A (Mostly) Good Day for Football

Who can tell me what makes an MSU Spartan football win even sweeter? A U-M loss!

The stars were lined up for the true Spartan fan like me. First U-M takes it on the chin from an unheralded MAC school, Toledo, 17-10... missing a field goal that would have tied the game in the last seconds.

Then I got to watch (on ESPN2) the Spartans take apart an undefeated Northwestern team 37-20.

Tonight Gary and I went to the San Diego State game versus Air Force. The Aztecs held a 10-7 lead at the half. Things looked good--- but Air Force must have fixed their problems with the wishbone option they were using and figured out how to stop SDSUs passing attack during the halftime intermission. Th game completely reversed in the second half and the Air Force Academy shut out the Aztecs the rest of the way to win going away 35-10.

The only saving grace for the evening was the KGB radio stations 33rd annual fireworks sky show. This year they honored San Diego's military (it was the Fleet week game), firefighters, paramedics and policemen who saved the city from last fall's wildfires. To say it was spectacular wold be an understatement. To say it was the best fireworks show of my life would be the truth. They even shot a man out of a cannon. Doug "The Human Bullet" Smith rocketed 75 feet into the air from a huge cannon into a net suspended at the fifty yard line to open the sky show.