Saturday, September 24, 2005

Since I Can't Post Any More Photos

For some reason, it is not allowing me to put up any more pictures tonight. So you'll all have to wait another day. I know how much that saddens everyone.

Exciting news! I got to watch my Gophers beat Purdue live at a pub here!! It was thrilling, there were about 5 of us Minnesota students watching it, I just wished I would have been there. But when you watch sports in a pub by yourself and you just sit in silence for four hours, you realize what the Europeans were thinking when they developed the rules for their major sports. Except for cricket (which is played during the day anyway), all of Britain's favorite sports are played on a set timer. Their football and rugby last 90 minutes, with a discretionary amount of added time at the end to account for stoppages. This is genius for a pub setting. Here's why. BEER IS EXPENSIVE. So when you're sitting by yourself or with people you just met, watching a game, there's little to do but drink. When there's a commercial, you drink. When something bad happens to your team, drink. Something good? Drink. Lull in the action? Drink. Now, when a game lasts 3+ hours, that's a lot of drinking, and a lot of money spent. With a limit of an hour and a half or so, the spending is minimized, and depending on the outcome of the game, the drinking will probably continue somewhere cheaper. Luckily, tonight I only had one drink, because the game was interesting enough to me. Tomorrow, however, I am guaranteed seeing at least 3 AFC games. I've got the cash ready.

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