Football team manages to win even without the encouraging prescience of its biggest football fan.
I don’t know what happenend; I mean I still haven’t figured it out.
Somewhere along the line connecting this Sunday (today) to last Sunday, something went askew. I lost a day in the shuffle there, somewhere. I’ve tried replaying the past week’s events chronologically. It was an unusual week — a few doctor appointments for various and sundry things (I felt like the phrase “62 is the new 80” might apply in this conversation) and we had visitors on Thursday and Friday …. but somewhere in there, I ended up yesterday (Saturday) thinking it really was only Friday. I mean, I went the entire day thinking it was Friday.
I should have picked up on it with our garbage. See, our garbage pick up is (usually) Friday mornings. That means Thursday night is “garbage night” — I go throughout the house and gather the garbage to be hauled out to the end of the driveway. That’s a mark that is associated with a particular point in the week. Every week has a garbage night. Then on Friday mornings, after the garbage is picked up, we return the garbage bins to their normal location underneath the tree (a Viteck tree or something, more like a really big bush). Garbage pickup was late on Friday, so we didn’t retrieve the garbage bin from the street until Saturday morning.
Okay, so we have all that going on, and then throw in the factor that Nebraska had a bye weekend last week, and somewhere in there my timing got all off.
So it was last night during dinner, when my wife corrected me and pointed out it was really Saturday … I realized I had just missed a Saturday. I had been thinking all day that we were on Friday.
I ran upstairs and turned on the laptop. Sure enough, we had played Northwestern (and we actually won).
I was happy we won, and I found the stats interesting, and I realized that I enjoyed not having to go through the stress of the game … being ahead by only a touchdown (or less) during the game is always scary for NU fans these days … we’ve lost too many “less than a TD away” games in the past three years. I mean, it’s some unbelievable number like 20 games in 3 years were one-score-away losses.
This was our fourth win of the year (that’s how many we won all of last year). We’re 4-3, so it’s possible we’ll end up with a winning record and even bowl eligibility. But we’ll see.
We’ll take it one game at a time. We’ll take it one day at a time. And I’ll you that this week I won’t miss the game.
See ya (and Go Big Red!)