Remembering 21: The Fans' Tribute

Again, hoping the team can channel the intense emotions of this ceremony into a great performance Sunday...

Hail to the Reaper.

gut wrenching

Safe travels to everyone out there hitting the road for the holiday weekend...

This day totally sucks!

RIP Reaper

JM220

To An Athlete Dying Young

A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man.

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

Sean and LaRon, was the makings of something very very special. A once in a life time tandem at their respected positions. Speaking from a fans' point of view, we were robbed of our LT.

Win one for the Reaper!