Fair weather fans

Saturday 09/26/08

3:00pm - The burgers, beer and extra ice packs are in the cooler with all the ice from my ice maker dumped in.
3:10pm - My friend Bit shows up and loads said cooler along with my pile of stuff into the car. It's raining.

Bit: Are we stupid to do this?
Me: No.

3:15pm - We have gone 2 miles up Peacehaven Road and are getting onto 421. The windshield wipers are going strong.

Me: Ya know, my elbow really hurts today. If we hadn't told the Fitz's we were coming to their house to tailgate and if you hadn't told Charles he could have the extra 2 tickets, I would say let's bag the game today.
Bit: I'm pretty sure the Fitz's wouldn't mind. They can go out to eat. Heck, they have 2 teenage boys, it's not like they don't have food in the house and they are betting on our burgers. And Charles, ppht, he can buy tickets at the gate.

3:18pm - We exit onto Lewisville-Clemmons Road.

Me: Hello Fitz? Would you think we are horrible people and call an end to our friendship if we bagged coming to Boone today? My elbow hurts and it's raining and whine, whine, whine.
Fitz: Hahaha! Nah, that's ok. We'll see ya'll next week.
Bit: Charles, you will have to find other tickets to the game or just take your date out to dinner. We're not coming.

3:20pm - Heading back into Winston-Salem.

Me: I think a beer would make my arm feel better.
Bit: The Wake game starts at 3:30. We could go watch the game and eat bar food and drink beer.
Me: Let's go to that kinda new sports bar on Robinhood. I haven't been there yet.

5:00pm - Sitting in Beef O'Brady's polishing off our second beer and wiping the hot sauce off our lips.

Me: What is wrong with the Deacs? I want to go home and take a nap before our game.
Bit: Four turnovers is enough for me.
Me: Check please.

Yosef's alternative to SOLD OUT

So it seems that this Saturday's game is completely sold out and, more importantly, HOMECOMING is sold out. If you are interested in these games you need to email me at blackandgoldnc@gmail.com. I have four season tickets, two of which I am offering up for sale for both games. These tickets are located in the west side (the APP side) stands around the 30ish yard line.

Here's the deal...I will sell these tickets for pretty much face value - $60.00 for both. If we get into a bidding war, the tickets remain $60 but the winning bidder will be the individual that agrees to write the biggest check to The Yosef Club. (I will require said individual to hand me the check before the game(s) which, I will in turn submit promptly to the Yosef Club.) The winner gets the tax benefit of contributing to a worthy cause AND the benefits of Yosef Club membership.

Too much information

So my surgery is scheduled for tomorrow at 2:45 pm. That's almost THREE O'CLOCK in the AFTERNOON and I can not eat or drink (well, I can drink water before 6:00 am) ANYTHING after midnight TONIGHT. I'm thinking I might be a wee bit grumpy tomorrow.

So...I just added panic to my already anxious state by googling "arthroscopic elbow surgery". Why did I do this?!? I think that sometimes, what we don't know is better than what we do know.

Improved Stadium

I really love the new view from my seats and I'm very excited by the fact we had record attendance yesterday!

Tough Skinny QB

Here is the scanned (because I couldn't find the actual on SI's website) picture of the title page of this weeks print version of Sports Illustrated.

I'm kind-of thinking it might hurt, just a little bit, when a brute 20 lbs (but really probably 30 lbs) heavier tries to knock your block off. Kudos to Armanti for hanging onto the football!

I can't wait until Saturday! I'll get to try out my new tailgate grill.

Putting it in perspective

At some point over the last couple of days I convinced myself that losing to LSU at DEATH VALLEY by 28 points was not necessarily a black eye to the Mountaineers. I thought I was being somewhat of a Pollyanna until I researched their box scores from the 2007 season. The Tigers beat the ACC's (I'm not saying the ACC is a football conference) Virginia Tech by 41 points.

I'm happy to see that the Mountaineers maintain our #1 position this week!