First, my advice is to get out and VOTE today. If you don’t, I don’t want to hear any complaints. Exercise your most important right!
Now the nonsense. Every year there is competition for our extra tickets to attend UW-Badger football games. For some reason, Paul has been witness to some of the more memorable games. There has been occasion when Paul and Chris have both witnessed history but Paul has been pretty lucky. Paul does lobby to hard to attend the “bigger” rivalry games like Michigan, Ohio State, Michigan State and Penn State. Last year for example, Paul and Jenny witnessed Wisconsin beating Michigan in the last 24 seconds with quarterback John Stocco running a “quarterback draw”. The Badgers won by 4. Paul essentially won the battle to see the best game of the year.
This year Paul chose attending the Penn State game. On the home schedule, it appeared to be the best potential game. Yeah the Badgers won in a steady slugfest. Final score 13-3. Yawn! Don’t get me wrong, the Badgers winning is great but the game was not real exciting unless you consider Penn State coach Joe Paterno getting his leg broken on the sideline.
Chris and Collin settled for the Illinois game a week earlier. The Badgers had some mental brain farts early in the game and found themselves down at half time 21-3. Curses! But the Badgers came out in the second half, played excellent football and gradually took the lead. They won by the final score of 30-24. It was not the way you plan a victory but it turned out to be very exciting and probably the home game of the year!
So this year Chris and Collin are the winners. They saw the best game. Yep, Paul loses. He will have to be a little more clever next year!
The good news is Bucky has not lost a home game. Nobody had gone home totally disappointed. It makes for fun Saturday afternoons in the fall.
Love,
Dad