An estimated five million people
attended the Cubs’ victory rally and parade downtown Friday. There weren’t quite that many on Saturday for
Elmhurst College’s last home football game of the season, a Bluejays’ 56-14 win
over the Big Blue of Millikin University.
I wonder how many of the senior parents were even thinking of Friday,
Saturday being Senior Day and all.
What an incredible day it was for
families about to end their commitment to football that started in Pop Warner and
went through high school to college; those who parent also serve the great god
Gridiron. And this is how I would want
to remember my son’s last game—blue skies, temperature in the 60s, hardly a
breeze even, and a score to make every senior proud. For the soon-to-be-gone senior starters, this
is how you want to walk away from your home field. The only thing better to cap a career would
be an upset next week of conference leading North Central, owners of a 9-0
record and way too much attitude.
There was more than a little Cubs’
apparel in the stands, but what can you do?
People are entitled to express themselves; darn that First
Amendment. But I kept quiet, and so did
Clare; you just have to take your lumps sometimes. Why ruin a perfect afternoon by being small?
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