Saturday, October 6, 2007

USC football match!

I finally had my chance to go to my first American football match. Well im not into American football at all coz i dunno the rules and stuff but apparently, it is a really big thing over here, especially in USC. All exchange students were given one free ticket to this match and since it's free, i decided to juz go and experience it. USC's football is ranked no 1 while our opponent Stanfort, is ranked 10th. I always knew that American football is a very big thing is USC but its not until today that i know the magnitude of it. Oh my god there were like SO MANY people! Everyone were very enthusiastic and everyone had their USC or trojans T-shirt, cap, sweatshirt, pants... etc. U name it they have it. Its like i will never see ppl in NUS wearin the NUS brand in spore. Well maybe occasionally... But over here, USC is like a premium brand. Everyone wears the USC sweatshirt or tshirt to school.

So, i bought my USC sweatshirt to wear to the match and also to keep as a souvenier. Its so big and nice and compfy...

On my way walking to the stadium.

The entrance of the stadium. I was told that Olympics 1996 was held in this stadium =)

While waiting to get into the stadium, we saw some aeroplanes in the sky emiting red and yellow smoke, which is USC's colour.

Starting from me (anti-clockwise): Me, Joy, Jay, Arm and Kookkik =)

Me in the stadium

Look at the crowd. Oh my there were like so many ppl and u can see that most ppl were in red and some in yellow. It looked realli nice =)

Me, Joy and Jay posting in our seats.

Preparing to start the game:

During the game:

Since this was a home game, the supporter for Stanfort was onli like i think 1 percent. In fact, i dun even think it is considered supporter coz it was like the band, which was located at one corner.

More photos...

Well the first 2 quarters of the game was pretty boring. Coz i dunno the rules so i dunno wad is going on. The during the 2nd quarter break, there was a band performance. Not too bad...

During the 4th quarter, the match got really intense. USC was leading all the way until like the last 5 mins. Stanfort had a chance to attack and when it was juz one min away from the end of the game, Stanfort had a touch down.... And the won USC with a score of 24-23. Omg it was so so so intense. Everyone were so worried. Well i joined in to shout and stuff but i didnt really felt as emotional when USC lost. But the rest of the ppl were like curing and swearing... It was an intense match and i did enjoy myself. At least i'd experience an American football match.

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