By Allen West | TownHall.com
Greetings, y’all, I am still on cloud nine after my alma mater, the Tennessee Volunteers, won the College World Series and completed a record-setting 60-win season. It has been a while since we had a national championship on Rocky Top. I remember when the Vols won the first BCS college football championship against Florida State in Tempe, Arizona. I was stationed at Ft. Bragg (yeah, that’s what it is) and ran out into a cold North Carolina evening to scream. The topic of this missive is a play on the words from the song by the rock band Queen, “We Are the Champions.” We all know the words to that song and the refrain.
“We are the champions, my friend,
And we’ll keep on fighting ’til the end.
We are the champions, we are the champions,
No time for losers ’cause we are the champions…of the world.”
Last week, the Florida Panthers won the NHL Stanley Cup. After retirement from the US Army, we lived in Plantation, Florida, for ten years. Our home was down the street on Sunrise Boulevard from the arena where the Panthers play. I took our daughters to see a couple of hockey games. We now live in Garland, Texas and North Texas has been a buzz since the Texas Rangers won last year’s baseball World Series. Not to mention that the Dallas Mavericks had a phenomenal season, winning the NBA Western Conference and playing in the NBA Finals. The Dallas Stars had another great season, knocking off defending Stanley Cup champions, the Vegas Golden Knights, in the playoffs and almost winning the NHL Western Conference.