5-0, baby! Wahoo! After a Nebraska-touchdownless game this past Saturday, my beloved Tigers are currently ranked No. 11 in NCAA football.
With the time difference, the big game was slated to start at 10:45 a.m. here on Sunday. The day before, I went around Adelaide’s sports bars searching for just one place that could turn just one television to the US ESPN station…but of course, the only ESPN they had was the Aussie one. All that walking, and no game.
So, what was I left to do? Flip on the online GameTracker to “see” the game unfold in near-real-time Sunday morning. As I “watched” the game, quite a few of my friends in the hostel wandered up behind me to see if I’d been able to watch the game (I’d been talking about it for a while…). When I tried to explain what I was actually “watching” they were all a little surprised. Doesn’t appear GameTracker has a sister software in Europe/Australia (or none of my friends here are as much of a sports geek as I am). Well, that, and they all thought it would be a little boring of a way to keep track of a game. But I was doing a bit of work on the ol’ laptop as well. And come on. It was the Nebraska game!
Next week is the game against No. 5/6 Oklahoma…I’ve already checked the Fox Sports channels here, and no dice again. I may have to be trapped by GameTracker once again.
What can I say? “There’s a spirit so deep within [me]“…
we were so psyched to be able to watch the game in far away wisconsin – probably the only one we’ll see this year. so nice to see such a great game for a change when we’re in the national spotlight! bully!
Hoping I can watch ONE game at some point this year…is it bad that I’ve actually been wondering how much a flight home would be for a bowl game?