A Tasting Menu for the First Day of College Football0800 Food: Start with a classic: The Original Game Day Pancakes with butter, maple syrup, and orange juice
0900 Games: College Game Day live from Blacksburg, VA. Emotional and passionate: the right way to start the year.
1100 Food: Leftover pizza with beer. The true undergrad-dorm room- hangover helper is cold pizza and cheap beer, but I haven’t be able to handle it that way since freshman y
ear. (OK, so I warmed the pizza in the microwave and the beer was Goose Island Belgian-style Ale. Sue me.)1100 Games: East Carolina at Virginia Tech, Colorado State at Colorado, but not Appalachian State at Michigan! Despite getting the game plan and expanded football cable package, no one in their right mind put Appalachian State at Michigan on the menu. What an amazing upset! Too big even for the underdog pool (no spread was posted). Sorry Steve!
1400 Food: Bucky Badger’s Orange Dip with Pretzel Sticks. This is basically cream cheese with ketchup and French dressing. This sounds weird, but it actually tastes good, just like mama Stanberg’s Cranberry Relish (if you understand that joke, you listen to too much NPR).
1430 Games: Georgia Tech at Notre Dame, Washington State at Wisconsin, UCLA at Stanford, and Iowa “at” Nothern Illinois. This was hardly a road game for the Hawkeyes. Fully 28% of the undergrads at Iowa are from Chicago. Everyone- and I mean everyone- went home for this game. ESPN called Soldier Field “Kinnick Stadium East.”
1500 Food: Bratwurst boiled for 2 hours in beer and then grilled to perfection, with mustard and sauerkraut, washed down with Sierra Nevada pale ale.
1600 Games: Arizona at BYU, Toledo at Purdue
1700 Food: Homemade guacamole and salsa with blue corn chips.
1930 Food: Chili con Carne made from scratch, dressed with sharp cheddar cheese and baguette chips.
1930 Game: Tennessee at California. WOW! What a great game! Maybe Les Miles of LSU will show a little more respect for the Pac-10. Then again, maybe not.
2000 Food: Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies
2100 Food: Turtle ice cream cake from Whitey’s, Iowa’s favorite local ice cream purveyor
2130 Game: Idaho at USC. Hardly a spectacular performance, but it was nice to the see the Coliseum packed full even for such a cupcake opponent
2300: Falling asleep and dreaming of New Orleans on January 7th
Fight On,
Hans
2 comments:
Sounds like a good time! We had a great time at Soldier Field. It was like a home game with all the Hawks there. One impressive part after the game is when everybody left Soldier Field; there was a river of black and gold that stretched from Soldier Field to Michigan Avenue, intermittently chanting I-O-W-A! It was great.
500 is all you are giving us? Ok, so if our offense doesn't look a little less bread and butter and if jake can't actually hit the receivers when throwing the ball, (it would help too, if they would catch it when he does actually throw it to them), it might be another long year.
It looks like everyone in the universe has John David Booty and USC #1. I think USC-LSU is an obvious early pick for the game, but it sure looks like a good one right now too.
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