For a good team, it doesn’t matter. Oh, good teams, as well as bad ones, want to win their opening game. But when you are standing at the end, who really cares how you start. For a bad team, it doesn’t matter. If a team is going to be terrible, you are just fooling the masses for a week. It is false hope. It is counterfeit football. But a team that is getting better, for a team that is transforming…
Have you ever seen their eyes as they approach? Fans walk up slowly, reverently, as if they are approaching greatness. They speak in hushed tones. They give their thanks. They talk of the moments they saw, the moments that captivated them, the moments that became memories. There is an awe in their demeanor, as if they were in the presence of their own youth. They talk of the effort. They talk of the victories. This is the way a fan…
