OT: Football Bye Weeks - How Are You Going To Spend Them?
Its slow and I'm itching for the season...
Looking at the schedule, there will be 2 bye weeks this year (weekends of 9/28 and 10/26) so I've decided to head South and attend my 1st SEC game - LSU @ Georgia the first bye week.
What do you have planned for the bye weeks?
a movie from the '80's? in the movie the fiance-to-be had to pass a many hundred question test of serious sports trivia. IIRC she made it by getting the bonus question. mine had to learn to like football which was easy enough since i was still playing at the time, and to hunt and fly-fish, which she did admirably.
he who finds a wife finds a good thing. and a great wife is a life-long blessing. here's to you and yours and the blessings of marriage.
You should start betting. It makes every game much more interesting.
I find that I usually make twice as many bets on a michigan bye week! lol
jdon
Could be a lot of fun, bring in some revenue, educate the fan base, and maybe even start a new tradition.
This is crazy. After reading some posts, I am amazed. Everyone's answer should be "watching football." As great as M football is (and it's clearly number one on my list), there are other games to watch. You should not be going out of town, doing chores, or whatever during bye weeks. You should be watching football.
Drinking and watching other football games. I can't get enough football!
My wife's sister knew the only way we would attend her wedding is if it would be during the bye week, so that.
with Craig James and some hookers
that either of you two would like "sloppy seconds" after each other. Just sayin'...
I think I'll just watch paint dry! We have to repaint two rooms in hour house. I guess one of those Saturday's may be a good one for such a job!
Watch other college football games until I decide that I want to go fish or hunt.
The last weekend of September is full of sports in the Atlanta area. I'm traveling down for a four day weekend, with six rounds of golf and 3-4 sporting events.
Thursday night - Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech
Friday night - Phillies at Braves
Saturday - LSU at Georgia, time TBD, if a night game, Wake Forest @ Clemson is not too far away in the afternoon
Sunday night - Tom Brady's Patriots vs. Atlanta Falcons
Last weekend in September is homecoming for my college, which means I'll have a few details to work. Hello: overtime.
Going to Oktoberfest in Munich. Prost!
At least for September 28th, we'll be in Chicago visiting some of my wife's relatives. Supposedly, they have secured tickets for the White Sox-Royals game that Saturday already, and it will be a good opportunity to start the kids on a journey I have worked on myself over the past decade or so - see a game in every MLB park. I've been to only 12 so far myself though, but there's plenty of time yet.
Because we have young kids, we DVR all games and then go on complete media blackout until the kids are asleep and we can watch them No cell phones, bberries, tv, Internet, radio or going I places with televisions. We are pretty crazy with it. What that means I that u less we have a night game, no taking the family out to dinner on Saturday evenings from September through November. On both bye weeks, we will be going out to dinner, seeing friends and doing what other normal people do on most Saturdays without the fear of finding out the score.
My 5-year old loves all things Michigan and watches all of the bball games in live time.
will definitely help pass the time.
Enter Sandman, the Hokie Pokie and Hokie, Hokie, Hi plus Beat the Dookies.
With the season as short as it is, for a diehard college football fan like myself, there are still a ton of interesting games to watch. There aren't any BYE weeks for a fan of the game itself - not after I've spent eight months waiting on the season to start.
I watch the other games and spend an extra week eagerly anticipating the next time we take the field.
I am spending a weekend at a Bobby Knight basketball camp.
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