Alright, well, Keith McMillan filed more than 12,000 words just for this part of the Around the Nation 2007 Year in Review. I’d be scared to count how many words he wrote this season, or just in the Year in Review. Or even to copy and paste them all back into Word and let Bill Gates do the work.

Yes, I know those of you who still write checks have been writing ‘2008’ without fail for some time now, but it takes a while to write 20,000 words.

So there were many, many memories included. (My former copy desk chief would ding me for repeating the adjective, but shoot, it’s 1 a.m. and I don’t work there anymore.) There were memories that I was glad to read about, and others I’d rather forget. (Hello? ’80s music anyone?) And it’s always good to get the retrospective/reality check on the preseason poll, our Kickoff predictions, and the like.

But no simple (hah!) column can fully wrap up the 2007 season. I mean, we didn’t even get to read about how Keith didn’t make it to Catholic in time to see his alma mater finish beating my alma mater back in September — a game which ended up being between teams that combined for 13 wins instead of what we thought might be more like five.

So certainly you have memories that we haven’t considered. Or ones we’ve forgotten. Or perhaps you just have a good story to make up and try to slip past us.

Whatever your reason, we throw the floor open for the final Around the Nation of the 2007 season. But nope of the 2008 year. There’s that copy editor again.