Thursday 3/17/2005

A St. Patty's Day road trip to Indianapolis to see the Hawkeyes in the NCAA tournament.  

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Gene Gene the Joke Machine.  (AKA "Dad".)	My brother Tony, who took the week off work and flew in from Boston.	Ted Sueppel.	And your truly.
At the RCA Dome as Kentucky takes the floor for the second half of the first game. (You'll also notice all the Illinois fans in orange...and they didn't even play for another eight hours.)	(We actually got there just after tipoff, so we saved $25 on tickets from the scalper.)	My favorite part was the Eastern Kentucky fans chanting the school initials IN THE ACCENT.  "E! Kuh-AY-EE! Yeeeeeeew!  E! Kuh-AY-EE! Yeeeeeeew!"	The Hawks take the floor for Game Two.
(Great seats, by the way.  THANKS, CRAZY BLACK GUY IN THE PARKING LOT!)	Then the game started.	I think it was 20-4 Cincinnati at this point.	Oh, well.  At least I can get some shots of the big flags as halftime ends.
Look at dem flags.	Okay, so Iowa got blown out. But it was still fun.  I got to talk to a bunch of Kentucky fans sitting behind us, I literally bumped into Nick Lachey on the concourse (as close as I'll ever get to having sex with jessica Simpson), and I finally got to be a part of March Madness.	And then we got home...	The UPS guy left my package in the dirt. Behind the bushes.  And it was damp.  And it was a piece of electronic equipment. Luckily, I got it to work...unlike Steve Alford with the Hawks earlier. (OH!!! *rimshot* Thank you, I'm here all week...)