Prologue
Last Friday night, more than 10,000 University of Colorado students packed the south stands at Mile High Stadium to watch their team win the Rocky Mountain Showdown for the third consecutive year. CU nearly ran out of student sports passes before the game, and students lined up around the block to get them on game day. These scenes may sound familiar if you’re a longtime fan of Colorado Football, but to me, they’re strange and beautiful sights that I still haven’t gotten used to. It wasn’t very long ago that I would have found such things impossible to imagine, and I’m writing this article because I think it’s important to remember where we were just a few short years ago in order to appreciate and treasure where we are now.