With eager hands full of saved allowance cash and fresh merch Truxtwell Stufflebeam, local 10-year-old BYU Football superfan, stood at the checkout register of the BYU Store intoxicated at the thought of what this season might bring. His team had just taken out Utah at home in convincing fashion, snapping a losing streak that spanned 12 years – before Truxtwell was even born. A new era had begun, and he was shaking with excitement knowing it would all unfold before his eyes. 

Week after week of victories brought increasingly potent waves of euphoria to Truxtwell’s young mind. He looked at his new BYU shirt with a gleam in his eye knowing that this could be the shirt for the year where the Cougars take it all. There was a new spring to his step, a weekly horizon of greatness to set his gaze upon. 

It was at this exact moment of being undefeated with a top 10 ranking that Truxtwell lacked the life-saving knowledge all seasoned BYU fans have: the practical expectation that things will turn south. 

“Poor kid, I heard him praying for humility the other week. He never stood a chance,” said Lacie Stufflebeam, Truxtwell’s mother.

“My wife has always made her signature apple turnovers, some real gourmet stuff. Ever since all the turnovers at the Boise State game, little Sport can’t bring himself to even look at them anymore,” said Connor Stufflebeam, Truxtwell’s father.

Our best wishes are with young Truxtwell and any other youths going through the most brutal part of the life cycle of a BYU Football fan.