It's Nicole’s first college football game and she wants to know if it's always like this. It is fair to say that no ma’am, it most certainly is not. There is no doubt who everyone is here to see. Fans flanking a team’s entrance into the stadium is nothing new, but it’s not usually the home team’s fans queued up to get a glimpse of the road team’s head coach.
Her brother-in-law bought the tickets as the shocking TCU-Colorado game in Week 1 came to a close and it became apparent the Buffaloes had something going on. He was panicking as the tickets vanished out of his online shopping cart but they got them in the end. They drove down from Olympia, Wash., just to see the game. They stood next to a man in a Coach Prime sweatshirt and a young boy who had also driven up from Washington. The chance to see a childhood idol couldn’t be passed up, and the boy wasn’t the one who said that.
From the two guys in the throwback Falcons No. 21 jerseys to the man in the stands wearing the vintage Cowboys T-shirt, and the woman in the gold pom-pom seated right behind Colorado’s bench chanting, “Coach Prime,” the main draw was clear. It’s not often the student section at Oregon is full 30 minutes before a 12:30 local time kick. But they were there even earlier to greet Sanders as he took the field about an hour before the game. Even Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens, front and center, couldn’t help but express some amazement.
