Sunday, August 31, 2008

UA Football Game

We went down to Tucson on Saturday to see the UofA play the Idaho Vandels. Maybe the Vandels are the worst team ever, but it was fun to watch the cats kill someone for once. It was any easy drive down to our favorite Mexican food place ever too. We went to El Guerro Canelo before the game. We all had some Carne Asada except for Zane Whiting who had a hot dog. Once we left there we went to the stadium. Once we got there the pagentry and warmups were nice. They had fireworks as the team ran on to the field which scared us all. We were all set for kick off. The UA players were set up for kickoff return. We were very excited. Then it started to storm. They didn't even kick off before the Referees took the players off of the field and the anouncer started saying "For your safety and the safety of the stadium staff please exit the stadium immediatly!" We were disappointed to say the least. We decided to walk over to the McHale center (basketball arean for the wildcats) to look for an ATM. We found a door on the backside of the arena where some kids were milling around. The door was open so we just walked in. We went down a ramp and around a corner then we saw it. Meca for any UA hoops fan. We found ourselves on Lute and Bobbi Olsen Court. It was awesome. We took this picture:




After we milled around the gym for a while, including a guided tour of the weight training area by some really drunk fowl mouthed UA students, we decided to go wait outside for the rain/lighting to stop. We were waiting around for about an hour with some underage drinking baseball players, some other misc. students when we started to notice some rather tall kids coming and going. The first player I recognized was Chase Budinger so I stopped him and shook his hand. This made Drew very upset saying I should have stopped him longer and let Drew meet him. The boys were watching every kid that walked by and saying "Is he on the team? Is he?". Nic Wise came by a little while later and we didn't recognize him at first but then we did. Drew ran into the building and yelled "Nic!" Nic stopped and talked for a few minutes so we took this picture with him.






Soon another starter on the team Jordan Hill came by and Drew stopped him again and took his picture too. Zane and even Alex (ASU Fan) were happy to take this picture because of how tall this guy is.


Overall, despite the rain, lightning and cold wind we all had a good time. UA killed poor Idaho, but it was worth the time. And yes we got to go to El Guerro Canelo (sorry Stacy).





1 comment:

Stacy said...

I was invited, I knew what I would be missing, I can't complain, I guess.