Edisto_Tiger
Member Sporting a Natty
Wow. So much that does it for me....
Since the days of being a tot, the family had season tickets. My dad is an alum, he was die hard. I can remember back to the days of being less than 10 years old... Back before things like the B1G Network. I can remember helping him out in the garage on Saturdays when PSU was away, playing some shit team. He'd work in the garage so he could listen to the radio since that was the only way to hear the game. I can remember the feeling that I got at every game that I went to as a kid... Screaming till I didn't have a voice anymore. I even remember where I was when I was 6 years old and we won our last natty.
Fast forward to when I went there... I was seasoned at it, had been doing it for ages. Gameday didn't affect me like it did others who had never seen it before. I still sat with the old man. Still went to our tailgate. Nothing had changed, just our ages and my location.
Went to Florida to live for a few years... I remember the terrible feeling I had 6 years ago when I realized I was going to go a year without seeing PSU play for the first time in 27 years of life. I had gotten lucky with being able to attend bowl games in FL, even saw the 3 OT thriller in the Orange Bowl.
Most people don't realize it because they think football is just a sport... It isn't. Its a way of life. It's a gathering place. In the case of PSU, you are with 110,000 of your closest friends a few times a year. I enjoy going on our football trip every year and experiencing the traditions and soaking in the college towns that we visit because I know that every place has fans there that have college football mean as much to them as it does to me.
Yup. All of this except the part about going to school there. One of the few regrets I have.