Go My Favorite Sports Team!

SO, Nate has been at BYU for quite a while now, and I am sad to say that we have NEVER attended a BYU sporting event. Until now. I know, I know the school spirit in this town is boarder-line out of control, but we have just never felt like we wanted to spend a precious date night on BYU athletics. We are lame, I know. ANYWAY, I don't know if any of you have heard, but BYU has an amazing basketball team this year, and were ranked third in the nation, so when Nate's buddy asked us if we wanted some extra tickets to a game we said YES! Because we are super cool fair-weather fans and I likes me a winning team! Well, fate must have known that we were not true blue cougar people (or whatever BYU fans call themselves...) because the ONE game we got to go to was the one against New Mexico where they got CRUSHED. It was sad, and I actually felt guilty for being there. I kept thinking that it MUST be our fault-we jinxed them. Jimmer's gonna slash our tires in the parking lot! Ha! But I did discover a few very important things:

1.) I sort of love this kind of setting, and I want to go to more BYU games. The fans at this school are INCREDIBLE and so dedicated. I really loved it. We will have to check out some soccer and football in the fall.

2.) 50 year old men are capable of acting like teenage-testosterone-driven idiots as exemplified by the fist fight that broke out between two middle aged guys sitting right next to us who were rooting for THE SAME TEAM!

3.) Old ladies dancing at half-time are awesome (seriously, there was a group of senior citizens that did a little cheer leader routine! Adorable!).

4.) Nate and I need to invest in BYU shirts because his free capstone shirt and my non-existent school spirit outfit have got to go. Just because I graduated from another school doesn't mean I can't support one that actually CARES about sports, right?

Anyway, we are so excited for the basketball team this season, and hope they do well in their playoff games. And BYU athletics, we promise we won't neglect you anymore, but we refuse to weigh in on the BYU U of U epic battle to the death, k?