University of Oregon v. Arizona Football Game

This was such a horrible game. Terrible calls, and Oregon somehow lost to an UNRANKED team! Argh! Awful! It also took us like 45 minutes to get into the stadium because the lines were so long. I went to the game with K, and some of his friends. I also ran into Sarah later, and got very excited so we took pictures!

University of Oregon v. South Dakota Football Game

first game of the season! My friend Corrie and I went to the game together. I was supposed to go with my friend Skylar too (it was both Corrie and Skylar's first games ever!) but Skylar's dog had an emergency and she ended up in the hospital. Skylar was getting ready to go, and then all of a sudden her dog started screaming and wouldn't move her body. Skylar called me crying saying she thought the dog was paralyzed and was on the way to the ER. They're not exactly sure what happened but puppy is on all kinds of medication. She's a dauchsund, so there's a lot of potential spinal injuries or degenerative issues that culd be at play. Unfortunately, Skylar didn't make it to the game, so that was a huge bummer.

Corrie and I ended up turning around (we were almost to Skylar's when we got the call about the change in plans) and going back to Corrie's, since it is walking distance from the stadium. We got chips and guacamole and salsa and a bottle of "Light Grape" and kicked back until it was time to head on over! We also got these great Roasted Garlic & Sea Salt ruffled potato chips ( think they were Lay's brand, so technically I think they call them "wavy.") which were AMAZING. We ate the entire family size bag. It was awful. LOL

At the grocery store, we absolutely could not find fresh Pico de Gallo, and it was just driving me crazy. How could Safeway not have fresh salsa/ I buy it all the time! Corrie finally pointed out this particular Safeway caters to a very particular type of shopper: Alcoholic Undergrads. 

Have you ever seen so much alcohol spread all over the freaking FLOOR?!

After Safeway and the tailgate for two at Corrie's apartment, we headed on over to the game, which was about a .6 mile walk.

On the way over , we also found an unopened can of PBR sitting on top of a bridge. After a quick debate, we figured the risk of herpes was pretty low and it got chugged.

Go Corrie! LOL

The game was lots of fun and we managed to find some law students to sit with too. I really love going to a Pac 12 school and the free football tickets can't be beat!

 

Go ducks!

Football Game at K's House (University of Oregon v. Michigan State)

In September, K hosted a house party for one of Oregon's first away games. He got a projector from school and what seemed like a billion people came over for the game. It was so fun to be with so many people and to run into people I knew in other contexts. All of our social circles are ultimately tied together because of the law school so you always end up seeing somebody else you know!

THE CIVIL WAR!

University of Oregon's big rival is Oregon State University and the game they play each year is called "The Civil War." I was supposed to shoot a wedding this weekend, but my jerky bride let me book all of my travel to St George on Thanksgiving weekend, and then backed out two days before. She was someone I loved and trusted (the widow if you remember that story from my 1st anniversary) and she totally violated that trust. I'm happy for her, but her screwing me over was incredibly distracting from the joy and love I felt for her and her family. (Deep sigh).

Anyway, because I didn't end up working (yes she got married, she was sealed for time in the st. george temple) I was free to go to the game. All of the football games are free for students, so it was great! We went to the Wild Duck beforehand for snacks and then walked over with Carrie her husband, and Shashank. Robb came to the Wild Duck for lunch but took off before the game. Four hours of standing and screaming later, we won in the last 20 seconds.

 Shashank!

First Football Game!

Back in October I went to my very first University of Oregon football game! One of my criteria for the grad school I attended was that it be a school that I was proud to go to, and would want to wear the sweatshirt with pride! USC really does that for me, but they don't have a program I would want to do (except maybe a law degree, but I'd never get in!) so going to a top 3 Pac 12 school is pretty cool! (Our program is also top 5 in the nation too!)

We tailed gated inside at a law student's house who I didn't actually know. (Look at me branching out!) It turned out the guy's roommate was dating a person in my cohort, but nobody knew that until they started holding hands (very awkwardly!) throughout the evening!

We had chips and salsa and drinks at Matt & Nate's house, and then walked about 20 minutes over to the stadium, with a few silly antics in the leaves on the way there! With us were some guys from our cohort: Robb, Mason, and Mitch, and girls: Carrie and Sydney, and then Mitch's girlfriend Sarah came too. (We LOVE her! She's hilarious.)

It was really terrible after the game, there was only one exit, and we ended up jumping a fence and sliding down a huge hill, jumping another fence, and then shuffling through a crowd of probably 60,000 students trying to all walk back the same way. It was in that crowd that the fireworks went off overhead- you had see how crowded it was! It was really difficult to stick together, but even the people we lost we found again. I had no idea where we were going so you bet your life I held on to Carrie like nobody's business!

Also some of my bruises from climbing the fence and falling and also Carrie knocking me off the bleachers in the stadium with her hips! (We stood for FOUR HOURS. That's how you do it in the student section, apparently.)
PS; We won this game!

My poor legs!