The Cotton Bowl

Once we found out the Aggies were going to the Cotton Bowl of course we wanted to go, but the tickets were like $250 each. But my parents surprised us with tickets. My brother picked up Johnathon David first then they came to our house to pick us up at around 3:30 then we went to pick up Michael Spillman and his nephew, Jordon, at his office.



Our Aggie family right before we left for the game and the kids spent the night at my parent's house.

We so lucky to be able to park for free! All the parking around us was $40 ish, but Johnathan works for the bank that foreclosed this property that this guy didn't pay his taxes on but was banking on parking. Anyways he got caught so Johnathon owns the property now. It was even gated and Johnathon had the key and locked the car up. It wasn't that far of a walk to the game. Johnathon brought his own bottle of Vodka and gave me some mixed with Red Bull. It was good. The rest of the guys were drinking beer. Anyways then we walked toward the stadium and stopped to eat at Panda Express. Then we walked back to the car and let David Lippe and his wife in to park.

As we walked in to get our tickets scanned they make you split into a boy line and girl line to patted down. Anyways, when we finally got in our seats were on the same level as we walked in on, section 249 a little below the box seats aright behind the goal line and not too high up either.




The Aggie Band performing before the game began.

 


Yell Leaders




At the game together just like old times.



   

 


 

end of the opening ceremonies

 

 The game finally started at 8:00 p.m.

The Aggie football players running onto the field




good stats

  The Aggies started off really strong in the first quarter. We scored a touchdown right away! But then we were trailing going into half time. In our section there was this LSU old guy talking smack the entire time. He was so rude and irritating trying to get some Aggie fans riled up enough to engage him. Security eventually took him and his wife away.


Half Time




The Aggie Band performing at Half Time





block T formation

Then the 3rd quarter hit and all we did was try to block them, but to no avail and things just got worse and worse. The final score was LSU 48, A&M 24

getting back in where we parked. All my brother could talk about was how much money he could be making on this lot parking cars on game days, but that's illegal to do that with a license and only Jerry can approve the license.

Michale and my brother, Jacob, standing in the cold by the car
complaining about how the Aggies cannot win bowl games.

 Even though we lost it was still fun to hangout with my baby brother and tailgate and go to an Aggie game like we used to do in college. It was an awesome stadium and neat experience. We got home around 1:30 a.m. and were so hungry because my brother would not stop to let us get some Taco Cabana. So Max made us breakfast with bacon, fried eggs, and croissants at 2 a.m. Priceless!