Lets play some FOOTBALL!!!!

So on Saturday last week we went to our first (American) football game over here. It was an American College Football game being held at the Rogers Centre for some reason or another. Anyway we'd never been to one, and since it's only about 150m from out front door it seemed rude not to. So we went.

Rutgers University was playing Ball State University (personally I didn't know the US had a Ball State, I'm pretty sure it's not one of the 50 I've learned about, I'll look it up and get back to you.) Due to the joys of random ticket allocated we were just off the centre line on the Ball State side, so I guess we were cheering for Ball State then. Note to self, don't sit on one teams side and cheer for the other, it just gets messy.

The universities certainly put on a large show. Each side has their own marching band and several sets of cheerleaders (spares I suppose in case they break one) plus their mascots running around the field (or at least freshman students dressed up as mascots in some kind of weird hazing initiation.) Probably about 200 people officially involved on each side due to that, plus all the fans that followed them up to the Great White North from the Land of the Free.


Anyway it was a fun enough game to watch, even though Ball State didn't know what to do with the ball most of the time. Either their quarterback forgot he should really get rid of the ball before five burly armoured mean people jump on him, or the receivers he was throwing to were scared of trying to catch it. Whichever happened Ball State lost 52-30.


It was a good day out anyway. We'd never been to a major sporting event before so it was a new experience every way.