Our downstairs neighbors are four sophomore football players. The bambinos really like these guys. K & O, especially, are loving having these four football players live right downstairs. Saturday Lehigh played Bucknell. Early in the morning (we’re talking 6:30 am — when the J-Ms are just quite literally the only people awake on campus), we tip-toed downstairs to tape a ‘Good Luck’ poster on our neighbors’ door. The game started at 12:30 that day. I was worried the guys might not see the poster– but my worries were subsided when, by noon, pictures of this poster were all over Twitter and Instagram. And then we watched as our neighbors played a really great game– one, in particular, started and then proceeded to have an awesome game day. They had felt the love! K & O are convinced it was the “magic charm” of the poster that made them play so well… and are now committed to doing it for every game for the rest of the season.
Awesome! So sweet!!
– Kate
This brings back memories. We live almost on the campus of Butler University and many years ago, when my kids were small, the first Butler basketball team to make it to the Sweet 16, lived two doors down (not the whole team, just the 4 “star” players). The kids would make signs or banners and hang them on their front porch before each game. One player had a long streak of free throws going and they kept count, on a front porch banner. That player now works for Butler basketball program, has children of his own but makes sure to come out of his office whenever we walk by. I remember how special those guys were and what great role models they were for my children, one of whom is on a college team (tennis) of her own, at a rival Butler school!