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Florida State Football - Championship Season 2012 - Game 1 - 69 to 3

Here Come the Seminoles - with Chief Osceola and Renegade

F-18 Flies over Doak Campbell Stadium. It was really hot - at least we got tickets in the shade.

All pictures and videos - taken with an iPhone 4S

They do college football differently in Tallahassee. 

Today - we left our home at 5 PM - driving the 3 miles to the stadium on our Honda Scooter. Lulu and I parked the scooter near where we usually tailgate. The sun was still high and it was hot and humid,

FSU Football Versus Murray State of Kentucky

A good start to the 2012 FSU Football season. Two free tickets on the 30 yard line - Section 35. Free scooter parking. An F-18 Hornet flyover. A bag full of drinks and food. Better ATT phone service. and a pretty girl sitting with you.

FSU Volleyball Beats Georgia - 3 Games to 1

The University of Georgia Bulldogs Volleyball Team came to Tully gym with upset on their mind. All last season the Seminoles did not lose a home match. Not since dropping a 5 game match to Miami in 2010 - the Lady Seminoles have been doing nothing but home cooking.

Today's 11 AM match started with Georgia squeaking out a 27 - 25 first game victory. the Seminoles returned the favor with 3 straight wins - none close.

A very good crowd saw the Seminoles push their seasonal record to 4 - 0.

As we drive the scooter home - all cars were cleared from campus waiting for the football game. It was really neat seeing the campus with walkers only - and our one scooter.

Football game time is 6 PM and it will be hot.

CHICAGO - Dawson Across the Country Ride

George just phoned this picture of Millenium Park in. They are in downtown Chicago.

DOAK CAMPBELL STADIUM - Buying Tickets For Florida State Football Games

Doak Campbell Stadium is a beautifully enclosed brick stadium seating 82,000. The field runs from northwest to southeast - although they label is north and south.

On the north end of the stadium is Bobby Bowden's statue. I am not comfortable with that. I was at the unveiling of the statue - Bobby took time to chat with us about Pennsylvania. Ironically - this statue gave Penn State fans the idea to put up a statue of Joe Paterno. Even God said to not make any graven images of him.

Ever since the Penn State Football Sex Scandal broke loose a year ago - everyone is judging the value of college football. Some people think it has become too professional. Coaches - administrators - and the NCAA are making billions of dollars while the players are slaves - working for a lottery ticket that might get them into the NFL. 

At some colleges - it is almost impossible to buy tickets for the games. People are on waiting lists for years - some even handing down their tickets to family members in their will. It is a pay to play situation. At FSU - if one wants to buy a premium season ticket - they must pay a ransom - anywhere from $300 to $25,000 - just to have a right to buy tickets that now cost anywhere from $45 to $85. 

ISAAC spared Tallahassee

Isaac missed Tallahassee by miles - but we still got lots of rain.

It has been quite a while since a big hurricane hit Florida - and even much longer since Tallahassee got one head-on. 

Isaac has been giving us rain off and on for the last 3 days. One could look into the blue sky and see the clouds going from south to north - swirling counterclockwise around the storm. The blue sky would turn to overcast - then we would be pelted by heavy rain. There was not much wind with the rain - and I have not had to pick up and branches or leaves from our yard.

ISAAC - Hurricane Skirted Tallahassee - New Orleans is Getting Pounded

Update Wednesday at 7 AM - we got a little bit of rain last night - the ground is dry now. It is still overcast - but there is no wind at all. I do not think we got anything near the 2 inches we expected. there are no branches or leaves in the front yard. The storms stayed right on the computer track. It is slowly passing over New Orleans as a Category 1 hurricane - 80 MPH winds.

BUCAS - New Italian Restaurant in Our Mall

This chain moved into the former Ruby Tuesday at Governor's Square Mall.

See more about the restaurant

DOAK CAMPBELL STADIUM - Better Phone Serivce

Doak improvements include improved cell service for some Aug. 27

tallahassee.com

The start of a new college football season often means changes to the game-day experience, and Doak Campbell Stadium will feature its share of improvements for 2012.

For starters, AT&T and Verizon have both made upgrades to improve cell phone service at the stadium. While there is no guarantee that all phone calls and data transmissions will go through the first time -- particularly when the stadium is filled to capacity -- FSU assistant athletic director for marketing Jason Dennard said customers of those two companies should see improved service.

“If you have Verizon or AT&T, you should have better luck,” Dennard said.

Another change is in the way students enter the stadium.

“In the past, students would go online to get their tickets, and then they’d get emailed a PDF copy of their ticket with a bar code on it,” Dennard said. “Then they’d bring that with their FSU card to the gates.”

SWEET CAROLINE removed from PENN STATE football game playlist

Touching me - touching you

STATE COLLEGE -- Neil Diamond’s "Sweet Caroline," a popular crowd participation song at sporting events nationwide, no longer will get air time at football games in Happy Valley.

Penn State University officials on Monday announced their decision to drop the song from its play list at Beaver Stadium.

Immediate speculation on Twitter, other Internet message boards and news sites centered on whether the lyrics "touching me, touching you" had anything to do with the decision, given the Jerry Sandusky child-sex scandal and continuing accusations of a cover-up by top school officials.

Penn State denied those claims.

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION - Chance of Rain

Welcome to Tampa

RICKARDS HIGH SCHOOL - This is the High School of Our Tallahassee Home

James S. Rickards High School is a public high school in Tallahassee, Florida. Rickards was ranked 49th inNewsweek's list of 1,000 top high schools in 2009,^[1] due to the high number of AP and IB exams taken by its students. As of 2009, 1249 pupils were enrolled.^[2]

Rickards has hosted an International Baccalaureate program since 1994, creating a culturally diverse mix of students and a varied ethnic focus. The school has many programs that demonstrate cultural diversity and equality, one of which focuses on traditional dance and clothes.

The school's mascot, originally the Rickards Redskins, was changed to the Rickards Raiders in 2000 because of controversy over the term redskin and its racial connotations. The school colors are blue and gold.

Rickards is notable for its award-winning Mu Alpha Theta and National Junior Classical League teams, as well as its marching band, which is heavily influenced by Florida A&M University's Marching "100" under the direction of Mr. Quincy Griffin.

Alumni Village, the designated Florida State University housing unit for FSU students with children, is zoned to Rickards High School.^[3][4][5]

Lance Armstrong has a bad day today - Neil Armstrong had a worse one.

DAWSON's RIVER - Camping on the Missouri

South Dakota - Right now on the bank of the Missouri River where Lewis and Clark spent their first winter living with the Mandan Indians. We visited the village site late this afternoon.

Editor - George and Joel are heading east on their grand excursion across the USA. They are in a VW Van and a tent. Photo from iPhone. No mistaking Joel's white hair.

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PATERNO by Joe Posnanski - A Book Review

 

Tragedy

Lulu pre-ordered the book Paterno by Joe Posnanski from Amazon. For $14 it would be delivered over the airwaves on August 21st - its release date. We woke up early that morning and the electronic file arrived as promised. This would be the first time I would read a book - cover to cover - on the Kindle. I think it is the first book I have bought on the release date except maybe for maybe Howard Stern's book  - and /or Bill Clinton's book that I bought in large print.