24September 2005: Aggies 20 Cardinal 17

Couple of months ago faculty and staff at Stanford were mailed vouchers for free tickets to Cardinal Athletics events including the now famous Davis/Stanford football game.

We thought we arrived nice and early for the kickoff but due to the long lines at the ticket office we ended up missing pre-game and the entire first quarter. We were in good company with the many others in their blue and gold (as were we) & finally got our General Admission tickets and entered the stadium to what looked and sounded like a 50-50 mix of Aggie and Cardinal fans.

We took our seats about 3/4th of the way up in the end zone and promptly watched more of the game on the stadium TV than 'live.' From our poor vantage point we could make out a few details of the Aggie half time show. ('JR' and a tree morphing into a fallen tree were some of the detail we could make out). Remainder of half time was taken up by fireworks and a 'salute to youth sports.' (Kids doing gymnastics, football and soccer across the field).

Sadly we had to leave by the end of the third to finish some Sunday afternoon party preparation but the cheering of the Aggie fans could be heard well outside the stadium and was quite tempting to return to our seats.

By luck we found a Davis/Sacramento AM station broadcasting the game, so as we headed down 101 we were kept on the edge of our seats as we listened through the static, worried that something crucial would happen just as we would go under an overpass.

Last minutes of the game came just as we pulled into our garage so there we sat in the dark hoping for best and then it did.

Why did I know this would happen if we left??? ;)