Interesting day to say the least...
I park near the rugby practice field, just off stadium rim, and see this older black gentleman looking through the locked fences of Memorial Stadium. I asked him why the gates are closed, and he says he doesn't know. I then take him about 100 ft. towards the south end of the stadium where I use to sneak into the stadium for games. Same glitch in the fence is still there.
So we slide through the fence, with him having a hard time since he's a little overweight. He tells me his cousin is on the team #5 DeCoud. So were sitting on the top of the south rim of the stadium talking about renovations being done on the stadium, when security comes by and says that practice is closed.?
I'm thinking bullshit, since I just called the football office a few hours earlier and they said it was open. He says we have to go... then says to me, that he remembers me and to follow him. :twisted:
So we walk down the steps to the south entrance and he tells me to head to section G where the reporters are(the only people allowed in). Rack me!
It turns out that some tard on "The Bear Insider" had talked too much about the "spread O" being run on monday and Tedford got a little anal and closed practice an hour before it was to start. Unreal.
So it's me and about 12 or 14 reporters sitting in the G sec... with me sitting and talking with two local reporters. Then Aaron Merz(second team) All Pac Ten from last year sits down with us and the fun begins! :twisted:
He starts telling us about his agent(same as Marvin Phillips) and this and that bullshit. He talks about the east west shrine game he played in San Antonio and how he thought it would be more football friendly there, but it wasn't. He mentions how they had to bus the kids in from Houston 3 hours away to come to the game. I tell him, I lived in h-town for 13 years and we just started bullshitin' Cal style.
It was funny as shit having him tell me about how fucked up doing MRI's are when you're 6'4 and 340... and how you have to have your right arm pinned behind your back for 40 minutes and trying to fit into the machine.
Anyways, the team looked very good, playing 26 five minute quarters, and doing sprints after practice.
When practice ended, I followed the reporters down the steps onto the field and asked questions of some of the players (sup, Desaun Jackson and Marshawn Lynch)
I still dont think they know I wasn't one of the reporters.
Rack me, and the start of spring ball!!!
I needed the fix.
It's good to get some football in the blood.
P.S. Tedford said that the guys have to wake up at 5:00 am on friday, and be on the field by 6:25 am on friday morning. He wants to get in a bunch more before spring break... looks like I'm gonna miss friday practice.
P.S.S. Tedford told me he is headed to florida to meet with Urban Meyer in a week to talk some ball.
Sin,
m2 the local hack