Go Dawgs… ???
Clearly I am a Clemson Tiger fan. And Kevin is a Georgia Bulldog fan. Our girls have yet to make the determination as to which team they’ll like. For all we know, they may pick a different team completely or decide they hate sports all together. We are an equal opportunity family though – so it’s totally up to them!
Since we live so close to Clemson, we’re usually able to take them to a game every year. Athens is a bit further and while Kevin and Kate have gone to a couple of games together, Karsten hadn’t seen the Dawgs play until this weekend. Kevin’s track record at seeing his team play is pretty poor too. He’s gone to a game almost every year, and Georgia hasn’t won while he was there since 2012.
So this weekend we took the girls to see Georgia play Samford. If his team had not won this game, I’m not sure I would have let him live it down.
They are ready for Saturday in Athens!
We’ve officially reached the “fake smile” stage.
The game was a night game, which was great since it was a million degrees outside! We left our house with plenty of time to eat dinner on the way, and got to Athens early so we could walk around. A quick stop in a Georgia fan store landed the girls with new hats and Georgia “G’s” for their faces (glittery ones, of course). Then it was game time!
We’d originally planned to stay till halftime and knew we would call it a success if that happened. When Georgia scored another TD late in the 3rd quarter to make it pretty much a guaranteed win, we figured we were safe to start walking back toward the car. The girls did great throughout the whole game. I will go ahead and put it out there, I packed the iPad in my bag for Karsten. Knowing that the game was starting only 30 minutes before her normal bedtime, I needed to be prepared! She only played on it for maybe 30 minutes total and did really well.
And now both kids have been to Georgia games. In about a month, they’ll be sporting the Clemson orange that I love to see on them. But for now, I’ll admit that they look pretty cute in the red.
PS – I listened to my game (Clemson vs Louisville) on XM radio while watching the Georgia game. Multitasking at its finest.
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