The Green Monster 5/10/2011

Heres what the green monster looks like from the left fielders view...all I can think of is the 75 series..I was lucky enough to get on the field at Fenway earlier this year to take this photo!

Virginia Tech vs Georgia Tech 11/4/10 Thursday Night Football

Good old Virginia Tech... guaranteed to be ranked in the top 5 nationally every year and finish in the top 20. I think the term overrated applies with this team, its a great place to see a game though. The "Enter Sandman" really is one of the coolest intros but I don't like this program. The have a trophy case already built at the practice facility to display the National Championship trophy.....are you kidding me?

NC State Carter Finley Stadium 11/7/2009

I first went here in 1985 to see The Who, the stadium has been renovated and seating has been increased but its still a great place to see College Football. If you don't mind a little hike you can park for free about a mile away from the Stadium, good exercise! Living in Richmond is great because you have a good chunk of the ACC with in a 6 hour drive, Raleigh Durham has four teams all practically right next to each other. Taken during the Maryland NC State game in 2009, NC State won a shootout that came down to a defensive stand by the Wolfpack stopping Maryland on fourth down with about a minute left! Fun stuff!!

Georgia Tech at Wake Forest 10/2/2010

I enjoyed seeing a game here, one of the great things about College Football is the traditions involved. At Wake Forest they have a pre game player walk combined with a pep rally three hours before kickoff. Wake lost this game on a late 90 yard TD drive..they should have won this one!

Rear door or JFK's air Force One 

At the US Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio, you can go on board the original Air Force One. When I was on this plane I kept thinking about what the return trip from Dallas was like for everyone after JFK's assassination, it must have been a surreal scene.. through this door the Presidents casket was removed at Andrews Air Force Base on the night of the 22cnd.  In order to remove the coffin they had to cut out a part of the wall on the inside of the aircraft. The repaired saw cut appears on the left side of the interior.

11/8/10 Monday Night Football Steelers @ Bengals

Sometimes people think I am a bit crazy..I drove seven hours from Richmond Virginia to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, took a five hour nap then drove five hours to Cincinnati for this game. If you know what traffic is like in the Queen City then you realize I spent two hours to drive the last 40 miles! The Bengals managed to blow the game late..

After the game I drove back to Pittsburgh took a 4 hour nap and headed back to Richmond, arriving home around 8 pm on Tuesday. Total driving time of almost 20 hours in a two day stretch just for a 4 hour Football game.. that's how I love spending my days off!

Old Yankee Stadium

I do not really endorse the New York Yankees in any way but I really wish I would have seen a game at the original version of this park, I saw two games at the remodeled park. 20 years apart but I was there, the first trip was September 10ht 1988 and it was completely unplanned. Just started driving north on a Friday night and ended up at the stadium Saturday morning. Of course now the 9/10 date sort of weirds me out a bit..Saw the Yankees and the Tigers play that day, Yankees win 5-3. The second trip was September 14 2008, a planned visit this time. I had never been to Shea Stadium and since both parks were closing, we did a Mets game on Saturday and a Yankees game on Sunday. I always feel a little twing of sadness when Ballparks close down, why I don't know but I think it relates to some of the events that are associated with each park. For me Yankee Stadium always makes me thing of Lou Gehrig..always has, even as a kid in the 1970s he was the Yankees. So I thought of his life when they tore down this park, it wasn't the same place he played in but you really could feel the ghosts there. It was a bit of a dump but a dump I whish was still around..