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Missed attending both the Fine Mess tailgate and the game. Missing the tailgate was planned due to being out of town/entertaining for the holiday. Missing the game wasn't part of the plan. One of my very good long time friends young wife passed away Thanksgiving after a long illness, so on my way down to the game from the north country I was able to stop in and see him to hang out a bit.
He's an SU guy and into it along with his brother a long time Syracusan and SU fan now living in the south who was there as well. Wasn't planning on hanging long thinking the last thing he'd/they'd want right now is to watch an SU game. Well I couldn't have been more wrong as they planned on watching it and get some return to normalcy in this tough time which as anyone whose suffered loss understands is what is often sought in such times.
So when I realized they were into it I stuck around and the three of us sat around the kitchen table and drank beer as we reminisced, ate, cried and laughed as the football game played on the 19" box tv on top of the fridge. The highs and lows of the game as anyone knows who saw it was a roller coaster of emotion and a microcosm of the season as well as what we were experiencing at that table. After sitting for most of the game the last 3 minutes we're all standing around the TV too nervous to sit. When Paris took that TD in the scene in that kitchen was on I'll truly never forget.
3 grown men jumping around in frenzied high fiving fist pumping incredulous surreal excitement the happiness of it all to a degree of which is hard to describe. I don't know if was God, karma, pure chance, proper alignment of the planets or what but the entire experience was the perfect (short term at least) antidote for what he's been dealing with.
Those who wonder the hows and whys of how sports can sometimes go beyond what happens on the field this is a good example. He most definitely will have some tough times ahead in the near future but at least on this one saturday he had some joy along with the rest of us fans(atics). Though I'm bummed I missed the most exciting Dome game in recent memory I feel lucky and blessed to have experienced this moment with my friend and his brother. Go SU, go Shafer, and go team. It's what friend my wants as he begins the move forward.
He's an SU guy and into it along with his brother a long time Syracusan and SU fan now living in the south who was there as well. Wasn't planning on hanging long thinking the last thing he'd/they'd want right now is to watch an SU game. Well I couldn't have been more wrong as they planned on watching it and get some return to normalcy in this tough time which as anyone whose suffered loss understands is what is often sought in such times.
So when I realized they were into it I stuck around and the three of us sat around the kitchen table and drank beer as we reminisced, ate, cried and laughed as the football game played on the 19" box tv on top of the fridge. The highs and lows of the game as anyone knows who saw it was a roller coaster of emotion and a microcosm of the season as well as what we were experiencing at that table. After sitting for most of the game the last 3 minutes we're all standing around the TV too nervous to sit. When Paris took that TD in the scene in that kitchen was on I'll truly never forget.
3 grown men jumping around in frenzied high fiving fist pumping incredulous surreal excitement the happiness of it all to a degree of which is hard to describe. I don't know if was God, karma, pure chance, proper alignment of the planets or what but the entire experience was the perfect (short term at least) antidote for what he's been dealing with.
Those who wonder the hows and whys of how sports can sometimes go beyond what happens on the field this is a good example. He most definitely will have some tough times ahead in the near future but at least on this one saturday he had some joy along with the rest of us fans(atics). Though I'm bummed I missed the most exciting Dome game in recent memory I feel lucky and blessed to have experienced this moment with my friend and his brother. Go SU, go Shafer, and go team. It's what friend my wants as he begins the move forward.
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