What's making me happy?
Well, we've made it through the first leg of the last football season at the #DoomedDome. Ten games down and I'm not exactly sure how many games are left. Some of the events later are still a bit murky. But we've survived so far. Sadly, the home teams have both lost their season opener.
When Dan Schipper, my right hand guy on big events at the #DoomedDome, reached the 200 Falcons game mark at the Dome, I got him a Falcons jersey to celebrate. Did the same for Doug Stancil last year (and he promptly retired from the league).
Since they won't do triple digit numbers, the idea was to have the year we started on the back. Think I screwed Dan's up but hey, the thought counts, right?
Anyway, Dan and his fantastic wife Jenny returned the gesture yesterday and, having surpassed the 200th game, I finally have my reward ;)
Here's my new jersey:
After the Falcons game yesterday I had to beat feet out to Carrolton to see Thing2's team play the weekend nightcap. They'd taken a beating the day before in the hot sun down in Lagrange.
With one sub (vs the opponent's six strong bench) they really never had a chance in those conditions. It only got worse when their talented new keeper went down early with a bad cramp that had her barely able to walk to the car much later.
That whole deal was a drag so I was VERY relieved when they looked a lot stronger against Sunday night's opponent and scored early on. The game got pretty chippy and we had another couple injuries we can ill afford (the keeper again) but they gutted out a 3-1 win.
Fortunately, most of the other teams in their group have split their first couple games as well so the Georgia Storm Silver 99s are still in a good place in the standings, despite their poor goal differential stat.
One last item:
With one sub (vs the opponent's six strong bench) they really never had a chance in those conditions. It only got worse when their talented new keeper went down early with a bad cramp that had her barely able to walk to the car much later.
That whole deal was a drag so I was VERY relieved when they looked a lot stronger against Sunday night's opponent and scored early on. The game got pretty chippy and we had another couple injuries we can ill afford (the keeper again) but they gutted out a 3-1 win.
Fortunately, most of the other teams in their group have split their first couple games as well so the Georgia Storm Silver 99s are still in a good place in the standings, despite their poor goal differential stat.
One last item:
Brenda found this while cleaning out Thing1's room after she went off to GSU. I've had this hat a LONG time. I think that one of our customers from the store in Cheboygan brought this back for me from a trip to Detroit. I don't know when but it's mid-80s sometime. There's a LOT of miles on this bad boy and it made me really happy to see that it still existed.
So, what's making YOU happy today?
So, what's making YOU happy today?
