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[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']Sorry it took so long to get this up, we have been in jail in College Station for punching a Sooner since late Saturday night. Just kidding
.barely.
Its Monday October 30th and Kirk sends me an e-mail about wanting to go to College Station this weekend, approximately 2 hours later we have spousal approval and the trip is almost completely planned.
On Friday the 3rd the alarm goes off in Atlanta and its 4:30 AM CST and its time to head to College Station. I dont think Ive been up at 4:30 AM CST since .Ive done the still up at 4:30 AM CST more often.
This will be my first trip west of the Mississippi River on ground. Growing up we always went to the northeast (PN, NJ, NY, etc) and then flew over TX a few times on the way to CA but was never fortunate enough to stop off in Texas. Dated a girl from Texas one time but thats another story.
My phone rings at 5 AM CST and its Kirk out in the driveway right on time. I pack up the truck and away we go. Before we got out of the neighborhood Ive already asked if we were there yet. Almost, Kirk replies. Kirk went to aTm back in the mid-90s and then finished up at the University of Georgia. A few weeks ago we tailgated together in Athens and the VOLS hung 51 on em that was a good day. That would give us plenty to talk about since we were going to be in the car together for 28 hours over the next 3 days.
Immediately Kirk breaks out the iPod and begins to play some aTm sound clips and I begin my crash course on the cheers, I mean YELLS, so I can be prepared for 1 AM EST YELL Practice at Kyle Field in 19 hours. Sorry for calling them cheers, Kirk nearly punched me in the nose for that comment he missed.
The first stop is QuikTrip where I get an XL Mocha Cappuccino w/Caffeine plus. If you havent tried that you need to, good times.
In Alabama I break out the laptop and the Verizon Data Network and begin to browse On texags.com I get some valuable information in which I share w/Kirk and make a few posts warning everyone that we are on our way.
Next up on the iPod was the texags podcast from Monday where they talked about the Baylor game for about an hour, Game Day for 10 minutes and then make a slight mention about the upcoming game vs. OU. Kirk was very depressed about the weight of time used on each.
Hank, Motley Crue, Usher, Vanilla Ice, George Strait all made appearances during the day from the iPod.
Luckily we had Sirius and listened to about 10 hours of the NFL Network. It was hard tearing Kirk away from Justin Timberlake but it had to be done.
One observation on the trip was that while heading west on I-20 the sun rose behind us and set in front of us along the way. You know when that happens its been quite a day to say the least.
The first stop was Meridian, MS for some additional caffeine and to release the bladder.
Clinton, MS is the next stop where we eat at the best and maybe only Taco Bell in the whole state of Mississippi.
We stopped in Shreveport to lose a few hands of black jack at the Horseshoe. Kirk insisted he hit on anything less than 21.
The Texas route was Carthage (best Sonic west of the MS River) to Mt. Enterprise to Rusk to Alto to Crocket to Midway to Madisonville to Bryan to CS! It appears that every small town in Texas has a Dairy Queen. I also notice that every cemetery is labeled w/arrows on how to get to it. Interesting.
Once we arrived in College Station we drove around the campus where Kirk starts making little funny noises as we drove past Kyle Field. We stop off and grab a burrito at Freebirds, it was rockin. They actually have a burrito that appears to weigh 38 pounds. We do a walk through at the Dixie Chicken where well return a few hours later.
We arrive at Kirks grandparents house, they live about 3 miles from Kyle Field. We had his season tickets waiting on us along w/some floor to sleep on. Upon arriving at Papaws, I learn that he taught at aTm for 21 years and Kirks dad played LB for TCU. Plenty of great stories ensue. Kirks dad tells me that he was 3-1 vs. Texas and 2-2 vs. aTm while he was there. One funny story he told me that there was only one team where they would blare the opponents fight songs during practice and that was the aTm game. The funniest part was that most of the team came to love the aTm Battle Hymn so I guess it sort of backfired. Im sure thats not the case w/the VOLS biggest rival in Tuscaloosa. I cant imagine a lot of former Bama players saying the same thing about Rocky Top.
I also have my first Lonestar Beer. His grandparents have a beer fridge, Im glad people outside of Atlanta have those, very pleasant surprise.
Every time Kirk makes a trip to College Station his grandmother has a list of computer issues for him to fix, this time it was the printer Kirk breaks out the printer cartridge and cant get it to work, he eventually mutilates the cartridge and gets ink everywhere. He tells his grandmother that its faulty so shes taking it back to the store. I would love to see the look on his face when she arrives with whats left of it. Kirk proceeds to tell her that if they have any questions to call him. Nice work Kirk.
Kirks cousin from Dallas (aTm alum & current Baylor grad-student) arrives and we head to Kyle Field for the 1 AM EST YELL Practice. I learn that Kirks cousin is on his 3rd Aggie ring having lost the previous two somehow. I didnt quite get a good explanation as to what was up with that. I tried the ring he has now on before he will lose it again and it barely fits my pinky. Very cool ring however.
We arrive at Kyle Field around 11:58 PM CST for the 1 AM EST YELL Practice. The place is packed out. It was an amazing site to see everyone there to go through the yells and hear one of the yell leaders talk trash about the Sooners. All three decks had people in them which I didnt realize until we walked down to the field and looked back. I guess the best way to describe it is like its where everyone meets on Friday night before a home game and starts the party process. After the yell practice everyone disperses and its time to get your party on in College Station. Excellent concept! Instead of well meet you at the bar how bout well meet you at Kyle and begin from there. Kirk was giddy and his cousin knew every word to every yell. Note: he didnt lose his ring at Yell Practice.
We arrive back at Northgate and swing by the Dixie Chicken where the line Hey its my first time in Texas, Go Vols! works really well. People were buying us Diet Coke left and right. Im going to see how that works on my next trip to Knoxville.
We eventually head back to Papaws house since weve been at it since 4:30 AM CST and find that everyone is still AWAKE w/food on the table. We grab some food and hit the floor for a few hours. Luckily for me there was a grandfather clock on the fireplace that made noise every 15 minutes. I laid there and listened to it for about an hour until I finally fell asleep.
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Its Monday October 30th and Kirk sends me an e-mail about wanting to go to College Station this weekend, approximately 2 hours later we have spousal approval and the trip is almost completely planned.
On Friday the 3rd the alarm goes off in Atlanta and its 4:30 AM CST and its time to head to College Station. I dont think Ive been up at 4:30 AM CST since .Ive done the still up at 4:30 AM CST more often.
This will be my first trip west of the Mississippi River on ground. Growing up we always went to the northeast (PN, NJ, NY, etc) and then flew over TX a few times on the way to CA but was never fortunate enough to stop off in Texas. Dated a girl from Texas one time but thats another story.
My phone rings at 5 AM CST and its Kirk out in the driveway right on time. I pack up the truck and away we go. Before we got out of the neighborhood Ive already asked if we were there yet. Almost, Kirk replies. Kirk went to aTm back in the mid-90s and then finished up at the University of Georgia. A few weeks ago we tailgated together in Athens and the VOLS hung 51 on em that was a good day. That would give us plenty to talk about since we were going to be in the car together for 28 hours over the next 3 days.
Immediately Kirk breaks out the iPod and begins to play some aTm sound clips and I begin my crash course on the cheers, I mean YELLS, so I can be prepared for 1 AM EST YELL Practice at Kyle Field in 19 hours. Sorry for calling them cheers, Kirk nearly punched me in the nose for that comment he missed.
The first stop is QuikTrip where I get an XL Mocha Cappuccino w/Caffeine plus. If you havent tried that you need to, good times.
In Alabama I break out the laptop and the Verizon Data Network and begin to browse On texags.com I get some valuable information in which I share w/Kirk and make a few posts warning everyone that we are on our way.
Next up on the iPod was the texags podcast from Monday where they talked about the Baylor game for about an hour, Game Day for 10 minutes and then make a slight mention about the upcoming game vs. OU. Kirk was very depressed about the weight of time used on each.
Hank, Motley Crue, Usher, Vanilla Ice, George Strait all made appearances during the day from the iPod.
Luckily we had Sirius and listened to about 10 hours of the NFL Network. It was hard tearing Kirk away from Justin Timberlake but it had to be done.
One observation on the trip was that while heading west on I-20 the sun rose behind us and set in front of us along the way. You know when that happens its been quite a day to say the least.
The first stop was Meridian, MS for some additional caffeine and to release the bladder.
Clinton, MS is the next stop where we eat at the best and maybe only Taco Bell in the whole state of Mississippi.
We stopped in Shreveport to lose a few hands of black jack at the Horseshoe. Kirk insisted he hit on anything less than 21.
The Texas route was Carthage (best Sonic west of the MS River) to Mt. Enterprise to Rusk to Alto to Crocket to Midway to Madisonville to Bryan to CS! It appears that every small town in Texas has a Dairy Queen. I also notice that every cemetery is labeled w/arrows on how to get to it. Interesting.
Once we arrived in College Station we drove around the campus where Kirk starts making little funny noises as we drove past Kyle Field. We stop off and grab a burrito at Freebirds, it was rockin. They actually have a burrito that appears to weigh 38 pounds. We do a walk through at the Dixie Chicken where well return a few hours later.
We arrive at Kirks grandparents house, they live about 3 miles from Kyle Field. We had his season tickets waiting on us along w/some floor to sleep on. Upon arriving at Papaws, I learn that he taught at aTm for 21 years and Kirks dad played LB for TCU. Plenty of great stories ensue. Kirks dad tells me that he was 3-1 vs. Texas and 2-2 vs. aTm while he was there. One funny story he told me that there was only one team where they would blare the opponents fight songs during practice and that was the aTm game. The funniest part was that most of the team came to love the aTm Battle Hymn so I guess it sort of backfired. Im sure thats not the case w/the VOLS biggest rival in Tuscaloosa. I cant imagine a lot of former Bama players saying the same thing about Rocky Top.
I also have my first Lonestar Beer. His grandparents have a beer fridge, Im glad people outside of Atlanta have those, very pleasant surprise.
Every time Kirk makes a trip to College Station his grandmother has a list of computer issues for him to fix, this time it was the printer Kirk breaks out the printer cartridge and cant get it to work, he eventually mutilates the cartridge and gets ink everywhere. He tells his grandmother that its faulty so shes taking it back to the store. I would love to see the look on his face when she arrives with whats left of it. Kirk proceeds to tell her that if they have any questions to call him. Nice work Kirk.
Kirks cousin from Dallas (aTm alum & current Baylor grad-student) arrives and we head to Kyle Field for the 1 AM EST YELL Practice. I learn that Kirks cousin is on his 3rd Aggie ring having lost the previous two somehow. I didnt quite get a good explanation as to what was up with that. I tried the ring he has now on before he will lose it again and it barely fits my pinky. Very cool ring however.
We arrive at Kyle Field around 11:58 PM CST for the 1 AM EST YELL Practice. The place is packed out. It was an amazing site to see everyone there to go through the yells and hear one of the yell leaders talk trash about the Sooners. All three decks had people in them which I didnt realize until we walked down to the field and looked back. I guess the best way to describe it is like its where everyone meets on Friday night before a home game and starts the party process. After the yell practice everyone disperses and its time to get your party on in College Station. Excellent concept! Instead of well meet you at the bar how bout well meet you at Kyle and begin from there. Kirk was giddy and his cousin knew every word to every yell. Note: he didnt lose his ring at Yell Practice.
We arrive back at Northgate and swing by the Dixie Chicken where the line Hey its my first time in Texas, Go Vols! works really well. People were buying us Diet Coke left and right. Im going to see how that works on my next trip to Knoxville.
We eventually head back to Papaws house since weve been at it since 4:30 AM CST and find that everyone is still AWAKE w/food on the table. We grab some food and hit the floor for a few hours. Luckily for me there was a grandfather clock on the fireplace that made noise every 15 minutes. I laid there and listened to it for about an hour until I finally fell asleep.
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