while we will not be watchin our nc state shugpies in atlanta for the chicfila kickoff game,
we are gone be in the raleighwood where you can find us and a handful of friends wearin nc stizzle red. we will be eating and drinking bevies and shouting obscenities at the tv cheering on our team.
and i am out of the normal range excited and shaking and would like to squeal like a pig giddy with excitement.
i shall be wearing these items.
love me some slobbering wolf.
(shout out to my girl, ber)
3) We BEAT Clemson - pretty bad (say what?!?) (totally because I dreamed it)
back and forth.
back and forth.
#truestory
So, natch, even though we shoulda whooped Maryland, somethin propa-like, this was the score at half time:
14-41
We were gettin our tails KICKED majahly!
But - we didn't lose. We came back with FORTY-ONE UNANSWERED POINTS.
What.
I am so proud of my boys.
Never never never never never give up.
You just never know.
I love that our QB, Glennon did such an amazing job. A huge part of the BIGGEST COMEBACK IN SCHOOL HISTORY. So many had so many negative things to say about Coach Tom O'brien deciding to start Glennon and part ways with Russell Wilson, who was looking to transfer to Wisconsin. I wholeheartedly supported O'brien. Russell Wilson left. Tom did the right thing by giving Glennon 100% of his support and taking the team in a new direction.
For you readers who are from far away lands, us NC Staters have a wee bit of a rivalry with the baby blue shug pies over at UNC. But here's something that pisses us ALL off. "Carolina" means UNC. People from other states seem to think it's all "Carolina" and it's interchangeable.
This is severely false.
That said, I am normally not a shiz talker. Because it's tacky. Well, this year, their INTERIM COACH decided he had a few things to say about the ACADEMICS at UNC ... especially the "high" graduation rate of their ATHLETES. Well, for those of you who have been under a rock, the baby blue shug pies at UNC have been in a weeeee bit of trouble for paying players, paying people to do the players' work, basically, umm sketchy, fraudulent no-no's that they TOTALLY knew they shouldn't have been doin' that the NCAA happens to heavily frown upon. I truly am sorry to all you UNC fans out there. It was a shitty thing to go down, and it's sad the whole university's reputation took a hit because some people in the athletics department were doing STUPID stuff. Anyway... Carolina HAS an interim coach because their old coach got fired for said sketchiness/fraudulence, etc (their AD is adios amigos too) ... so their interim coach, who has a job as a result of sketchy coach's firing, had this to say:
Y'all. I was stressed out. I cannot handle the tension. So, when game day finally got here I was excited. But jittery.
Cut me some slack. It was 7:30 am.
I can truthfully say that I never sat down in the whole game. Not once. My voice was half gone on the way home because I yelled THE WHOLE TIME. Even with this madness going on RIGHT behind us.
Really? WHAT are the odds?
PS - I've never seen the opposing team's band be up in the nose-bleed seats before. Was this done on purpose? ;)
Anyway ...
It was intense. But EVERY. SECOND. WAS. DELICIOUS.
Can we say
SHUT OUT
?
Side Note: Carolina did get one touch down. But it was called back ...
Football game tomorrow! I've chosen to focus on what I'm going to wear in order to relieve some of the disappointment of a loss - given our track record so far.
What AM I going to wear?
It's hard this time of year because it'll be cool, then hot, then cool again ... leggings or jeans .... ??
Sadly, I don't own a red blazer or a magical wolf shirt although I would love to.
If you love Shug in Boots and plan on buyin me a Christmas gift, and just happen to come across a similar wolf shirt - I would love it. (Sadly, this one's a lil outta my price range at $224).
No to the thank you.
Off to finish my French Vanilla Mint Chocolate Dunkin Donuts with Whip.
1) Studying for two major tests that I have in T minus 2 weeks that affect my career that I paid $220 to take
2) Taking a shower since I walked Brady like four hours ago and sweated like the funk after already sweating half the day at work because the AC was broken
3) Calling the Spay/Neuter people ... who are called SNAP ... weird ... for BradyDoesn't it feel nice to get things done? I think I may have said, "Brady, what are you doing, you Suga Pie?" at the end of the message - I thought I'd hung up already. Whoops.
4) Studying.
5)Putting laundry away.
6) Getting mess ready for my Jason Aldean T-shirt
7) Studying.
8) Vacuuming out the back of my car (cancel that - now it's thunderin & lightnin)
Crap I'm Doing Instead
1) Writing this random as all get out blog post
2) Thinking about what I could wear to the next State game and hoping it'll be cooler
3) Thinking of how I'm going to use my NC State Howl Towels to decorate my room
I may have scavenged them from all over the ground while leaving the game. Don't worry. I washed em, duh!
4) Thinking about the strange twist of luck I've had as of a few hours ago that I don't want to talk about because I'm always afraid of being jinxed
5) Read other people's blogs and wonder WTH they have 3000 followers (Hey - what am I sayin? I clearly only have 21, right? ;) Could this mean that a lot of people don't like me in real non-cyberspace life too?!?! )
7) Thinkin Fantasizing about the Jason Aldean concert.
8) Wondering what it would be like to be a Pistol Annie
9) Smiling about the fact that our KFC greasy chicken supper came in a Wolfpack bucket tonight: (can y'all tell I'm mega excited that football season is finally here?)
10) Thanking God above for the cooler weather today and listening to the rain just pourrrr down. Man, it sounds delicious!
11) Wishing I wouldn't have drank so much Diet Mt. Dew today. (Is it grammatically correct to say "wouldn't have drank"? Ionno. Make fun of me in the comments if it ain't right. I don't feel like further investigation.) I couldn't help maself. I was about to fall asleep allll. day. long.
12) Listening to Brady D-VOUR his bone. Friends, it is INTENSE. He's so good, he don't EVEN need his hands.
Y'all have a good night and for the love, do something productive. I added the label "lists" to this because this is just how my brain works naturally. Is it just me?!? I feel lots of lists comin on in the future. Call me nutso, but I think we all assume other people's brains work like ours. For example, my mama imagines long term dates as an oval shaped "calendar" ... I guess sort of like how the planets orbit?? ... Whatttt?!? I totally picture a calendar sheet for the month we are in right now...with further dates (be they past or present) as points further down a timeline. Who the hell thinks/talks of things such as this you ask? My fam.
Mama's brain:
Further - I think all essays and writing used for testing purposes should be accepted in list form only. So direct. To the point. Why are you the right candidate for this job? What do you need from the store? Why does NC State rock? For what reasons do you feel a test should be required to reproduce and to vote?
Well, friends, I attended the first NC State game of the season. It was magical. I am ready for the next game like right now.
One of my favorite things about the games is that they always play this song on the way out of the stadium after the game is over. Please listen for proper effect.
At the NC Stizzle, we are only allowed to tailgate five hours prior. Because, they are afraid we will have too much fun and get carried away and come back with guns and shoot people like that one time. True Story. #Some Ppl R Stupid & We All Pay
Well, we were the first ones at our lot. The po-po's however, decided it would be a cool time to ohhh.... basically just sit there and do nothing until TEN AFTER ONE! WTH? Check out previously stated explanation about how we don't have all day!!! Moooooooove!Stop harrassing people who are OF AGE with red and white special edition NC Stizzle brew. Geez!
I mean, is he on the phone with his wife or what? And really? What are ANY OF YOU DOING? Mooooooooove!!!!!
I needed a minute to calm down in the shade afterward. No, I did not wear the red boots because hubs thinks its the anti-christ to wear anything other than a red shirt. Well, my red shirt didn't match my red boots. I decided ... that I may go the sorostitute route and put together "an outfit" if it means I can wear my red boots. It's not that I don't appreciate a "tailgate dress", but when you have an insulin pump, you have to get creative and take into account where you are going to put your insulin pump, and still be able to get to it when you need it without liftin your skirt in public, mmmmk?
Some people had worse problems than not havin their red boots on ...
Sneaky ditch. And, errrrbody was starin. Poor things.
I LOVE so many things about the games.
1) I understand football now - minus the details about penalties.
2) I love to see people's red/white/black outfits.
3) Cowboy boots
4) I looooooove STATE! I miss it so badly. Help me think of a legit reason to go back to school.
5) Tailgating.
6) The players' excitement when they do somethin good. Aren't they like lil kids?
7) The music that plays when the players come out or during time outs.
8) The Apache song.
9) The NC State fight song.
10) The wolf howling after a touchdown and the loud exploding cannon that goes with it.
11) People dressing/brainwashing their kids to love State from birth.
12) This could go on forever and take over the whole post. I have to stop.
Red and White all in the stands is like a natural high for me. Just gets me GOIN, y'all!!
We are also really classy at State as evidenced by the photo below - this is in all the bathroom stalls. Have no fear - this is SO not a problem anymore because liquor is not allowed during tailgating and certainly not in the stadium.
I love #winning.
The photo quality below sucks because it was taken with my phone. But I also loooove the statue of the pack of wolves on the hill. I liked how you could see the moon on the left and the wolf on the lower right. I know, I totally possess that photographer's eye, right?
What, you think it sucks? Movin' along ...
On the way out, there are po-po's disguised as regular cars like Sylvia - to regulate the peace ... and make the frats take sooooome responsibility for cleaning up the DISASTER of a mess they leave behind.
Fraternities have cool stuff like this red and white uhhh.......thing.
Anyway, I am excited for next game already. I hope all y'all other football goin blogger friends out there blogged about opening weekend because I love me some college football season. Unless you are one team in particular. I won't mention any names.
Hope everybody had a fabtabulous Labor Day weekend!
I already told y'all, I been practicin', so now I should be as good as someone who say .... just learned how to play like 10 minutes ago. But, hey, I have fun tryin. ;)
I <3 Tom O'brien.
How can you go wrong with TWO redheads?
And new crazy skin tight uniforms?
And wolf hats?
And the natural high of beating Carolina for FOUR STRAIGHT YEARS IN A ROW?
Look closely, I love me a lil state trooper at an NC Stizzle football game. Pretty much all other times, y'all can go on somewhere. Thanks.
Wolf mask + red beret + polarized sunglasses = thebomb.com, duh.
I was there for this, and it will always be one of my favorite things (around :50) :
Umm, yes, that is the cute little NC Stizzle Twitter following button thingy on gopack.com. Y'all - he is a cardinal, aka "red bird" aka my mama raised me to believe that these creatures are good luck, especially if they cross your path - much like the black cat is BAD luck when he crosses your path. (Yeah - we are part witch, whatev). How friggin' cute is that? Love him!
But, really, here is why I was at the gopack.com. Y'all know I love some NC Stizzle football season, but I am not a regular on gopack.com. I was at the gym tonight, sweatin away on the eliptical, watchin the news when I read the following captions:
NC State unveils this season's new football uniforms...
The home jerseys, which are a bright, true NC State red, will have "STATE" emblazoned (git back, now!) across the chest, while the classic pants will be adorned with "Block S" logo. The uniforms are made with TechFit fabric, which promises a more breatheable, comfortable fit for the players and the pants feature a sleek, beltless design.
"The uniforms have a very clean, traditional look," said head coach Tom O'Brien. "Our older fans will like them because they are reminiscent of the uniforms of great teams of the past and our current players will like them because they are stylish, comfortable and actually have elements that will benefit them on the field of play."
I further learned that new new uniforms fit like a ......
glove.
* I wanted to edit this picture so badly, but I just stared and stared. Does it really need any help? I think it speaks for itself:
However, I did have fun with this one:
Both original images via NC State University 2011
Whatev. I like that it just says, "STATE" across the front. I do wish there was a lil stripe or some'in goin on down the side of the pants.
But, Debbie Yow's words were my favorite:
Director of Athletics Deborah A. Yow decided early in her tenure that she wanted the Wolfpack program to be identified as "STATE" on all uniforms.
"It's a basic, bold statement: State. That's who we are."
Now - off to dream of crisp fall temperatures, broken in jeans, cowboy boots, hoodies and NC Stizzle tailgatin.
