If you are looking for a post about the technicalities of BYU football this post isn't for you. Lance would write one but he is busy reading cougarboard right now so maybe you can find him on there. Lance has been a BYU fan from the womb. He is quite obsessed actually. I could expand on that but I wouldn't know where to start. (Actually I would start with hernia checks) Anyway, the first year we were married was I think the only adult year that Lance did not have season tickets. We were in Oregon and did not have cable. But thanks to the never failing cougar board Lance would find some local fan with cable and go hang out with a complete stranger for the game.
I am not a die hard BYU fan. In fact I never watched a game until Lance and I were married. I have never painted my whole body or even my face blue. I don't yell at the refs when there is a questionable call. I don't follow ANY of the recruiting news (except what Lance tells me about).
And I don't come home from a game and immediately watch it again on TV recordings while listening to the post game show.
However, I do appreciate BYU football. I enjoy watching the game, especially in LES with 60,000 very excited fans. I love watching games where they play to their potential. But most of all I just love that our family has season tickets every year. Every year since Darren was born. Even when we were poor students and lived in Oregon. Somehow we managed to rent out an apartment in Provo for 2 months during the 2005 season.
2005
2006 was the year we moved to Provo. Now we could just bike to the game to save hastle of parking. Cordon was a newborn and Darren was still just one. We traveled to watch them play Arizona and cheered them on amidst raging AZ fans and blazing heat. I even took the boys to a game by myself this year. I really got a work out carrying two kids to the third from the top row of the stadium. I wait in the car with Cordon when a game is called because of lightning, Lance waits it out and gets to watch the rest of the game in Legacy seating.
2006
I don't remember a whole lot from the 2007 year. I mostly watched the game in a 1st trimester phenergan/zophran induced haze praying that I would not lose my lunch from the smell of
nacho's. The boys are really getting into the game this year and Darren can now sing the fight song. Cordon just says ra ra and shakes his fist. We sit through the entire second half of a game in a monsoon with out even a thought of leaving. One game Lance bike-trailers the boys to the game in 6 inches of snow while I stay home and vomit.
2007
In 2008 Cameron got to go to his first game along with his other newborn friend,Will, in Husky Stadium in Seattle. I spent most of the time out by the concessions since my tenderhearted little babe did not like all the noise. He eventually got used to the noise but I still spent a lot of time running up and down stairs since Darren was potty training and I was still nursing Cameron. I spent a lot of time in the rest rooms last season. This is also the year Lance flipped the bike trailer on the way to the game. When we checked to see if they were alright Darren just asked if we were still going to the game.
2008
2009 started off awesome with the win over Oklahoma. Lance was the happiest I have ever seen him. Then Florida St. happened. I heard the game was horrible but I wouldn't know since I left at half time after using my body as a shield of Cameron's barf after he got heat stroke. I know, if I were a true fan I wouldn't have left to go home to shower and change then come back to pick up Lance who stayed true blue to the last second of the game. Darren now reads his program and associates players names to their numbers.
2009
So even though I am not fanatical about BYU and games are often crazy for us. I still really like going to games and watching the Cougars play football. And I like to think that I have sacrificed a little for the team. After all, we are raising three very die hard, very brain washed fans.
And as a fan I have one request: For those of you out there that don't get excited enough to stand up and then yell at those who do; please stay home and sit on your couch and watch it on TV.
