A few notes from tonight’s experience:
From the shores of Lake Michigan, greetings from Ryan Field for Michigan State at Northwestern.
And my 20th stadium of The Quest.
These trips are always better when the home team wins.
Congrats Illinois Football Team.
And a Happy Scott Frost Day to you and yours!
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Halftime at the kickoff for the 2021 college football season with Nebraska at Illinois.
And my 19th visit of 130.
#HappyScottFrostDay #19of130 #TheQuest
Sunday, August 22, 2021
I grew up in my home state of West Virginia around college football. Each fall was spent either listening to the Mountaineers on hunting trips or traveling up to Morgantown for games. After a while, I started going to road games as well here and there. Later on, I started my career in sports departments of small West Virginia newspapers in Parkersburg and Clarksburg - eventually covering Marshall when Byron Leftwich was their quarterback.
As much as I’m enjoying Week Zero of college 🏈 this evening (and especially the Arizona-Hawaii nightcap), I’m starting to get mega-stoked about kicking off Week One in person for UCLA at Cincinnati Thursday.
So, I had been eyeing a Michigan-Michigan State doubleheader in my quest to (eventually) see a game at every FCS stadium. Turns out, same weekend, a Vanderbilt-Western Kentucky double looks way more doable (assuming Vandy gets the JP nooner spot)
If I have any Michiganders listening: Say there’s a football game at Michigan at noon and another at Michigan State at 4.
Say I’m willing to leave in the third quarter of a laugher … chances I could make kickoff in East Lansing?
Planning my 2019 football trips already. And noticing Michigan State and Michigan are both at home on September 28. And wondering if I can pull the double. Oh, and Vanderbilt is home the day before.
Might be a busy weekend.
Had anticipated this game being a rainy and fairly miserable experience, but it seems the rain’s stayed north of us and it’s a perfect fall day. Bonus: The home team is also winning.
If this game has an instant replay, there’s a very good chance Lauren and I are making the (ESPN3 Streaming) broadcast.
One more stadium to close out the birthday month.
Greetings from The Glass Bowl, home of the University of Toledo Rockets. Featuring: A special guest.
More photos from a crappy WVU game, but a top-notch game to catch at Iowa State (as in: as a CFB fan, you get one game in Ames? Make it a night game upset over a top ten opponent).
Sliver lining: I was here for a patented Saturday Night in Ames. Shame my team on the receiving end, but here’s to Jack Trice Magic.
Whelp. This sucks.
Another week, another stadium. Greetings from Iowa State’s Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, IA.
No rooting for the home team this week. Let’s Go Mountaineers!
More photos from the cheap seats at Ohio State’s win over Indiana today.
When I do these stadium visits, I have three rooting interests: WVU, Chaos, and the Home Team. In that order.
Late in the third quarter, and Chaos is still very much in play.
Kicking off my birthday month with another stadium off the list (100 or so to go, next up Ames, IA). Greetings from The Horseshoe.
