Over a year ago I retired and left Louisiana to travel. Been traveling through the mid west with a home base of south Florida. Here in south Florida there are a lot of retirees. Many snowbirds from the north. A lot of big school fans from every university imaginable. I wear my ULM apparel or cap some as I go out and ‘mingle’. I made an effort to see if these fans know what school I support. You might find it surprising but almost always they know. Almost always we are referred to as Louisiana Monroe. You might also find it surprising but many will say something like ‘we have a good football team’! I think many remember the big games we’ve played in and the few big wins we’ve had. Other than that I don’t think they follow us too much. I never receive any disrespect. Now it might be different if I ran into some smaller school fans like from our own conference. After soo many years I’m hoping we can finally say to ourselves also ‘we have a good football team’! Even though I’ve moved, I will be returning for the home opener against Army. In my travels I’ve also mapped out at least three away games I’ll be attending. The other games I’ll be watching from the local Cape Coral Florida pub with the OTHER well known football team fans. Now, let’s get the season started…
