Hmmmm....Not quite the same...but not too bad!! Opening weekend of college football and I am in neither Athens or Clemson. It was a hard one for me, but was made a little better by the accomplished Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and their(our, I guess) Heisman hopeful QB, Colt Brennan. Late in the week I started feeling sad about no live football for us on opening weekend, so I went on the UH website, figuring the game had been sold out for awhile, but just thought I'd check. Oh no...plenty of $34 tickets left...sweet! So I bought 4 and after watching football all day (literally from the moment we woke up at 9:00) we headed out to Aloha Stadium at about 5:00pm (11:00pm ET) with our friends Charlie and Roisin to watch the rainbow warriors play!
The stadium is about 20 minutes away from our house and it isn't even on campus(the stadium overlooks Pearl Harbor)...I think that adds to the lower attendance....the not on campus part not Pearl Harbor. We hadn't allowed for much tailgating time so we each chugged a lone beer as we left the car. We were a little more than surprised when we got into the stadium and they were selling every kind if beer right there inside...The perks of an off-campus stadium I guess! By the time we made it to our seats (last row in the place, no joke) it was about 5 mins. into the first quarter and Hawaii was already up on Northern Colorado by 21 pts!! Colt Brennan didn't even play the 2nd half and the final score was 64-6 Rainbow Warriors! We had a great time! There really was a big crowd and everyone was super excited and into the game...the alcohol helps in a blow-out like that. We will definitely be back! It's not Athens, GA or Clemson, SC (or State College, PA...had to say it for Matt), but it was pretty cool.
It was a good opening weekend...The DAWGS looked great (thank God the game was on ESPN2, or we would have had to pay like $60 to buy it...and we would have!). It appears that Georgia is going to be really good which is great, but selfishly I wanted them to have a par season and be relegated to come play in the Aloha Bowl...just so I could see 1 game live!! But I'll give up that dream for another SEC championship!! Right now I'm counting down the minutes untill the Clemson Tigers kick-off their season with the Bowden Bowl. Just got off the phone with Reagan who was exiting a port-a-potty outside Tiger Stadium....I'm soooo jealous! Fight, Tigers, Fight...stomp out the rednecks!! HeeHee
Love you & Miss you alot,
Elizabeth
The stadium is about 20 minutes away from our house and it isn't even on campus(the stadium overlooks Pearl Harbor)...I think that adds to the lower attendance....the not on campus part not Pearl Harbor. We hadn't allowed for much tailgating time so we each chugged a lone beer as we left the car. We were a little more than surprised when we got into the stadium and they were selling every kind if beer right there inside...The perks of an off-campus stadium I guess! By the time we made it to our seats (last row in the place, no joke) it was about 5 mins. into the first quarter and Hawaii was already up on Northern Colorado by 21 pts!! Colt Brennan didn't even play the 2nd half and the final score was 64-6 Rainbow Warriors! We had a great time! There really was a big crowd and everyone was super excited and into the game...the alcohol helps in a blow-out like that. We will definitely be back! It's not Athens, GA or Clemson, SC (or State College, PA...had to say it for Matt), but it was pretty cool.
It was a good opening weekend...The DAWGS looked great (thank God the game was on ESPN2, or we would have had to pay like $60 to buy it...and we would have!). It appears that Georgia is going to be really good which is great, but selfishly I wanted them to have a par season and be relegated to come play in the Aloha Bowl...just so I could see 1 game live!! But I'll give up that dream for another SEC championship!! Right now I'm counting down the minutes untill the Clemson Tigers kick-off their season with the Bowden Bowl. Just got off the phone with Reagan who was exiting a port-a-potty outside Tiger Stadium....I'm soooo jealous! Fight, Tigers, Fight...stomp out the rednecks!! HeeHee
Love you & Miss you alot,
Elizabeth
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Looks like it was a good weekend for college football allegiances. Now... let's go REGGIE BROWN!!
At least the Braves won!!!!
Sorry about the Dawgs, surely next week-end will bw better.
Go Rainbow Warriors!
Franklin County upset Commerce. Go Lions! I can't find out about
Clemson. did they have an off day?
How about App. State? That is wherevanna is in school.......and has a new boy friend.
Hug each other.
G/mama
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