Number 6's Blog

90,000 fans showed up for the game which set a record for Kyle field.  If you have never been to an Aggie game you must go sometime.  I don’t know why they put seats in the stadium because everyone stands most of the time.  It is a combination of the seats are so narrow there is no room to sit anyway and it is apparently an Aggie tradition to stand.  The fans also yell constantly.  The noise is similar to being in Tornado!!  And the noise plays an important part in the story later.

90,000 Fans

Photo is terrible.  Shot it with my phone. Do you think I will ever learn and just start taking my camera everywhere?  I never have if when I really want to take picture.

When the game finally starts at 7 PM it is everything it promised to be.  Nebraska starts out with a 7 minute drive mostly on the ground but the Aggie defense stiffened and the Huskers came away with only a field goal.  Through much of the 1st quarter we wondered if the Aggies would ever get a 1st down.  Finally the Aggie offense started to roll and drove down the field only to be stopped for a field goal also.

Half time comes and the Aggie band was awesome.  They are another good reason to go see an Aggie game.  For years the Aggie football teams were horrible and the highlight of the game was the Aggie band half time performance.

Mid-way through the 3rd quarter Andy starts getting text messages from Kara.  She is becoming very ill and Averi Grace who is at her other grandfathers for the night vomited 3 times so grandfather is bringing her home because he does not know what to do with her.  As I said earlier there are 90K fans in the stadium and they are all yelling so making a phone call is out of reason for two reasons: 1) 90K people are trying to make phone calls, and 2) you could not hear anyway because the sound is like being in the eye of a tornado.  Gwen gets in on the texting because Andy cannot get through 1/2 the time.  Meanwhile Kara is getting worse.  Andy and Gwen have sent text messages to most of DFW to go help Kara and we decide to drive home after the game because the situation at home sounds dire.

The game ends.  Aggies win 9-6 – 5 field goals were the only scores.

The Nebraska coach has to be restrained from going after the refs.  Read: http://tinyurl.com/2ezkydp

We skip the hotel and drive home.  I drive. Andy and Gwen watch sports center on his iPad through the slingbox connected to his home tv and tweet his friends and fellow Aggies everything about the game.  They also watch a U-Tube video someone has posted of the Nebraska coach’s brother taking out a TV camera man after the game.  What is the World coming to. That is another story also….

We are finally in bed at 3:30pm; up today at 10 and feeling blah; can’t do this anymore