shifting tide

 

Yesterday's FSU game was the best and most satisfying CFB season opener I remember in all my years. Linda had the game on, and I watched the first half 17-7. But I've watched games when Alabama was down at halftime only to come back and wreak terrible vengeance the second half, so when halfTime started I came in to my computer, did other things; and only checked the second half now and then, nervously, on my phone.

I did go back to the television screen when FSU was leading 31-17 and it was obvious that even Alabama couldn't overcome, FSU with the ball and two minutes left in the 4th quarter, to watch the countdown and the tumultuous crowding of the field as the clock clicked 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Final. 

Charlotte was there and snapped the picture from the bleachers behind the end-zone and goal uprights. That's the most fans I've ever seen crowd the field in jubilation - - although seems to me it happened a few years ago in a last second Auburn upset over Alabama. Plus, oh yes: long years ago when we lived in Columbus, Ohio, I was watching when, on the field after some game Ohio State lost, an enraged Woody Hayes socked a student in the face. 

Woody Hayes was a trip. Much loved throughout Ohio, he hated M Go Blue so much that, it was said, he wouldn't even stop for gas in the state of Michigan. Rather walk home.

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Michigan 34, New Mexico 17 was satisfying. Florida 55, Long Island University 0 was not.

Texas 7, Ohio State 14 was not, everyone watching Arch Manning and stunned, Ohio State was ready for him.

Tide down from 8 to 20 this morning, FSU breaking in at 24 and we'll see how it goes; someTimes a game turns out to have been a fluke. Texas from 1 down to 6 and the Buckeyes back on top. Not a knowledgeable football fan, this is probably all I'll say all CFB season and it's only because of having Seminole granddaughters, blood is thicker than whatever. I was even snapped once doing the chop. But never on Thanksgiving weekend, nomesane?

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We shift back and forth, 8:00 one Sunday, 10:30 the next Sunday, today it's 10:30. Starting next Sunday, 7 September and all the Sundays that I'm up for leading the adult Sunday school class in reading discussion of Mark and his gospel it'll be 10:30 for us because of the "one thing a day" exhaustion factor that rules my life at this age and stage. 

Time. It's Time.

RSF&PTL

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