Finally Some Football

Sorry, I lied. One last post. In looking at the bright side of our delay in travel, we did get to catch the final football game at Dartmouth. We went to one game and it was raining so hard we left at halftime. N was livid, he wanted so much to stay until the end, and I don't think he ever really let us live it down.

With this in mind, I thought it would have been nice to catch one last game, but it never really worked out, and by the time the season was coming to an end, they had one game left, and it was the day after we were supposed to fly out. Bummer. Anyway, I felt bad for N because he really wanted to catch one more game. The last time we went, we got mediocre seats, not just because of the view, but because we were too far over to the side to be involved with all the theatrics when the throw out free footballs and t-shirts. The next time, N vowed, we would sit in the right section.

Well, as fate would have it (and depending upon how you look at it), we were bummed to have had to change our plans, but in leaving on Sunday, we could now catch the Saturday game. Wow, talk about serendipity. A&N were thrilled, and we jetted over and got good seats. The final game of the season, and the weather was perfect for football. Cool, breezy and sunny. To add to the fun, we were right in the thick of the souvenir bash, and managed to grab a t-shirt and two little footballs. Talk about a score. When they were tossing out the footballs, I stood up and had to knock over an elderly woman to get them, but her husband understood that it was all in the name of the game. Any guy would understand. I'm glad both A&N got footballs, even though it was a little dog eat dog out there.

In an interesting note, and I was a little surprised by this, but N offered his football to the woman next to him because, he said, we had two of them. She politely and gratefully declined, and I was touched by N's generosity, though I didn't think it was necessary. Not sure how to approach this one.

Either way, we had fun, we got to watch the entire game, and Dartmouth won and set some sort of milestone for finally having a winning season. Also, their star player broke a school record for yardage, so it was a momentous day. Best of all, we got to eat hot dogs, pizza, and hot chocolate. The breakfast of champions.

Until the next time, thanks for reading, and thanks to Mike McKee for the pic.