On Sunday morning I made my way down to the rec room to see if I could catch some highlights of America’s team, the USC Trojans, slapping around the little piggies of Arkansas. I assumed that the game wouldn’t be broadcasted on AFN since it was on at the same time as the Notre Dame game. Well not only did I walk into the rec room to find the Trojans on the big screen TV, but I also found myself surrounded by hordes of Arkansas fans.
You see, it had totally slipped my mind that we have an Arkansas National Guard unit working with us. I swear more than half of them were in there to watch the game. So needless to say, I found myself in enemy territory. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It kind of sucks because it is always fun to be able to high five at least one other person each time the Trojans lay the smack down. On the flip side, it is great getting to watch so many people dejected as they realize that their team is nothing more than players USC didn’t want.
We Californians are lucky that we have multiple college and pro teams from our state that we can choose to follow. People from Arkansas have one.
That’s it; one.
Hell, even Oklahoma gets two college teams to follow. Other places with only one football team to follow: Nebraska and Los Angeles.
I knew that they had issues when their loudest, most organized cheer was for a first down. One would think that a scoring play would give out the most celebration. Though, I can understand their cheering so rowdily for first downs, scoring plays were so few and far between. Arkansas seemed to have more turnovers than points.
When the game got out of hand, I tried to cheer up one of the Arkansas faithful by commenting that the 50 points USC scored this year was a lot less than the 70 they scored against them last year. For some reason he didn’t find any enjoyment in his team’s 20 point improvement. So I tried again by passing on information from an article I read about how the top high school running back in the state of Arkansas had committed to play for USC.
What better way to raise the spirits?
