As the month of August is coming to the end the days here in Tucson are starting to cool down ever so slightly. Instead of waking to morning temps in the low 80s we are down to the mid to low 70s. The days are getting shorter while the shadows are getting longer and the sky is getting back to a richer blue instead of the faded blue of the summer heat and that can only mean one thing, the return of college football.
If you are from Tucson you are most likely a University of Arizona Wildcat fan from the first breath of your life until your last. With Tucson being a relatively small city the Wildcats are the only game in town that matters. But I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Simi Valley . Back in California I grew up a UCLA Bruins fan. We had great coaches like Dick Vermeil, Terry Donahue and yes I even consider Bob Toledo a great coach because he got the Bruins within one game of the national championship(yes we were robbed against the Miami Huricanes) With players like Troy Aikman, Carnell Lake, Freeman McNeil all having worn the powder blue and gold. The Bruins have not been the best of football teams since 1999 but now it's 2012 and the Bruins have a new head coach in Jim Mora who has been trying to change the culture of apathy that had taken place in the Bruin program. But as is the case every year I still anticipate a good season and I think Coach Mora has the Bruins headed in the right direction. So I wish my Bruins luck in their opening game in Houston against Rice. I anticipate many eight claps this year.
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