Booyah!

Yes! After hitting the 40 hour mark for the week when I left work last night, I was greeted at home by the tickets I was able to round up for the Oregon at Purdue game this Saturday:

Row 15, 47 yard line, Ducks sideline, inlcuded a parking pass, all at face value!

Oh happy day!!! Only downer is that I miss the ND-Michigan game, probably the best game at Notre Dame Stadium this year.

Jealous.

Nice grab. Football in September in the midwest is really tough to beat. The only thing missing from your Saturday now would be some Oregon microbrews for the tail gate...

The ND - Michigan game is going to be interesting, with both teams being question marks so far this year.

ND is bound to break out one of these games, and I will prognosticate that Saturday will be it. I say ND by 10.

The tailgaters are nice, and show that duck fans have solved the problem of too much beer, too little time.

I would have gone to ND - Michigan

Naw... it will be sweet to watch the Pac-10 throw down a "good" Big 10 team. I think I hate the Big 10 more than any other conference... they think they are so good at everything, but really... they're not.

(Hmm... that last line was vaguely reminiscient of Zoolander. Sigh... I have been working way too much lately. My mind is not sharp.)

Oh, and DTR - you need to come back down to Portland. Just FYI.

(This I very much realize, haha maybe I can move back down in time for basketball season...)

You would have gone to ND - Mich, but who can trust your taste when it's a known fact that you're a Husky fan!

You excessive celebrators, you!

What can I say, I enjoy watching teams who have actually won Division I championships...

At least you can look at our uniforms without suffering permanent retina damage... Its almost as bad as listening to Petros Papadakis provide color commentary...

Haha - what's funny is that my favorite duck parafanalia that I own is a lightning yellow hat. ND folks around here have indicated that the color and hat are "offensive." But I like the permenant retina damage

Interesting that you choose the word "paraphernalia" to describe gear supporting a team in Eugene....

I suppose you can handle permanent retina damage when you rock the Caprice Classic.... it kind of cancels out all the bad vibes from the made up Nike color

I like Barry Tompkins as an announcer. It's a damn shame we have to listen to Petros along with him.

I can't complain about the season so far--I got to go to my first two games ever at Autzen, and play some music on the field (I used my connections and got in the alumni band). Got a free lightning yellow shirt, too.

Traffic was terrible getting out of the stadium the first game. I can understand why the Washington fans would want to leave after the third quarter to beat the rush.

Barry Tompkins isn't bad at all.... Petros just needs to learn to be quiet and understand nobody wants to listen to him talk. Furthermore why do we have to listen to a USC guy anyway?? I guess D'Marco Farr does the studio work... But nobody from Oregon probably cares to listen to him either. (But at least he doesn't sound like a weasel with laryngitis)

DaTru - In sports, it's always "what have you done for me lately?".

What was that season opening score: 44 - 10? Yeah, that's what my Webfoots have done for me lately. (And 66 - 24 with 688 total yards wasn't a bad day's work. Though I'm not real happy with points allowed, to be honest.)

If the Yellow "blinders" can boot Purdue on the road like they humiliated Michigan last year, wow, that would be bunches of fun!!!

(Will the Quackers let me down in the end? Yeah, they usually do...)



Just havin' fun with ya, Rochin!

FANatic, from what I remember there were only one or two Utah St. score in the first half, with the first string playing. I think it was our second string that allowed the points to USU's backups late in the game. And the Ducks have some reserves on offense that looked very good. When they are starting in a season or two the offense will still be fine. They just kept scoring and scoring in the second half. But like the Pilot ladies, these two games don't a whole lot compared to what's ahead.

(Note: 66 points=10 times playing Mighty Oregon )

Those were my first two trips to Autzen and I have to say, playing in front of 57K fans was one of my biggest thrills as a musician. I'd have to say Autzen is the Merlo Field of Pac-10 football (Which I think is quite a compliment to Duck fans)!