One bad thing about BYU is the lack of a break in Fall Semester until Thanksgiving. True, I didn't have a class until September 7th, but I would trade that first week of September for a week off in October. Lucky for me, I made the best of this Thanksgiving break.
On the Friday before Thanksgiving Dallas flew into town, and, as he has done in the past, he didn't tell my mom. We surprised her... totally caught her off guard... which doesn't surprise me one bit.
Teusday I went fishing with Dallas, and his future boss Dave Mortenson. Killer trip where we each landed quite a few fish, a few of them of reasonable size. Fantastic day on the river. Later that night Dallas and I went to the BYU vs Hartford basketball game because I had first row tickets that I had won as a consolation prize in a competition for front row tickets to the BYU vs Utah game. I pulled out as many leg hairs as I could in three minutes, but didn't win... biased judges.
At that basketball game, Dallas was picked to do the halftime 2 layups and a 3 pointer challenge. He put the three pointer down at the buzzer, the crowd went crazy and he got a 100$ gift certificate to the BYU bookstore. I'm pretty sure he won't ever do anything cooler with a basketball, and suggest to never shoot a ball again... why not quit while you're ahead?
Thursday was Thanksgiving(duh), and as Dallas was carving the turkey Max, my 5 year-old nephew looked at the leg and said, "Dallas, you have GOT to give me that drumstick!" Dallas obliged. I snapped this winner. That kid is a champ.
Saturday capped off an amazing week. We started the day by having a tailgate party where we heckled the visiting Utes, wishing them good luck... at the New Mexico bowl. My reaction to the game was about what you would expect. The last time I jumped that high while screaming was about a year ago at Rice Eccles Stadium.. Hall's pass to Collie on fourth and eighteen goes down as the #3 moment I've witnessed. (Behind BYU Miami in 1990, and Beck to Harline last year... and ahead of BYU/Utah 2001 and A&M 1996) What a great game. We rushed the field.
As I was driving home, I had the Cougar Fight Song blaring (and with my system you can REALLY hear it from a good distance) with the windows down and a U fan came up to me and expressed his concern that "those refs were bought off with tithing money!" I told him to come up with a better excuse than that, and that utah had just as many players on the field as BYU did when Unga scored the winning touchdown. Better luck next year!
This weekend is exciting too. 8 great college football games back to back... and you KNOW i'll be watching every one.
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