{"id":374,"date":"2008-10-04T21:52:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2008-10-04T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T21:52:22","slug":"this_is_why_we_watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"This is why we watch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTo see College Gameday on campus for the first time ever.  To see the team you were raised to hate held to FOUR (4) YARDS RUSHING in the second half.  To see their QB eat grass five times.  To see them held scoreless for the last forty-eight minutes.  To see signs like &#8220;<strong>E<\/strong>veryone&#8217;s <strong>S<\/strong>EC <strong>P<\/strong>ushover <strong>N<\/strong>o more!&#8221; and &#8220;MY BUTLER WENT TO AUBURN&#8221; and &#8220;THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE TURF&#8221; and &#8220;4-0 NOT JUST OUR GPA ANYMORE.&#8221;  To see Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit throwing up the VU sign.  To beat Auburn for the first time since 1955.  To be 3-0 in the SEC for the first time since 1950.  To be 5-0 for the first time since 1943.  To be all alone, undefeated, at the top of the SEC East, for the first time in history.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo have the phone blow off the hook in the last three minutes with phone calls, text messages, voicemail, Twitter.  To see that score, 14-13, flashing across the screen, and know that from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, from San Francisco to Mobile to Virginia, people are thinking of you and your team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can wait an entire lifetime for a day like this.  Thankfully it&#8217;s only taken me 14 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(13) AUBURN 13<br \/>\n<br \/>(19) VANDERBILT 14<br \/>\n<br \/>FINAL\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNO ONE ON THE CORNER HAS SWAGGER LIKE US<br \/>\n<br \/>DYNAMITE GO VU!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To see College Gameday on campus for the first time ever. To see the team you were raised to hate held to FOUR (4) YARDS RUSHING in the second half. To see their QB eat grass five times. To see them held scoreless for the last forty-eight minutes. To see signs like &#8220;Everyone&#8217;s SEC Pushover &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is why we watch.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}