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This blog update will mainly be about football and when I'm talking about football I mean American football and not soccer. Last weekend I went to two football games! I'm pretty surprised that I'm becoming a football fan, because I'm finally understanding more about it. I don't like to watch it on tv as much as I like watching it from the stands. Why? Because to me and a lot of Americans it's more of a social thing. Friday evening I went to the Madison Central game. It was my fourth football game I went to. I went with Megan B, a friend from church. She came to my house first and we had supper together before we left for the game. Around 7pm, the time the game started we got at my high school. We met Emily and Mary Ellen who are some of my friends from the musical. We also hang out with some other people, so as you can read at football games and especially high school ones you end up hanging out behind the stands instead of watching the whole game. I actually enjoy watching the halftime more, because that's when the marching band and the dance team performs. They always perform really well. The marching band has a lot of students in it, who all wear this uniform. There are people who play on the drums, and then there are people who all dance with the flags at the same time. It's a big performance and it takes a lot of practice. After that Megan and I went to Walmart because I needed some black tights for a church dress and Walmart is the place to go if you need something for a good price, you can find almost everything. Saturday I went to watch a football game again, but this time it was on a complete different level. It wasn't a high school game but it was a college game. Claire took me and we went to see the Mississippi State vs. Alabama game in Starkville. Claire, her aunt and her mother are Mississippi State fans so that's why they took me there and converted me into a MS state fan. :D A lot of people in Mississippi are wether a MS State or a Ole Miss fan. MS State is in Starkville and Ole Miss is in Oxford and no not the Oxford in England ;). Both colleges have a football team, so if you are a MS State fan you pull for their football team. It's a very big deal, because you can tell wether somebody is a Ole Miss fan or a MS State fan from the shirts that have the names in capital letters written on it. Everybody wears those shirts a lot! It's almost like a kind of nationalism on school and football based level. So when we got in Starville we went to eat a (late) lunch at Ovy's, but I only ate a bowl of soup because I still wanted to eat something at tailgating. Tailgating is almost bigger than the football game itself. Tailgating happens in tents that are placed all around the stadium. People just bring whatever food to their tent and then people can eat it there before they go watch the football game or just stay there and watch the football game on tv. Because that's what some people actually do, they just put it under the tent and just go tailgating. Once again it's all a social thing! I saw some people from school and met some of Claire's aunts and cousins. We also went to the barnes and nobles bookstore, that's right next to the stadium and there I bought a MS State sweatshirt. Yes it's a bookstore but it has a whole section with MS state school spirit stuff. After the tailgating we went to the stadium to look for our seats, which were almost right in the middle, so we had a good view! Before the actual game started the marching band performed. After that our football players and the opposite team's football players entered the stadium. All the MS State fans, which were in the majority, were ringing the cowbells, because that's a typical MS State thing. Like 'Hotty toddy' a typical Ole miss thing is and 'Roll tide' a typical Alabama thing is. The MS State's team is named the 'Bulldogs' and Alabama's team is Crimson tide. After we sang the National Anthem the game started and I was confused in the beginning, because this was the first time I actually payed attention to what was happening, but Claire explained me while the game was in full speed. I started to get it and really enjoyed watching it and cheering with the cowbell. We lost but that was predictable because Alabama is one of the best college football teams. It's just so amazing how the band plays by every good defense our team pulls and how everyone just cheers by the smallest good thing our team does. We knew that we would lose but everyone was just so proud that we at least scored once and that they only scored 2 touchdowns. Halftime was also really cool! the marching band is so awesome and they played really good! They also had some soldiers from the army there, who they honored because they went to MS State. It was a really good first game! I'm so thankful to Claire and her family for taking me with them! Now thanksgiving is coming up next week, when we will get a week off from school! It will be my first thanksgiving ever and I'm excited! Hasta luego!
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Billy
11/20/2013 12:31:21 am
Great post! I am glad that were able to have such a fun American Football experience!
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