My First College Football Game

Saturday, September 16th, 2007 was the date I attended my first college football game as an FIU student. I drove around in circles around the Orange Bowl for at least 20 minutes trying to figure out which side to enter through. It was a sea of orange and green with a barely visible speck of navy blue and gold at the far right hand corner. It was, I must say, very disappointing. Once I finally figured out which gate I should go through, I went up four floors to meet up with the only one of my friends who actually showed up [Danielle =)]. As I sit there, in what feels like a cage, a square of seats donated and fenced in by the mass of UM fans, I realized the lack of school spirit and enthusiasm in our school. I was so excited about going to my first game that I called in sick from work, and passed up selling myself to the other team. As strange as that sounds, I was offered twenty bucks by my sister, who happens to be a UM student, to sit on "her" side. I was extremely reluctant to do so. I told her that I would support my school all the way, even though I knew that the likelihood of them winning over a team like UM was very low. Little did I know that in the Orange Bowl there was no such thing as a UM nor FIU side. The space was so unevenly distributed, that the bleachers were overflowing with UM fans and anywhere you sat, you sat in the UM side. I can't say that I had a terrible time though. I enjoyed cheering every time my team scored or made a good play. I wasn't at all disappointed with their performance, I honestly was quite impressed. Although their score ended up being FIU 9, Miami 23, our FIU team's defense did a praise worthy job. Surprisingly, more disappointed were the UM fans, who were expecting their team to slaughter FIU, and ended up almost slaughtering their own quarterback who I must say did a poor performance. Overall, it was a great experience, and if I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.