Category Archives: Travel

Game #3: Michigan Vs. Penn State.

Michigan Vs. Penn State.Michigan going up 3-0 over Penn State.

Yesterday we went to Happy Valley to watch No. 4 Michigan take on Penn State in a night game.  Michigan shut down Penn State’s offense for the majority of the game holding then to minus 14 yards rushing.  Michigan managed to knock Penn State’s starting and backup quarterback out of the game.  At one point there was talk of drawing random seat numbers from the stadium with the winner playing quarterback for the lions for the remainder of the game.  The game had the second largest crowd in Beaver Stadium history with 110,007 in attendance.

Penn State takes the field.Michigan kicks off to start the game.Penn State Quarterback Antony Morrelli leads the offense.Penn State's offense takes the field deep in their own territory.Two of the top linebackers in the country; Paul Posluszny and Dan Connor.Back home; Do Not Tailgate.

Michigan ended up shutting down Penn State’s late drive lead by their 3rd string quarterback.  Michigan won 17-10 and is on a collison coarse with No. 1 Ohio State on November 18th in what I will call the ‘Game of the Century‘.

The Frencho Wedding.

Mr. and Mrs. Frencho.

JJ Frencho doing the honors'.JJ Frencho going in for the kill.JJ Frencho throwing like a girl.

This weekend Julie and I attended JJ and Kim’s wedding in Columbus, as far as I can tell this was several years in the making.

JJ and Kim Frencho.

The reception was held at Nationwide’s Atrium where a young, unsuspecting couple, was lucky enough to be seated with the likes of me, Kyle, James and Nick Barbone. No small feat. After the reception and a change of clothes we headed over to the Elevator to meet up with most everyone from the wedding who was up for a drink or four.

Julie Rubinstein and Nik Bronder at the Frencho Wedding.Nik Bronder, Nick Barbone and James 'holding down the fort'.Kyle Neugebauer and others doing what they do best.Nik Bronder and Julie Rubinstein at the Elevator.Nick Barbone explaining to me the secret to Charlie Weis' Offense: The Fourth Down.James and Nick Barbone attempting to grasp my theory on Florida being No.1 in the BCS.Luke making an appearance at the excat time we happen to have a spare shot.Myles Tersnak and Nik Bronder reminiscing about ‘old Myles’.Myles Tersnak and the Legendary Todd Boylan with the Bride and Groom.

A chronology of Old Myles:

Old Kyle at the Elevator.

I attempted to document the transformation of Myles into Old Myles through the course of the night. This wasn’t anything special but it was Old Myles.

Old Kyle at 12:09 AM.Old Kyle at 12:15 AM.Old Kyle at 12:27 AM.Old Kyle at 12:40 AM.Old Kyle at 1:01 AM.Old Kyle at 1:08 AM.Old Kyle at 1:11 AM.Old Kyle 1:13 AM.Old Kyle at 1:15 AM.Old Kyle at 1:21 AM.Old Kyle at 1:24 AM.Old Kyle at 1:31 AM.

A summary of the end of my night/morning:

We ended up heading back to the hotel after the Elevator, leaving my hotel key with Nick Barbone and an invitation for James to stay in our room. At about 3:30 I get a call from James while he’s pounding on our door. I let him in knowning he has to make a 9:00am flight back to California. A few hours later James’ phone alarm starts ringing so I attempt to throw a pillow from the chair at him. As I grab for the pillow I notice Nick is actually sleeping on the chair leaving a third yet unknown man sleeping in our room. I hit James with the pillow but to no affect. The alarm eventually stops and I go back to sleep. I start to assume that the other person in the room is Todd Boylan who must have stumbled in with Nick at an unknown hour. At about 7am the alarm goes off again. I still can’t wake James. We go back to sleep again. Finally at 8am, with the alarm ringing and Julie physicaly pulling on James’ leg he wakes and heads out. Nick gets up from the chair and takes James’ place on the bed. About an hour later Todd gets up and asks Nick for that ride he promised him in a drunken stumble to the strip club 4 hours before. At this point Nick recalls that he doesn’t have his car, it’s at Myles’. Awesome. Todd leaves (via Cab?) and then we notice Myles has called at about 9am. Nick and I assume this is because we left some food out at his place earlier but we later find out this is because we have the key to his house and Myles had to sleep at a neighbors.

Par for the course.

The Sequel: Worst Airline(s) Ever.

Columbus, Ohio.

So when I finished the last post at around 6am before boarding my flight I never imagined the saga had just begun.  My flight to Columbus (via Washington) was on time and everything was going fine until we got directly above Columbus.  Our captain got on the intercom and notified us that we would be redirected to Indianapolis.  This is about the time I said ‘What the Fuck’ as loud as anyone has on an airplane in a long time.  Granted I had headphones on so who knows how really loud my cry for help was.

The rationale given for our detour was really amazing.  The visibilty over Columbus was not suitable for our landing and our fuel level was too low to go into a holding pattern.  Now I’m not really sure how long we would have held in the pattern but I’m willing to bet it was less time than it took to fly to Indianapolis.  So we land in Indianapolis, fuel up, dump the shitter and sit and wait for another 45 minutes.  Let less we forget I had football tickets, probably the only OSU game I’m going to see all year and I didn’t land in Columbus until after kickoff.  Needless to say I despise Air Travel.