
Game 68: Eastern Michigan Eagles @ Ohio Bobcats
And downtown Athens is a nice walkable area with nice shops and restaurants. But there are a lot of hills.
And downtown Athens is a nice walkable area with nice shops and restaurants. But there are a lot of hills.
After a drink we headed over to Burl Arcade and the 1980’s. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, pinball, etc., it is all here. It was a blast from the past and a flood of memories from mid-island mall arcade and high school. And some of the games at Burl still cost $0.25.
We headed into the beer garden which is located in one of the end zones. This is a nice touch. It provides excellent views of the field and you can get close up. It was a good spot to watch warm ups.
New head coach Curt Cignetti and QB Kurtis Rourke lead the Indiana Hoosiers to a 42-28 over the Maryland Terrapins, and a 5-0 start to the 2024 season. Indiana was able to overcome a minus 4 turnover margin by coming up big on defense at the right time with Kurtis Rourke throwing for 359 yards in the rain and wind.
It was this access that led us to a sign that said “Welcome to Da’ Swamp”. Now, according to Sam, Louisiana started using the Swamp moniker 2 years before Florida. A very quick, and I mean very quick, internet search of this reveals that there may be some truth to this.
The UNCC campus is a very pretty campus. It was bigger than I remember as I have been here before when looking at colleges with Jake. But it was just as beautiful as I remember.
The emcee for today’s performance was none other than Jerry Hart. The star performer was Jerry “The King” Lawler, who is a WWE Hall of Famer and brought to Memphis for wrestling night versus Tulane. So apparently this is a thing.
The theme of this game is Vice Nights. I guess for copyright reasons it could not be called Miami Vice Nights, although there were a lot of references to that, Crockett and Tubbs imagery, and other things that let you know it was Miami Vice.
JSU should celebrate their first FBS game and a win. It is a huge milestone for a program making the jump up in class and a win over a team that is not a pushover. Both teams have significant work to do to compete at the top level of CUSA, but this was Week 0 and it is a long season.
We continued our self guided tour on the Chapel Trail. A ⅓ mile walk (uphill both ways) to the Cadet Chapel which is normally the highlight of a trip to USAFA. But as the sign at the visitors center said, the cadet chapel is closed for a multi year restoration and the expected opening is 2027.
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