Fear In College Football

Pure fear can be experienced in a vast amount of ways, especially in a high stakes, hyped up college football game. Florida was supposed to play LSU in early October when Hurricane Matthew hit, postponing the game. The entire LSU staff and players were talking trash and saying that Florida was too scared to play them. Eventually, this resulted in Florida to have to play in LSU in the second to last game of the season. Even more so, if Florida won this game they would be the SEC champs. The built up fear from anticipation of the outcome of the game would finally go away, but whether joy or sadness would replace it, no one would know. As one reporter put it, “The game was a perfectly scripted Soap Opera”. Before the game even began there was

Florida was up by six on LSU’s last possession with four minutes to go. They drove down into the red zone and on 1st and goal got it to the five. Ok, 2nd and goal at the 5 LSU gets it to the one-yard line and has two plays to score. I can feel my heart beating staring at the TV. Here we go, LSU hands it off to the full back, Florida gets a nice defensive push and stops it. Three seconds left on the clock, a single play on the one-yard line determines the outcome of not just the game, but also the SEC victor, and bragging rights. The game goes into commercial break at that moment only adding on to the anxiety and tension; I could feel my heart beating even faster and could even see it beat through my lucky Florida shirt signed by Tim Tebow. The game comes back on, LSU lines up and the roar of the fans shakes the camera. Florida lines up looking composed on the outside, but driving by fear on the inside. The full back goes in motion, it’s a inside pitch to their running back, he runs, jumps and gets stopped at the one. They did it! All the fear and tension built up from October was over. Like matter, fear can not be created or destroyed, but rather suppressed or transferred form person to person, in this case the fear from the two touchdown underdog, Florida Gators, was transferred to the LSU fans an dhow they would survive the taunting and beat down from the