Buff Nation –
CU (0-0) vs Texas Christian University (0-0)
Winning is the currency of football. CU has had its fair share of success, but as we know, the last several years have been a disaster. When the transfer portal, NIL (Name Image Likeness) and invitations to conference realignments came around, our proud Buffaloes were caught on the outside looking in. To the victors, go the spoils, and we just did not have enough currency to compete.
It is said that the most important shot in golf is the next one. For the Buffs, tonight’s game under the Friday night lights of Folsom field, represents that next shot. Come 8PM, when our Golden Buffaloes (is that still part of the nomenclature?) line up against the TCU Horned Frogs on ESPN, it doesn’t matter that the over under on wins this year is 3.5 (vomit), nor that the pundits have made CU a two-touchdown underdog at home (shameful). It doesn’t matter that no one outside Boulder County really considers the Buffs a factor in D1 football. It doesn’t matter that Midnight Mel left CU (still bitter) for the money and has since been justified (ugh). It doesn’t matter that past actions have provided seemingly zero momentum for this CU Football program. What does matter is currency. A frenzied home field, black-out crowd, looped up from an extended Friday pre-labor day season kickoff evening tailgate, will create the atmosphere necessary for the players to believe in themselves and to take matters into their own hands. Come just before the strike of midnight tonight, Colorado will have either given Buff Nation a reason to feel the love, or confirm our greatest fear, that the park is closed for yet another season.
Here is to feeling the love.
Go Buffs!
Doug