First, the casual fan. This fan watches some games on TV and maybe takes in one at LaVell Edwards Stadium each year. He or she spends little time online reading about the team, but does enjoy watching the games when their schedule permits.
Second, the regular fan. This fan loves BYU football, watches all the games in some form (when available) and cheers hard. But, he or she gets upset when others stand in the stadium, spends little time seeking info on the team during the summer months and is satisfied with reading an article or two each week in the paper during the season.
Third, the BYU fanatic. This is where I fall. This fan spends way to much time thinking about BYU football. The summer is spend craving the start of the season. Hours are spent reading online reports, preview magazines, message boards and anything else offering news, notes or opinions on BYU football. Each week of the fall is spent anxiously awaiting game day. Plans are carefully made to avoid conflicting with game time. Long trip are made to take in games for those out of state. Etc, etc.
For those that join me in the third category, you just can't get enough BYU football during the "offseason." This time of year, without even spring football or signing day to eat up attention, there's seems to be a dearth of football to feast on. And it comes when my gridiron cravings are highest.
Each summer, I seem to follow the same pattern. Here's the basics of my futile attempts to feed my Cougar cravings.
June
1. Pour over every preview magazine.2. Watch the previous season's highlight video repeatedly.
3. Rewatch taped and DVR'd games from earlier seasons.
4. Daily check and recheck Cougarfan.com, Cougarupdate.com, Cougarboard.com, Cougarblue.com, Total Blue Sports, Cougaroutpost.com, Bluefangroup.com and other Web sites for BYU stories.
5. Play out key games on Playstation (This year, that would be Washington, UCLA, TCU and Utah)
July
1. Reread preview magazines.2. Rewatch highlight videos and old games.
3. Watch football movies. This list usually includes "Remember the Titans," "Rudy," and "Invicible."
4. Continue daily Web searching, morning, midday and night.
5. Play entire season on Playstation.
6. Visit BYU Bookstore to buy even more BYU gear and apparel.
August
1. Listen daily to Daily Download fall camp reports on KSL.com. (Bless Greg Wrubell for this fine service).2. Visit open practice days whenever possible.
3. Repeat all items from June and July.
4. Try to sleep longer and fill each wakening hour with activies so time to kickoff passes faster.
That's my summer plan. It's not the best. But it helps a bit. Good luck enduring yours! And if you have any others ideas for other BYU fanatics, please leave your comments.
4 comments:
Love your blog! I’ve been copying it and sending it to my son who is also a fanatic fan and current missionary in Switzerland! He said the hardest thing he had to do in the MTC was walk of the temple every p-day and see LaVell Edwards Stadium and to know he would miss 2 year of games!! Yes, he is pathetic. All of us are…. We live in Virginia but drove out last year to the BYU-Utah game!! What a thrill! Our personalized license plates currently read “BYU FANS” and “BYU NUT”… our son the one on his mission bedroom is decorated in BYU complete with Y mountain on his wall… his border is all the personalized license plates we’ve ever had (about 20) in different states that have BYU on them. yes, we are fanatics!! Our son was a BYU student before leaving for his mission- both my husband and I are BYU alumni as well. Thanks for your blog- my son will enjoy it over in Switzerland!
Mike C, how does one contact you?
You can e-mail me at elkocougar@yahoo.com.
If you guy's need a good byu football fix here is a link. If people are wondering how good jj diluigi is going to be this should give you a good idea. Sure its high school highlights, but they were playing the #1 high school team in the nation. here ya go.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xApNrp_RZuk
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