This is a part of the dino saga, if it doesn’t make any sense, read these.
After a good night’s sleep, we got up early to go tailgating. Okay, not that early, it was an 8:00 PM game, but the point here is we went tailgating, and Parker got things started off right.
Parker enjoying the Breakfast of Champions, with Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphin/Land Shark/Sun Life Stadium in the background.
Does anyone else ever wonder if the beer (Land Shark) was named after this really old Saturday Night Live skit, and for that matter, if they had this particular clip in mind when they got naming right for the stadium where the Dolphins play?
No? Just me? Okay, moving on with tailgating then…
Let's see, Hawkeye fans and Hawkeye flags as far as I can see this way, even when standing on the car (it's a rental).
And more Hawkeye fans this way. Behind us was still empty at this point, but eventually also filled up with Hawkeye fans.
A few hours of tailgating later, night falls, and we learn that Parker can apparently hold his beer substantially better than Sinclair.
"Buuuuurrrrp."
Yes, Parker was also standing on the car. Life lesson? Never buy a used car that was a rental. Ever.
So, it was getting closer to game time, and we decided to head into Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphin/Land Shark/Sun Life Stadium, up the giant spiraling corkscrew ramp, which gives a pretty good view of the tailgating festivities.
A yell of "Go Hawks!" from this height comes back as an echo. In fact, it comes back as an echo from about 40 different location, each echo having a distinct tone and intoxication level. These echos then get echos of their own in a bit of a "Go Hawks" ripple effect. It's a pretty cool physics experiment really.
There were also a couple of tour buses, which also echoed quite well.
Now you may be saying, “Kearn, those last two pictures don’t have Parker in them at all, and tailgating seemed to go by rather quickly.” Did I mention we were tailgating, and I was drinking? Good, now that we’ve cleared that up, I’d like to point out that arepas may be the best drunk food ever. It’s like you took cornbread, but made it into a sort of pancake form, and then once that was cooked, you heated it up on a grill with cheese (um, a kind that’s white, I have no idea which kind) between two of these cornbread pancake things until it was all gooey and warm. Delicious. They serve them at Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphin/Land Shark/Sun Life Stadium. Anyway, after that delicious break, we made it into the stadium, and back to Parker. Luckily we left ourselves plenty of time to get to our seats.
"This is a lot of steps for my tiny legs. Did we have to get seats so high up?"
“To be in the Hawkeye section, yes. And to be on about the 45 yard line on the Hawkeye side, absolutely.”
"I'm sure they're great seats and all, but I can't see anything!! What's going on down there??"
"The view's no better over here. They're playing on the other half of the field."
"Kearn, can I sit on your shoulders?" "Sure Parker."
"Ahh, much better!!! Thanks Kearn!! Go Defense!!!!
"Come on Defense!! Stop them!!!!"
Now, you may notice that between those two pictures, Georgia Tech went about 40 yards on offense. This was basically the only time this happened during the game. This was also basically the only time Parker was watching. Now, I tend to not be too superstitious, but this was enough to make me convince Parker to stay in my pocket for the rest of the game, thus the lack of more game pictures with him. Once it was safe again, he came came out to watch some more.
"Yaaaaayyyyy!! Hawks win!!! Go Hawks!!! Or should I say 2010 Orange Bowl Champions!!!!"