Yesterday Kara and I visited the Celery Bog in West Lafayette. It was only a short drive from our house, and our route took us by the Purdue sports complexes. Being a Saturday, Purdue was playing a football game, and it was evident that it was a home game in the apparel of every person we passed on the way there. Yellow and black everywhere. The bog itself is just off one of the state highways, tucked away off a main thoroughfare. We grabbed our picnic lunch and went over to the Lilly Nature Center at the entrance to the bog. On our way over to the building, we heard, from an obvious distance, some rumbling and then, clear as day, the pump-up song familiar to fans of sports everywhere. There are no words to the
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