Hoos VS Florida State

Oh. My. God. This game last night was incredible!!! First I will tell you that Virginia hasn't beaten Florida since 1995. 1995! They had the 1995 team there last night and they came out on the field to be celebrated, (oh, they also won the whole season, but that isn't as important as beating Florida apparently.) The game was broadcast live on ESPN, and it was at night, the kick off was at 7.30pm. There were 63,106 people in the stadium, 60,000 at least UVA people in orange. They were soooooo loud when cheering the band on when we came out, its a thrill to march out every time I do the pre game.

The team played well the first half, and everyone was excited when the score was UVA 18, FSU 10, and the half time show I just had so much fun with, looking around the staduim I almost forgot to play. Before we march on we stand on the sideline and wait for the last 3 or so minutes to be played, (with pauses this can take almost 10 mintues! Argh!) FSU kept playing this one chant all the time, it got boring really quickly.

FSU's mascot and team are the Seminoles, an Indian tribe from their area. The chant is the steriotypical indian dancing music, and they all make chopping motions with their arms like weilding an axe. Apparently last year UVA went to FSU and got flogged, and they told me that when 60,000 plus people are all chanting and chopping at you it is really scary. And the people in the second row of stands were throwing stuff at them. Glad it wasn't me.

During the half time show the big lights on one side of the staduim went out for some reason. So when it came time to resume the second half of the game there was a big delay while they figured out what the problem was. The second half was even more exciting than the first, and I found myself cheering and yelling with everyone else. Its an electric atmosphere. Came down to the last 50 seconds, and FSU had the ball, in the final 10 seconds we made an interception and then that was it, 60,000 people rushed the field! Wow, there is nothing like being there when something like that happens. The students section crushed the fence, and a group of boys climbed up on the goal post and tried to bring it down. The drumline played and we all sang their stupid chant back at them. We played for ages while they tried to clear the field again.

When we got back to the staduim it was 1.10am, and by the time I got home and to sleep it was 2am. I was told that the game last night was the most exciting that I will see, you would have thought that we'd won a grand final or something! Yay for college fooball when we win!