Showing posts with label Blair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blair. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2018

And the Crowd Went Wild

I shouldn’t be bringing this up yet, but fall is just around the corner.  We’ve got a lot of nice days coming, don’t worry.  But as school begins and as the leaves start to turn (for some of us) and as the average temperatures start dropping, another thing happens.

Football.

I’m admitting that I’m not someone who spends every Sunday watching, cheering and vicariously living “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” (Jim McKay) but I do on occasion peek at the standings and listen to others discuss these very things.

A few years ago, one of the things on the tongue of every football fan (and perhaps still remains an emotional discourse) was THE day of Blair Walsh.

From Sports Illustrated: