Utes Rock the Big House!

This weekend was the battle of the family. My U of Utah versus Jill's U of Michigan in a winner take all battle medieval battle to the death....er....football game. Since the U comes out this way to play almost never, and since our schools have played each other only twice in history, we thought it would be fun to go to the game. So, Jill was able to log on to the online ticket system, then Aidan pressed the power button on the computer and it shut down as she was about to buy tickets (jealous he wasn't going?), but then she was able to log back on and get the tickets. Pretty good seats too, 4 rows up in the back of one end zone. Here's a view.

Half of the the fun was just going to Michigan Stadium, which is one of the biggest football stadiums around (108,000 people there for this game). You can see in the picture here that there were a few other Ute fans, but we were definitely outnumbered.

It actually ended up being a close game at the end, but mostly because of a couple of mistakes by Utah. Overall, Utah pretty much took Michigan to the woodshed and administered a harsh beating. I found it very entertaining; Jill, not as much.

But now, the universe will return to normal, which means I'll be rooting on both Utah and Michigan for the rest of the season. The problem with that is that, despite my enjoyment of Utah thumping Michigan, the fact that Michigan didn't look particulary good won't work out well for me for the rest of the season. Maybe the first game knocked the rust out of them and they'll get better quick. If not, I guess we'll call it a "rebuilding year".