The biggest event during a typical fall semester is the Saturday morning football game. Especially if you are in Big Ten country, where a 100,000 capacity crowd cheers Ohio State to a smashing victory over Michigan Ann Arbor is nothing out of place. If it’s a game day, then when I go out for my Saturday morning jog, I see groups of yellow T shirted teens opening crates of beer. At nine in the morning, beer is de riguer, only for the game. And the festivities are just beginning.
We set out for the Indiana Hoosiers vs the Minnesota Gophers game and joined the crowd of raucous Gopher fans. The bus makes a special detour to the Metrodome on gamedays. The area is heavily policed , tailgating parties are in full swing. There is the crisp sunshine of a brilliant sunny fall morning We are frisked and let in. The Metrodome ….with a seating capacity of almost 50,000 is a climate controlled indoors arena that would make any cricket fan go ga-ga over its suitability for a match.
A rousing cheer for the homecoming of the Gophers, a special hurray reserved for Bryan Cupito No 3 , the famous quarter back. Then the cheerleaders do their stuff accompanied by the 50 member school band giving a rendition of the ancient school battlesongs. The match begins and passes by in a big blur, wherein we annihilate our opponents to a crushing 64-26 victory. 4 touch downs by Cupito. It is really great that he is back in form.
Go gophers, rah!
Update: Ohio State vs Michigan coming up next week. The Big Kahuna of the Big Ten, of College football itself.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
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