Appropriately named blog

I had no idea that it had been a year and a half since I last posted on this blog. Hopefully, I can post a little more in the future.

Here is what I hope to catch up on this weekend while watching football:

Hangout Music Festival

Black Keys and Kings of Leon concert

There are probably more events but I cannot recall at the moment.

Dale Murphy

I was recently able to attend the American Baseball Foundation's Annual Lead Off Dinner.  Former Atlanta Brave great Dale Murphy was the guest speaker.  I received some extra tickets at the last minute so Jessica, Josh and Mark were also able to attend.  

The dinner was held at The Club overlooking Birmingham.

  

The table we sat at was right up front.  That is Dale Murphy at the podium.  The man to the right of the photo is Tom Emanski.  

We were able to meet Dale Muphy before the event.  

Spelunking

We realized that there is an old abanded mine behind our house up near Vulcan.  We had to explore it.  These are the photos of Joel, Mark and myself in the mine.  

We could only go so far because the mine shaft was flooded.  

This was the view looking back up toward the entrance.  

We encountered many bats.  

Notice the old tracks that we are walking on.  

Washington DC Trip

So I had to head to DC for work on Monday so I got an early flight and spent a couple of nights on Amos and Whitney's couch.    Amos scored us some tickets for the Cowboys and Redskins game and I must say that it was a blast.  Here I am outside of Fed Ex Field.  

Here we are inside the stadium.  

It was a cold night.  

I had no idea that this was such an intense rivalvy.  It was insane.  I like the fact that the Redskins have a band.  I may be wrong but I think they are the only NFL team that has one.  

Before the game Art Monk and Darrel Green were presented with their Hall of Fame Rings.  

  

This pictures was taken at the Newseum.  Awesome place with a great view.  

Kentucky at Alabama

I was lucky enough to watch the Alabama Kentucky game from a suite.  Here are some pictures from the great day.  

  

In this picture you can see the student section.  You can also notice golfer Jerry Pate, which is who's sky box we were in.  

Great Seats!

Amos came into town to bring his wife Whitney to her first Alabama football game so I rode to Tuscalooa to enjoy the day. Jessica and I ended up getting tickets that were right on the field. They were in the North End zone three rows up. The best part of the seats were that they were right near the players tunnel so we had a great view of the players coming out of the tunnel to start the game.

The team captains come out before the rest of the team.

Coach Saban leads the team out.

Mount Cody!

Julio!

Here is a kickoff after we scored. Can you see the football in the air?

The kick is good!

Team heading to the locker room at halftime.

Football Season

I was fortunate enough to head to Atlanta to watch Alabama take on Clemson to begin their season. This is the view from the seats that I had. It might not look like we had great seats but I was just happy for football to start back.