Football!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing is more exciting than a first home football game...except when it is the first football game in the history of football at GSU. So here is how the week of amazingness went down!


Monday - Parents Association E-Board meeting. I love parents and I love the e-board. I don't love starting meetings late and I do not like 2+hour meetings. Followed this wonderful meetingness up with Inceptor Karaoke. Karaoke in itself is crazy and can easily get inapprop very quickly. Add college students from GSU and its definitely bound to get crazy. Let's just say the VP of Student Affairs walked in when students were rapping to Eminem and I might have karaoke to "Get Low." Those kids are crazy.


Tuesday marked my first bad-ish day. I was just not feeling it and things got stressful. I also had a conversation with some Missouri State folks and that just made me miss MSU a lot. The thing I missed the most were my connections. Its difficult coming to a new school where you basically have to start over from scratch to get things accomplished. I don't like this at all. At MSU I knew so many people it seemed easy to get things done, but at GSU I am still learning. When someone else messes with my relationship building I get extremely frustrated. This is what happened on Tuesday - how can I possibly build good solid relationships if there is someone who is preventing me from establishing them. It was just a bad day that was bound to come at some point. I am just glad it came sooner then later. Apparently my co-workers were amazed it took me this long - which is kind of a scary thought. I guess they really haven't been around me enough to know that I am totally a positive person. This fact is something I can tell irritates at least one of my coworkers that and the fact that I love mornings.



Wednesday was the norms. Pretty quick uneventful day. I honestly can't even think of anything that happened on Wednesday - that's sad and scary. I'm not old enough to be losing my mind yet. Well I guess Kyle and I did go GSU clothes shopping for the big game on Thursday.



Thursday was the big day. The first football game. I was excited because I got to wear my first GSU apparel to work. That and football season was upon us. It was basically just a random office day, since there was so much going on I didn't get much accomplished. I did go to Varsity for lunch and then to the pep rally. This was followed by preparation for the game and then left work a little early to get over there. I have season tickets, but I still wanted to check out the tailgate scene. Plus I had never been to the dome so it was exciting just to be there. Of course there were the normal tailgating stuff put on by the Athletics department, much like that of MSU. And of course there were the Greeks, with their massive amounts of beverages and food. It was just like any other football game I have ever been too. The exception was this is the first time GSU has ever had this happen. The student line to enter the dome was MASSIVE. I think 3X as many students were there 1.5 hours before the game then we saw combined at any MSU game ever. I was happy to see the school spirit. Its nice to have the support, especially just starting out. I made my way around the dome to my seat - 4th row, 20 yard line behind our bench. As the seats filled in I started to worry because no one was sitting next to me. Then as the teams came out some students decided that because there was no one sitting there that they would just help themselves. I don't mind students because I was just one of those crazy people a year ago, what I don't like are drunk off their asses students who have no respect for the people around them. As the people whose seats they actually were starting coming in including those sitting next to me - some of the students threw a big fit. Sometimes kids will just never learn. I was happy to find out that sitting next to me are my favorite kind of people - PARENTS!!!!!! Yah. We talked off and on throughout the game as they both drank beer and cheered on the Panthers. On the other side of me sat an alumni couple. In front of me sat a non-traditional woman and her husband who is an Alabama football alum. Basically this is the best bunch I could ask for in my random single seat. Behind me sits some GSU staff so I am definitely in good company.

As the start of the game came we were playing really well. GSU scored within the first 10 minutes of play and it was all GSU from there on out. We gave up a touchdown in the 4th quarter, but really it didn't matter so much. The band was not that great - I mean I am used to the MSU Pride marching out in full force with a sound so loud it makes you listen. Basically it was hard to even hear them over the ramblings of people talking throughout the dome. It's their first time out so I got to give it up to them, that they were good, it just seems that to fill the Dome they are going to need to be more powerful.

We won 41-7. It was a fabulous win for the Panthers in their first ever football game. I am actually astonished that we stomped on Shorter College. Everyone played well and the crowd was fabulous. The crowd totaled 31,300. We beat out the Braves in attendance that night. I hope that all of them plan to return in the future so we can really give the Panthers a home field advantage.

I will always bleed Maroon for my Bears (who also won their season opener), but I am enjoying the new found spirit that has ignited on the GSU campus. GO Panthers!!!!!