Rose Parade - the Lindbergh High School Spirit of St. Louis Marching Band
Rose Parade - My fave float, from Cal Poly Tech universities
Frog Nation!!!
We won!!!!!!!!!!!
TCU Won the Rose Bowl!!!!!!
Megan is a TCU Alumn, and when the football team earned the invitation to the Rose Bowl it was a dream come true. For those of you not familiar with TCU football, the team has been steadily improving its national ranking over the last decade or so under coach Gary Patterson, and the last three years in particular have been stellar. Sadly, the BCS system that favors the traditional football powerhouses has kept the Horned Frog team out of the big BCS bowl games, and out of the running for the national championship. The invitation to the Rose Bowl was a HUGE step, and the team WON, beating the U of Wisconsin Badgers (who were ranked number 5 behind TCU's number 3, so proving again how good the Horned Frogs really are on a national level).
Benson was a trooper and got up at 5 a.m. to leave the house by 5:30 a.m. - we had to hit the Rose Parade before the big game! We arrived in Pasadena at 6 a.m. to avoid the crazy traffic from the street closures, and after napping in the car a bit headed over for the parade. Thanks to my dad for snagging us bleacher seats in the second row so we didn't have to consider camping out on the street overnight! The parade was beautiful, with lots of amazing floats, great marching bands and very impressive equestrian entries, too.
After the parade we went back to the car for another nap (yes, we were that tired, it WAS New Year's Day) and after 45 minutes of rest we hoofed it over to the Rose Bowl!!! Our seats were third row from the top in the North end zone, and we can tell you from experience that there really is no bad seat in the Rose Bowl, because we had an excellent view. The TCU crowd kinda seemed like freshmen invited to the prom compared to the Badger fans who were well-seasoned in bowl game excitement. The Badgers were hardcore tailgating, taunting the TCU fans here and there, EVERY one of them was in red head to toe, etc. The TCU fans were, well, just bright-eyed and really happy to be there! Which seemed fitting, since just last year was our first real BCS game, in the Fiesta Bowl, and it was against another newcomer to the national stage, Boise State.
The game was a blast, and we've never hung on every play in a football game like that ever before. Everyone we talk to who watched it on TV thought it was a nail-biter at the end, but in the stadium it felt different. By the third quarter the Badger fans had deflated a lot. Even through that last rush where the Badgers scored, everyone was just watching the clock and it seemed like there was no way the Badgers could win it - even when they went for the 2-point conversion, it just felt like it was TCU's game.
Looking forward to watching lots of TCU football with friends and family next season!!!!!
Megan is a TCU Alumn, and when the football team earned the invitation to the Rose Bowl it was a dream come true. For those of you not familiar with TCU football, the team has been steadily improving its national ranking over the last decade or so under coach Gary Patterson, and the last three years in particular have been stellar. Sadly, the BCS system that favors the traditional football powerhouses has kept the Horned Frog team out of the big BCS bowl games, and out of the running for the national championship. The invitation to the Rose Bowl was a HUGE step, and the team WON, beating the U of Wisconsin Badgers (who were ranked number 5 behind TCU's number 3, so proving again how good the Horned Frogs really are on a national level).
Benson was a trooper and got up at 5 a.m. to leave the house by 5:30 a.m. - we had to hit the Rose Parade before the big game! We arrived in Pasadena at 6 a.m. to avoid the crazy traffic from the street closures, and after napping in the car a bit headed over for the parade. Thanks to my dad for snagging us bleacher seats in the second row so we didn't have to consider camping out on the street overnight! The parade was beautiful, with lots of amazing floats, great marching bands and very impressive equestrian entries, too.
After the parade we went back to the car for another nap (yes, we were that tired, it WAS New Year's Day) and after 45 minutes of rest we hoofed it over to the Rose Bowl!!! Our seats were third row from the top in the North end zone, and we can tell you from experience that there really is no bad seat in the Rose Bowl, because we had an excellent view. The TCU crowd kinda seemed like freshmen invited to the prom compared to the Badger fans who were well-seasoned in bowl game excitement. The Badgers were hardcore tailgating, taunting the TCU fans here and there, EVERY one of them was in red head to toe, etc. The TCU fans were, well, just bright-eyed and really happy to be there! Which seemed fitting, since just last year was our first real BCS game, in the Fiesta Bowl, and it was against another newcomer to the national stage, Boise State.
The game was a blast, and we've never hung on every play in a football game like that ever before. Everyone we talk to who watched it on TV thought it was a nail-biter at the end, but in the stadium it felt different. By the third quarter the Badger fans had deflated a lot. Even through that last rush where the Badgers scored, everyone was just watching the clock and it seemed like there was no way the Badgers could win it - even when they went for the 2-point conversion, it just felt like it was TCU's game.
Looking forward to watching lots of TCU football with friends and family next season!!!!!
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