The Game

Today, my wife got us tickets to a college football game. We are going to drive up to Laramie, Wyoming next Saturday to watch Texas play Wyoming. This is a big deal to me.

Major college football has been a part of my life since 1982, but it is a relatively new thing for my wife. She has observed me acting irrational for the last 9 years as I lived and breathed Texas football. So, what is it, what is it that makes me bleed burnt orange?

My obsession was born out of my admiration for their desire to be the best. It appealed to me. But it has been the journey along the way that is imprinted in my brain like rings in a tree as each season passes. As the tree records the years, my mind records the experience that is Texas football.

So, to try and explain that to my wife is well, kind of impossible. She can’t crawl inside my brain and see what I’ve seen. What she can do is begin to have experiences of her own, starting next Saturday.

I can’t wait.