Mountaineering

The day began well, as did the game.  The mid-day sun bathed the stadium and made it really hot in the stands(we both ended up with odd sunburns).  The boys moved the ball well and controlled time of possesion in the first half, traded field goals and kept the game close.  Then the second half started.  It looked like it might go the same way as the first half, but when McEntee decided to try and run it in to the end zone on a keeper midway through the third quarter, the ball got knocked loose and was almost run back all the way for a TD, they scored quickly thereafter and then it all went off the cliff for Uconn.  Geno Smith found holes in our defense, corners slipped and fell, interceptions bounced off their hands and chests and WVU rattled off 23 points in under 7 minutes in the third quarter.  The fat lady began to clear her throat and a fair number of the home crowd departed the stadium, confident that they had this one in the bag, and they did.  So we left and headed to Harrisburg, for one final visit to a local brewpub.  A very ill timed lane change to pass a truck brought about a scare on the trip to Harrisburg.  As I came around the truck to pass I saw too late to change course a large piece of metal in the road, I kept it from hitting either tire, but it lodged under the truck and was grinding the road terribly.  As I went to pull off the road I saw that it was the fender off a trailer that was sitting in the shoulder a few hundred feet up, in much worse shape then my truck was.  I pulled over and dislodged the very large piece of aluminum to find, much to my delight, only a small amount of paint missing from the lower control arm on the passenger side....thats it, we got lucky on that one.  Hopefully tomorrows trip home will be much less eventful.