Hello Dawg Fans!

The season is about to begin. The first Pac10 game is tomorrow night; Oregon State at Stanford. We’re at Lake Chelan where we’ll be rooting for the tree.

Every year we follow the Huskies on a couple of away games with our friend Bill. Our goal is visit all of the Pac10 football stadiums. If we had a great time at the game, we’ll sometimes adopt the team as secondary fans (which is why we’re rooting for the Cardinal).

So far we’ve been to:

• California - a great time! The fans were nice (they invited us to tailgate with them), the weather was perfect in late October 2006 (sunny in the lower 80’s), a way-cool old stadium where you are so close to the field you can touch the players, and a good game (even though we lost in OT). Since then, we’ve adopted Cal as our secondary team and root for them often.
• ASU - Because of the heat, most games at Tempe are at night. As was ours last year. We had a nice time, but not as good as Cal the year before. There was a Husky tailgate party at a nearby Mexican restaurant that was fun. However, the fans weren’t as friendly, the stadium was a character-less brown monolithic structure, and our team embarrassed themselves by their poor playing.
• Stanford - another great time in the bay area…..almost as good as Cal. The game was in early November and again it was sunny and in the lower 80’s for our afternoon kickoff (we lucked out on the weather….the following Saturday it was cold and rainy). The new stadium was nicely placed on the Stanford campus; hidden amongst trees to blend it into the surroundings. The fans were friendly, and we won our game.
  
  

This year, we’re going to:

• Oregon - the game is usually in rainy November so we quickly snagged tickets for this Labor Day Weekend game in hopes of more reliable weather (so far so good -- the forecast is partly cloudy and 74).
• USC - November 1
• WSU - November 22 (we always play WSU in November so we’re not going to ever have a chance at good weather)
• and California (again) - December 6 (I hope the weather is nice, but early December is iffy)
  

That only leaves:

• Arizona which we have to miss this year because of a business trip so we’ll have to wait and catch them in 2 years.
• Oregon State which we’ll go to next year
• and UCLA which we’ll also go to next year.
  
  

Go Huskies! Pictures taken at Husky Picture Day 2008 a few weeks a ago! This post was authored by Kent - be on the lookout for part II tomorrow!

Later -

Jim and Kent