Robert and I decided to buy season tickets for the Tech football games this year, and boy was that a good decision! It has been an awesome season.... the best ever! The weekend of the Texas Tech vs Texas game, we decided to get up at 6am on Saturday and head out to the Texas Tech campus for ESPN's College Gameday. We were so excited that Tech was finally going to host this event in Lubbock. We got there around 7:15 - 7:30am. The broadcasting wasn't going to start till 9am, but we wanted to get there in hopes of being up front behind the platform. We ended up being around 5 people back. There were homemade signs EVERYWHERE!!! The crowd was so pumped up! The whole weekend was full of energy, actually the whole week leading up to the game.... according to my parents, who live in Lubbock. They told the crowd that they had never seen so many signs and that they were impressed with the energy of the fans.
Coach Mike Leach loves pirate stuff.... so there were lots of pirate signs and flags. There were even T-shirts printed with the skull and cross bones for the weekend on black T-shirts. The half time show at the game was even a pirate theme. All the members from the Going Band from Raiderland had pirate scarves on their heads and a few "retired" band members (including my cousin, Kathryn) dressed up like pirates and ran around the field passing out eye patches to fans on the front row. The flag girls held pirate flags while the band played music from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean." During the show, the band did a skull and cross bones formation and at one point appeared to be "fighting" as they scrambled into another formation. It was a great half time show, to go with the best game ever!
You can see how close we were to the stage.... just off to the left of the back of the stage, near the goal post.
This sign was one of my favorites. It was titled, "Pirates of the Plains." Crabtree, Harrell, and Leach are pictured as the pirates.
Another favorite! It said... "Colt? More like my little pony." Colt McCoy's head was placed on a my little pony toy.
As we were leaving the Gameday event, we had to stop by and take a few pictures of out favorite features on the campus. Here we are in front of Will Rogers on his horse, Soapsuds. Soapsuds rear end faces toward the Aggies' Kyle Field. (One of the bell towers is in the background. You can hear the bells ringing as you leave the game after a Texas Tech win.) The Texas Tech Saddle Tramps decorate this statue before every home game.
This one is in front of the Texas Tech seal. I will later post a few pictures during the game, once I upload these off of Robert's cellphone. It was an amazing game. Our ears were ringing at the end of the game.... it was like we had just come from a rock concert... the fans were so loud! We stood the entire game and I had almost lost my voice... it took a week to get my voice fully back... just in time to lose it again at the Tech vs OSU game. Hope you enjoyed the pictures! It was a BLAST!
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