View from East Tennessee

Freaktoe Becoming a Volunteer Football Fan

October 9th, 2005 at 8:50 pm (Family)

Okay, so the Tennessee Vols lost to Georgia for the fifth time in six games, but Freaktoe and I had a good time at Neyland Stadium on Saturday.

Our comp tickets — thanks, Jimmie Miller, Esq., and Hunter, Smith & Davis! — were high up in the lower section at the south end zone, Section K, Row 63 to be exact. They gave us a great view of the Pride of the Southland’s Power T formation:

as well as the team running through the T:

I took several other pictures, but we were a bit too high to get anything very good. Freaktoe had two Cokes, peanuts, popcorn, and a few M&Ms, and we were only one row from the top and about 20 feet from a bathroom, so we only had to tick off two people instead of ten for Freaktoe’s five bathroom breaks.

Here’s a free tip to fathers taking young daughters to football games: less Coke, more peanuts.

The loss — and especially the as-yet-unknown-extent of beloved Jason Allen’s hip injury — put a damper on things, but we had a pretty good time. Freaktoe was actually quite into it when Jonathan Wade intercepted D.J. Shockley’s pass and ran it back for what should have been ruled a touchdown. (Rick Clausen snuck it in on the next play, and we got our seven, anyway.)

It’s a bit strange to hear Freaktoe telling people that we just had terrible field position all day. There’s hope for her yet.

In the A-Child-Can-Dream-Can’t-She file: About halfway through the 4th quarter, Freaktoe asked, “Wouldn’t it be great if we actually made a touchdown?”

Yeah, that would be nice.