Football!!!!
OK, so I LOVE watching BYU football. It is so fun to have a team to root for and a cause to have opinions about.
Well, last night was the BYU vs. Omaha game. Kevin and I don't have a TV at our house, which we love, but it does make it a bit of a challenge to find a place to watch a game. And now BYU has started broadcasting their games on channels like CSTV and The Mountain, so no one who hasn't purchased the Comcast Football package or something can watch the games.
Besides how stupid that is and how fans can't watch the games and our team doesn't get any publicity outside of, well, Utah, there is one plus to this dilemma: we are forced to be social.
So last night we went over to the Legends Grille on campus, where they had about 20 screens showing the game and probably 500 people there watching it. It was the closest thing to being in the stadium, except that the team was in Omaha, and we were in Provo.
The game was pretty... well... we lost. We did some things well-- a lot of things well, in fact. This isn't a team where I cringe when I watch them and then wish that we actually had a decent team this year. No, I think they're a pretty good team. They just do stupid things and lose games.
For instance: our quarterback is new and throws interceptions. Our offensive line starts early, holds people, and aids the team in racking up 14 penalties. And that is how you lose games.
Omaha was pretty good, especially when you consider they have less than 3,000 students at their school. They're the smallest school in NCAA football, I think. We were pretty good at crushing their running game. And their short passes were pretty well ground into the turf. But it was those sneaky 60-yard passes for touchdowns (what, four of them?) that really got us. That's how you win games.