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November 05, 2005
Miami vs. VTech, or Why I Remember Husky Stadium
So, after a very long month of letting the Bear Paw entry just sit, it's time to make a less poignant entry about something more accessible.
I'm watching Miama at Virginia Tech on ESPN. I have no personal relationship to either team. But I have dear friends who are lately from VT, from Blacksburg, and it happens that this game is also the #5 team at the #3 team in the country, and the two top defenses in the country. It's a hard-hitting game with a very participatory crowd of 65,000+ who know how to be quiet when it's their ball and VERY loud when it isn't.
Why does this all touch me? Because ESPN was kind enough to actually let cameras and sounds come up from the field in the pre-game activities - to let me hear the noise and feel the energy, and for that few minutes I was a Husky again, sitting two rows behind the band in the middle of the student section, just about the 50 yard line in a stadium that holds 70,000, in a Rose Bowl winning season. That energy, that same energy the commentator said had the hair on the back of his neck standing up - that's what I love about college football. I could feel it just hearing that crowd.
Only college. Only outdoors. I miss it.
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