ATL Takeover

Last weekend myself and 5 others made a weekend trip to ATL to watch South take on the Georgia State Panthers! We left Friday night and visited a Dwarf Chick-fil-a, one of the original restaurants, and then headed to our hotel for the night. Saturday we visited World of Coca-cola and drank a LOT of sugar! AFter that we ate in the CNN Center and then headed to the game.

At the game we sat by the VIPs of the university including the president (two rows in front of us), public relations guy (row in front of us) and the dean of student affairs....the boss of the bookstore (5 seats down from me on the same row). The only bad thing is that they are so boring and don't cheer much so we didn't get to cheer as much as we wanted to.

The game was alright until the very end. We had :08 seconds left in the game down by 7 and they make it to the end zone and through it in but it go intercepted but there was a flag on the play on the opposing team, so we go the ball back. We throw it in again and score to tie it up with :04 seconds left and the game went into OT. Neither team scored and went into double OT. The panthers scored and we did not so the game ended 27-20.....overall a good game.

After the game we went out to eat and then went to Braden's house to stay the night. We woke up to a great breakfast and then headed home. A great weekend full of great memories!!

PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS:

The couch from American Idol!

Colin & Christina about to watch a 4-D movie.

Erika, Brandy, & Braden waiting for the movie to start.

Christina and me getting our free bottles of coke!

Eating at the CNN Center.

Sitting outside CNN Center getting ready to leave ATL.

Did he just blog about football???

Why yes, I did/about to blog about football!

On Saturday, South Alabama faced their first real competition since the football program was created, and that was North Carolina State. Everybody I talked to or listened to said that we were going to lose so I didn't expect much. The Jags have been undefeated since the first game and the record was 19-0! Obviously from my use of past tense, you can tell that we lost to NC State. The score at the game was 35 - 13....which doesn't seem too bad to me! We scored! I was expecting, from everyone talking, that we were going to lose with a score of 40-0 but that was not the case.

So the streak has ended but the Jags should be proud! 19-1 is a great record for a new program and we are going finish the season out strong. The next home game is Oct. 15.....a little break for those of us who have to work at the games. The weather will be great and it should be fun!

GO SOUTH!!!