More Roadtrip Shenanigahns

As one of our loyal readers astutely pointed out in a comment of our last post, uncle Pop's predictions weren't exactly spot on for the Purdue game, but hey, a working clock is wrong twice a day (or is it the other way around...?). Regardless, the weekend was not a total wash as the Charlie's Nasties crew was down in the lovely town that is West Lafayette for the Notre Dame Purdue game last Saturday so our readers will at least be able to read about some fun that was had off the field.

The five friends that I was going with decided to take a pass on another two hour car ride in my civic so we all decided to head down on the Notre Dame student bus. This picture shows some visual evidence to support our decision.


However, we ran into difficulties from the start of our journey as one of my roommates found the 6:30 wake up call too much to bear. I can't blame him; any night that ends with relieving oneself on the side of an ice machine normally results in a difficult wake up...

Upon arrival our group headed over to the stadium, where a congested but lively tailgating scene could be found. It was amidst these barbecues and decorated vehicles (see above) that we were introduced to a previously unfamiliar Boilermaker tradition: the Breakfast Club. Apparently, to be a member of said club, one must get up at 6:00 am on gamedays, dress in some sort of ridiculous costume, and head to the bars to do a little pregaming. I'm ashamed at myself for failing to get any good pictures of these fans (to give you an idea, we saw everything from Fred Flinstone to the Hulk to Tom Cruise in Risky Business - actually, that guy might have just wanted to take his clothes off...). Anyways, this shot of a fan wearing a student shirt as a skirt (?) was the best I could do:

Once inside the stadium, I thanked Kevin White and company for keeping our stadium free of large jumbotrons and other advertising. To give you an idea of the absurd advertising at the game, Purdue fans jingle their keys (real original) before kickoffs, and the stadium actually had a sponsor for this that films people jingling their keys! Unbelievable.

At first I was pretty pleased that Purdue offered ND students seats so close to the field, then I realized that they let us sit where we did so they could drown us out with the multimillion dollar jumbotron right behind us. My jigging was seriously thrown off with Zombie Nation (again - really original) blaring in my ears. This poor little tyke in front of us wasn't too happy with the excess noise either.

By now you may sense my frustration with Purdue's overall lack of originality - it seemed the only thing they actually thought of themselves was that ridiculous drum... The last example of unoriginality (I promise) I present is a shirt I saw that looked eerily familiar:

Not to be outdone with the shirts, some ND students, inspired by Golden Tate's flawless execution of the fly route on Saturday were determined to make their own shirt design.

A link to order the shirts can be found here. I apologize for the advertising, but Charlie's Nasties is trying to raise some revenue to get Brugg off of strike and back on staff.

O yeah, there was a football game Saturday too, but we'll hold off on covering that until tomorrow. So for now, just sit back, enjoy the pictures from the game, and tune in tomorrow for a game recap.