Sweet Sports Weekend
I remember when a busy sports weekend for me meant hours in front of the tv after calling a football game on Friday night.
Well, now a busy sports weekend still requires hours in front of the tube, but thats on Sunday.
For me, Friday night required a two hour drive to and from Keizer to watch Roseburg's 28-7 impressive win over the Celtics. Watch out for the Indians. They have the horses to be VERY good this season. You can hear the game at www.kskrthescore.com.
I got home at about 12:30 Saturday morning, but there is a little bit of a funny story to tell. After a football game, the challenge is on to find a place to eat on the way home. By 10:00 most places are closed, leaving us with little choice other than typical fast food. Friday night, Drew Heard and I stopped at the McDonald's on Market Street in Salem.
When we walked in, we ran into a couple of people we know and started a short conversation. I went to the bathroom and in the two minutes I was gone, the entire Roseburg football team pulled up in two buses.
About 100 kids and their coaches filled the lobby, the doorway and the parking lot.
Drew and I hopped in the station rig and went through the drive-up window.
We beat the entire team to the punch and got our food just before members of the throng put in their orders.
After sleeping until 7 Saturday morning, I spent a few hours working around the house until driving to Eugene for the Purdue game. I had to pay to park near Autzen and then ran to the Moshofsky Center to be on the KUGN Gameday show with Jerry and Jorgy. About half an hour into the show, technical problems shut down the rest of the 4:00 hour. We were done before we really even got started on the show.
The rest of the afternoon was spent basically following Jerry Allen around and trying to look busy in the OSN broadcast booth at Autzen. Thats hard to do in a room full of people working hard to get the game on.
After the game I sat in on the Chip Kelly postgame, where Phil Knight always hangs out and then ran into Oregon baseball Coach George Horton and former AD Pat Kilkenny who was noticebly relieved with the win and smiling about the construction of the baseball stadium.
And much like the return trip from Salem, a stop at Cottage Grove proved to be longer than anticipated.
Even at 12:30am, the drive up window lines at McDonalds and Burger King were really long. I pulled into the gas n sip there on the main drag and stood in line with about a dozen groggy Duck fans. In fact, I drank most of the coffee/energy drink standing in line just to stay upright.
You know you're tired when you are singing to a commercial on the radio - and there isn't any music in the spot...
Sunday was spent with the aforementioned hours of tv time.
I continued to work on a fairly major home improvement project with the game on and managed to catch most of the Seahawks win over St Louis.
With another game Sunday night and a Monday Night Football doubleheader, life as a sports fan is pretty good right now.
And next week, I get to do it all again.
Well, now a busy sports weekend still requires hours in front of the tube, but thats on Sunday.
For me, Friday night required a two hour drive to and from Keizer to watch Roseburg's 28-7 impressive win over the Celtics. Watch out for the Indians. They have the horses to be VERY good this season. You can hear the game at www.kskrthescore.com.
I got home at about 12:30 Saturday morning, but there is a little bit of a funny story to tell. After a football game, the challenge is on to find a place to eat on the way home. By 10:00 most places are closed, leaving us with little choice other than typical fast food. Friday night, Drew Heard and I stopped at the McDonald's on Market Street in Salem.
When we walked in, we ran into a couple of people we know and started a short conversation. I went to the bathroom and in the two minutes I was gone, the entire Roseburg football team pulled up in two buses.
About 100 kids and their coaches filled the lobby, the doorway and the parking lot.
Drew and I hopped in the station rig and went through the drive-up window.
We beat the entire team to the punch and got our food just before members of the throng put in their orders.
After sleeping until 7 Saturday morning, I spent a few hours working around the house until driving to Eugene for the Purdue game. I had to pay to park near Autzen and then ran to the Moshofsky Center to be on the KUGN Gameday show with Jerry and Jorgy. About half an hour into the show, technical problems shut down the rest of the 4:00 hour. We were done before we really even got started on the show.
The rest of the afternoon was spent basically following Jerry Allen around and trying to look busy in the OSN broadcast booth at Autzen. Thats hard to do in a room full of people working hard to get the game on.
After the game I sat in on the Chip Kelly postgame, where Phil Knight always hangs out and then ran into Oregon baseball Coach George Horton and former AD Pat Kilkenny who was noticebly relieved with the win and smiling about the construction of the baseball stadium.
And much like the return trip from Salem, a stop at Cottage Grove proved to be longer than anticipated.
Even at 12:30am, the drive up window lines at McDonalds and Burger King were really long. I pulled into the gas n sip there on the main drag and stood in line with about a dozen groggy Duck fans. In fact, I drank most of the coffee/energy drink standing in line just to stay upright.
You know you're tired when you are singing to a commercial on the radio - and there isn't any music in the spot...
Sunday was spent with the aforementioned hours of tv time.
I continued to work on a fairly major home improvement project with the game on and managed to catch most of the Seahawks win over St Louis.
With another game Sunday night and a Monday Night Football doubleheader, life as a sports fan is pretty good right now.
And next week, I get to do it all again.
posted by Brian at 7:43 AM
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