Those two words have so much meaning.  Of course in most cases they only have that meaning to men and women think it's stupid.  Women seem to think that since we don't play for the team then it shouldn't mean so much to us.  Well, boy are they wrong.  It's no secret that Florida State has never been my favorite college football team.  Miami holds that honor.  However, I do like Florida State and have a lot of pride going to school here.  I use to always tell people that I was a Miami fan and an FSU student.  So, on January 4th I found myself in a very strange position.  Miami had no chance at the National Championship at this point, which meant I had to root for my next favorite team, but Clemson had no chance either, so I was pulling for Florida State (another women don't understand is rooting for more than one team).  In fact, ever since the FSU v. Florida game, I have found myself being more and more of an FSU fan.  As I've said before in a separate article, rooting is not something you choose to do, it's embedded in you.  Well, I think finally that rooting for Florida State has become embedded in me.  It's amazing what hatred for the Gators will do for you.  I don't know if it's pride of being a student or if this year's team just won me over, but I am now truly a Seminole fan.
    Now with that being said it gives me a great amount of pleasure in the fact that
WE'RE #1, WE'RE #1, WE'RE #1.  That's another thing that women have a hard time understanding, bragging.  I think the biggest reason is that they just aren't very good at it.  They try to be way too nice and consider other people's feelings, which is something you can't do when you're bragging.  There's a strange glow that floats over the campus here now.  Everyone is smiling a lot more, classes don't seem near as difficult, and people are even pausing before extending their middle fingers to other idiot drivers on the streets.  There's just something about a National Championship that'll do that to people.  It gives me such a sense of pride to think that I am going to the school that won the national championship.  I mean how many people can actually say that they are going to graduate a national champion.  There are only about 100 classes in history that have graduated national champions.  It is quite an honor that I will relish all year.  So, in closing, I am very proud to be a Florida State University student and a Florida State fan and I will enjoy greatly this National Championship. . . especially when I'm approached by any poor person wearing Orange and Blue.