait until next year, you've just opened up a big ole can of whoop ass". And he stood gaping at me for a minute before he called me a fat bitch and walked away. Because my physical appearance has anything to do with football. Geez.
I cannot believe I just wrote that entry. Next week, another game, this time in Boulder and look out!
