And we allllllllmost beat Umiami. 15-20 and we were only 6 yards away from a winning touchdown. Sooooooooo close. Well, yes, Umiami's got a depleted squad (due to some serious fighting last week and 13 players were suspended). But still, getting so close to winning over Umiami is something you don't usually see here in Duke, on the football ground.

 

Oh, and in case any of my friends in China are reading this, the "football" here isn't really the football played in the rest of the world. That's called "soccer" here.

 

It's the first time that I ever went to a football game. Everyone knows that Duke football sucks and they haven't won a single game this season. But it's a beautiful Saturday with gorgeous sunshine and I didn't wanna be the pathetic loner working with mice. The game turned out to be really exciting and we almost pulled off an upset. When we got to the stadium (after my friends had enough beer in the parking lot), it was 0-17 with Duke scoring absolutely nothing. There were about half-half fans from either school, which surprised me because I wasn't expecting so many Duke people. We began cheering for Duke and of course, my friends began yelling and challenging the Miami fans with not-so-nice words. (At certain point, I was like....hmmmm, maybe it's safer to keep away from these crazy guys.hehe.) And miraculously, Duke was doing better and better in the final quarter and we got 15 points while Miami only gained 3. The stadium heated up. I was actually feeling nervous. 3 minutes. Miami's offense. We stopped them! 90 seconds, we started at 50 yards. A terrific pass and we were 6 yards away from the touchdown! Everyone's holding their breaths. Securities were lining up around the ground in case people would rush the groud should we won. 3 seconds! Just one last play! Awwwwwwwwwwwww..... the ball was intercepted. We lost. But proudly.

 

The benefit of being with a group of crazy graduate students, who yelled, shouted, cursed, and danced all the way to the end, was that we were on TV~~~haha...No idea what channel would broadcast it and surely no one that I know would watch a Duke football game on TV, but it's still cool to be captured on camera. haha. 

 

I guess now my friends are still in the parking lot drinking even more beer. I seriously hope that they won't do anything stupid to release the excessive energy they saved up for rushing the ground. haha...