Score & Fumble

Ugh. I'm watching the Steelers/Redskins game and I have to be honest - Landry doesn't look great to me.  I heard some negative but hadn't seen him play NFL until tonight.  I don't know, it may be just be the transition.  I hope so, I'm a fan. Not necessarily because I thought he was the best quarterback ever, but just because I want the guy to make it - I like a success story.

There are some Sooner fans that were never happy with him. I thought he did a good job. It's a lot of responsibility and pressure for a kid. I think people tend to forget that - they're just college kids.  My biggest concern in college was keeping my electricity on, trying really hard to remember which test was the next day, and figuring out what I was going to wear to penny beer night. And that was pretty much it.  I can't imagine having that kind of pressure in college. It's hard coming into a program where the expectations are high and the fans are unforgiving.  At least in the NFL, you get paid for the pressure.

We've had two opportunities to buy season tickets.  We passed on both. We know we wouldn't be able to make all the games and we have a really poor home schedule so it just wasn't worth the money. I was totally bummed, but decided to be responsible and not whine too much about.  But inside I was crying like a fat kid running laps.

So imagine my excitement when I had the opportunity to score tickets. So husband and I text back and forth and back and forth with a lot of "what do you think?" and "I don't care, what do you think?" so finally I just made the decision. Yes, we're going. SCORE!

Then, Sunday afternoon we realize that game is on Labor Day weekend. Which we had planned to spend at the lake with some friends and them maybe even meet up with some more friends. It was going to be the last hooray on the lake for the summer. Oops.

Double oops because I've already paid for the tickets.

I'm still excited about the game, just not a fan of ruining friend time.  Now I'm on a mission to score them some tickets so we can still get together and hang. Of course, we won't be able to sit together during the game. But maybe that's better anyway - I dont' really like to talk when I'm watching the game. Sometimes that can be like ruining friend time in a whole different way...