Black-and-Gold

This is an ATC. JOURNALING: Red had always been my color. As a sports fan, I identify with "team" colors. When I discovered baseball in the 50's, I became a Cincinnati Reds Fan! After over a quarter of a century baseball finally broke my heart. In 1994, I discovered soccer and became a season ticket holder with MLS's first team, the Columbus Crew. It was strange to have to embrace a new color scheme, "black and gold," but I did it with all my heart. Even when the team was sold to a snake-in-the-grass in 2013 and re-branded in 2014, I was still "black and gold." When the snake's perfidity was discovered in late 2017 and a grass-roots movement to "Save the Crew" was born, those colors became even more important to me as a symbol of fans sticking up for THEIR team. And, in the future, when the snake has been tossed out of our city and a new Columbus Crew is born, I'll still be "black and gold." CREDITS: clip art; KITS: Everyday Kids by Kate Hadfield; Jungle Doodles by Dawn Inskip; Just Breathe by Little Butterfly Wings; FONT: Complete in Him