The end of a 13-0 Season!
You’ll note that my Holiday Season continues to Super Bowl Sunday. I never start my resolutions on the 1st of the year because they usually involve losing weight, getting in better shape or getting organized. You can’t do any of those things when College Football season is still going on (I had to go to the Sugar Bowl), then NFL gives us an excuse to get the neighbors together for a few beers. Frankly, I don’t think I should start the resolutions until after March Madness and St. Pat’s day; but you have to draw a line at some point…I think I’ll just take those days off.
Anyway, a lot has happened since I last posted. I used the excuse of the Holidays and work to be lazy about posting, but I’ll try to pick it up again. I won’t waste time talking about everything that happened; I’ll just flashback to it during the course of the year like a bad movie. I do think a mention of the Sugar Bowl is in order though. It has been a long time since we got the old Poker Club together for some Guy Time. We couldn’t get away for more than just 1 day and night because we have families and jobs and things that didn’t quite tie us down as much as the old days. It is funny how when you get a group of your best friends together things just seem to pick up where they left off. We keep in touch through phone and e mail and we often see each other from time to time, but none of that compares to spending time in a car or drinking on Bourbon St. It’s the little things then end up being the funniest, laughing so hard at our hung over fog on the way home or the ribbing we constantly give each other. We will have to try to get the gang together at least once every other year…hopefully to more BCS games.
The trip was a little bit of a blur with all the drinking we tried to cram into the short time that we had, but I do have memories of bumping into a lot of old friends that we went to school with; I think we could have held a fraternity alumni meeting. Then there was Pat O’s which is always a good time, but this is where the really hard drinking began, this is where things got hazy. The game was a good time, but the fact that it got a little too close near the end sobered us all up quickly. Then we went back to Bourbon St. for dinner and a little ‘sight seeing’ (see photo below).
All in all it was a great way to finish the football season, but I don’t think we can wait until next year to get together again.
