With a week off to prepare let’s hope that the Boilers are ready for primetime with the Irish coming to town for an 8 p.m. kickoff. This is probably the biggest game of Danny Hope’s career as this could make or break the Boilermaker’s season. With the Irish’s penchant for self destruction on offense (15 turnovers through 4 games) I like our chances in this one! Personally, I am hoping to see Brian Kelly’s head turning bright red at some point during the evening.
This is the Boilermaker’s first prime time game since ND’s 2009 visit; a last second 24-21 wins for the Irish. (This of course will always be remembered as the first game in which Danny Hope showed his inability to manage time outs.) The crowd was rocking that night and I expect the same this year! Let’s bring our “A” game to cheer the boys on to victory!
We will be getting amped up for the game by doing our traditional Oktoberfest Tailgate featuring all your German favorites. We’ll have pretzels, brats, German potato salad, Hacker-Pschor and Hofbrau Marzen beer, and of course sauerkraut balls!
As we will have a very large group this week (around 35 people) I’m going to ask that everyone please be considerate to the other tailgates around us and not crowd them too badly. We also will ask for some help in tearing down at the end of the tailgate so that everyone can make it to the stadium in time for the pregame!
The Athletic’s Office has designated this as “gold and black” game in order to try and give the stadium a unified look. If you have ever seen the “white out” on TV or in person at Penn State you know that this type of thing looks great and in my opinion contributes to the “big game” feel. I encourage us to please all participate!
The chart below shows the sections as demarcated by the University and the chart below tells you what section you are in. The SCTC season tickets are in a gold section which means I’m going to have to forgo my usual “Section 120” jersey. (I’m not sure how I’m going to find my section now, but I guess I will manage.)
There will be a small group of us teeing off at 10:00 am in the John Purdue Club outing on the North Course. We will be trying to park the cars early so that we can guarantee our usual spot and will be starting the tailgate roughly four hours before kickoff.
We will plan on being in our usual spot in the W lot towards the front of the lot. The W lot is across from the Slater Hill and the Stone Cold Tailgating Club spot is marked by the gold square on the map on the right side of the blog.
For those of you parking in the IM Gold Lot it is only a 5 minute walk to the W lot, just think of us being on the way to the stadium. We have the large flagpole that extends to 20 feet and an ambulance so hopefully you will be able to locate us easily. We will be sporting our custom flag this year which sports our “Old School Boilermakers” motif similar to our cups.
Saturday October 1, 2011
8:30 a.m. Depart for the W Lot
9:00 a.m. Drop Off Vehicles and return home
10:00 a.m. JPC Tee Time
2:00 p.m. Arrive W lot/Set up Tailgate
3:00 p.m. Tailgate Starts
4:30 p.m. Brats On
7:00 p.m. Tailgate Breakdown
8:00 p.m. Kickoff
