I'm not quite sure what sparked the conversation a few months back, but somehow I was put in charge of organizing a trip to the annual Yale/Harvard game. Luckily enough, this year it was right down the street at the Yale Bowl in New Haven. To tell you the truth, I was shocked that the alumni of both schools actually allow a commoner like myself to be able to buy a whopping fifteen seats in a row to, more or less, try to dress like they do and enjoy ourselves in the company of some of our nation's most intelligent. I was talking to Christi and Nebraska home game or not, I can't remember a college football game where I've seen people buy tickets at the counter, let along empty seats in the stadium. At the same point, it's quite strange and quite sad.

Tailgating was the absolute highlight of the day. After we made our way through the "game day traffic," we pull into our spot and throw down the bean bag boards. The second we did that (and all throughout the day) people looked at us as if we were crazy, playing a game that they've never seen before. Besides throwing a football around, it might be the most popular game at a tailgate. After studying the people around us, we weren't shocked they have never heard of the game before. The Harvard group next to us pulled in with their Lexus and pulled out a table, table cloth, and started serving champagne on ice at 9am in the morning. I took a quick look back to our Jeep to see AP chugging a Bud Light and Restivo eating potatoes out of a plastic dish with a beer bottle cap since our plastic silverware hadn't arrived yet. I think at that point, you could clearly tell who dropped $50K per semester for their education and who dropped $50K for their degree.

We had such a blast tailgating that we didn't make it into the game until seven seconds left in the first half. Right as we get in, former Nebraska quarterback, Patrick Witt, misses one of his many passes on the day and Yale decides to go for a 62 yard field goal since they didn't trust the golden arm of Mr. Witt. Needless to say, none of us were holding our breath as the ball didn't even make it to the end zone.

After suffering through the third quarter, we're thinking it's almost time to ditch this poor attempt at what they call football and head back to the tailgate. Maybe it's because I hadn't lost enough of my voice yelling at Witt or maybe it was because we figured we better get some use out of our tickets (did I mention they were $15 and 15 rows up?), we stuck around until the end. Up until this point, we figured the Ivy Leaguers focused more on intellects than it did on X's and O's. This point couldn't have been more clear than when Yale was facing a 4th and 22 from their own 25 yard line with three minutes left and a three point lead. All they have to do is punt the ball away and deny a field goal attempt in the waning seconds. Is this what they do? Of course not. They run their fake punt formation, give the ball over on downs and watch the game slip through their fingers three plays later. I've watched a lot of football in my life, and that has to go down as one of the dumbest play calls that I've ever seen ... Ivy league football or real football.

Although the game didn't live up to the hype, we had a blast going down there and looked awesome doing it. Pics will hopefully be up after we get back from Thanksgiving down in San Antonio. Until then, you can check out Christi's Facebook page to see us in all of our glory.

Just like How I Met Your Mother before it, Christi and I started watching The Big Bang Theory since it's pilot episode. We couldn't have been more glad we did as they rewarded us earlier this month.

For those not familiar with the show, the main female character, Penny, is originally from Nebraska trying to make it big as an actress in L.A. Every few episodes or so, they will bring up a small tie back to the midwest, and it's usually pretty good as we are able to relate with it every time. Until this episode where her friends from back home visited her and they all watched the Husker game at her apartment.

As sad as this sounds, it's probably the best non-sports Husker call out since ... Tommy Lee Goes To College (I can't believe I just wrote that). For those that don't know: Yes, Christi and I were both in college when he did his four week show there. Yes, Christi and I both saw him and met him. Yes, he's exactly how you think he'd be. No, surprisingly enough, we did not require any treatment or vaccination shots after our close encounters.

I made my first 911 call yesterday. Thankfully it wasn't for myself or Christi.

We were on our way to see "2012." After seeing the movie, we realized if we had been involved in the crash, we really wouldn't have missed that much. Anyways, we were on the I-84 and took our exit to the theater. It's a pretty tight curve and we always joke about the exit since we once saw a woman driving in front of us with half of her car hanging on the ground. Light rain started falling about thirty minutes earlier, and when they tell you in diver's ed that's the worst time to be driving, they just received another accident to validate their case.

The red car in front of us just started on the turn and began to spin out. The lady tried to correct herself, hit the guard rail and spun out. I hit the brakes pretty hard to avoid crashing as I swerved to her left to get around her. At this time, the person behind me was following us way too close and swerved and hit the guard rail behind us. We pulled over, and the car behind us just drove away.

After putting the hazards on, I called 911 to report everything and it took me forever to convince the operator what exit we took. It was like she thought I was lying to her for some reason. After she believed me realized where I was at, I hung up and Christi and I wanted to make sure the woman in the red car didn't have any injuries. Christi was a little bit ahead of me and started walking towards her. At this point, a transport truck came barreling around the corner and had to throw on the breaks to avoid any other accidents (irony: always there for a good laugh after the fact). It all happened so quickly, but when he hit the breaks, he spun his truck sideways and wedged himself between the two walls. My initial reaction was it looked like the scene from Terminator 2 where the semi truck spins out of control.

So the picture above is if you would be going the wrong way down the exit. It's taken from the point of view of us walking back towards the accident. We waited ten minutes for the officer to show up and since no one hit anyone else, he said we were free to go and we just barely made the opening time for the movie. But as I mentioned above, it would have been a lot more interesting to see how they un-wedged the truck and got traffic flowing once again than sitting through two hours of that blockbuster. And it wouldn't have cost us twenty bucks.