I hate football.

Seriously. I hate football.

Well, most of the time it isn't that bad. But tonight was especially horrible.
It had been raining on and off all day, and when the band met up at 16:00, it was lightly sprinkling. It was around fifty degrees outside, and coupled with the rain, it was pretty miserable. Luckily, we had ponchos so it wasn't too bad, but it was still pretty icky.

Anyway, we march Eagle Walk in the rain, and then an hour later we line up to march through the District and into the stadium. By now, the sun was down and it was pouring.
Soaked and shivering, we marched into the stadium.

Luckily, just as we were taking the field for pre-game, it stopped raining. We performed without a hitch, and the first half of the game went by just like any other game. It rained lightly off and on, but it wasn't anything too bad. Then we did our halftime show and went back into the stands.

And then 3rd Quarter.
It went by terribly slow. I'll admit, I know absolutely nothing about football, but in 3rd Quarter, the clock stopped every few seconds. I honestly took like an hour to get through the "15 minute" 3rd Quarter.
At this point, everyone was thoroughly miserable. But hey, one more quarter until the game's over and we can go home!

Oh, wait, what? The weather's getting worse? You're going to delay the game until it clears up? Oh, that's not too bad...
Oh wait, WE HAD TO SIT THERE AND WAIT UNTIL THEY STARTED PLAYING AGAIN.

That's right. The band sat there under the stands for an hour and twenty minutes, doing nothing. We weren't allowed to go home, because the game wasn't over. I was cold, wet, tired, hungry, and livid. It was ridiculous to the point where I don't even know how to describe how bad it was.

After that, the levels of apathy in the band were so high, half of the band didn't even bother getting up or playing for 4th quarter. Which also just seemed to go on, and on, and on, and on, and on.

It was the worst football game I've ever been to. But, on the plus side, there were fireworks at the end.


Anyway, in lighter news, I am starting a new book: A Wizard of Earthsea. It looks kind of dumb, and the title is stupid and I got it for free, so I don't really have the highest of hopes for it. But apparently, it's won quite a few awards so I don't know, maybe it'll be a good read.


-David