We were able to witness history yesterday...the second worst defeat at home for the Irish. Sad. I must say we had a very good time until about the second half and then it just got to be boring and actually pretty pitifull. We did have some highlights up to that point...we stopped in at Jimmy Johns for lunch before dropping Gabi off to my parents (thanks mom and dad for keeping her!) and heading to the game at about 12:30. We were invited to hang out at a couple of tailgate parties...the first one being at Pinnacle Software. Their tent was cool...burgers and brats, chips, salad, cookies, doughnuts, and fruit. We talked to our friend from school, Brian, for a while and headed out to meet cousins, Mike, Shannon and their family. We got to play with Briella, visit with Mike & Shannon and family and grabbed a drink. Ben wanted to meet up with Duane (friend from work and got us the tickets for the day's game). His wife works in the athletic department at ND and she was helping out with the Monogram Dinner in the Joyce Center. Duane got us into that dinner complete with wings, pulled pork sandwiches, cole slaw and brownies. Very cool to be so "important." By that time we were ready to get into our seats for the game. We only had about 20 minutes to kick off. Our tickets ended up being tickets from the 1977 championship team. Yes, these particular tickets were for a player from that team and family but they were unable to attend. So, needless to say, we found ourselves amongst some legendary football players from Notre Dame. Luckily, Ben had a program and a pen so we got some great autographs. Amongst some of the players we sat by were Ken MacAfee, Ken Dike (Irish defensive lineman and senior in 1977), and Ben sat right next to Steve Dover (halfback on the 1977 championship team). Mr. Dover had fun pointing out all the players that were there to be honored at the beginning of the game and it was interesting listening to stories he told. He even said that Joe Montana was supposed to be there but couldn't make it because his son had a football game. It was cool. All three legends that sat near us (mentioned above) signed our program . Along with the honoring of the 1977 team, a group of military skydivers landed into the stadium before the game. That was neat too...although we saw one that had to be carried off because he landed too hard and broke his leg. Anyways, regardless of the score at the end, we had a pretty good day...beautiful weather for a football game. We were tuckered out by the time we got home (after finishing off the day at Between the Buns for dinner). Here are some pictures from our day.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Irish Game Day
We were able to witness history yesterday...the second worst defeat at home for the Irish. Sad. I must say we had a very good time until about the second half and then it just got to be boring and actually pretty pitifull. We did have some highlights up to that point...we stopped in at Jimmy Johns for lunch before dropping Gabi off to my parents (thanks mom and dad for keeping her!) and heading to the game at about 12:30. We were invited to hang out at a couple of tailgate parties...the first one being at Pinnacle Software. Their tent was cool...burgers and brats, chips, salad, cookies, doughnuts, and fruit. We talked to our friend from school, Brian, for a while and headed out to meet cousins, Mike, Shannon and their family. We got to play with Briella, visit with Mike & Shannon and family and grabbed a drink. Ben wanted to meet up with Duane (friend from work and got us the tickets for the day's game). His wife works in the athletic department at ND and she was helping out with the Monogram Dinner in the Joyce Center. Duane got us into that dinner complete with wings, pulled pork sandwiches, cole slaw and brownies. Very cool to be so "important." By that time we were ready to get into our seats for the game. We only had about 20 minutes to kick off. Our tickets ended up being tickets from the 1977 championship team. Yes, these particular tickets were for a player from that team and family but they were unable to attend. So, needless to say, we found ourselves amongst some legendary football players from Notre Dame. Luckily, Ben had a program and a pen so we got some great autographs. Amongst some of the players we sat by were Ken MacAfee, Ken Dike (Irish defensive lineman and senior in 1977), and Ben sat right next to Steve Dover (halfback on the 1977 championship team). Mr. Dover had fun pointing out all the players that were there to be honored at the beginning of the game and it was interesting listening to stories he told. He even said that Joe Montana was supposed to be there but couldn't make it because his son had a football game. It was cool. All three legends that sat near us (mentioned above) signed our program . Along with the honoring of the 1977 team, a group of military skydivers landed into the stadium before the game. That was neat too...although we saw one that had to be carried off because he landed too hard and broke his leg. Anyways, regardless of the score at the end, we had a pretty good day...beautiful weather for a football game. We were tuckered out by the time we got home (after finishing off the day at Between the Buns for dinner). Here are some pictures from our day.
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