Good morning.....well afternoon i guess now where i am......Jesus..its 1230 already....dam....
Well yesterday re-cap after i left the rainy Starbucks.....
So i had may parking taken care of...time to find a ticket.....cross the bridge and start to run into some scalpers....first guy was like....'yo man...what need'...I replied....ya a single.....'yo man...i gots a club seat here for ya....600$'.......hahaha!....ya man not so much!....Hes like, how much you wanna spend....so we go back and fourth and i get a ruff idea of how much its going to cost me to get a ticket...at this point I'm thinking I'm not going cus he said bout the cheapest I'm gonna find a ticket for is 200-250$...that was a bit too much for me...but i thought...ill find something...so i continue to mosey around...run into more scalpers....find this one guy....and he was good dude....i told him what i wanted, we dealed back and fourth...finally, he made a call...and his ticket pimp pulled up in a silver range rover....guy was a fat Latino....hes like yo, what you need.....ya ya.....i got ya covered...i just needed to hit a bank machine....so i hopped in and away we went.....done and done got one for a decent price in my range.......To hell with aviation....i want to be a ticket pimp....this is one hell of a racket. This guy had dudes all over the place buying and selling for him....i paid 40$ over the face value for my ticket...prob more of a markup on nicer seats. I did learn a good lesson in scalping tho....wait till the first quarter is over....a guy sat down next to me paid 40$ under face value....at that point the scalpers want to cover cost....depending on what time i get to DC tonight i might put this into use for the Monday night football game.
So....got my ticket....decide to go for a walk...got lots of time to kill...go down to the river and there is this old post WW2 sub.....go and check it out...you can go in it for 5$...a fair deal indeed. It was initially built as an attack sub, 6 fwd shooting torpedoes, 4 aft shooting, but later on they turned it into a picket or recon sub. Very tight inside....would not be much fun for long periods of time. The sub...is more like a ship that can submerge when needed. Because of the diesel engines...4 of them, inline 10's....1100 hp each turning 1500KW jennys....when submerged...you can only use battery power to turn the props and power the boat...so the most you could only be down for a couple days and then you would need to surface, fire up the engines, charge the batteries and change the air......where as today with all the technology and nuclear power...they can stay down for months at a time......very neat look into what it was like back then.
Keep rambling, run into a group of people...of course i find some Canadians from Hamilton and Sioux St. Marie Ont......have a BS with them for a bit, a beer and continue down the road. Different tailgating in Pitts vs GB....Pitts was more of a party atmosphere...so was GB, but in GB it was abit more laid back i think...not as rowdy...still a wicked good time tho.
I see a big pile of people over at Jarome Bettis's grill.....go check it out...they had an outside bbq going on. so i get in line for a burger and a beer and start chatting with a guy named Eric....super cool dude....i ended up hanging out with him, his gf, and another couple for the rest of the night till we got inside the stadium. We played beer pong, chucked the football around and did shots of Southern Comfort.....not so good! There were some NE fans beside us hanging out as well....they were fun, but the rivalry was undeniable!
Started making our way to the stadium...meeting random ppl along the way...good times. Get in...and they head off to their seats and i head to go check out this band that was playing....they were kick ass! They were just a cover band....but they put a nice spin on the tunes they played....the drummer was real good! he was shredding it up....mega double kicks, wicked fills, and cool rhythm's with some neat off beat stuff!
There was a lot of freakin ppl in there....make my way to my seat.....and start to watch the game....not a great start for the Steelers....good start for the Pats.....2 drives, 2 scores....the mood was not great in the stadium. Well....it did not get much better...the Pats defence was stifling big Ben and the Steelers offence, Heinz Ward went out with a concussion i think....good coverage and a solid pass rush kept the Steelers from doing much. The Pitts Defence was getting thrashed....Wes Welker was open all night....Brady was able to go to work.....and that's the story of the game for the most part. Ben threw a pick 6 with about 8 min left in the game...and everyone headed for the exits...Pitts tried to make a game out of it near the end but to no avail...
The rain had stopped by the time we started walking to the field, so my walk back to the van was dry....plunked into the GPS a place east of Pitts and away i go.
So here i am in Somerset PA and I'm sitting here updating...and this guy sits down beside me....hes getting his laptop out as well...and we start chatting....nice guy. He gave me some good ideas on whats to see near here....so I'm going to go check them out.
Other than that...not much else going on. I'm feeling a little run down at the moment....getting a cold....witch is not too surprising considering I've been around in the last week....prob, well, 73,000 in GB, 14,000 in Columbus and 65,000 people last night.....That combined with my stellar diet of cliff bars, Gatorade G2, late nights, beer and what not....is not helping my immune system. This next few days should be good tho....going to spend a good amount of time in the Smithsonian geeking it up....not drinking and partying....not that that's what I'm doing....I've been pretty good....but this next couple days will be a good recharge. I need to find a YMCA, gym, of at least a truck stop....shower time...been....5 days i think....well the night i got to Cleveland....so whenever that was.
I want to upload some pics, but the wifi here is to dam slow...so they will have to wait for another time...got some good ones to put up.
Well time to get gone i suppose.....im prob going to run right smack dab into rush hour in DC.....but then again...depending on how long it takes to do the stuff around here....i might be ok...we shall see i guess.
Still feeling abit lonely...but ill live....I'm having fun so its all good.
Cheers yall.
