Well, I didn't manage to get tickets to the BSU-Oregon State game last Saturday. It sold out quite a while ago. I foolishly assumed I could pick some up for under $50. Not a chance! So instead I did the next best thing. "Woke up, got out of bed, ran a comb across my head" (with apologies to Paul McCartney). It was 5 a.m. Put my hair in two horse tail type bronco braids with blue and orange bronco football hair clips, put on my Fiesta Bowl Orange Bronco sweatshirts, blue tights and blue shorts and hopped on my cross town cruiser bike to BSU. Joined the line up of 8000 fans standing in line some 6 blocks or more equivalent to the Student Union and waited and sang and talked football with everyone. What were we waiting for? ESPN's College Day Game Show right here in beautiful Boizeee, Idaho. Erin Andrews, Lee Corso and the ESPN gang were here and we were waiting for the gates to open in the dark at 7 a.m to be part of this incredible circus atmosphere.
Well, the boys in the mosh pit in front were about to cream their jeans with admonitions of love and marriage to Erin Andrews when she walked through with her cup of coffee to prep for makeup, I guess. We managed to fill the place with over 13,000 BSU fan fanatics. Everyone when nuts when they introduced Coach Pete who was his usual great deadpan self. Though I'd hoped he'd paint his face blue just to torment the ESPN crew. The team was no where in sight since, well, they had a game to get ready for at 6 p.m.
Lee Corso humbled himself by putting a paper bag on his head for the opening of his "who will Lee Corso pick to win" segment. He'd been dissing BSU forever about how they don't belong in the BSC bowl games. Well, the Broncos and chickens had come home to roost. The paper bag came off, and Buster Bronco went on Lee's head. At least he was humble enough to know he's erred in his ways.
The end of the Story? Well, of course Boise State beat Oregon State. Was there ever any doubt?
