Hawai'i vs. Oregon State

The University of Hawai'i took on the Oregon State University Beavers on December 2, 2006. Unfortunately, Heismann-hopeful, Colt Brennan could not seal the deal with another big win against a key big guy. He bounced in the go ahead pass five yards out of the end zone in the fourth quarter. Sadly, they lost by a field goal (and missed one earlier in the game.) It's odd how sometimes you just start rooting for a team because you are there. I had to root for them, they play hard, they are a well put together team and mostly home-grown, but ranked for the first time in seemingly forever.

Football is football, but nothing can stop the fun of a football game. Win or lose, the real fun is before the kickoff. Beginning at around 3:30 in the afternoon, the tailgating take 2 began for the Wai'anae teachers in Aiea! Ready to take on the joys of beer consummation, Catch Phrase and some random guys next door, we were undeterred by slight rains.

Not only were we undetered, but it seemed to spur us on. In fact, after the first round of tailgating, we decided that there had to be some way to get drunker faster...then Jaime recalled a well-known friend to the collegiate undergrad and super-drunk...the FUNNEL (aka beer bong). Now strangely enough, although I had never partaken in a "beer bong"...I was the one who knew the best strategies for air-release and beer guzzling. So I quickly became bong master and rained the liquid joy to the weekend Warriors.

This beer bong, for some reason lasted long enough for two pictures, although it was just over half a beer long. The guy next door, James I think, decided that this looked like a lot of fun. He was also making fun of the lack of beer in our funnel. We had cut it down so as to make it manageable without getting on the parking lot...after all, we aren't in college anymore and there is no need to dirty oneself for the drink.

Here is the last picture of all of us sober. The nice people who took this picture were also the nice people who decided to share their barbecue with us as they were taking it down. Evidently as payment for keeping their slightly annoying but very friendly underaged buddy busy and getting him drunker.... and possibly most of all getting him to drink the warmest and oldest bottle of beer they had....so they didn't have the guilt of the pour out for their gross Hawaiian Lager...ew...



To continue our story, though It did become quite a series of bong-shots/ Funnel-hits....Either way it sounds worse than it was, but Erika was next and she did well...as the man with the funnel, I was in charge of keeping the least amount of beer off the parking space as possible. I did alright...anyway...here's she...














Then Jaime went again...now here, you'll see that Jaime, clearly was the one who voted most strongly for the funnel production, as this is her third attempt, and by far the least messy, she was either getting the hang of it, or maybe recalling her glory days in the U (whichever U it was...)

So, it was around this time that James was getting impatient with the small beers, and so a challenge was issued....











Not to be bested, James showed us all with a mixture of Heineken, Bud Light, Corona and something else I didn't catch the name of, until there was just about 2 beers in the funnel....the most that can fit, mind you, was around two beers...But he downed it in two swigs....impressive really...just relaxed the throat...

(most of the power is derived from the lips...as they say)












Now, I'm not normally one to be pressured into something, but there was no way that 18 year old fat kid was going to say that I was being a rude funnel-master...or whatever...so I did my duty and killed my beer via funnel...and how intense do I look...GOD I'M AWESOME!!



(oh, and it was right after that, that I sent Chris a text simply stating "my first beer bong"...nuff said)









Now, I may have missed a few shots here or there, as I can't be in two places at once, most pictures are courtesy of Ms. Amy Lee...but this is a picture of a slightly drunker group...but there was still close to an hour to kickoff...













And this was Megan's second beer bong, letting you know just how much we were drinking...we had a lot of beers to drink, and most of them went by way of the funnel.

















Jill was not to be outdone mind....she too deserved some funnel-lovin, and so it was said, and so it shall have been, and thus it was...drink...


















Now take a look at us..some of us are standing upright, most of us had time to tell our limbs to make the SHAKA...my body was slow to respond to the order thus the appearance of me grabbing my crotch...or something...I almost have it...but not quite...maybe I suck a little...









ON the way to the game, a nice man who checked out every one of the ladies took this picture of us...it was alittle chilly I won't lie...but we were troopers and kept on keepin on...

This was on the way into the stadium behind us...




Many people go to watch football games...many people go to make silly hair with the leaves we were given as we walked into the game...Megan is the latter...

For most of the game, it was a Beavers game and the Warriors had to fight and did fight to stay in it...most importantly we had good seats!

Amy and I sat in the row in front, while everyone else sat behind us...sad and lonely we were, but the girl next to me was from Waianae, so we talked for a bit...it was fun...
I took this picture thinking maybe I could say "I took a cool picture of the next Heismann trophy winner calling a Timeout..." but alas he decided to start making bounce passes on his last chances...

And finally...the WARRIORS endzone...a tough loss, but a good night...I recommend it highly if you happen to be on Oahu during football season with 20 bucks in your pocket....


Well...that was it for that weekend...there's been some rough days in school, but until that ruptures to the surface....