Unity/Another Self-Righteous Shmuck Starts a Blog

At 2 a.m. this morning I was on the corner of Gayley and Strathmore walking back to my car. I start hearing the pitter patter of very big feet coming behind me, but I don't bother to look...until a very hairy, very naked college male runs past me at full speed. He starts running a series of squared laps around the perimeter of the four crosswalks that outline Gayley and Strathmore. As people at the Beta house cheer him on, one dude stops at the intersection (despite a green light) and proceeds to flash his brights, honk his horn, lower his window, and and start clapping and whistling. Moments later, two other cars do the same exact thing. Yes, the light was still green, as they too flashed their brights, honked their horns, lowered their windows, and started clapping and whistling.

And there was no doubt in my mind that the people in those three cars didn't have a CLUE who they were cheering on.

It was then that I realized that I really, really, really missed college:

Ah, memories.

and that I really, really, really, love UCLA.

I'm BlackJack (of wewantwalker.com fame) and have just started a new blog over at http://www.guttylittlebruins.com/. Go there.

CPBruinFan asked me to be a contributor to this site and I told him how much I admired his site's unbelievably detailed analysis and told him that his analysis was second to none in the Bruin Blogosphere.

I, myself, like analysis but I'm not quite as gifted as CPBruinFan. I do, however, like whoopie cushions. And that's me in a nutshell. Okay, enough about me, I actually do have something substantive to say this fine morning. It's about this weird feeling I started having immediately after Rick Neuheisel was hired as UCLA's next football coach.

It was a feeling that I had never felt in my many years as a Bruin fan.

Wait, a second. Was there some...unity? Did the bruin community at large feel satisfied with the Neuheisel hire?

Let me get this straight. We like our basketball coach...and we like our football coach?

At the same time?

Wait, a second. Rewind...

I still don't get it. I CAN'T GET IT. The last time this happened at UCLA, I don't think Dick Vermeil was crying at every press conference yet. Yeah, that long. For as long as I've been a fan, the Bruin Civil War continued to rage on.

Seriously...this is weird. I'm not used to it. and I think it will take some getting used to. If you were alive way back when there was a comparable unity to today's, I would seriously like hear firsthand accounts of the Civil War. No, not that civil war silly, this one began WAY before that one. The Bruin Civil War, remember?

As the next days unravel, I'm going to be feeling this unity thing out.

What's Bruin Sports without a gigantic rift amongst the fans? Who am I going to throw empty beer bottles at now???

Alright, BlackJack.

Calm down. The only thing we can do is sit down and let it all play out. Maybe I can get used to this...we'll see.

Talk to you guys soon.

BlackJack
http://www.guttylittlebruins.com/