American football to English football

I don't have much for this post mainly because I know I'll have a long post coming about Scotland in the next 48 hours but here are a few things that I experienced before Scotland...

The Student Union bar, a bar literally on campus for the students, played the Super Bowl on a projector for us. It just wasn't the same. For one, most of the people watching didn't know what was going on. Two, part of the Super Bowl tradition is all the food that comes with watching the game and I had nothing to snack on. Dillon needs food to be happy so food happiness was not fulfilled during the game. Yes, I did just refer to myself in third person.  Finally and most importantly... commercials! You don't realize how much time of the Super Bowl is commercials until you have to watch BBC commentators talk at every commercial break. I was able to catch up on the commercials the next day on the internet but this year I don't think I missed much.

I played in a dodgeball tournament for charity about 1.5 weeks ago with the basketball team. We almost completed an undefeated run but were upset in the championship. Really the only reasons I'm posting about the dodgeball tournament are because I found the nature of the tournament very fun and friendly, they gave away alcohol as a prize which would never happen back home to college students on campus, and I needed to fit in a shout-out to Clyde from the basketball team!

Saturday the 11th I went to Liverpool again to go to an Everton football game. Two friends went with me and we explored Liverpool briefly before finding the stadium and watching the game. Everton, which was ranked 11th out of the 20 teams in the Premier League, upset 4th ranked Chelsea 2-0. The stands were full with about 40,000 in attendance and random chants would carry through the crowd. The best of those chants was "Ladyboy! Ladyboy! Ladyboy!" or at least they thought so because they used it a dozen times. To our surprise, Americans Landon Donovan and Tim Howard play for Everton so the USA presence was definitely relevant at the game. We supported Everton from the beginning and even considered painting our faces. The paint idea was thwarted after seeing how cold it was and that no one was painted up. Overall an experience that has me agreeing with the rest of the world... the term "football" should probably be left to the sport that uses their feet.

The view from our seats

John, Marvin, and me before the game