A&M vs. Rice

Opening game of the our football season was on Saturday. Mom and Dad kept Clara while Bryan and I went to the game with Jacob and his little sister Emily. This is the day Bryan counts down too every single year :)

Due to crazy traffic on Wellborne, it took us longer to park than we anticipated, so we missed the fly over and kick-off, but were there shortly after. 

Unfortunately, the Aggies got off to a rather pathetic start. Manzel was suspended for half a game from the whole autograph debacle, and then 6 of our starting defense players are suspended for 2 games due to smoking weed. Sumlin - please lay the smack down on these boys!!

I really believe that if players can't play due to something THEY did, their scholarships should be docked. We are essentially agreeing that it's okay to screw around, hurt our team, and still get paid. If you smoked weed, you'd be fired from any other job! (unless you live in CA or CO of course.)

It's not even like it's a truly terrible crime - but they KNOW it's illegal, they KNOW it's against the rules, they KNOW pulling a stunt like that can get them suspended and they did it anyway. Realllllly ticks me off. 

End rant.

It was seriously hot. People were fainting everywhere. Bryan took such good care of me and made sure we had plenty of water, battery operated fans, and these cloth things that soak up water that you can wear around your neck. Even with all of those helpful tools, it was still insanely hot. Since it was a noon game the sun was directly overhead too. I'm pretty sure there was an equal amount of cheering for our team and for the occasional clouds :)

Selfies in direct sunlight are challenging :)

Fighting Texas Aggie Band:

I think there was something like 420 band members this year? HUGE.

2nd half and I'm hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.

Fellow-football-goers: Emily, Jacob & Bryan.

We thankfully did secure a victory, but I think we're all a little nervous about our defense. Hopefully next week we can pull it together a little bit better!!