Don't Forget Your Hail Mary

First and foremost, I did not visit a priest to say 22 Hail Marys, nor did I convert to the Catholic Faith. I did however attended another New England sporting event, but more on my Hail Mary later. This time it was not baseball but football at Boston College (or as everyone up here says, BC.)

A friend of mine from high school lives in Maine and has season tickets with a group of his friends to the BC football games. I was able to attend as one person decided to skip the game on Saturday...Not sure why he skipped the game....I mean...the high for the day was 45 degrees with wind gusts, at the Stadium, of up to 55 mph and driving rain. Who in there right mind would give up tickets to a game on such a nice day...

I can say without a doubt that football in the South is not better per se, just incomparable. The diiference is night and day. BC is having a great year, even though they choked against FSU, (and for the record I cheered for BC, it's time for Ole Bobby to retire!) but the feel of the game was like being at a top rated High School game in South Georgia. The first quarter sucked due to the rain, the cold, and the wind. About the middle of the 2nd quarter it cleared up. It was still cold and windy but at least the rain stopped. Come to think of it, this was my first Nor'easter but without the snow (I want the next one to have snow so I get the full experience of a Nor'easter.)

The BC Eagles lost to the Semi-holes when they threw an interception at the end of the game, which took away the chance for them to score the wining touchdown. It was not like back in the day....they should have had the Flakes...

Back to my Hail Mary. So as I started my 22nd Hail Mary, I noticed that everywhere I looked at the game I saw the #22. It was on the wall of the stadium, on jerseys, t-shirts, and a bunch of posters. Then it dawned on me that The Fans in Boston remember every detail, even at the collegiate level. The #22 was the number of the quarterback who performed the most famous Hail Mary of all: The one and only Doug Flutie (or the man behind the "Miracle in Miami" back on the 23rd of November in 1984, one of the greatest moments in college football.) I think his jersey has to be the best selling one of all time. Pretty crazy thinking that was back 23 years ago.