"A Crowd Or A Family?"

All you see is a crowd, not really a crowd but more of a mass of colors just moving almost in sync. You see it all over the place: on their hair, on their face, some even on their whole body. A combination of white and blue, which together symbolize the Southern Connecticut State University’s Owls, and just to make the excitement rise to a new level they began to enter the field; The Owl’s Football team. The crowd’s roar felt like an earthquake, the stomping just re-enforced the sensation. The cheerleader’s tricks supplied the fuel to continue the crowd’s level of excitement to be endless, and I stood there watching and absorbing the vibe from everyone as I myself had my hair sprayed with white and blue colors. After about 10-15 minutes of watching the players continuously tackle each other and trying to find a gap that would give a lead; it suddenly came… TOUCHDOWN, the ground shook violently and like a reflex I was soon standing and screaming at the top of my lungs.  The score? 7-0 with the owls leading the game, and within another few minutes another one was scored. The crowd was relentless, and I was totally a different person. There was one last goal that I saw, and now we are winning 21-0. I watched my school, everyone so united, I asked myself: Is it only because the game was in National TV the reason that everyone showed up and was in this mood? I thought about it and started to think back, all the encounters with everyone, my swim team, the students, even the staff. The answer? The constant pride of the school runs through the school like it was its own blood, since the first time I’ve been here the community has had shown support to this school as if it was there own home, who am I kidding? We are  home.

           

Picture by Alexis Petrone