[Pulp Fiction]

Almost 24 hours after the game.....
But being able to that my Johnson Central football team is playing in the state football championship game hasn't sank in.

Being in school when JC was 2-8 & 2-8 (2001, 2002), then seeing our team go 1-9 (2003) was about as low as a team and fanbase can be. Only having maybe 100-200 people total in the stands for home games during those three dismal seasons (that almost cancelled our program) was hard to be a part of.

If you would have said to the casual or even the most die-hard JC fan that in three seasons from going 1-9 that our team would be 13-1 (2006) and play in the school's first ever Semi-State game, you would have been laughed off the bus.

Throw in some regional championship losses to the all-might Highlands Blue Birds and the sediment was "well, JC is good, but we will never make it to state." I heard that line at least 10,000 times from people. JC fans and haters.


Last night...... I saw a fanbase that proved they LOVE their Golden Eagles!!!!
Making a 3+hour drive on the day after Thanksgiving to Monticello.
JC brought four Pep buses, I saw Grandparents, Parents, Aunts & Uncles, Brothers & Sisters, former players from the 70's, 80's, 90's and the 00's wearing their Gold and Black with the expectations to witness JC history.


Now that JC is actually playing in the State Championship football game is incredible.
I heard some of the former (more senior) JC players say.... "We've been waiting 40 years for this."