Today was a day spent immersing in a favourite pastime of Americans - watching college football games. Think that its growing on me... growing to like the sport more and more. And its not just because I find the game enjoyable to watch, its the whole atmosphere in the 70000 plus Husky stadium. Its absolutely electric... the fans cheering... the marching band playing... and the raw emotion shown by everyone when a good play is made. Of course it makes it more fun when our team wins... and today they did!! It was such a passion-fuelled match some more... Uni of Wash against Washington State Uni... intra-state rivalry at its best. We were the underdogs (Wash St is ranked 8th in the nation) and were behind for most of the game, but fought back and took the win (26-19) in the last few minutes of the match!!! It was such a fantastic feeling when the Huskies pulled off the comeback... I think we (Lennon, Leonard, Brendan and I) got caught up in the euphoria of it all... we were just hugging each other and shouting at the top of our lungs. Heh. Must have been quite a sight. At the end of the game all of us students just rushed the field and celebrated right there.... where Leonard got a little trigger-happy with his digital cam...hahaha. The things Americans do when they're caught up in the moment are so crazy... some of them decided to clamber up the field goal posts and started to shake the whole structure... I mean like thats crazy bordering on the limits of stupidity. The announcer told them to get off or they would be arrested but they continued... hmm wondered what happened to them in the end. Don't know cos I left the stadium after that.
That is one thing I like about the US... there are just so many of such activities to enjoy... and the thing is that its not just the youngsters who enjoy them! Watching a game like a football game is like a family outing to the Americans... the parents bring their kids and even the grandparents to the game. Guess its part of their culture. And they're really really enthusiastic about supporting the team! Every week the school would announce and thank some people for their long term support... and these people have all been season ticket holders for the past 50 plus years!!! I mean... seriously... thats friggin amazing. If such activities were held in Singapore, I wonder how many Singaporeans would be willing to part with money to watch them. Well of course its virtually impossible to do that since basically it would just be a matchup of NUS vs NTU vs SMU. Hmm could be quite boring.
After that went for a dinner of ma la hot pot with the gang as well as INong and Albert. Didn't do wonders for my throat I think. Probably will wake up with no voice tmr... ah well heck.
Huskies rule!!!