Seriously. The absolute best part about this is that Talya finally got to watch an entire game. The kids spent the night at Oma's and Jimmy & Kaylyn were up for the tree stuff and the four of us got to watch every play. Talya is usually relegated to kid wrangling and even though they kind of watch it's a 4 hour chunk of time that is never without incident. So the fact that she got to watch THE BEST Xichigan game of all goddamn time without interference. So fortunate. She FINALLY got the drama of it all. It's so hard walking in and out of something to explain how intense games can be, but there's no explaining the anxiety of a double-overtime game. That was excruciating. I mean, ever minute past regulation that that game went... the more it meant to win it. That's what was killing me the most. I mean, sweet jesus our # is up with THE GAME at some point. I lived through the Cooper years. The pendulum will swing. Harbaugh has brought the team BACK... but the second it went into overtime (something that has never happened in our 100+ year history) it became the ONE FUCKING GAME you could never lose. By double-overtime it was absolutely excruciating. Watching Talya jump at the end of that is so heartwarming because she FINALLLLLLLLLY felt the power of sports. She never grew up with it, she has been able to get into some basketball games... but football is such a different energy and if you don't watch the whole game, the moments don't feel different. With basketball you really can watch the last quarter sometimes and it works. Football is like baseball in a sense... you have to ride that experience the entire way. So my biggest takeaway is that she felt it...