Here's my vision for "The Perfect Spring Game: 2012"
The morning starts as a thick mist rolls in over the city. We see montage clips of players waking out of bed, coaches restless from nights without sleep. The backdrop is a hauntingly dramatic tune that keeps rising and rising, in such a way that you don't know the ending to this story. Much like Dante and his inferno, you get the ominous chill down your spine that whatever is about to happen...it will grow to define you. Suddenly the music crescendos and with a mighty blast goes completely silent. What follows is a bird tune, slow but steady...wait, could it be? Yes! The bird is singing the melody of the fight song! Everyone three states around wakes to this foreshadowing omen. Some arise with a simple yet sure statement; "It's back". Others, from lands to the east, offer up the same words with tears rolling down their eyes, soiling their black&yellow pj's.
As the hours move on, the horde rolls in. Thousands upon thousands of creatures descend upon the same destination -- a great monolith of brick and mortar -- looking for their lifesource; their reason for existence. As they draw nearer and congregate together, they notice something is different. One entire side of the great Memorial Stadium is draped in a humongous cloth. Finally, as the time has arrived, there is a collective gasp as the mysterious shroud is removed, unveiling a completely finished East Stadium expansion, but this is more than anyone could have believed.
"That doesn't look like the pictures!" one fan exclaims.
"How is this possible??" gasps another.
A number of improvements and amenities have been added to the expansion - the world's largest video board extended 5,000 feet high on a pole and facing straight downwards, a waterfall, a three-story tall playplace for children and unlimited free ice cream and Valentino's for all. In one collective motion, all 92,000 people bow down and worship their Lord, one Mr. Dr. Super Ultra Awesome Old Balls Tom Osborne. With knees bent and arms raised high, MDSUAOBTO himself steps up to his throne sitting atop East Stadium.
"Let. It. Begin."
To be continued...