USC v OR Football Game

Saturday morning my friend, Alice and her boyfriend, Mark, flew in from San Francisco to go with me to the Oregon v USC game at the Colesium. Alice and Mark are from Oregon (it's Mark's alma mater and Alice is a huge fan even though she went to Montana State) so I wore green to support Oregon (never liked USC anyway). ;)

We scored on driving there (ended up behind a beamer who had an Oregon flag attached to her car and so we followed her) and getting parking. Originally we were going to park in this $20 lot but we passed it and decided to turn right and go around the block. You wouldn't believe how many people were selling spots in their driveways for $10! We didn't do that, but instead went to the next block and ended up finding a great parking space on the street--for free!

Our walk was pretty easy...Alice's hat got lots of attention. When we entered the stadium every Ducks fan we encountered said "Go Ducks!" to use (since it was obvious we were Ducks fans). We ended up lapping the Colesium because Alice was craving Chick-fil-A and there was only one! It gave us great exercise and an opportunity to take a picture by the arches:

Here's a close up:
While we were walking around, Mark ran into 3 people he knows that flew down for the game! There were a ton of people that flew in just for this game!

Here is a picture of the game (Oregon creamed USC, although it was a good game until the last part of the 4th quarter). See that guy in the botton of the frame wearing the LA Dodgers hat? He stood up about a million times and turned around and tried to get everyone to cheer for USC. He was so obnoxious. Thankfully, at half-time he moved up to the seats higher than ours so we couldn't see him!
We were sitting in USC country (like most of the stadium). But you could see how devoted the Oregon fans were. The Oregon section stayed until the very end and when the USC fans knew they were going to lose, they high-tailed it out of these, so you could see more green and yellow as the USC fans left.
I was sitting next to a really nice guy (you can see him in the photo above). It turns out he is from Palos Verdes so we are neighbors. When the game was slow we chatted about the South Bay (where we are both from). It was nice. Too bad he's married. Hahaha.

Here is Alice looking extra-special in her hat:

Love how the legs make an awesome bow-tie! I love Alice for wearing that hat!