Tag Archives: College Football

Yankee Stadium: Army – Notre Dame.

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This past weekend Julie and I headed to Yankee Stadium for the Army – Notre Dame game.  This was the 50th game between both schools with Notre Dame leading the series 38-8-4.  The game itself wasn’t very close after the first quarter with Notre Dame winning 27-3 but the environment was really unique. Yankee Stadium was absolutely huge for a baseball stadium.

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One of the more interesting parts of the night was the game balls arriving via Army paratroopers.  The jumbo tron had a video of them with head cams on in the plane and then throughout the entire jump.  It was surreal to see the stadium coming into view as these guys descended.

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Side Notes:

* The View From My Seat:

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** Julie (who took the majority of the photographs at the game) and I spent the early part of the day watching College Football at Blondies:

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*** Thanks to Emily for getting us the tickets to the game.

Ohio Stadium: Ohio State – Miami

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This past weekend I headed to Columbus for the Ohio State – Miami game.  Outside of special teams mistakes the Buckeyes dominated the game.  My brother managed to get me tickets one way or another in A Deck which were probably the best seats I’ve had at Ohio Stadium since I was a student.  Of course I had to go through the archaic ‘Will Call’ system that OSU has setup.  I guess it never dawned on me that 700 students would wait until the day before the Miami game to pick up their tickets and that the Ticket Office wouldn’t have separate lines for Student Tickets and everyone else.

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Nevertheless it was a good time.  We tailgated a little before the game, then headed over to the Varsity Club where Jack & Eddie pulled his weight to get a spot at the bar.

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Side Notes:
* The rest of my photographs are on Flickr here.

Notre Dame – Purdue.

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Yesterday I made my first trip to South Bend to see Notre Dame open the Brian Kelly Era against Purdue. The Irish shutdown the Boilermakers offense for most of the game winning 23-12 in their home opener.  The speed of the game was really fast with both offenses throwing the ball the majority of the time.  I thought the Irish offense looked pretty good but then again Purdue is not known for their stout defense.  Next week against Michigan will answer a lot of questions.

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There is much talk about Notre Dame Stadium being built with the same plans as Michigan Stadium.  I’ve been to Michigan Stadium a handful of times and I can see the parallels.  My real question is I don’t understand if the designs are the same why Michigan Stadium is so quite.  The reason usually given is the design and thats why the added the most recent expansion to make the ‘Big House’ a much more intimidating environment.  Notre Dame Stadium didn’t seem to have any issues with level of crowd noise.  I thought the stadium was really loud throughout the whole game.  My only complaints were the 1930’s 2×4 bleachers and the razor like knees of the old lady behind me.

Side Notes:

*Horse Cops are still absolutely pointless:
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**This man was searching in vain for some one in a sea of more than 80,000 people:
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***Drew Brees jerseys were in surplus throughout the day:
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****The View From My Seat:
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Thanks to Dom I had some of the better seats I’ve had at a College Football game in years.  We were about 27 rows up right on the 35 yard line.

***** The rest of my photographs are on Flickr here.