Wow. What an incredible ride it’s been. I’ve watched more football than the average girl my age, and can honestly say that I have never seen a team face more adversity than you. From injuries to suspensions, so many people thought, pretty much from the jump, that this was a lost season. I’m not one to doubt my team, but there were some moments this year when even I thought it was going to be impossible for you to come out on top.
I don’t how you pulled off the winning touchdown of the Tech game, or the unlikely rally against K-State, or that ridiculous overtime win in a monsoon against Baylor. But you did. I, along with everyone else in the world, will probably never understand how you came from 31 points behind at halftime and beat Oregon 47-41 in triple overtime. But you did. I don’t know how you managed to do all of this with 25+ starters missing games, and 30 freshmen being thrown into the mix with basically no experience playing at this level. But you did.
On behalf of every TCU fan out there, I want to say thank you. Thank you for showing the world what it means to play with your hearts. Thank you for always fighting back, even when all of the odds were very clearly not in your favor. Thank you for having faith in yourselves, even when the rest of the world was rooting against you. And thank you so, so much for giving every single Horned Frog out there something to be proud of.
To all of the seniors, I hope that you take this wild, crazy, absolutely incredible year and carry it with you far into the future, wherever it may take you. We will always remember everything that you gave to TCU, and we will always be proud of you, no matter what life happens to throw your way.
To those of you who will be returning, I know you learned some very valuable lessons and I hope that you come out and play even stronger next season, if that’s even humanly possible.
To the recruits that will soon begin your journey at TCU, I hope you have been watching, and that you come ready to play with every single piece of yourself as those on this team have done.
To Coach Patterson, words are not enough to explain what you’ve done for us this season. All I can really say to you is thank you for making a complete believer out of this Horned Frog, and out of all of those who ever, even for a split second, doubted the grit and the unprecedented courage of this team.
Through every high and low (and every close-game heart attack), this season will go down as one of the most incredible stories of any football team in history. I don’t know where you found the strength to do what you did this year, but I tip my hat to you. It’s absolutely unbelievable how far you have come, and I cannot wait to watch you continue to grow. We are beyond lucky to have you.
Here’s to many more seasons of chasing down the wild and the impossible and making it real. All my love to you, and as always, GO FROGS.
