Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow wow wow!

Today we went to our first Yale home football game. It was an experience that's for sure!

I come from the South and spent my last five years in the Midwest, where football is kind of a big deal. I now live on the East Coast in an Ivy League town, where aparently football is not that big of a deal. That worked out worked out well for us today. Jimmie is on staff and so he gets to go for free and bring a guest. Children under 14 get in the games for free as well. We are all for anything that is free and fun and we have been missing live football, so we decided to go today.

We pretty much had our pick of seats in the stadium. Yes, we were sitting right on the end zone behind the wall! I doubt if the stadium was even at 65% percent capacity! Quite a few more fans and lots of little league football teams showed up during the game, but there was PLENTY of room to move about the stadium. Ella enjoyed it because she was able to run up and down the rows without bothering anyone.  

This is Handsome Dan, the Yale mascot. We were going to go down and take pictures with him, but there was a pretty grouchy security gaurd that was running all the kids off. We were still really close and Ella loved seeing him!

While most of the game was not terribly exciting, the fourth quarter didn't dissapoint! The Bulldogs were down 34-35 and intercepted the ball right before Georgetown was about to score. They made it quickly down to the other end zone and thought a score was inevitable, when they fumbled! They ended up getting the ball back and scoring a winning touchdown with 13 seconds left in the game!

After the game they invited all of the kids down to the field to play and meet the players. Ella LOVED that part. It's not too often that one gets to roll around in the grass on a college football field!

All in all it was a pretty fun day, even if it was very different from what we are used to.

Ella was asking tons of questions about the game. I love that she is starting to understand little parts of it! By the way, notice the super fashionable outfit that she chose to wear? Yup, that would be a polka dotted shirt and snowflake leggings with bejewelled flip flops. I figure as long as she is dressed weather appropriately she should get to choose her clothes. Makes for some interesting outfits!

Maybe another day I will talk about the "marching band". Definitely not the Priiiiiiiide of OOOOklahoma!