Mourningtime

The Penn State game in Ann Arbor yesterday was awesome. Until the last second, that is. In the last SECOND of the game, MI scored a touchdown and catapulted themselves to victory. If you haven't read about the details of the game, you can read about it here. To make a long story short, the fourth quarter was incredibly fast-paced and tense (and exciting, except that calling it exciting makes it sound like I'm somehow happy with the outcome of the game).

We had the best seats ever though -- we were in the second row of seats, right on the 30-yard line. Joe Pa was on average 40 feet away from me the whole game. The football players were lined up in front of our seats. The Blue Band sousaphone section was 20 feet to my left. A crazy and excited PSU fan (who made the 8-hour drive from State College) was right behind us. And the MI fans surrounding us were actually pretty friendly and humorous.

Of course, all of this made things even harder when the game ended abruptly. The players hung their heads. The sousaphonists looked devastated. I could see the facial expressions of so many PSU people, and that made the ending of the game even harder.

But, it was a good (in the technical sense of the word) game. And I'm glad that I had the opportunity to go. And I'm trying to not be too down about the loss (it's only a game! And Penn State will go on to kick butt the rest of the season anyway). ;) As my friend just reminded me, I should be happy today because "today is a weekend day that isn't yesterday."