This year we traveled to Fort Worth to see our beloved BYU cougars football team. We knew that it has not been a good year for them...but we are LOYAL fans. We also bought our tickets before the season began so we didn't know how bad the team was going to be. We headed out Saturday morning for the lovely 4 1/2 hour drive to Fort Worth. We had a hotel reserved for Ethan and McKinley to stay at while we were at the game and for the family to crash at after the game was over. Strangely Ethan and McKinley were ubber excited to go and "hang out" in the hotel room all afternoon and evening. I guess a change of scenery was good enough for them.
After settling them in for the afternoon David, Austin, and I made our way to the stadium for the game. Somehow we lucked out with a really close, free, parking spot and then headed in to the sea of purple! TCU is having a great season. They were ranked #5 in the nation then and I think they've gone up as high as #3 now. We were prepared for a slaughter!
Now things weren't so bad...until the last two minutes of the first half. Yes, there was no offense for BYU, but we did show tough defense and held them to only 7 points...until the last two minutes of the first half. They snuck in 14 points!
The second half improved a little with BYU getting their first offensive drive...and 3 points! And that was it. We sat in the hot, hot sun surrounded by other devout BYU fans and tried to cheer for any accomplishment. We counted first downs (8), we counted sacks (2), we counted TCU scores (31)...but you know what...we did have fun! It was a memory. And that's what counts.
(we love Evan too...he begged to stay home for a soccer game...and so he did. He scored 3 points and the team won 4-1.)
