I had decided to move back to Arizona. This meant transferring schools. I wanted to go to ASU. Everyone in my family has taken classes at ASU. Plus it is the only cool school to go to in Arizona. (Normally I'd say “sorry everyone else”, but I'm not sorry, its true). Before I moved I was stocked up with ASU t-shirts and sweatshirts. I was excited to be attending a real school with a real college atmosphere. By now I was definitely a baseball fan, but that was about as far as I got. Tim loves college football, so I thought it would be fun to get season tickets to Sun Devil football. Things didn't go quite as planned and the season was ready to start and Tim hasn't moved to Phoenix yet. Now I have season tickets to football which I know nothing about and Tim can't even come. So I call up my dad to see if he is interested. He agrees to go with me and I go to my first college football game.
As we get closer, I see a lot of gold shirts on Mill Avenue. “This is what I love about sports”, I say, “All these people coming together to support one cause”. This is cool to see even if you don''t like sports. There are little kids wearing jerseys and older people who probably went to ASU 50 years ago. I start to get excited because I love the camaraderie. I have experienced this before in Wrigleyville, but on a whole other level. My tickets are in the student section so we wait in a long line with a bunch of drunk college kids to get in. September in Phoenix is very hot, for those of you who may be unaware. We get in and manage to find some seats. The band comes out and starts playing, performs their Explosion Block and gets ready for the team to take the field. The student section chants “ASU! ASU!” with their fingers in pitchfork formation and then Thunderstruck comes on and the students pump their pitchforks to the beat. I fell in love again, and it hasn't even been kickoff yet. The atmosphere and excitement and the rituals win me over and I am hooked, a fan for life. The game was awesome and I decide I now like college football. As a gift, I received Football Made Simple: A spectator's guide. (I am well supported on my journey).
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