{"id":256,"date":"2010-01-08T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T02:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annakatedonovan.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-01-08T22:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T03:00:31","slug":"we-are-the-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annakatedonovan.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"we are the champions…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, my friends, as most of you now know, my beloved University of Alabama Crimson Tide stomped Texas in a 37-21<\/a> victory to win the BCS National Championship last night!\u00a0 Woo hoo!<\/p>\n

I finally turned off the television after the game a little after midnight and went to bed.\u00a0 Forty five minutes later I was still awake – too excited about the win to sleep.<\/p>\n

In my usual fashion, I got the girls off to school this morning and began to question my feelings from the night before.\u00a0 Why did a football game keep me awake into the wee hours of the morning?\u00a0 Why do I care so much about this team?\u00a0 Why do I get so excited about football?\u00a0 I couldn’t throw a football to the other side of my yard if you paid me.\u00a0 What gives?<\/p>\n

The answer requires a quick trip back to high school so indulge me, if you please.\u00a0 I went to a very small high school.\u00a0 There were 48 students in my graduating class.\u00a0 We did not have a football team.\u00a0 We had basketball, volleyball, track, soccer, tennis, baseball, etc….but no football.\u00a0 My parents are not big football fans and even though I went to a couple of games in my youth, we were not a family who watched football or cared much about what was going on in the sport.<\/p>\n

Then I went to college at Alabama.\u00a0 My first year, I got student tickets and went to the first football game by myself.\u00a0 From the moment the team came on the field and I heard the roar of the crowd for the first time, I was hooked.\u00a0 It was the coolest thing I had ever experienced.\u00a0 I had to know everything about what was going on.\u00a0 I was completely lost in the excitement of the crowd.\u00a0 It was intoxicating.\u00a0 Every home game, I was early to the stadium and late to leave – I couldn’t miss a minute.\u00a0 Homecoming came around and I ended up going to all the events alone.\u00a0 (Alone because of a boyfriend that turned out to be a turd so let’s not go there, okay?)\u00a0 I was mesmerized.\u00a0 I can’t explain how in awe I was.\u00a0 It was fabulous.\u00a0 Four years of being a student and a life-long love of the University had taken root and a passionate football fan was born.<\/p>\n

What school you support, if any, really doesn’t matter to me.\u00a0 I’m not going out of my way to say something if you cheer for a different team than I do.\u00a0 Unless you are my sister-in-law or her dad.\u00a0 They are the most fiercely competitive people I know.\u00a0 But that’s beside the point.<\/p>\n

What is my point, exactly?\u00a0 I guess I don’t have one.\u00a0 I was so excited about the Championship I just had to write about it.\u00a0 This was our year and it was wonderful to experience as a fan.\u00a0 Next year, who knows.\u00a0 I’m sure there are plenty of people talking about it already.\u00a0 It’s a clean slate.\u00a0 For now, Roll Tide my fellow Alabama fans!\u00a0 Enjoy the victory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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