Monday, September 5, 2011

BYU Football 2011

I decided to kick this football season off the right way, with a road trip to watch BYU play Ole Miss! I think my favorite part about the Cougars independence is that they will play out here more.

We drove down to Memphis Friday, then headed to Oxford Saturday morning. We arrived about noon to find this:





There was an abosulte Sea of tailgating, and most of it was with high-class Southern etiquette. It was awesome; the only people who were even slightly impolite to us were students; and most of the rude ones appeared to be pretty drunk. The older an Ole Miss fan was, the more likely they were to be exquisitely polite and thank us for driving all the way down, especially when we told them we drove from D.C.

BYU was well represented at the game.

That was the official visitor's section.

This was us in the cheap seats in the end zone. For being the cheap seats, they were really pretty good, and they were on metal bleachers, so we could make lots of noise stomping. You might have heard the BYU fans yelling "Defense!" a few times; that was us.

The concessions weren't bad, either. They were expensive, but at least one item was worth whatever they could have asked for:


And... a few actual football pictures:




Oh, and who's the goof in this picture?