fender's journey: Monday Night Football...

Wow...in THE most riveting game I've ever attended or seen for that matter, our 'BOYS won 41 - 37 over the Eagles Monday night if any of you didn't know that already! We were on our feet the entire game (thank goodness for the occasional commercial break so my feet could have a brief rest). The crowd was electric! So much energy...so loud!!! I'll really miss Texas Stadium, but just like my mom grew up with the Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl, Fender's mom will have grown up with the Cowboys at Texas Stadium, and he'll grow up knowing only the new stadium. Seems appropriate I guess. We did get Fender a souvenir from the game, of course. :)

My brief, critique of the game: Our defense needs to work on not making "stupid" mistakes like holding, and not leaving the ball laying on the ground when it is dropped before a player reaches the end zone. There is room for improvement on defense and special teams (best not to kick the ball out of bounds on the kick off), but both did have their moments...including that fabulous return for a TD by Jones!

This should be a link to a recap of the game...can't get "link" feature to work, so you may have to cut and paste into browser. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/recap?gid=20080915006

And our seats...okay...long side note here about how we obtained our tickets and where they were located... as reward for officially completing his EA (Enrolled Actuary credentials) Drew went online and purchased tickets for the game. These tickets, however were in different sections, with an assurance from the seller that these were his season tickets "and that one seat says Section 6 and one says Section 7 but there is nothing in between them." Uh-huh...my thoughts..."nothing in between them, but an aisle of stairs with people going up and down." But we decide that is alright and a reasonable risk and we'll wait and see. So we get the tickets (had to stop at stubhub downtown to do this before the game) and the guy says..."uh...one in Section 6 and one in 7???" To which Drew replied with an uncertain yeah, uh-huh. Looking at the tickets, one says Section 7 row 34 seat 114. And the other says Section 6, row 34 seat 11. Wha??? We were expecting something more like seat 1. So now we're wondering how many people we'll have to ask before someone will be kind enough to move and let us sit together...and what kind of nasty feedback this guy deserves for misleading the buyers...

When a miraculous turn of events occurred right in the middle of row 34 between sections 6 and 7. See picture below. And I wish I had taken a picture of the rows in front and behind, because numbers in the rows had been going down in the hundreds (111-110-109 etc...not up to 114) and all the other rows were numbered appropriately, but freakishly enough...out of nowhere were our seat numbers together. And our seats were awesome!!! We were at the goal line where all but three touchdowns occurred. It was truly something else.

Below are some pictures and a video of the last Marion Barber TD.

Arriving at the stadium...