I arrived Friday night to a damp cold Michigan fall. Laney had a hot date so I was on my own. I found a great town about 8 miles west of Ann Arbor called Chelsea. Chelsea had a great Main Street lined with restaurant and shops. I decided to grab dinner and a beer at Cleary’s Pub. I had great meat ravioli and the owner personally greeted each customer.
Pictures
Saturday was the big day, University of Michigan VS Penn State, a true college football rivalry. Penn State had not beaten University of Michigan at Michigan since 1995.
I met Laney for brunch and a tour of campus. The game was at 3:30 so we headed to the stadium about 3:00. This was some sight 100,000 plus fans all walking toward the big house. My guess about 50,000 of the 100,000 were somewhat impaired which added to the great atmosphere.
I expected a close game but was quickly let down. Within the first minutes University of Michigan scored a touch down, and boy did they make it look easy! At that point I thought this was going to be a blow out. Well it was, Penn State 35 University of Michigan 10. Not what I expect after the first few minutes. After that first drive University of Michigan fell apart. Penn State scored on its first drive and tied the game just 4 minutes into the first quarter. From that point on it was all Penn State.
Video
What a great atmosphere cold, windy, and raining 106,325 people half drunk and 90% of the University of Michigan fans pissed off, just a ton of fun.
After the game I met back up with Laney and we had dinner a good friend of hers, Lulu.
Then I headed back to my hotel since Laney and Lulu said they were going to study, but I knew study meant party.
Sunday morning Laney and I had breakfast at the broken egg. And then off to study group for Laney and Washington DC, for me.
I had tickets for Monday night football, Philadelphia Eagles VS the Washington Redskins.
My brother Lee will be joining me for the game.
Cheers,
DUG
This is a great post thankss
ReplyDelete