NIU Homecoming 2010-- Part 5-- Gating Our Tail and Buffalo Stompin'

From October 26th entry. This past October 16th, Liz and I drove to Dekalb for NIU's homecoming. We used to go every year, but hadn't for the last ten years, something about those kids getting much to young (or is it that we're getting much too old). But as Jimmy B. says, "Growing Older, but Not Up."


GATING OUR TAIL

Or, is it tailgating? What good homecoming could not have tailgating. We hadn't brought any of those items along with us, but walked over to the new (well, five years old) Barsema Alumni Center and found each college had an alumni tent. We sought out the College of Education and were among the last ones in.

They had a nice spread of burgers (I think some kind of a vegetable burger) and brats as well as home-made tater chips. No alcoholic beverages though, but pop. We managed to survive.


BUFFALO STOMPIN'

We walked over to the stadium and bought tickets for the game for $25. Almost lost Liz walking up all those inclined walkways. We exited to the stands the first chance we got and found we were about twenty rows too low. But I figured Liz couldn't go any further so found a seat and watched the first three quarters of the game on a great sunny, but windy day.

It was expected that Northern would run all over Buffalo, but that sure was not the case in the first half.

More to Come. --RoadDog