Anybody out there old enough to remember the weekend sports show on ABC, “The Wide World of Sports?” I sure hope so because your knucklehead scribe sure does. The opening for the show always ended with: “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.”
That statement would accurately describe the drastically different moods present for the Colorado Buffaloes football teams separated by 25 years of blood, sweat and toil on the gridiron.
Saturday evening, before a raucous crowd of more than 66,000 at Sports Authority Field in Denver, the 2015 edition of Buffs football overcome an early 14-point deficit and fought off the Colorado State Rams to win in overtime.