Greenville North Carolina
We had quite at match up this weekend with ECU playing Virginia Tech in Football. I even got into a bit of a fight with the Hokie bird.
In honor of the Hokies – we fried a turkey for our tailgate.
And former ECU player and Super Bowl-winning linebacker Robert Jones stopped by our tailgate.
In the end it wasn’t a game either team could be very proud of. VT suck by us 10-15.
At the halfway of a crazy week – by the end of the weekend I’ll have driven well over 1,000 miles and have never left VA/NC. Midweek ECU played Florida Atlantic in a Thursday night game. The game was a ‘black out’ with black uniforms, black lines on the fields and all the fans in black. The game itself was a bit of a routing. After the first 10 minutes FAU never really mounted any challenge. Always fun to be in pirate country!
Our black Friday game was a nail biter until the end. Both teams just kept on scoring and ECU settled it with a fumble recovery in the 2nd OT. Great game and way to end the regular season at home. Now we’re hoping UAB can pull out a win against UCF so we can go to the Conference USA Championship.
We had a bit of an abbreviated tailgate with a few of us having other committements and nobody spending the night. Not to mention the noon kick off made it an early day for all of us. We made the most of it and still had a good time. And best of all ECU had a convincing win.
This football weekend had a lot more in common with a sailing weekend than most others. It was an incredibly wet one and we even deployed some of our sailing techniques like hanging our wet clothing in the shower, etc with the RV. The 7pm game meant we had all morning & afternoon to tailgate.
With the rain, we got off to a slow start while trying to stay inside or under the awning to stay dry while we waited for everyone else to arrive. The rain held off a bit for the final hour before the kickoff so we could get our traditional flip cup game in.
Throughout the 1st and 2nd quarters the rain came down. With 8 minutes left in the second half as a decent storm was heading our way, an announcement come on the PA that the game was being postponed, the stadium evacuated and everyone should head to Minges Colosseum or their cars.
During the rain delay we hung around the RVs watching other games on TV and then stayed there until after halftime once the game did resume. The rain continued to come down, but not with thunder and lightning as we had earlier.
Pictures starting here.
Kicked off the 2012 ECU football season with a home game win against App State. The tailgate was great, the game was really hot and Greenville afterward was fun as always. All of the photos here.
The final home game of the season for ECU football is over. It’s been a great year! Pictures.
