ASU-Stanford game. Not quite the same.

Jordan and I were able to go to an Arizona State game against Stanford.  I believe that it is always good to cheer for the home team so we are slowly trying to become ASU fans.  It just so happened that my Dad was in town for work so he came with us to the game. 

The sun devil stadium was amazing. 

It is huge.  Our seats were up pretty high but we still felt like we could see everything. 

I liked the pitch forked field

Jordan liked that they had won the salad bowl in '50 and '51.

I loved being able to see my Dad and especially going to a football game with him.  That has always been one of my favorite things to do.

Jordan couldn't quite make the adjustment to be being an ASU fan.  He proudly wore his BSU sweatshirt the whole game. 

After each touchdown they had fireworks instead of the confetti we are used to at the Boise State games.  The crowd was great.  No swearing or yelling which we appreciated. 

It started out as a good game with a close score.  The defense was good but the offense just wasn't playing very well.  The came the fourth quarter.  We intercepted the football from Stanford, made a pretty good drive down field, got a holding call, turned over the ball to Stanford and then one of our players gets a personal foul.  What does he do?  He starts yelling at the ref resulting in a second personal foul.  That one play lost the game.  17-13

The crowd starts booing and yelling to bench the player.  The player comes off the field yelling and then throws a punch at one of the coach's who was upset with him! What does the head coach do? Puts him in the next play.  I was so disgusted.  All I could think was what Boise State's coach Peterson would have done in that situation.  That player would not have only been benched but probably out a few games with behavior like that.  And throwing a punch at a coach. He would have been thrown off the team!

There is a lot of talk about ASU firing their coach after this season.  Until then I may be only cheering for Boise State. 

We had a great time with my Dad and after the game he took us to dinner at P. F. Changs which was good food and good conversation.  It turned out to be a late night for us but well worth the time we could spend with family.