Football You Bet!

I feel somewhat blessed to be the youngest at times. Yes I didn't ever get to see mom and dad water ski or get into dirt claud fights with my siblings but I did get what a lot of them (meaning my siblings) didn't. And that is knowledge. I learned from Stephanie that your youngest sibling shouldn't be laying on your mothers lap while you are learning to drive stick shift. I promise, you'll get a face full of dashboard. I learned from Richelle that talking to yourself is completely fine as long as you don't get caught. I learned from Stan that Abba will never die. I learned from Roger not to throw the Nintendo controller at a developing boys junk. They get real mad and I am so glad he didn't catch me. But let me focus for a bit on my bigger brothers Stan and Roger. I owe you so much because you see, these two gents taught me about one of the most important things in life....Football. Falderah you say? NEIGH! Do you know who I am married to? If it weren't for my brothers and their willingness to teach me about football at such a young age (including running pass patterns in the back yard), I could possibly be in marital strife right now.

This last weekend was the first of the college football season. This last week was particularly intense because BSU was playing Oregon and it was basically a bowl game. With our orange and blue attire on and Tostitos chips (we only eat Tostitos since the Fiesta Bowl) we settled down to watch the game unfold. Of course as we all know we, meaning Boise State (I say we because I am pretty much on the team) well we creamed them. That was on Thursday and we spent the rest of the weekend flipping through college games. However, we did tune into the entire Oklahoma vs. BYU game. There are few times where you will see me cheer for BYU this being one of them. Yes Zac went there for a year and a half. Yes I have had many in-laws grace the bubble that is Provo and yes I CAN'T STAND BYU FANS! And yes Oklahoma can still eat it. Boise State will ALWAYS be better than BYU.

I do truly miss going to the Boise State football games. Zac and I lived right off campus for the first three years of our marriage and it became quite the tradition to trek over to the stadium together. We would hop on the green belt on our blue and orange bikes (no I am not kidding) and ride to the stadium with our cow bells dangling off of our handle bars. We would sit on the second level 50 yard line up for the most pristine viewing of the game....granted we sometimes had to get there three hours before the game started. I seriously get pumped thinking about yelling BOISE and the other side returning STATE right before all the players flew out onto the field. But one of my favorite things was not even necessarily the game. In every program there was a coupon to Chicago Connection pizza that gave you up to 35% off your bill depending on what BSU beat the other team by (meaning if they beat the other team by 35 we'd get 35% off our bill). So on game days like Idaho or Utah State a whole slew of us would book it over to Chicago Connection after the game because we were guaranteed the deal of a lifetime!

Zac and I have access to all the BSU football games this year thanks to the wonderful machine that is the world wide web. We do not have access to Chicago Connection which makes me choke up just a little bit. I guess Grimaldi's will have to do.

I pretty much carved that.