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| WOOOOOOOOOO! |
My gameday experience was pretty unique this week, considering I was coming to the game immediately after participating in a wedding, (no, I did not get married) so I can not attest to the tailgating insanity that led up to kick off, but I can tell you that from 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm, when yours truly was outside of Beaver Stadium trying to get to the Blue Band building, large mobs clad in white were making it more impossible than usual for traffic to get through.
I guess it being a home Whiteout game against one of our biggest rivals didn't do the traffic guards any favors.
Anyway, coming in to this match up I don't think any of us were realistically optimistic about our chances against the Buckeyes, but there still was a lot of hype for the rivalry, including the T-Rex challenge from Ohio State, to which our student section responded enthusiastically.
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| It's like that squad of velociraptors from Jurassic World |
The Blue Band performed and welcomed the team on to the field with "a stupid amount of fireworks" -Josh Hackenberg, which I can assure you was just as awesome as it sounds.
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| I'm completely serious about the fireworks |
A moment of silence for those poor souls who left...
Okay! The fourth quarter is when things really started cooking. We started gaining points and having drives, and all of this effort led to the fateful moment halfway through the last 4 minutes of the game where Marcus Allen blocked a field goal attempt which was then recovered by Grant Haley for THE MOTHER OF ALL LAST MINUTE TOUCHDOWNS AND SOLIDIFIED THIS GAME'S PLACE IN HISTORY AS A VICTORY AGAINST THE #2 RANKED TEAM.
Almost immediately after the last whistle blew, fans stormed the field and remained there for what felt like at least half an hour. Maybe even 45 minutes.
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| AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT |
On the excitement scale of 1 to tearing down a lamppost, I'd give this game a 10/10.
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I wish I could relive the OSU game, the only constructive criticism I have is you should have talked about how Nick came barrelling through the trumpets when we scored the touchdown. Luv it
ReplyDeleteThe game was crazy! Made me so proud to say that I'm a Penn Stater when we won the way that we did! We actually went up a rank during the week and we're now 23 in the nation, which is crazy! Hopefully we can keep it up!
ReplyDeleteThis was the best day of my life! Thanks for letting me live it!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to leave early, thinking that things were over, but I'm so glad that I didn't. Great post!
ReplyDeleteI missed the game because I couldn't get a ticket. Although, my dorm neighbor said he could get some for like fourteen dollars right before the game, but I didn't think it was worth it. So I was down at South when everything went down, but I could hear the screaming from the stadium the whole way down there, which was really cool.
ReplyDeleteI loved reading this post because I got to experience the game all over again. I liked your personal spin on it since you're in the Blue Band. Great job.
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