College Football: I Can Wait Until Kickoff…

Many teams try to do it, but only one can make it.  The National Championship trophy can quell your football cravings for next season, I promise you.  A beautiful crystal football sitting atop a black stand that proclaims the LSU Tigers were the best in 2007.

Gotta love the crystal.

It’s so choice.  If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.

Or two.

When your team wins the National Championship, all is right with the world.  The air smells sweeter, people seem nicer, and the little things that used to get you down don’t seem to matter much anymore.

Everything is enhanced when the fact that your team won it all probably ticked off people like Lou Holtz and Paul Finebaum.

That’s the cherry on top.  If that doesn’t make you happy down deep in your purple and gold heart, I don’t know what will.

Living well is the best revenge.

But let’s not get crazy—it’s not like I’m a Boston fan or something.  Don’t hate me that much.  I’ve been a loyal New Orleans Saints fan for my entire 32 years.  I was due some happiness.

LSU had some good runs in the '80s with two SEC titles in '86 and '88, both of those seasons ending with Sugar Bowl losses to Nebraska.  But the early '90s were rough.  The mid '90s put the program back on the map before suffering two terribly disappointing seasons in '98 and '99.

But then came our most recent decade, and someday Tiger fans will talk of Nick Saban and Les Miles like they spoke of Paul Dietzel and Charlie McClendon.

The '07 season will be one that’s hard to top.

Of course, with the number of starters that the Tigers have to replace, especially at quarterback, I know the chances to repeat are slim.  I’m not delusional.  That’s another reason why I’m so hesitant to jump feet first into next season.  When you reach the mountaintop, there’s nowhere to go but down.

I felt the same way after the 2003 season after LSU beat Oklahoma.  I was in no rush for 2004 to get there.

But you know what?  It did.  And for all you guys and gals waiting with bated breath for the '08 season, it’ll be here soon.  I promise.

But it’ll probably be a little sooner for me than you.

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