It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium?

As I said yesterday, me and the boy went to our first LSU football game together. He used to go all the time when he was growing up, and I'd been to a few games when I first moved to Louisiana, but this was the first time we actually went with eachother.

It had been raining most of the day, but by the time we started heading to the game the rain had let up. I was crossing my fingers that it would stay that way, but the boy figured we might be safe and pick up ponchos on the way there. We wound up having to park around 2 miles away from the stadium, at least according to the Boy it was 2 miles, to my legs it felt much much longer. And then once we got to the actual stadium we had to walk ALL the way up to our seats. Yes, we were all the way at the top. There were actually only 3 rows behind us. Which did mean we had a good view.
I do realize this isn't the best picture, but it was the only one he "let" me take. He's not a fan of pictures, for no real reason except that he likes to make me miserable I'm sure.

After listening to the marching band play the fight song,
and seeing the team run in
they started listing off the stats for the game. Tempurate is 80 degrees. Wind is blowing south-southwest. Chance of rain: Never.

Yes, there's a saying that goes "It Never Rain in Tiger Stadium." Does it look like that happened?
Even in the rain we still had fun cheering the Tigers to victory. We wound up splitting a bowl of jambalya
I actually got back from buying this and asked the boy to get my purse from under the seat. He did it thinking I needed it to put my money away. No, I really just needed my camera so I could take this picture to share with my readers. After all, how many other football stadiums sell jambalya?

We also got to see them honor Shaq.
I'm not sure what exactly they were horing him with. Maybe, they inducted him into the LSU hall of fame? I'm pretty sure he would have still been there even if they weren't honoring him since in the 4 years I've lived in Baton Rouge he's been at every home opener, which this game was.

They also honored the 2009 NCAA Champion LSU baseball team. I would have taken a picture of this as well, but at the time we were experiencing a fairly torential downpour and was at least a little afraid of ruining my camera. Plus I didn't want to get anymore wet then we already were.

Eventually the rain did let up and we got to enjoy the rest of the LSU's 23-9 win over Vanderbilt.
Yeah, remember what I said about avoid pictures?

Any one else spend part of their weekend at a football game? Let's hope you stayed a little dryer than we did!

~Shoshanah