All hail the colors white and blue

Is it really lame that I clap and cheer like it's real life when I watch clips from last year's basketball games?

Is it even lamer if when the senior players did a dance to "I've Had the Time of My Life", the line "I owe it all to you" makes me feel sentimental as a fan?

I know it's definitely not lame to sing along to all the fight songs (even when no one around me is) and to stay till the very very end to sing the Alma Mater (while swaying, of course, arms wrapped around the people to either side of me).


I love Carolina basketball. I love our team, because I think they are all silly and fun and nice and very talented. I love our coach, because he is a classy guy who isn't too old and stodgy to dance to Young Joc with his players. I love our colors, the blue and white, because no other team in the ACC or the NCAA has such pretty hues decorating their stadium (or whatever you call a basketball court), their players and their fans (always classy).

Tonight was the kick-off to the official basketball season. I got a free T-shirt which I exchanged for a schedule poster (it was an ugly, XL Hummer T-shirt, and the poster has Tyler and Danny and Reyshawn on it, so I feel like I got the better end of the deal). I made Nick get excited (he did). I didn't care about the women's team, but I clapped anyways. I watched our boys get silly and I laughed when Tyler wore a hula skirt. And yes, they did play "I've Had the Time of My Life" and it was spectacular.


If I went to a college with a shitty team and a shitty record and shitty colors, I think I'd cry. I'm so glad I can be proud of everything associated with Carolina.

xxxAnnie