The Fire Inside: Sights and Sounds from the Home Opener

This is why we do it.

It’s the home opener. And you don’t have to be a player to feel that every ritual is a little bit heightened on game day. Ask any fan - even breakfast feels different.

Still, nerves on toast gamely dealt with, I get to the stadium early.

Not as early as our Senior Manager for IT, Gina Fremouw, who’s been here at the stadium since 4.30 a.m., so the TV cameras can run their cabling. She’d still been here when I left on Friday night too, answering multiple random questions on game day logistics, while also patiently dealing with hapless new staffers still trying to access the local network drive (I was asking for a friend). For a lot of the staff, time added on starts well…