Boise State Football: It's More Than A Game

This year we have been told about two moving stories involving Boise State Football Fans. Stories that make it more than a game. Today we had a link to the story about the blind man and how much he depends on Bob Belher to be his eyes when he broadcasting a Bronco Game. We were told about how KBOI invited he and his wife in the broadcast both and made the Utah State Game one he and his wife will remember all their lives. How she got to hug Kellen Moore, the autographed helmet for the grandson and how Coach Pete took them into the locker room.

Saturday November 6. 2010 we got see Boise State, Coach Pete and Bronco Nation welcomed a new assistant coach to the Bronco Staff. For the first time ever, we saw our team walk out of the tunnel instead of sprinting. There was the Bronco player on the left carrying the hammer and on the right, hand in hand walking with him was the new assistant coach and 11 year old boy who wont be with us long. I was never more proud to be a BSU fan then at that moment. My eyes filled with tears seeing the two of them walking out onto the Blue.

As I read tonight's story about the blind man, it opened my eyes. Boise State and all the football teams across the country are more than just a game. When given the opportunity they fulfill dreams, make people feel special. Like a couple of years ago Pete Carroll and the USC Trojans and the youngster they adopted who lost all his vision. Pete never stood taller than in the film clip they showed of he and their kid walking hand in hand off the USC bus.

Remember Charlie Weiss? His first year as head coach at ND, he was given that rare opportunity to touch a young persons like in way that stole your heart. His involved a young boy dying of cancer. Midweek of game week Weiss went to the kids home and visited him. He brought the kid lots of ND gear and a ball, the kid was too weak to lift it.

They talked for over an hour and the kid had a play he had drawn up for the Irish and asked Weiss if he would run it. Wiess agreed to run the play and told him when in the game he would do so. Friday night before the game, the youngster died, he never got to know if ND ran the play. Weiss true to his word called the play deep in their own territory under the shadow of the goal posts and it went for a first down.

As fans we are so involved with the team, how its performing that sometimes we forget, its more than a game, its the opportunity to touch lives in a deep and profound way, like Bluka getting the South End Zone banner to the assistant coach.

All teams do the things that Boise has done, its just wonderful to know the stories and things that the Broncos have done, making it more than a game. Go Broncos

If you are a fan from another school and have stories similar to the ones that make Bronco Nation proud, please share them.

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