A Bad Sports Weekend Turned Good
Holy hell what a miserable day in sports on Saturday.
Not sure if I've been to a Memphis football this decade but LP and I took the kids and met another family for Memphis v. East Carolina. Ahhhh, what a relaxing day. Here's what I'm used to-- Jordan-Hare at Auburn; 87,000 person stadium with 87,000 people in attendance. Here's what I got Saturday at Liberty Bowl Stadium-- a 65,000 person stadium with 27,000 people in attendance. But on a sidenote, there were 4,000 more people at the Memphis game than Ole Miss' game Saturday. You know you're headed South when Memphis has higher attendance than your school. Ugh.
So the Memphis game was great. We got 50-yard-line tix, 4th row. There were so many empty seats around us Anna got to run around with her friend McKayla. They got to draw pictures and run up and down the aisles. I got to stretch out and relax and watch Memphis score 40 points only have their bells rung by ECU-- hard being a Tiger football fan, eh?
LP and I then dropped the kids off at the grandparents and headed downtown for the Memphis Grizzlies game. We stop at Flying Fish first for some good ole fried catfish then hit FedExForum. We arrived 2 minutes into the game and the Grizzlies were already down 10 pts. We ended up spending the most exciting times of the evening watching the Bammer-LSU game in the suite. Sorry Zack, but I'm getting pretty friggin' tired of this one loss, everyone loves our mediocre coach and begs us to be in the National Championship game team from Louisiana. How many more players have to get arrested to take LSU out of national title hunt and get one of my BCS Busters in?
LP and I woke up Sunday morning to a really odd feeling. I think it was called "well-rested." I don't think we've been rested in 13 months now, but since the girls spent the night out we got to sleep in. Ahhhh, it was awesome.
And we must not have been the only ones to get some good rest. I coached Anna's final soccer game of the year. Our team has basically left me pulling my hair out as we're the Bad News Bears of the church league. But apparently, we're not the BADDEST Bears. We hung about 12 goals on the other team (after I told our best player to stop scoring and start passing) and Anna got her first goal of the season on a breakaway. OMG, I nearly peed myself. We were all so excited and I don't even think Anna knew what to think. It was awesome.
Have a great week.
Not sure if I've been to a Memphis football this decade but LP and I took the kids and met another family for Memphis v. East Carolina. Ahhhh, what a relaxing day. Here's what I'm used to-- Jordan-Hare at Auburn; 87,000 person stadium with 87,000 people in attendance. Here's what I got Saturday at Liberty Bowl Stadium-- a 65,000 person stadium with 27,000 people in attendance. But on a sidenote, there were 4,000 more people at the Memphis game than Ole Miss' game Saturday. You know you're headed South when Memphis has higher attendance than your school. Ugh.
So the Memphis game was great. We got 50-yard-line tix, 4th row. There were so many empty seats around us Anna got to run around with her friend McKayla. They got to draw pictures and run up and down the aisles. I got to stretch out and relax and watch Memphis score 40 points only have their bells rung by ECU-- hard being a Tiger football fan, eh?
LP and I then dropped the kids off at the grandparents and headed downtown for the Memphis Grizzlies game. We stop at Flying Fish first for some good ole fried catfish then hit FedExForum. We arrived 2 minutes into the game and the Grizzlies were already down 10 pts. We ended up spending the most exciting times of the evening watching the Bammer-LSU game in the suite. Sorry Zack, but I'm getting pretty friggin' tired of this one loss, everyone loves our mediocre coach and begs us to be in the National Championship game team from Louisiana. How many more players have to get arrested to take LSU out of national title hunt and get one of my BCS Busters in?
LP and I woke up Sunday morning to a really odd feeling. I think it was called "well-rested." I don't think we've been rested in 13 months now, but since the girls spent the night out we got to sleep in. Ahhhh, it was awesome.
And we must not have been the only ones to get some good rest. I coached Anna's final soccer game of the year. Our team has basically left me pulling my hair out as we're the Bad News Bears of the church league. But apparently, we're not the BADDEST Bears. We hung about 12 goals on the other team (after I told our best player to stop scoring and start passing) and Anna got her first goal of the season on a breakaway. OMG, I nearly peed myself. We were all so excited and I don't even think Anna knew what to think. It was awesome.
Have a great week.
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