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December 28th, 2007

Game day

We arrived at the media hotel at about 7 p.m. That’s when we tried to meet up with self-proclaimed “student media icon” Nick Lilja – a.k.a. the KBVR FM program director and Barometer columnist. We were sadly unable to find the guy, so the five of us took shelter in the second Student Media hotel room – which is on the fourth floor. It has one queen bed, there were five people – you might see the problem here.

 

Our hotel room has a lovely view. It is a view of a giant billboard that says “Weatherproof Garment Company” and “Weatherman Approved”. Someone also mentioned that the garments have only been approved by one weatherman, not weathermen. That is probably not a good sign. This morning, the sign in black and I am fairly certain that it was blue last night. I guess tonight will if the sign is actually magically color changing.

 

Last night, after we arrived and after my last blog entry we took a quick tour of the hotel and the 21 year olds spent some time in the 36 floor lounge. KBVR staff member Chris Edmonds pretty much met every beaver fan in the lounge. We haven’t yet been outside of the hotel much, but its fun to see the occasional Beaver logo-speckled fan walking the streets of San Francisco. I spotted a few just last night before we got our gear out of the van (which is safely valet parked to God-knows-where).

 

Today, we will venture over to AT&T Park and retrieve our press passes. I’ve never been to a bowl game, and I’ve never actually covered a football game as press. So, I’m highly nervous to be taking photos on the field. Without a Barometer photographer here we will be relying heavily on the photos taken by Beaver Photo Editor Toan Ngo. But I hope to even the score a little and take a lot of photos of Beaver fans and some on the field. Mostly, I’d like to capture perspectives of the game that fans will not be able to (that includes one shot of the stadium from the field, the players’ perspective on a sea of orange).

 

I need those crazy fan shots and I want to be taking background shots of my staff working. Those are fun, because this blog and the photo slideshow we have so far are all about telling Barometer readers about the bowl game and how we experienced it – as well as working on stories to find out how the fans experienced it.

 

My prediction for the game is a 45 to 16 Beaver win.

                                                                                          

I think the Beavers will be scoring every quarter and will drive the University of Maryland Terrapins into the ground. We all know that beavers beat turtles. If I was playing a game of pick an animal and put it in a ring, I’d have to go with the beaver on that one.

 

I am excited to go talk to some Beaver fans today and survey the population a little. I want to know how many University of Maryland fans actually flew/drove/walked to San Francisco. A few members of my staff think that this will be like a home game for the Beavers and I think they are right. I think the bowl game will be an overwhelming sea of orange. And for that, I am excited.

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