After a pleasant holiday season while filling for a vacationing editorial page editor, I’m going to jump into 2008 by attending my first Fiesta Bowl tonight. The game features two teams that blew their chance to vie for the national championship — Oklahoma vs. West Viriginia. The Fiesta Bowl was the one of the first college bowl games I ever paid attention to as a kid, because of the beautiful TV views from above Sun Devil Stadium including shots of people who scrambled on to the bluffs on either side to watch the action for free. (ASU had put a complete stop to that in recent years, before the Fiesta Bowl moved over the new stadium in Glendale.)

I am a University of Wyoming grad who also cheers for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the ASU Sun Devils. But a friend of mine who arranged for me to get a ticket for the Fiesta Bowl has ties to West Virginia. So tonight, I’ll be a honorary Mountaineer.

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