Season Opener - First Football Game!

Now this was one of the days during my exchange year I was the most looking forward to:

Game Day!

               University of Kansas vs. North Dakota State University

Jayhawks vs. Bisons  

As expected, this was everything but business as usual. Parties everywhere, students pregaming since early morning hours, thousands of people coming to the city for the game... Some say the population of Lawrence almost doubles on a game day, which may be not so far from the truth as the capacity of the stadium is above 50,000 seats in a little college town, where lots of spectators from outside the city come to Lawrence's bars to watch the game. Another american tradtition for such big events (usually sporting events or rock concerts) is tailgating, which pretty much means such as having a barbecue beside the game either on the parking lot or on the lawn next to the stadium! Wiki says: 'Tailgating often involves consuming beverages and grilling food.' Yes it does...

Now after visiting one, I would recommend anybody who ever has the chance to see an american football game (at KU...) to do it! What you see on TV is nothing compared to what you get inside the Stadium... Great atmosphere, awesome show of marching band and cheerleaders and KU's traditional fan songs with 50,000 voices! 

So American: One of the University's two mascotts, 'Baby Jay' shooting T-Shirts into the crowd with a shirt-gun...

What an event! Roughly guessed I would say there's about 500 persons busy with entertaining you if you add all those athletes, coaches and artists in that bowl together... And now if the game would be interesting then, it would probably even be fun to watch the game itsself!

Well, it was not... The final score was 3:6... Compared to a soccer result this could maybe be a -2:-1 (in words: minus two to minus one)... North Dakota won... We lost... It wasn't because they were the better team, it was because they were the less bad team! Perfect for the first game ever... Some of the other results of that weekend (no kidding):

     Northern Illinois   10 : 27   Iowa State

              Illinois   13 : 23   Missouri

Western Kentucky   10 : 49   Nebraska

          Washington State   17 : 65   Oklahoma State

Today's lesson:

God doesn't like Kansas Football...