Just using your post because yours fits my narrative.
Totally bad analogy coming up.
I started in IT at age 22? (Early 90's) Whatever. This was still the good ol' boys club back then. When I was hired, I was the only person of color in my entire IT department. There was well over 200...
This x1000! I was there for the Boston College over Notre Dame game. (My dad is a BC alumn and had free tix via ND alumn who was his bud) Shit was fuckin EPIC. Like holy fuck epic in person. Never had I seen that many people in a stadium before.