IU played Maryland in College Park this afternoon. The first four minutes of the game were worrisome as the Terrapins scored on their first drive, but other than that, IU dominated the game. I realized by the end of the first quarter that I had stopped paying attention except when IU had the ball. After halftime, I had completely zoned out except when the mascots were on the screen. After IU’s 55-10 victory, I told Doug that as much as I loved IU football, the games were getting kind of boring. He disagreed with my take as did Cameron. They loved the blowout games as they found them a lot less stressful. Cal wouldn’t call the games boring, but he did agree with me that he had started to zone out in the second half as well. One thing that we all could agree on was that IU’s success had made the other football games a lot less important to us.
Thankfully, something that will never change is my excitement for IU’s victories. Tonight, when we saw Phil at Hiatus, he said that we will soon become just like all of the Alabama fans - complaining when the team goes 10-2. I can promise that I will never feel that way. No matter the score, I will always appreciate every time we win as I sat through too many seasons when our losses doubled our number of victories. Since the Hoosiers only have three more games, it would be nice to finish undefeated this season. But if they don’t, I will just be thrilled that we have gotten to the point where our blow out victories have become so normal that I stop paying attention halfway through the game.
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