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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Football Game Surprises

John Travolta nearly mistook the stadium lights for landing strip lights.

Generally, I dislike sports. I used to enjoy the Paris to Dakar rally, long before it became popular. And as much as I love mountain biking, I can't stand watching it. That's due, at least in part, to the big green monster. It really bothers me how lucky riders are today, how they take for granted the opportunities they have that simply did not exist for me back in the early 1990s.

But there's one sport I can tolerate, and enjoy, to a point. Football. The circumstances have to be right, though. It has to be a night game, with its totally cool ambiance, and there can't be anything even the slightest bit more interesting going on.

Suz hates sports. All of them. But she was willing to sit through a football game, on a work-related matter.

It was great. We had tickets to one of the corporate boxes where they surprised us by feeding us all night long while we watched the entertainment below. And the entertainment has certainly increased since the last game I attened, about 20 years ago.

Is he in the army?Where once there was only one set of cheerleaders, now there are 3 different sets of Cheerleaders: the team's, the local University's, and some junior Cheerleaders. On one end of the field a stage was set up and a band, probably some local band, rocked. The mascot made his rounds and the ever-cool t-shirt bazooka guys fired swag into the stands. Not only was the bazooka super awesome, but it made a really sweet POOT! sound when it was fired. Definitely better than the t-shirt slingshot, which was kinda disappointing in both its aural performance as well as its actual performance.

While we watched the excitement below (which contained both cheering and booing), we chowed down on super yummy nachos. These were followed by dual pizzas at half-time and if that wasn't enough, baskets of chicken wings and chicken fingers rounded out the evening.

At the end of the game, as we were beginning to head out into the snarled traffic, I was again surprised when I learned our alcoholic beverage tab was covered.

But the biggest surprise came the next morning when I learned that far below the comfy box we sat in, my pal Jodster, of Useless Advice From Useless Men, was working the field collecting balls and providing general assistance for the refs.

6 Comments:

Blogger Louisiana said...

i love your post and i have so much to catch up on..must make the time...will make the time...

it sounds like a great game...okay, really it sounds like a fantastic way to get spoiled as you both deserved. tab covered, yummy food, private booth, company of such a beautiful girl...sounds perfect to me..

hope Jodster had as much fun as you did...he is such a sweetie too.

1:06:00 PM

 
Blogger Monogram Queen said...

I heart football games but we sure don't have the grub y'all do. Maybe a hotdog fixed by some volunteer concession stand Mom or a pack of potato chips.

1:59:00 PM

 
Blogger Rainypete said...

I assume by excitement you meant wearable projectiles and the sight of the jogging Jodster rather than the deplorable gameplay.

2:26:00 PM

 
Blogger Martini said...

Jodster's jiggling sure made the night more enjoyable.

4:36:00 PM

 
Blogger Ellie Creek Ellis said...

jodster's jiggling,
band a rocking,
crowds,
sounds fun,
i'm just mad at all sports right now...lol

9:22:00 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I live the dream...

Closest to the action, with no hope of walking out early when the game stinks...

2:19:00 PM

 

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