A few of you know that we went to the ASU Cal football game last weekend and have asked how it stacks up to UMD games. It was pretty sweet. We went to a game last year when they weren't very good and there was no energy. Big change to this year. It was homecoming, halloween (sort of) and a huge game against a ranked conference opponent. So it was a great scene.
Paige's friend Eryn grew up here and her father was the assistant AD at ASU forever (he's now AD at Ball State), so she knows all the major players in the local sports scene. We couldn't get tickets through her dad, so we just bought them online, so we got upper deck seats. But, she still had the sweetest parking location. We were right in front of the stadium to tailgate. I don't mean Lot 1 close, I mean I could throw a football and hit the turnstile close. But, that also meant were around mostly big shot alumni, far from the beer pong games and what-not of the farther parking lots.
We got there around 4:00 (Paige had a work thing all day) and tailgated until the game started at 7:30. We were there with Paige's friends from work, their friends, families, etc. One girl kept complaining that her mom was trying to get her wasted on jungle juice. Which she was. Luckily for me, Paige stuck to the beer we brought and not jungle juice.
At tailgating though, there was one extreme lowlight. Paige's friend's little brother is a senior there, and their cousin is a freshmen. So there were a bunch of ASU students of varying ages and there. At one point, we were talking to Paige's friend's cousin (who's 18). I was going to offer him a beer and then I realize that if I did and he got into trouble and it came back to me, it might actually cost me my job. God did I feel old.
The game was great - good atmosphere (it was Halloween), quality football, great weather, and best of all, a re-entry policy. That's right. We left at halftime, hit up the beer and snacks outside at our tailgate, and then went back in to the game. Well, some of us did. Others stayed out to tailgate during the second half and were hammered by the time the game was over. Some post-game tailgating went down until we called it a night. All in all, a very good time.
As good as it was, it didn't really compare to what I was used to. It made me miss those days in CP where the grill was greasy, the beer pong was rolling, the batteries in the crappy stereo had to be changed, and there was Purdue chicken as far as the eye could see.
" And no, I didn't plan to hit on her" implies that the inevitable hitting on her was spontaneous. I like it. And no, I haven't gotten sick of making these jokes.
Posted by: John at November 2, 2007 05:52 PM" I finally watched Transformers, and was freaking pissed they wasted the Devastator name on a one-tank robot."
Yeah, they could have at least made him BlitzWing.
Posted by: Fatboy at November 5, 2007 06:05 PMMy god, yeah, they should have incorporated TripleChangers. And then spent ten more minutes explaining THAT. It doesn't really feel like a nine hour movie, but damn, that movie is NINE hours long.
They should totally make a ridiculous franchise out of this. Just keep everyone working for like ten more years straight. There's so much Starscream material, then the time he took control of the Decepticons, then some cool Cybertron stuff, freaking GALVATRON, all the combiners...dude, can you imagine Metroplex? These movies would be bitchin'.
Posted by: McCreary at November 7, 2007 05:01 PMAnd oh yeah, they "killed" Megatron. But don't tell me that whole "we'll just dump him in the ocean where we can forget he ever existed" thing isn't a tremendous lead-in for Transformers 2: Energon Boogaloo.
Posted by: McCreary at November 7, 2007 05:06 PM