In the words of Sam Cooke from his song “A Change is Gonna Come” in 1964 “It’s been a long, a long time coming, but I know, a change is gonna come”, as the Sacramento State Hornets football team reversed misfortune that had been plaguing them for quite some time in the annual meet-up with their foes, the Aggies of UC Davis, by beating them for the first time in the Causeway Classic Rivalry game since 1999, 29-19.
The game took place at the beautiful infant, and by that, I mean the 1-year old, still brand-spanking new home of UC Davis Football, the Aggie Stadium, for the first time in the rivalry game’s history. But even Davis’ home field advantage was nowhere in comparison to the pent-up aggravation, desire, and hunger, that oozed out of the hornets on both offense and defense, which led to the hornets long-awaited victory.
Speaking of that pent-up aggravation, there has been so many big time events that have happened since the day September 18, 1999 in which Sacramento State last beat UC Davis, that I have decided to make a list of the things that our world has gone through in history, before we captured a momentous victory for the Sacramento State hornets, let alone, Marshall Sperbeck.
- October 12, 1999; the world reaches a population of 6 billion
- January 1, 2000; the millennium turns
- November 7, 2000; George W. Bush starts his 8-year presidency
- September 11, 2001; Terrorists attack America
- November 25, 2002; Department of Homeland Security is established
- June 4, 2003; Martha Stewart indicted of counts of fraud (she’d eventually go to prison)
- October 20, 2004; The Boston Red Sox win the World Series & break the curse of the Bambino (first time a team trailing 3-0 came back to win a series- ALCS vs. Yankees)
- August 29, 2005; Hurricane Katrina strikes Louisiana and the rest of southern states
- June 19, 2006; Carolina Hurricanes win the Stanley Cup (Carolina’s first professional championship)
- April 16, 2007; 32 people killed in Virginia Tech shootings
- June 25, 2008; Fresno State wins college world series (lowest ranked team to win championship in any sport
- The Patriots won 3 super bowls (2001, 2003, 2004)
- The Spurs won 3 finals (2003, 2005, 2007)
- Ron Artest made his short-lived appearance in Sacramento
There were many more events, but those are some of the big ones.
The bottom line is this: Hopefully we won’t have to be compelled to make a list like this ever again!
The Sacramento State Hornets are a team that with this win against UC Davis became more respected and well-known in the Sacramento region. Head Coach Marshall Sperbeck pulled off the impossible and is steadily building quite the program as far as football is concerned on the campus of Sacramento State.
If they can rifle off two more victories against Northern Colorado and Idaho State, the Hornets will finish above .500 for the first time since 2000.
Oh no, not another list…
2 comments:
Woot! Woot! Go Hornets. Awesome game. It was good to see you at the game. I felt like I was surrounded by Davis fans even though we won.
Good column, just a couple things.
I don't like the We in the title. It changes it from an opinion piece into a PR piece.
Hornet should be capitalized throughout the piece.
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