This post is sponsored by EA Sports NCAA Football 2011.

I hope all of you have enjoyed this "Where I Come From" sponsorship from EA Sports.  I have enjoyed writing on it and it has made me get even more excited about Arizona sports and the upcoming 2010 football season.  Below is a message from EA Sports regarding the last week's worth of posts.  We'll be back soon with some more updates on the 2010 season and recruiting 2010 highlights.

EA Sports:

When you go to a particular school or grow up around college football, you are more than just a fan. It’s who you are. We thought we could leverage this pride in your roots and show that "where you come from" is more than just a statement about geography. By positioning NCAA Football 11 as a game that understands this pride and is authentic to these traditions, the takeaway should be that anything that is in college football is in NCAA Football 11.

And this doesn’t just include game play (though that’s a huge part of it). It’s rivals and mascots; it’s legends and stories. It’s those things that are at the very fabric of the game itself. Of course the game is great this year as well. With authentic entrances, mascots and specific offenses for each team, the term "where I come from" takes on a much larger meaning. While playing NCAA Football 11 is ultimately a great sports sim, it should also give you a sense of the pride and emotion one has for being a fan of a team they will never not be a part of.

This post is sponsored by EA Sports NCAA Football 2011.

Thanks to EA Sports for sponsoring this last week's worth of posts.   Football season is gearing up and expectations for the 2011 football season are high after the Cats have put together two excellent seasons.   The Cats bring back plenty of returning starters on offense and defense.

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I will list a few of my favorite Wildcats here but the list is longer than these three:

1.  Ortege Jenkins

2. Eugene Edgerson

3. Jennie Finch

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Today we explore another sponsored post by EA Sports as to which Arizona team is my favorite of all time.  As I stated in my piece yesterday, I came on the scene of Arizona sports in the early nineties and began to follow them more and more after Desert Swarm became a house hold name.  So, which team is my favorite of all time?

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I attended the University of Arizona in 1998.  Long before I had considered moving out to the old pueblo to attend college, I loved watching the Cats on T.V. from my home in Austin, Texas.  Every kid in America knew about the "Desert Swarm" and my blog was appropriately titled to honor that era.  

I was born in 1979 so my knowledge of Arizona came right around the time the Desert Swarm was making a name for itself.  The hard nosed defense led by coach Dick Tomey made national headlines and put the Cats in the 1993 Fiesta Bowl where they trounced Miami 29-0.   This was when Arizona was put on my radar.

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Boom!  It's time for football season to start kicking into high gear.  The recruiting is in high gear, summer is in mid stride and football camp will begin in a little over a month.  It's always fun this time of the year to look forward to the upcoming season and start dissecting our season, players, packages, new coaches and schedule of home and away games. 

SB Nation is especially excited to announce that EA Sports has asked to sponsor a week's worth of posts leading up to their release of NCAA Football 2011 next Tuesday, July 13, 2010.  So, each college blog across the SB Nation sphere will be posting once per day for a week in honor of this sponsorship. 

The goal of the sponsorship is not to tell the bloggers what to say but to have a forum on each blog as to why that person loves their school and what makes them a die hard fan.   Our site will be listing each day what it means to be a die hard Arizona fan and how we got to be here.  In a few minutes (hopefully) I'll be following up this post with my first piece of the series: How I Became a Die Hard Arizona Wildcat Fan followed up by these other posts:

Tuesday: All-Time Favorite Arizona Team

Wednesday: Tailgating Traditions

Thursday: All-Time Favorite Wildcats

Friday: Most Memorable Moments

Monday: Expectations for the 2010 Season

Tuesday: Christmas in July

EA Sports and I invite you to jump in the comment section of each post. I look forward to hearing all your own stories and traditions related to being a Wildcat Fan.

Bear Down!