Is it Saturday yet?
From the Parking Lot:
These are the games you buy season tickets for. These are the games that give every fan goosebumps. These are the games that bring record crowds to the erector set in the middle of a field. These are the tailgates that champions are made of.
Tailgating for 14 hours prior to kickoff isn’t easy. It takes preparation, patience, and personal restraint. It takes food, friends, and football, all in great quantities. And it takes a deep fryer. Luckily all will be present on what’s shaping up to be a gorgeous fall Saturday. All I know is it’s going to be fun. Acting like a kid and eating and running around a field all day is the ultimate escape. Laughing with those friends you see all too rarely anymore is what makes it great.Â
We will arrive early, drink moderately but consistently, and shoot the breeze with PSU and Mich fans alike. We will be playing washers and moose knuckles, and tossing the football, and having a grand old time. All are welcome and all are ready to experience a great fall saturdy in Happy Valley. I’ve said it many times before and will many times again. Where else would you rather be?
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Michigan owns us. Refs or no refs, they’ve kicked our teeth in 7 straight times. 2 seconds, or two feet in bounds, it still doesn’t matter. We can’t beat them. Maybe Saturday will be different. No one expects it, no one thinks we can win, no one gives us much of a chance. I think we’ve got a chance. The homefield advantage obviously will play to our strength, as long as Michigan doesn’t get a comfortable lead early. That just might deflate a crowd that’s been waiting a year for this. Hopefully we weather their talent, hold onto the football, and make some magic. There certainly have been upsets in sports, and I don’t know about you, but I’m sure as hell ready for another one.Â
Until next time, S-T-A-T-E Go State!
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Roadtrip Woes
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Tailgating is a tricky thing. It’s a risk when you are a loyal fan. You can really enjoy yourself, but you can also ride that roller coaster when the team doesn’t do exactly as you had planned.Â
I haven’t written this column since before the Notre Dame game. In it, I said I thought that PSU would lose that game. And they did. But dammit, that didn’t make it any easier. The problem is the trip to South Bend was lots of fun. We had a great time seeing the town, enjoying the people, and tailgating with a bunch of the NittanyNation.Â
South Bend as a city didn’t really impress our group. It defintely didn’t have the college town feel that we are used to from State College. It didn’t compare to other places we’ve been like Lincoln, Madison, and Ann Arbor that have at thriving entertainment district.   In true PennStateTailgate.com fashion however we were able to locate a local watering hole to occupy us for 8 hours or so on Friday night. Corby’s, which apparently is known as the bar from the movie “Rudy,” provided an atmosphere of fun including both PSU and ND fans. And the beer was cheap.
The campus itself is definitely the reason to visit. It was beautiful and you could touch and feel the history around that place and it was pretty impressive to see the crowd on Friday afternoon. The bookstore, Touchdown Jesus, and the Golden Dome are really impressive in person, even if you have a particular dislike of the football team.
The tailgating was equally as fun. We hung with the RV crowd and saw everything from a member of the 1986 National Championship team doing shots with us, to an equally interesting man wearing searsucker pants, a mesh Virginia Beach shirt, and old school Oakleys. The field was considered by the locals as far from the stadium, but a walk not much longer than the one we have in HV got us to Notre Dame Stadium. The best thing about traveling with PSU is you always hear the home team fans say “we’ve never seen it like this.” A lot of domers uttered those words to the Lion Fans that dominated the parking lot, and I’ve heard it all over the country.
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From the Field:
What can be said about such a lopsided score. We got are butts kicked and deserved to lose the game to the better team. But it’s not all pessimism. A couple of plays here and there and that game would have been a lot closer. That can be said about a lot of games, I know, but a clipping call here, a caught interception, and a bad decision or two could have turned that game our way.Â
We were expected to lose and we did. Now it’s about what comes this week against an even BETTER team that happens to be ranked first in the country.
Until next time, S-T-A-T-E Go State!
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Rainy Saturdays and South Bend Surprises?
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Everyone who attended the Penn State game on Saturday should pat themselves on the back. Sacrifice for your team is sometimes necessary and the NittanyNation proved that again this past weekend. Pundits talk of the sacrifice that student athletes make to compete in Division I athletics, and the same can be said of fans who tailgate in extreme conditions to follow their passion.
The weather on Saturday did not cooperate. It rained, and then rained some more, and then the day ended with light rain. Ernesto entered the U.S. with the one goal of ruining our day! But sitting there made me realize what is required of fans who want to support their team. The best part is when you realize you couldn’t possibly be anywhere else on opening Saturday.
All in all the tailgate was subdued and confined to four canopies. But it was still tailgating on the first Saturday in College Football, smack dab in the middle of the Happiest Valley in the world. I guess it was worth the sacrifice.Â
Remember you can always prepare for the sacrifice by visiting our tailgating checklist in the “Under the Canopy” section of www.pennstatetailgate.com. You can find it here!
We’ll be taking the tailgate on the road to South Bend this week so look for the PennStateTaigate.com banner in the White North Lot. We’ll also be attending the Steelers/Dolphins game on Thursday and introducing the college brand of tailgating to our brethren in the pros. Hopefully the weather will cooperate this week. Sacrifice is a tough thing to endure. But I guess I’ll survive.
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From the Field:
To the untrained eye, this game was a hard one to judge. It started spectacularly with a long touchdown from the arm of Morelli, and ended a few hours later with what seemed like an offense that couldn’t find its groove. I of course notice all the things everyone else notices. An offensive line that couldn’t run block, even though we didn’t try to run that much. A secondary that showed promise in unsuspecting places, and a new 3-4 scheme that didn’t surprise one person in the stadium, but seemed to get the job done.Â
The biggest question is what will this team look like seven days later when we walk into the pageantry and tradition of Notre Dame Stadium. Penn State should be able to hang with the Irish if they can keep the football, put some pressure on Brady, and get the ball downfield against ND’s secondary. In a previous post I predicted that we don’t win this game on the road. I think I still think that. But I love surprises!
Until next time, S-T-A-T-E Go State!
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Typical Penn State Thinking
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I can’t say I’m surprised. It’s been too quiet. Penn State hasn’t done anything in awhile to really upset its fans. But this one is a doozy. In case you haven’t heard, and if you follow PSU at all, that’s impossible, but the powers that be, have decided that tailgating has gotten out of control. So they’ve decided to ban tailgating while the actual game is going on. So when the game kicks off, and not a second before, drop your beer where you are standing. If you brought Grandpa to the game and he just wants to hang out near the stadium with his cooler of Gennessee Cream Ale he is shit out of luck! If your wife decides that she really isn’t interested in the game, but more in the social atmosphere of old friends she hasn’t seen in awhile, tell her it’s okay to talk, but if she sips a Miller Lite, it’s lights out. Johnny Law is coming to get you and there is nothing you can do about it.Â
If you brought Grandpa to the game and he just wants to hang out near the stadium with his cooler of Gennessee Cream Ale he is shit out of luck! If your wife decides that she really isn’t interested in the game, but more in the social atmosphere of old friends she hasn’t seen in awhile, tell her it’s okay to talk, but if she sips a Miller Lite, it’s lights out. Johnny Law is coming to get you and there is nothing you can do about it. I actually think the intent of this ridiculous, redundant, reactionary new policy is somewhat noble. When a group of 60 or 70 twenty-somethings show up with a Ford F-150 full of Natural Light, you can bet that there are going to be issues. Curbing underage drinking and reigning in fans who are ruining the best atmosphere in the nation are one thing. But throwing a blanket statement out, three days before the season seems a bit much.
Much is being said about how this will be enforced selectively, and I tend to agree. I don’t really think they are targeting Grandma and your wife. What I think would have been a better policy would have been to get on MySpace and tell all of those twenty-somethings to end this behavior or there will be consequences.Â
Penn State has an uncanny ability to make crazy decisions that just plain upset their fan base. Someday, when Joe is gone (and that day may never come), there are going to be people who are just too fed up with assinine rules and regulations, and will just stop attending games and tailgates. We’ll see what happens when the money talks.
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See everyone Saturday. Don’t forget to check out pennstatetailgate.com for the menu, and all the other happenings. And don’t be shy, stop by for a visit. Click here for directions and a map.
And visit “In the Huddle” for last minute game predictions and scouting reports
Until next time, S-T-A-T-E Go State!
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Annoying? Me?
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I’ll admit it. I annoy people. I’m not talking about everyday annoying (though I’m that sometimes too), I’m talking about being the guy who talks about only one thing to the point where it annoys people who aren’t interested. All I talk about, starting in mid-August, is Penn State; and it drives people crazy.
Let’s start with my wife. She loves Penn State, and she loves going to the games and tailgating, but I’m annoying her. A conversation might go something like this:
Wife:Â “What do you want for dinner next week?”
Me: “Only 8 days until the tailgate honey, I can’t think about food until then.”
Wife: “What are you and Evan watching?”
Me and Evan (he’s 2): “We’re watching the Orange Bowl. I still can’t believe the kid misses the field goals.”
It’s the same at work. People ask “what are you doing this week or weekend?”, and you say “I’m getting ready for football season, of course.” As if there were anything else more important in the middle of August. It’s so annoying to them.
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Annoyance, therefore, is in the eye of the annoyed. I guess that question depends on whether or not you are a fan.
From the Field:
Now is also the time when everyone who knows you are a proud member of the NittanyNation asks “so whattya think this year?” To which you are obligated to give a win/loss record. So I’ll put in on the record much like my good friend over at “In the Huddle” always does and I’ll say 8-4. I really hope I’m wrong (and I usually am when it comes to predicting) but that’s my best guess. My gut tells me we lose to Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Wisconsin on the road and we’ll lose one heartbreaker at home to either Purdue, Northwestern, or (god-forbid) Michigan. With a little luck and some stellar play in the trenches on both sides of the ball this could get two games better in no time.Â
I think one thing I am counting on from this team is the emotion and heart you expect from a Paterno coached team. I believe that those years of losing allowed everyone involved to gain a better perspective. I don’t see any quit in this program, which will be extremely important with the roadtrips we have in September. Even if we lose two games in September, which I predict we will, the season will hinge on knowing how to respond. Let’s hope the team, the coaches, AND the fans all remember that when we are still looking to make a run toward another BCS Bowl.
Until next time, S-T-A-T-E Go State!
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Welcome to the new “The Fan: A View From the Parking Lot”
From the Parking Lot and the Field:
The format may have changed, but the sporadic, completely irrelevant ramblings will not. I once again hope to provide the common fan’s perspective to our dearly beloved Nittany Lions. As the season approaches, I cannot help but remember how reinvigorating the 2005 campaign was for the NittanyNation and this fan. It felt great to awaken on Sunday mornings for the first time in years (except for one long drive back from Ann Arbor…but I digress). It felt great to arrive at work and smile at the those who used to greet you every Monday for two years with grin that only meant they took pleasure in seeing the Lions lose. A lot of people said “We are Back.” JoePa said “I don’t think we ever left.” I think the old coach put it best, particularly with the fans. We never left, and we never will.
I think 2006 is going to be a good season. I think this team has regained the confidence it so desparately lacked. But I also think there are going to be plenty of teams gunning for us and plenty of obstacles for us to overcome. But this team and its fans are ready for the challenge. I can’t wait!
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