My wife and I were hosting an exchange teacher from Australia when that game was played, and we had gone out for the evening with him. I Tivo’d the game, and tried to kind of explain to him as I sat down to watch it why this game was kind of a big deal. As the game started to unfold, and I started to get more … um … animated, I tried to explain to him why I was getting so excited.

By the time I was full on dancing around the living room — to a game that wasn’t even happening live, mind you — I pretty much stopped trying to explain anything. He was an incredibly good sport about it.

Speaking of explaining and totally off topic, have you ever tried to explain American football to someone who has never seen it before? Seriously, think for a minute about how ridiculous the rules are. “OK, so you get four tries to try and advance the ball 10 yards. You can advance the ball by …” Yeah, it’s a lot harder than you think. So you know how I did it? We played Madden on my Xbox. It actually sort of worked!

before the game I had the pleasure of running into Mkristo in the concourse at hec ed. He saw me and yelled Go Cougs, the fine usher asked Mr Bruce to quite down. He chated with mr usher and they had a good laugh. My seats happened to be a few rows behind MB, so I got to help him out with some go cougs later during the game.

Cowgil missed two jams and then drained a few 12footers, so the mutt behind me said we just need to keep him away from the hoop.

Post game I had the pleasure of having a brief discussion with another usher. I told my mutt friends a couple things during the game. The Dawgs are getting tight and Akognon can’t miss. We’ve got this. They were tighter than the team. I also said, when we win I am going onto the floor to stick my big toe out and ‘touch’ the W, I didn’t want anyone to get the impression I was ‘dancing’.

So on the way out I started heading for the floor, looked back at my friends and asked if they were with me. Well, mr usher smiled directrf me toward the exit and told me to have a nice night and enjoy the win. I got the impression he knew I was up to no good.

Hindsight. Don’t ask your friends to come with you, just act like you know what you are doing. Hell, Mkristo walked right past the guy onto the floor, I don’t know why I couldn’t

Enough boring stories Wooly.

PS: My mom was offered floor seats and turned them down, she told her Tyee friends that I would want them, but for some reason they didn’t think I would behave. Good news I still get Football AC tix from them every other year or so. I guess the hoops crowd is more like the opera crowd. See Mkristo and the usher above.

Stop tying already.