And so it ends here. It has been a wild and crazy time for me
as I wrote for the Semi-Pro sports blog and I know that deep down I am going to
miss it. It was my first real blog, and the first place where I didn’t know who
exactly was reading my work and that feeling was kind of exhilarating. As of
right now, meaning I Just checked it to confirm, we have over 1,500 blog views
and I’m not sure how the other blogs did but I am quite content with that
number. Our first post was on January 24th and I would guess, based
on the activity from the other guys that this here would be our last post. Just
over 1500 views in 3 ½ months is not bad. It breaks down to about 15 views a
day and when we started I never would have guessed that we would have amassed
so many by the end of the semester. And so what if most of our views were
Russian robots trying to push advertisements, I’ll take any views we can get.
I remember my first post like it was yesterday. First Post
The Super Bowl hadn’t even happened yet and I thought the
build up to the game would make for the perfect inaugural entry on to the blog.
It was a tiny little guy, short and to the point. I wasn’t really sure how to
do anything so I put my pictures in the middle, they were both different sizes,
and it just looked awful. My writing style was vapid and lacked the research
that I have come to jam pack my blogs with these days. I hadn’t yet grown into
my identity of Thundergun, but you have to start somewhere, and this is where
my story began.
Along the way I have written some things I am truly proud to
call my own. My personal favorites are actually both lists.
I love writing lists of the sport variety for some unknown
reason. Tell me to make a grocery list and you’ll probably end up getting milk,
cereal and four boxes of Cheez Its. Ask me to list the five best inside
linebackers in the NFL however, and you’ll get 2,000 words of highly researched
analysis. It’s weird, when you are passionate about something, like the way I
am about sports; the words just seem to come easier. Add to this the amount of
blog fodder that I am able supply in between facts and you got yourself the
self-sensationalized writer before you.
And so with that I bid you adieu, but fear not however, because
Thundergun will rise again!
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