Football season officially started for Truett and me today. Actually, the first Florida Gator football game was last week when we were in Kentucky, so today was our first of this year and we followed our usual football game routine.
As we drove into our parking spot I saw familiar fans milling around, drinking and laughing and doing the Gator Chomp! If you are not a Florida Gator fan, just substitute your team's favorite colors in the next few photographs because fans are fans regardless of the team colors. We all have our routines.
Our favorite way to get to the stadium after parking the car is by bicycle. Pump! Pump! Pump! I thought I saw this fellow wince when he saw our sizes, but he accepted us anyway, and he definitely accepted his "tip" as he called it.
Ummm! Mmmmm! The grills were heated up and the burgers and ribs were smoking.
An odd little car drove by on University Avenue advertising Red Bull.
Security was beefed up and I anticipated a body search like I had in Jacksonville last year. My roll around my middle evidentally was cause enough for a pat down. But today I got away scott free. No pat down, thank goodness!
Then the long, long climb to the top. Huffing and puffing.
Up. . . up . . . up to the top of the stadium. All the way up to row 85!
We were up so high we could practically kiss the clouds.
We saw our old friend from St. Augustine. "Hi, Nick!" We met Nick about twenty years ago on row 85...way up high in the Swamp.
Pretty soon the game against USF began.
Boy, what a day. The heat index was 105 degrees and was just barely tolerable; however, the Gators ended up with a win over the University of South Florida and for the next five months football will reign over our lives.
Football season is back after seven long months.
I am absolutely impressed at your stamina and heat tolerance! A 105 heat index would have been the end of me.
Posted by: Tiffany | September 13, 2010 at 10:26 AM