Are You Ready for Some Football!!

I woke up Saturday morning to the noise of cars strolling down the street, and people to excited for it to be any other regular Saturday. Then I realized that it was game day, and I was the one with no ticket to the game. The thing I didn’t know was that, there was a surprise awaiting me when I got out of bed to find my roommate still at his desk doing homework. That was just the beginning of what would be a wonderful and a very exciting day.

My roommate, James, who had a ticket to the game, was busy doing his Linear Algebra practice test, so I decided to ask him if why he wasn’t at the game. This is when I found out that I would have an opportunity to go to my first Virginia Tech game, and it happened to be the first home game of the season. My roommate had a test the next day, and therefore he wasn’t going to the game and offered me his ticket to the game. Me being really excited about the offer, I accepted at once, and then jumped out of my bed with only an hour before the game.

I ran down my hall to the bathroom and into the shower, and probably took the shortest shower since I have arrived at V Tech. I came back to my room and changed my clothes, and almost ran out of the room without brushing the teeth. It was almost one o’clock and I had had nothing to eat, but there was no time for me to go get food and get to the game in time. So I decided to grab a bag of chips and a bottle of water on my way to the game.

I got to the game and found out that you were not allowed to take in food or drinks, and therefore I was told to throw the food away and that when I knew that this was going to be a long day. I got into the huge stadium to the crowd going wild even before the game had started. I was starving and the food in the concession stands was really expensive. I decided to find where my friends so I could sit with them and enjoy the game. This turned out to be another grueling task as the stadium was packed and for some reason my friends were not answering their phones. So I basically had to guess where they were sitting, and I fortunately got a break for the first time the whole day.

So the game began and I was sitting next to all my friends who were at the game, still starving and really thirsty. The game started really slow and both teams weren’t doing much, and this made me even hungrier since I wasn’t really paying attention to the game. This is when I decided to make paper airplanes out of the booklets that were handed to us as we walked into the stadium. That was a fun activity while the teams were still getting used to each other, and no one was scoring yet. The air currents were perfect for the planes to go a long way, especially the ones that glide in the air. One of these almost made it to the field as there was a perfect air current that hit it as I let it fly.

The game got really exciting after this as Tech started scoring in bunches, and soon it turned into a blow out, and the paper airplane activity started again with many other people joining into the fun. The game was over and tech won by 42 points, that how much of a blow out it was, but it was worth going to as I really enjoyed myself.

After the game was over, my friends and I decided to go to get food from West End, and it was the most delicious meal I had in a long time, mostly because it we had won the game. After that I went to one of my friends’ birthday party, and this was a lot of fun and I was there till 3 in the morning. We played a lot of games and there was some drinking too, but the point was that it was a fun day and it was a good ending to the game with the party and everyone being in a good mood after the huge win over Marshall.

I cannot wait for the next few home games and hope to go to those and have the same amount of fun I did during our first game, but without all the rushing and turmoil.