The feeling in Indianapolis beforehand–in the streets, at the Slippery Noodle during a raucous pregame, and in the 3/4+ maize and blue crowd, this was not a title game. This was a coronation.
For me? It’s a mix of emotions as I’ve written about this team for over 20 years now, mostly on MVictors, and I still remember (pretty well) the days when B1G titles were on the regular. Last night HSR’s tweet hit me, where he thanked a few us of that have been in the digital foxhole for a LONG time and have seen some stuff. But if you are reading this site you saw it all too, didn’t you? I remember not so long ago when the games were such a disaster that the meltdowns on Twitter genuinely warped into a soothing form of comic relief.
I’m still in Indy, and there’s confetti on my hotel room floor because I do stuff like jam confetti in my pocket at moments like this. I’m about to pack up and bring it home. Here are a few pieces of that paper somewhere in this video of the Lucas Oil postgame celebration:
So I’ll close this short post with a huge THANK YOU to all the supporters of MVictors in its various forms who kept me going for the past two decades. We did it.
4 Comments
Mike
Great photo Greg (especially since I’m in it, LOL)! And thank you for recording and bring history to light.
MVictors (Greg Dooley)
Thanks Mike! I see you! You guys are the best.
MGoShoe
It’s been quite the ride. When you have a deep and abiding love for your alma mater and the teams that wear its colors, you are willing to take that ride wherever it goes. I’m just glad that the football team’s path has finally turned in a direction more familiar to old timers (jeebus, Gen Xers are old timers now) like me.
MVictors (Greg Dooley)
Well said Shoe, Go Blue! As always, thanks for all the contributions and input to this content. We ride!