Friday Night Lights
Hmmmm. I feel physically sick. I just typed a brilliant, 45-minute long, gut wrenching account of my experience at Nottingham Forest's agonizing playoff loss to Yeovil this past friday, and it's gone. Blogger's like that sometimes. I'd like to hurt someone or something right now. Honest to God, it was a 800 word masterpiece that would have put ....a famous essayist.... to shame.
Damnit.
At the risk of wasting another hour of my life, I'll bullet-point it. A tacky cop-out, yes, but at this point, the grief is so fresh that I'm not sure if I could handle another episode.
To summarize an otherwise genius account (now I know how authors must feel when they find out someone CliffsNoted their book), here goes:
-Forest Game. Friday. They win, they're headed to London to play for the championship at Wembly Stadium. They win, they also move up to next level in English Football.
- Cost? 20 pounds. Brandon turns back. Mary in York with friend, Andrea. Brandon sees cool fire on the way back.
-We're all in our Forest jerseys. 28,000 people at game. We sit on edge of seats, somewhat obstructed view. Very close to other fans, from rival Yeovil.
-Yeovil plays sloppy, but manage to score in first half. Forest hold 2-0 lead in series (2 games, one at each home stadium), so must not lose by 3 in order to move on to next round.
-Forest playing like shit. Score in second half to force overtime. Overtime not good. Yeovil score right away. We score soon thereafter. Force second overtime. Yeovil score. Our fans cry on way out. Very emotional.
- Cool chants include:
And, COME ON YOU REDS
(said very similarly to HEY YOU GUYS, from Goonies)
Other hilarious things to note? Lucas LookALike, #12... bald, short, fast as hell.... the guy was tenacious, and made me smile.
For a little more about Nottm Forest football.....
So pissed off right now. See Aaron's blog for a better account. I have a feeling his computer didn't implode at the time of his musings. Better luck next time.
posted by Kevin @ 11:32 PM
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