The Performance of the American-Style Football Team Affiliated with the University of My Degree Greatly Pleases Me

Mirth!  Merriment!

An assembly of game players, drawn from high schools from around the United States, now performing with matching "Illinois"-themed uniforms, has outscored a highly-regarded opponent in an American-style Football Game!

Should I respond?  Oh yes.  Here is my planned response:

1)  I'm going to purchase, then wear, university-themed, licensed sportswear!

2)  I'm going to purchase and display a university-themed "car flag"!

3)  I'm going to continue to link my own self-worth with this particular group of games-men, none of whom I actually know, and will refer to them as "we"!

4)  I'm going to talk about what "we" did with sporty-type friends!

I hope we keep winning!  Then, our coach, whom I don't know, can get a raise, and maybe our athletic director, whom I don't know, too!  I'll be very proud if they can make more in yearly income than their equivalents at far-flung universities in Michigan or Florida! 

I feel very good about ourselves about now!  Imagine a Rose Bowl invitation!  We'll have a great time!  I mean, I can't be there, but we can be there, and just to know that other people affiliated with the University I was affiliated with are paying to travel to view a competition like that -- woo!

The university's athletic department would financially profit by selling image-rights for the event!  I'll be able to view the images through my home television set, and, in exchange, I'll happily also view messages from corporations who want all of my money!  I may discover new needs, and patronize those corporations!

Go us!

Comments

[Ron Zook]

Ron Zook! Your coach's name is Ron Zook!! Sheeeessss! And you want to call yourself and Indians fan...

[Ed. note: I mean only that I don't know him *personally*. I actually like the guy, what I know about him. And we're going to cream Michigan.]

[Bill Attwood]

God has surely blessed the Fighting Illini football team this year... My wife and I moved down here to south Florida from Illinois in June, and I am so pleased to be able to see the Illini doing well this year... Its a sign of good things to come... Praise the Lord!!!!

[RevJeff]

Then if we do well, we can have our picture taken with the trophy in OUR office and post it on Our blog....