Game Week…Finally!

There’s nothing greater than the realization that Game Week is here!  After a long preseason, the players are just ready to hit someone else; they don’t care who.  And the fans are so jacked up, they can think of little else.  The mind and conversation seem to wander during the week to what might happen on Saturday.

A few years back there was a great message board post from a guy in Little Rock talking about what game week means to him, and how he prepares himself for the game.  I’ve copied excerpts from his post below for your reading enjoyment.  As an ardent “Sunshiner,” with compulsive tendencies, I can relate.

Game Week Preparation

• Your tickets have been carefully laid out on your dresser (in sequential order) with the name of each person going with you designated below each ticket on a white Post-it note (written in red ink, of course) in the proper seating arrangement (fat guys alternating with skinny guys to allow for maximum high-five room and hot dog consumption) since Monday.
• You’ve road-tested all of your Razorback car flags, wind socks, window decals, license plates (and frames), magnets, trailer hitch covers, shoe polish messages, bumper stickers, driving music CDs and road trip munchies (and beverages!) and have declared them all fit for travel.
• You’ve pre-planned and laid out all of your possible gameday wardrobe combinations in preparation for changing weather conditions — warm, cool, hot, cold, sunny, cloudy, partly cloudy, mostly cloudy, rainy (with subsets for regular rain and monsoon rain…that Tennessee game caught you off guard, but never again!), windy, snowy, icy, etc.
• You’ve had Friday marked as a vacation day on your company leave schedule since early June.
• You’ve checked (and re-checked, and re-checked, and then re-checked again) your gameday flask to verify its storage capacity and ease of pouring into one of your 1,356 gameday plastic cups you’ve been collecting since your first Razorback game.
• You’ve been diligently practicing your “Woooooo Pig Sooie!” in the shower each morning, making sure your vocal chords are in gameday shape. Your neighbors hate you, but you have to prepare yourself…remember, push from your diaphragm.
• And finally…in an attempt to get your game face on, you make a quick trip to the Little Rock Zoo to heckle the animals of the teams we will be playing this upcoming season…especially the elephants, just to get ready.

We’re ready here at RBN. Let it all hang out. Go Hogs Go!