I remember your Uncle. Great writer. My last two years of high school I lived in Atlanta. The days of Nique and Herschel.
I don't think your bat-shit crazy -- as it relates to football anyway. The other stuff, maybe ...
Its all good. We get out here and we create some friction...Irish says 'we'll be lucky to win a game this year" and ol' Lec calls him a "shortsighted windbag" or worse
But you know something...even with the crappy year last year more and more people in the Piedmont Triad talk Deacon Football year in and year out...brick by brick it builds and another run is coming. Maybe it is time for the fans to carry the team a bit...maybe it is time to believe and believe in the impossible...that is the beauty of sports and no sport I've ever encountered thrives more on belief than College Football. Simply put, it has Mythic Resonance. So, we have a coach who gets paid a helluva lot of money and he needs his squad to show solid improvement this year...but lets not forget that when everybody else believed lil' ol' Wake Forest was a place where coaches went to die or skip to another locale;when all the pundits stated all the reasons why Wake Forest "couldn't" this guy took all those reasons and more than making them "can's" he actually said they were advantages. So, this guy needs us, and true, we've been there for him but now he really needs us.
College Football is a communal enterprise...one that incorporates smoking BBQ pits, happy fans with their favorite beverage, good friends and family at your side...it is Thanksgiving every Saturday. Count our blessings and let us begin to Dream again...as the song says "dream the impossible dream" and throwing caution and statistics to the wind let us enjoin the gods of college football to smile down on us...to see us get that bounce or break or 1st down needed to have a great season for Great Seasons at schools like Wake Forest often come out of the blue and when we and everyone else least expects it.
So, let us enjoy some spirited "hitting" and some strong give and take and lets continue to add friction to this fan base...its good for it!