A few weeks ago my 99-year-old mother passed away 2 months short of her 100th birthday. She died on the same day and hour as the Queen which would please her because she was a lifelong Anglophile. She was in her 60's before she paid any attention to sports at all but her Grandsons got her hooked on Syracuse and there after she became a SU fanatic.
Over the past couple of decades, she actually became to nervous to watch the games. So, we would have to give her a play-by-play from another room. My son and I were watching the Purdue game, he in N. Syracuse and me in Baltimore, while talking on the phone. I heard Mom call out to my son, "How are they doing now". It was the last words I ever heard her say.
On Saturday, I know I'll hear those words, if only in my mind. I want to say, what my son said that Saturday, "We're going to win Grandma."
Over the past couple of decades, she actually became to nervous to watch the games. So, we would have to give her a play-by-play from another room. My son and I were watching the Purdue game, he in N. Syracuse and me in Baltimore, while talking on the phone. I heard Mom call out to my son, "How are they doing now". It was the last words I ever heard her say.
On Saturday, I know I'll hear those words, if only in my mind. I want to say, what my son said that Saturday, "We're going to win Grandma."