Sunday, September 07, 2014
Sunday Reflection: The Singing Seminarians
Yesterday, I went to my first football game here at St. Thomas. It's division III, and the league seems to specialize in cute names: we are the Tommies, St. John's is the Johnnies, St. Olaf is the Ole's, Gustavus Adolphus is the Gusties, and Cartleton is… the Knights. (I guess they didn't get the memo).
St. Thomas has a very cute little stadium, and the game was a lot more exciting then some of those early-2000's games I saw at Baylor! A flurry at the finish included several conversions on fourth-and-long, a successful onside kick, and a last-minute, game-saving interception by the Tommies.
But then, after all that, the seminarians sang the fight song. There is something moving about that; something that fits the place.
It's not grand, but it's good.
St. Thomas has a very cute little stadium, and the game was a lot more exciting then some of those early-2000's games I saw at Baylor! A flurry at the finish included several conversions on fourth-and-long, a successful onside kick, and a last-minute, game-saving interception by the Tommies.
But then, after all that, the seminarians sang the fight song. There is something moving about that; something that fits the place.
It's not grand, but it's good.
