10/18/2025
Let’s come together and cheer for our boys. Kickoff at 7 PM.
IMAGINE FOR A SECOND...that you're a 20 year old football player.
Three weeks ago you're considered one of the best in the country and 110,000 people come out to cheer you on, all dressed in white, and singing your praises. Millions more supporting you at home. You end up losing that game in overtime and all of a sudden there's a chance your dream could slip away.
A week later, still distressed from the loss, you fly 3000 miles across the country and underperform and lose by one score. You get back on the plane and return home to find those cheers from a week earlier are now silence...or worse. The dream slipping away seems more real and even though you have no margin for error the rest of the year, there's still a chance.
Then last week, every single day you hear on social media, television, radio, etc that you were never worth the hype to begin with. You and your teammates are publicly criticized and everything you've worked for since you were a child is in doubt. You then go out and lose by 1 point and you find yourself surrounded by anger not only inside the stadium, but outside too. Oh, and your dream has officially slipped away.
The next day your coach, the man who came to your home to meet your family and recruit you, who you've spent more time recently with than your own family, and who has a family of his own, is fired. Out of the building...out of your life...gone. You question yourself. You question your decisions. And you feel incredible guilt.
That's Penn State football...and the life of these 20 year olds...in just the last 21 days.
FORTUNATELY...there are fans that will cheer and support NO MATTER WHAT, and them. We will gather tonight at 7pm at The Broken Inn (the OFFICIAL Penn State watch party spot for the Capital Region), we will dress in blue and white, and we will cheer for our boys as they face off on the road against Iowa. Fans, family, alumni and friends are all welcome!
That's what real fans do. And that's what our team needs. Not cheers when we're up, but cheers when we're down.
WE LOVE YOU PENN STATE! BEAT IOWA!