Football Season

Thursday, August 30, BYU, UofU, and Utah State had their first football game of the season.  Go figure.  Logan is the home of Utah State, so they are not very partial to BYU fans.  There are, however, quite a few BYU grads in Logan. 

The women in my family are the football fans: Grandma Mutt, Mom, me, and Jeanne.  My Grandpa Bjorgum was a coach at Eastern Montana (now Montana State, Billings) and had played football.  He coached everything at Eastern; consequently, Grandma Bjorgum became familiar with sports.  She loved following professional football, especially Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts.  

My mother was a fan of the University of Washington Huskies when they were called the "heart attack" team.  They were called that, at least in our in house, because they always seem to come from behind to win in the last moments of the game.  Mom became a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs and Lenny Dawson when she and Dad lived in Kansas City.  She continued to support them when she and Dad moved to the Bay Area in California.  Then she also adopted the Oakland Raiders.  Grandma and Mom had their football rivalries.  

I liked football in monsoons.  It was so fun watching the guys slide down the field when they were tackled in the rain at Clark Air Base in the Philippines.  When I was back in the States I followed the Chiefs when I lived in Jeff City, Missouri, then the Raiders when I moved to Fremont, California.  I became a 49ers fan when Joe Montana and Steve Young were their quarterbacks.  I haven't kept up with professional football since the 1990s

Jeanne is not into professional football, but she loves BYU football.  She knows more about what is going on with that team then I ever did when I was following football.  

I think the only men in our lives that enjoyed sports were my grandfather and now Jeanne's husband, Jared.