Football Saturdays
It has been a pretty awesome past few weeks, folks. Last weekend we headed to Madison for our first visit to Camp Randall this season against San Diego State. Dan and Ryan were in town for the game so there was debauchery aplenty. State Street Brats, Wando’s, and the Stadium Bar lighted our path to the game. I did not make it into the game until halftime, which was a little disappointing, but the glass was half full is the way I will look at it. Yesterday we had a really fun “tailgate” for the Michigan game at Gabe’s by the Park in St. Paul. We rented out about half of the bar and had around 200 people show up. Alumnus of the Badger Band played all of our favorites throughout the game and Erasmus James even made an appearance. As for the football game, well, let us just try to forget about that. The Badgers were actually leading through a good part of the first half and the game was tied at 10 by halftime. The Badgers defense, while prolific, just could not keep up through the second half. They just wore us down. We had poor field position through the second half and the defense was time after time put into tough spots. If the Badgers could have scored first in the second half the momentum may have swung in our favor. I think this team still has a good shot at going 10-2. We played well enough against Michigan, in the first half at least, to beat Penn State and Iowa. Boy do I want a national championship for this program. I was curious as to how many NCAA championships we have as a school and it turns out it is 23. Not the highest by any means, but nothing to scoff at either. This Saturday we are at Indiana and I think I will attend the Michigan at Minnesota game later in the day. Oh, and the Packers picked up their first win of the season against the Lions. This time of the year is all about football for me.